Geared with a GPS (Global Positioning System), three village communities in the Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan created their village maps. By creating maps, they wanted to prevent land conflicts and ...

Bengaluru: The story of the 1904 revenue maps of the villages of Bengaluru just got murkier. Not even the best map reader will be able to find storm water drains on these revenue maps, based on which ...

Three years ago, Myanmar's military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government erased its name from official maps, according to the ...

In a bid to harness the unique cultural heritage of rural India, the government has identified and documented distinctive features of more than one lakh villages across the country. In this cultural ...