Indian Standard Time (IST)
This day in the year 1947 saw the establishment of Indian Standard Time (IST) as the official time for the...
Uttar Pradesh
India – the birthplace of chess
The original word for chess is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning four members of an army, which were most likely elephants,...
‘Older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend’
Mark Twain described Varanasi as - ‘Older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend’. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famously known...
