<font class=author>SUCHANDANA GUPTA</font><br />SANCHI: Six Buddhist monks, who started a silent march from the Dharma Rajika Stupa of Takshila on August 6 praying ...

The Ranchi module of Indian Mujahedeen (IM) which executed the Patna and Bodh Gaya blasts had plans to blow up the Sanchi Stupa - a UNESCO world heritage site in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh.

The story behind Sanchi is one that both interests and inspires. Rising from the plains, 46 km northeast of Bhopal, Sanchi falls right at the heart of Madhya Pradesh. It is a rounded hill topped with ...

The famed 3rd-century Buddhist Stupa land of Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh has become the first “solar city†in the country. The city, known for the Great Buddhist Stupa originally built by Mauryan ...

Renowned world heritage site Sanchi might have a scope of expansion in near future with the Bhopal circle of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) planning to develop the nearby Buddhist sites for ...

Kushan Mitra explores one of the few remaining sites in Central India with a direct connection to ancient India’s greatest emperor Sanchi is a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ sort of town, much ...

Residents of pilgrim town Sanchi, famous for its Stupa, are waiting for their “sunshine moment” eight months after the place was declared India’s first solar city. During an official ceremony in ...

Sometimes, it’s a good thing if ancient monuments are left undisturbed, perhaps even undiscovered. Why, you would ask, would anyone want a monument of great beauty and historical worth to be left ...

It was during the third century BCE that the emperor Asoka built the first stupa here, when the then adjacent city of Vidisha (present day Besnagar) was an important centre on the empire’s great north ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board is developing a Buddhist Circuit to connect Sanchi and other destinations in the state with Bodhgaya and Sarnath in Bihar. The aim is to apprise ...