<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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Situated 46 km from Bhopal, Sanchi is a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh and is best known for its stupas and other Buddhist monuments. The stupas of Sanchi were built by Emperor ...

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 ...