Topic: Archaeological Survey of India

In March, ASI invited applications for four posts, and the selected candidates would assist its Underwater Archaeology Wing for a year. Two candidates were selected as junior consultants.

Parliament data shows 3,073 vacancies in the Archaeological Survey of India, despite rising government spending on monument preservation.

The Underwater Archaeology Wing went neglected in the ASI for over a decade. It was revived in 2025 under archaeologist Alok Tripathi.

The memo, titled ‘Unauthorised Communication of Official Information’, was issued with the approval of ASI Director General Yadubir Singh Rawat on 27 July.

Shekhawat was responding to JDU MP Sanjay Jha's letter, which asked for 10 sustained years of excavation at Balirajgarh in Bihar.

Interim arrangement will be ad-hoc in nature and subject to the final outcome of the matter, a bench headed by CJI Surya Kant says.

Every Harappan skeleton unearthed at sites such as Rakhigarhi, Dholavira and Lothal reveals new clues about India's oldest urban civilisation. From burial customs and social hierarchy to DNA research and beliefs about the afterlife, archaeologists are slowly piecing together the story of the Harappan dead.

The hiring for the posts of Deputy Superintending Archaeologists has been held up as multiple petitions demand a fresh notification and age relaxation for departmental candidates.

INTACH’s Bihar chapter has written to the Director General of ASI regarding the immediate suspension of archaeological excavation work at Balirajgarh.

The discovery has stirred excitement in a city preparing for Kumbh. The timing is merely a coincidence, said Arun Malik, Superintending Archaeologist at ASI’s Aurangabad Circle.