The Indus Valley Civilisation probably didn’t disappear all at once. New research points to a long stretch of repeated droughts that may have slowly w.

NEW DELHI – For thousands of years, Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal, the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, were the center of one of the world’s earliest and most advanced urban ...

Pakistan has discovered vast gold reserves in the Indus River, which is estimated to be worth around ₹80,000 crore, according ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment ...

A major river system that flows through both India and Pakistan has been a source of ongoing tensions between the two countries for decades. But India's unilateral suspension in April of a ...

The Indus River in Pakistan is being extensively disturbed by unregulated mining of the river’s bed (‘placer mining’) for gold. Numerous operations employing an estimated 1,200 heavy machines dig ...

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi. Despite ...

Dr Kumar shares the astounding statistics regarding the flow of the Indus river, “More than 100 million hectare feet of water ...

Indus River dolphins are distinguished by their elongated noses and small, nearly vestigial eyes. Once thriving in the lower parts of the Indus and its tributaries, their numbers have dwindled due to ...

A fish under a roof. A stick figure without a head. A series of lines that look like a garden rake. These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ...

The research suggests the Indus Valley Civilisation could be far older than previously believed, not just by a few centuries, but by thousands of years. Experts studying pottery and animal remains at ...