The debate on the achievements of ancient India in science and technology continues unabated. For instance, Union minister of science and technology, Dr Harsh Vardhan’s statement that the ...

Surprisingly, the tools date back to 385,000 years ago—which is around the same time as this technology is thought to have first developed by archaic or possibly modern humans in Africa.

India will celebrate the second National Space Day on August 23, 2025, a date that marks a turning point in the nation’s ...

Another day in science, another massive, ancient snake discovery. Paleontologists in India have unearthed fossilized vertebrae from a snake that slithered around the sub-continent about 47 million ...

A senior historian has expressed his surprise over non-inclusion of vast scientific and technical knowledge of the ancient period in our school and higher education curriculums though India was ...

Thousands of stone tools dating back as far as 385,000 years that have been uncovered in India suggest humans might have migrated from Africa much earlier than previously thought.

A speaker at a prestigious science conference in India is taking heat for claiming that stem cell technology was actually invented by Hindus — thousands of years ago. And another academic at the ...

Days after BJP leader Anurag Thakur told school students that Lord Hanuman might have been the first space traveller, his ...

Now India is betting that jute — an ancient textile whose harvesting and production have scarcely been touched by modern technology — could be a fabric of the future.