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The rare Koran and the painting Police in the Indian city of Bangalore have seized a copy of the Koran they believe may have belonged to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb over 300 years ago.The book was discovered after a raid on a hotel in the city. Police arrested a man who was trying to sell it and an antique painting for more than $1m. The gold-embroidered Koran, written in Persian, has more than 1,000 pages. Experts are checking if a signature on the back belongs to Aurangzeb, who ruled India from 1658 to 1707. 'Fragrant' The Mughal ruler was a...

India's Former Mughals Now a Forgotten Footnote Fri Aug 23,11:32 AM ET By Sugita Katyal NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - Their ancestors had one of the best addresses in India -- the Red Fort, Delhi. But the descendants of the country's grand Mughal rulers are today a forgotten family, living miles from the capital's imposing sandstone fort in a little, rented house near the southern city of Hyderabad. And, like millions of other Indians, they too have to stand in line and buy a ticket to enter the Delhi fort, where the last Mughal emperor was enthroned in 1837. "No...