"A monument like the Taj is not just important because of its beauty or its architectural or historical worth," says Safvi.

New Delhi – India's monsoon-rain-swollen Yamuna river, which flooded parts of Delhi last week, has become so engorged that its waters were lapping Wednesday at the walls of India's most iconic ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s government banned non-essential construction in New Delhi, the world’s most polluted capital, and urged residents to avoid burning coal for heating, to combat worsening ...

In recent years the Taj has also become a contested site, targeted by those determined to recast India’s pluralist history.

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That small opening is actually the entrance to what historians and archaeologists call the subterranean chambers of the Taj ...

NEW DELHI (RNS) — Hindu nationalists recently vandalized a gate at the Taj Mahal, the world-famous monument built by a Muslim emperor in the 17th century. The incident is part of rising anti-Muslim ...

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