The contest, divided into Junior (ages 13-15) and Senior (ages 16-18) categories, uncovered remarkable talent.

Discover why the Maurya Empire the largest empire in ancient India fell after its golden age under Ashoka. Internal dissent, ...

BCE, Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire stood at the height of power. His dominion stretched from present-day Afghanistan ...

After his death around 238 B.C., Ashoka’s merciful style of gov­ernance waned along with the Mauryan Empire itself. His reign slipped into the realm of legend, until archaeologists translated ...

The Brahmi is an abugida script in which consonants are placed in the center and vowel markings are made around the center - ...

The transfer of senior archaeologist K Amarnath Ramakrishna — the lead excavator of Tamil Nadu’s Keezhadi archaeological site ...

This comes a day after an archaeologist who worked at the excavation site in Tamil Nadu, and had been asked to revise his ...

From the humble kitchens of agrarian homes to the grand Mahaprasad served in the Jagannath Temple, Odisha’s culinary heritage ...

47 years ago, Air India flight AI-855, Emperor Ashoka, took off from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (then Santa Cruz International Airport). It had hardly travelled 3 km ...

Air India flight AI 171 crashed shortly after take-off near Ahmedabad, killing 274 people. The incident mirrors the 1978 'Emperor Ashoka' disaster when Air India flight AI 855 plunged into Arabian ...

Discover key Mauryan Empire facts! Test your knowledge on Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka, administration, and significant events with our top GK questions and answers.

A n experiment can fail again and again before it succeeds—but something deliberated to fail is bound to be a failure. Ashoka University began as a bold promise in 2014, the same year India placed its ...