The renewed push for Indian knowledge systems has divided academics into two camps, with critics calling it regressive and rationalists questioning attempts to treat poetic expressions in Vedic ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

Devotees of Lord Shiva can find solace and strength through the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra. This ancient Vedic chant offers ...

Sanskrit means ‘perfectly made’. It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded languages. It developed a most comprehensive linguistic system very early in ...

New Delhi, Jan 29 (PTI) From the Rig Veda to the Ramayana, and from Mark Tully to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a wide range of references have found mention in the 739-page Economic Survey 2025-26, tabled ...

When young ‘batuks’ (Sanskrit scholars of Vedas) sporting tilak and tripund marks on their forehead and attired in dhoti-kurta entered the playground, it clearly was an unusual sight. On Tuesday, the ...

At a global conference, India highlighted its 3000-year democratic legacy, from Vedic assemblies to 10th-century village elections, asserting its traditions are ancient and not Western-derived, ...

The oil rig that crashed into the frozen ground on the North Slope near Nuiqsut Friday remains too unstable for responders to access the scene, state officials said. While no serious injuries were ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - There is evidence of a diesel spill after Doyon 26, the largest mobile oil rig in North America, toppled over on Friday, according to the Alaska Department of Environmental ...

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