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Clear filters18 February 2026 marked 80 years since the Royal Indian Navy Revolt of 1946, a five-day uprising from 18 to 23 February by Indian naval ratings against British rule. Triggered by poor food, low pay and racial discriminat...
The President inaugurated the centenary celebrations of the Ol Chiki script in New Delhi. Pandit Raghunath Murmu of Mayurbhanj, Odisha, created the script in 1925 to give the Santhali language its own writing system. It...
Jaisalmer, the desert city in Rajasthan, has been chosen to host India's first Jain Chadar Mahotsav. The festival is scheduled to run for three days, from 6 March to 8 March 2026. As the first event of this kind in the c...
By the close of 2026, visitors should be able to enter the first gallery of the Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum. The Ministry of Culture is creating the museum as part of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, and i...
Fresh findings from Bhirrana suggest that the Indus Valley Civilisation may be nearly 8,000 years old. Radiocarbon dating of pottery and animal remains recovered there points to settlements and farming communities emergi...
India sent the Devnimori Buddha relics to Sri Lanka for public veneration at Colombo's Gangaramaya Temple from 4 to 10 February 2026. Kept at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, the relics were excav...
An early 8th-century CE inscription in Telugu has been found at Pitikayagulla in Andhra Pradesh. Written in early Telugu script, it shows the language emerging from Prakrit influence into an independent tongue. The recor...
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has included Odisha's Buddhist Diamond Triangle, comprising Lalitgiri, Udayagiri and Ratnagiri, in India's Tentative List. Together the sites record about 1,500 years of unbroken Buddhist...
The Archaeological Survey of India has begun excavating an Iron Age burial site at Kamanur near Kodaikanal, as part of a three-year plan for the Palani Hills. Cist burials, dolmens, urn burials and pit burials have been...
Archaeologists of the ASI digging at the Kote Veerabhadreshwar Temple in Lakkundi, Gadag district, Karnataka, have found objects from the Neolithic (New Stone Age) period. The finds include pieces of a grey clay pot, a s...
Ponduru Khadi, a hand-woven cotton fabric from Ponduru village in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh (locally 'Patnulu'), was granted the Geographical Indication tag; it is woven by hand using Hill, Punasa and red cotto...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote an article, 'Somnath: 1,000 years of unbroken faith', marking a thousand years since Mahmud of Ghazni attacked the Somnath Temple in 1026 CE. The temple is at Prabhas Patan near Veraval...
