Discover India's oldest monument. Commissioned by Emperor Ashoka, it is a key site for early Buddhist stone architecture and ...

Commissioned by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great, the Great Sanchi Stupa was originally built in the 3rd Century BC. Sanchi was remodeled around 185 BC to twice its original size. The oldest ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Derived from the Sanskrit word "jina," meaning "to conquer," Jainism teaches that all life forms have an eternal soul bound by karma in a never-ending cycle of rebirth. Through nonviolence or ahimsa, ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Pillar of Ashoka (238 BC) erected in Uttar Pradesh, India In 1947 on her 21st birthday, the ...

Air India flight AI 171 crashed shortly after take-off near Ahmedabad, killing 274 people. The incident mirrors the 1978 'Emperor Ashoka' disaster when Air India flight AI 855 plunged into Arabian Sea ...

Regarding Maxwell Carter’s review of “Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King” by Patrick Olivelle (Books, Jan. 27): One can be benign only if one has the choice to be ruthless. One can be credited for ...

This conversation revolves around Emperor Ashoka’s messages that resonate with the theme of ecology. Did the emperor see all living beings, humans and others, in the same way? Did the state’s ...