Scientists both in India and abroad began studying the iron pillar in Delhi in 1912 to try to figure out why it hadn’t corroded. It wasn’t until 2003 that experts at the Indian Institute of ...

The BSF launched the operation following a tip-off about the presence of iron bunkers buried in a garden close to the India-Bangladesh ... stockpile of banned cough syrup bottles inside.

Clearly the people at the site were not just using iron, but actively producing and processing it. To be sure, the Tamil Nadu excavations are not the first in India to uncover iron. At least 27 ...

States including Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Karnataka account for nearly 96 per cent of the country’s iron ore production. | Photo Credit: STRINGER/INDIA India is planning to have its ...