It is one of the special states in India which alone is home to ... Trimbakeshwar is the source of the Godavari River, situated near Nashik. The temple holds a unique place among all the ...

Buddhist monks protest for control of Bodh Gaya temple, demanding repeal of 1949 Act, sparking religious and political debate ...

Tucked away on an island in the Narmada River, the Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga temple is deeply connected to the sacred sound ‘Om’. Its unique architecture blends styles from both North and South India ..

I went backpacking for six months in India and wrote weekly letters to my father to stay in touch with home. Rereading them ...

Chimmi, the restaurant manager at the Aman, Thimphu, noticed me flinching with pain during the breakfast service ... cultural preservation (the temples preserve exquisite iconography)—maybe ...

Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the Great.

After excavating ruins of a first-century a.d. city there, he stumbled across, and soon began uncovering, an Iron Age temple used for fire worship that dated from 1500 to 1300 b.c. While carting ...

As we near the tanneries ... city in India: millions of Hindus come each year to a three-mile long curve of temples, shrines and bathing ghats (steps leading down to the river) along its banks.

which struck between 1930 and 1956 near the Sagaing Fault. A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake in the ancient capital Bagan killed three people in 2016 and crumbled temple walls at the popular ...

Search teams are still working at the site of a collapsed high-rise block in Mandalay, near the earthquake ... displaced people," Lauren tells BBC Breakfast. "We are coming into monsoon season ...

also known as the Bahubali Temple, is a significant Jain pilgrimage site located in Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, India. Shravanabelagola is a town near Channarayapatna in the Hassan district of ...