India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA ...

Once rulers of Asia’s vast forests, Asian elephants now struggle to survive as shrinking habitats and rising human conflict ...

Signs of bone breakage in extinct giant elephants, likely caused by repeated blows from stone tools, could be the earliest evidence of animal butchery in India, palaeontologists say. Based on two ...

In the seventeenth century, Dhaka was among the most prosperous cities of eastern India, home to nearly nine lakh people.