The ancient state of Bihar was recognised as the mighty kingdom of Magadha, and its name is believed to have originated from ...

In the remote east of a region once called Harikela lies Chittagong, an upper Bay of Bengal port city at the juncture of the medieval Bengal, Arakan and Tripura kingdoms.

Nitish Kumar requests Union government assistance for the preservation and improvement of Kumhrar Park's historical site in ...

Shiv Kumar Mishra, co-convener of INTACH's Bihar chapter, said the Bihar govt should first maintain sites under its control ...

Magadha was one of the 16 Mahajanapadas, or ‘Great Kingdoms’ that existed in ancient India. This ancient kingdom was centered around southern Bihar, in the northeastern part of India. Much of the ...

The town of Dehradun, including India, has to search its conscience and decide how it can do right by Anjel Chakma and what ...

The origin of the caste system does not lie in religious ideas of purity and pollution, racial differences, tribal or ...

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

Throughline host Rund Abdelfatah brings us the story of the origins of chocolate.

Vaishali as world's first republic, Learn about the Lichchhavi clan, the world’s first republic system, and its judicial and federal structure here ...

Bethlehem has been the subject of countless carols and Nativity plays, but the real story of the little town is far more complex. Bethlehem had a long history even before it became known as the site ...

In India, arguments about nature are often treated as friction in the path of progress. Madhav Gadgil insisted they were ...