Before the Tricolour, India’s identity did not rest on a single flag. It moved through symbols used by empires, kingdoms, and ...

It is a symbol that commands respect, not through coercion, but through the inherent values it represents and the collective ...

Every time the Indian tricolour flutters in the wind — atop a government building, at a cricket stadium, or in the middle of ...

Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the Mauryan Empire. Guided by Chanakya, his strategic brilliance led to vast ...

Chandragupta Maurya was the first king to establish an empire in India. He died a monk. Chandragupta Maurya is considered to ...

Shame! Change it immediately.” Government sources said that the state emblem of India is an adaptation from the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka which is preserved in the Sarnath Museum.

It was only in December 1947 that the capital of the Ashoka pillar at Sarnath, with the words “Satyameva Jayate” written below it in Devanagiri, got adopted as our National Emblem.

The Constitution commences with an illustration of our National Emblem. Nandalal Bose was very particular about wanting the lions in the emblem to look exactly like the real lions with the correct ...

Bengal BJP chief Sukanto Majumdar has to explain to the Election Commission his remarks that Trinamool Congress says are insulting to the national emblem, the Lion Capitol of Emperor Ashoka.

New Delhi’s Iron Pillar has long fascinated scientists both at home and abroad. But it wasn’t until 2003 that experts cracked the metallurgical mystery behind this unusual attraction.

Today, the pillar serves as the emblem of scientific organizations like the National Metallurgical Laboratory and the Indian Institute of Metals.