Grief-stricken, the emperor went into mourning and threw himself into creating a monument to their love. In 1631, construction on the Taj Mahal began. Materials from various regions of India ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the samadhi of Kittur Rani Chennamma—the queen of the former princely state of Kittur, who led an ...

New Delhi [India], February 6 (ANI ... Industrial Security Force (CISF) at select monuments across the country, the Minister said. ASI follows the National Conservation Policy, 2014, in its ...

The chief minister further stated that national recognition of Chennamma's samadhi would reinforce "Karnataka’s pride". "I urge you to direct the ministry of culture and the Archaeological Survey of ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday discarded the demand for the removal of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, saying it is ...

Is the liberation of India’s past from the shackles of colonialism an excuse to weed out historical figures that do not fit ...

Noted author and historian William Dalrymple said that "only 10 per cent" of the ancient remains of the Nalanda University has been excavated and pitched for establishing a "proper" site museum, one ...

The tomb, situated in Khultabad near Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra, is under the protection of Archaeological Survey of India as a ‘monument of national importance’ under the ...

A more robust allocation for conservation of protected monuments, fast-track courts for heritage violations and ...