Dipankar Buddhas parade through Bhaktapur celebrating Panchadan, the festival of five summer gifts

Aug 21, 2025

Parading through the narrow alleys and dancing to the beats of traditional musical instruments, Dipankar Buddhas were seen celebrating the Panchadan festival on Wednesday...

Taliban say they will preserve Bamiyan's Buddha niches

Oct 05, 2021

Kabul [Afghanistan], October 5 : The Taliban have said that they will preserve the empty niches of the two giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, reported...

Assam Police arrests Dipankar Barman, one of main accused in multi-crore trading scam

Oct 27, 2024

Assam police arrested Dipankar Barman who is one of the main accused in a multi-crore trading scam in the state. Dipankar Barman has been...

Afghanistan: How Taliban plans to make money out of Buddha statues it destroyed

Jul 21, 2023

Taliban which itself destroyed the historically and culturally significant ‘Buddhas of Bamiyan’, now want to make money from the empty niches as it is...

Taliban blows up slain Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari's statue in Bamiyan

Aug 18, 2021

Kabul [Afghanistan], August 18 : The Taliban have blown up slain Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari's statue in Bamiyan, a grim reminder of the...

SC to hear Subramanian Swamy's plea in April to delete 'secular' & 'socialist' from the preamble

Feb 09, 2024

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Dutta posted the matter in the week commencing from April 29.