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Biggest museum of northeast opens in Tripura palace

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 14:52

Vice-President Hamid Ansari Wednesday inaugurated the northeast India`s biggest museum at 112-year-old Ujjayanta Palace, Tripura`s royal mansion here.

Tripura`s royal mansion to house northeast`s biggest museum

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 08:34

In realisation of a century-old dream, the country`s biggest royal mansion in the northeast, the Ujjayanta Palace, would now be home to the biggest museum in the region.

Tripura State Museum to be inaugurated tomorrow

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 14:53

The Tripura State Museum, housed in the Ujjayanta Palace of the erstwhile Manikya dynasty, will be inaugurated by Vice-President Hamid Ansari here Wednesday.

No move to rename Ujjayanta Palace: Tripura govt

Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2013, 18:34

Tripura government on Friday moved to bury the row over renaming of Ujjayanta Palace, erstwhile royal abode of the Manikya kings, to Tripura State Museum, saying no such proposal was being planned.

Stolen `Yogini` returns, see her at National Museum

Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2013, 09:29

Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch and External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Thursday inaugurated an exhibition in the national capital.

Four new species of legless lizards discovered

Last Updated: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 18:30

Scientists have discovered four new species of legless lizards living in unlikely habitats in California.

US professor helps authenticate Van Gogh painting

Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:54

A professor with Rice University in the US state of Texas has helped to authenticate a painting by Vincent van Gogh in an Amsterdam museum with digital sleuthing, the varsity said Thursday.

Climate change responsible for woolly mammoth`s extinction: Study

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 21:25

Researchers have found that climate change, instead of hunting by humans, was responsible for the extinction of the woolly mammoth.

Prabhu Deva gets immortalized in wax at Lonavala Celebrity museum

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 18:27

Choreographer turned director, Prabhu Deva, recently unveiled his wax statue at the Lonavala Celebrity wax museum in Mumbai.

India`s only sex museum: BMC opens it, shuts it and forgets it

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 10:57

Antarang, South Asia’s first sex health information art gallery, was inaugurated in 2002 in Kamathipura after a sudden surge in HIV/Aids cases in the city. It was shut down in 2007.

India`s first science museum opens innovation hub

Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 15:45

India`s first science museum here launched its `Innovation Hub` Friday in a bid to boost innovations among youngsters. The hub is also the country`s first such centre in a science museum.

Fragments of Mayan jaguar sculptures found

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 15:35

At least 160 fragments of sculptures, possibly of jaguars, were discovered by specialists in the archaeological park of Cihuatan, located in central El Salvador, authorities said.