HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Archeological museum at the premises of the Directorate, Archaeology and Museums, Gunfoundry, is set to open by the end of March 2012.The museum which has been closed for over a year-and-a-half due to restoration activities is expected to open soon unless the department fails to achieve its target.Once opened for public in January 2009, the museum building was later closed down in November 2011.The state of...
07:52 AM, Feb 27, 2012
In this joint initiative of the History Channel and CNN-IBN, viewers can vote for their choice through social media platforms. ...
10:39 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Across Asia, whether it be Himachal or Coorg in India or the Swat valley in Pakistan, there are many tribes who claim descent from Alexander the Great. The Kalashas are one. In the steep and secluded valleys of Nuristan in Pakistan, once they numbered in the tens of thousands. Today, they are merely around 3,000. Their oral history describes them as children of 'Salaxi', their name for Alexander. In the...
03:20 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Historian Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi and novels and essays by Gopalakrishna Pai, Kashinath Singh and Manik Sitaram Godghate alias Grace are among 22 books which were awarded prestigious Sahitya Akademi Awards for this year. Eight books of poetry, seven novels, three essays and one each short story, narrative history, biography and play were selected for this year's awards. While Guha got the award for his book of...
02:11 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Saurabh Dube's 'Handbook of Modernity in South Asia' is a significant contribution to the study of modernity and globalization in South Asia. The book has contributions by well-known historians and anthropologists. Combining a variety of disciplines and perspectives, the handbook interprets modernity as a contradictory process and probes its history. Some of the essays stand out. Ajay Skaria in his discussion on Gandhi raises important questions on faith and reason,...
06:32 PM, Jan 05, 2012
In this week's '30 Minutes' special meet 'The Inheritors' of India's great legacies - men and women who carry the burden and expectations of an illustrious surname. ...
07:12 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Aligarh: Team Anna's campaign against corruption may have caught the imagination of the nation, but what is perhaps little known is that though ancient India had a well-evolved democratic system that went down to the grassroots, its elected leaders had to adhere to well-defined laws that prescribed stiff penalties for those who swindled public money or indulged in improprieties. Aligarh Muslim University historian S. Chandni Bi, who has specialised in...
11:54 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Here is a preview all the adrenaline rush on History Channel's latest show Sliced. ...
04:43 PM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: Actor Kabir bedi has started a protest opposing Delhi University's decision to remove late poet and translator AK Ramanujan's essay 'Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation' from its history syllabus. "I have signed petition opposing Delhi University's removal of of AK Ramanujan's '300 Ramayans' from the history syllabus. Knowledge should not be banned," Bedi posted on micro-blogging site Twitter. According to the reports, the...
01:07 PM, Oct 24, 2011
The hunt for History's top shot has begun has 16 shooters compete to become the top shooter. ...
12:22 AM, Oct 23, 2011
We bring you the most amazing moments from Ice Road Truckers deadliest roads. ...
05:38 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Here's a look at what the History Channel has in store for you. ...
12:08 PM, Oct 15, 2011
The History Channel brings you a new show about the truck drivers who drive on the frozen roads to make a living. ...
03:35 AM, Oct 15, 2011
The History channel brings you the Ice Road Truckers - a race on thin Arctic ice to see which trucker can haul the maximum load on what they call death highways. ...
09:53 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Salman Khan is the brand ambassador of 'The History Channel' which is launched in India in six languages. ...
11:57 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Network 18's newly launched History channel- with brand ambassador Salman Khan- aims at making history more exciting and thrilling. ...
01:58 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: The factual entertainment channel History launched its India edition as part of a joint venture between TV18 and A+E Networks. History is the first in a bouquet of factual entertainment channels to be launched by the joint venture. The channel is now available in six languages (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi) in full HD across all major markets in India and will reach out to more...
09:39 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Salman Khan is the brand ambassador of 'The History Channel', a new channel introduced by Network 18. ...
09:16 AM, Oct 10, 2011
This is a year old book. And I still haven't finished it. My bad. Why am I writing a review if I haven't finished it? Because weekend after weekend, I pick it off my mantelpiece and read a few pages. I leave it on my table and it gets admiring glances from visitors. Something about a foreign country gets reported in the newspapers. And I go back to the book,...
02:37 PM, Sep 21, 2011
Bangkok: For people who have stood at a monument or scanned a landscape - the Great Wall of China, for instance, or the US Grand Canyon - and wondered how it looked 100 or more years ago, there is now an app for you. Historypin, on iOS and Android platforms, strives to create a collection of memories about locations by counting on people to dig up and digitise old photographs...
07:08 PM, Sep 12, 2011
