VIJAYAWADA: To enhance the safety of women and children, Krishna district police launched special ‘Shakti’ patrolling teams in Machilipatnam. The teams, consisting of women police personnel ...
Americans might be puzzled as to why an autocratic strongman holds such appeal with voters. But it’s a story India has seen a thousand times in our ancient and medieval politics, to say nothing of ...
Credit: Alexander van Loon/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 The mystery over the Riace Bronzes, two magnificent ancient Greek statues, remains, more than half a century after the day they were recovered off the ...
What it tells us about the past: The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ancient Egypt that now stands in the British Museum in London.
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is, therefore, not just about the wonder that was India but its influence on the rest of the world. William Dalrymple’s latest book ...
The Venus de Milo is a masterpiece and is one of the most precise and compositionally beautiful statues of the Hellenistic period. The balance it strikes between craftsmanship and allure has made it ...
A very, very large fine, a superstar's statue misses the mark, and an ancient city was discovered in the most remarkable way. But how much, who and how? Test your knowledge of the week in news ...