In Afghanistan, Taliban officials are calling for the preservation of the country's pre-Islamic heritage two decades after ...

BJP leader Dilip Ghosh condemned the Pahalgam terror attack and said that India was a country of peace and non-violence further stating that no terrorism would be accepted in the country. This is the ...

Painter Ikuo Hirayama (1930-2009), who painted Silk Road landscapes throughout his career, visited Afghanistan in 1968. He traveled there to see huge images of Buddha carved into a rock face ...

China isn’t a destination for the faint of heart — the crowds, the traffic, and the language are daunting. This can make it ...

3 May CANALWAY CAVALCADE: If you go down to the canal over the May Day bank holiday, you're in for a big surprise ... of these world religions such as Buddha, and how they spread across the ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in power and claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan’s ...

High in the rugged cliffs of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, two colossal statues once gazed out over a land crisscrossed by ...

Big Buddha is a giant statue of Buddha encased in Burmese alabaster that towers over Phuket from the peak of Mount Nagakerd. Construction on Big Buddha began in 2007, and Phuketians are proud of ...

It was just the second time this season that Nebraska (34-12, 13-5 Big Ten) lost via the mercy rule — a defeat that may have knocked the Huskers out of contention for the regular-season ...

Regional police chief Lalith Pathinayake said queues in the city of Kandy were already 10 kilometres (six miles) long as Buddhists waited to worship what they believe to be a tooth of the Buddha ...

"Conclave" the film, a moody 2024 political thriller, introduced many laypeople to the ancient papal selection process.