Kumbh Mela declared as India's cultural heritage by UNESCO, PM Modi expresses pride on Twitter
Lifestyle | December 08, 2017 17:55 ISTUNESCO declares Kumbh Mela as India's Intangible Heritage
UNESCO declares Kumbh Mela as India's Intangible Heritage
According to a new survey, Taj Mahal is rated after Cambodia's Angkor Wat – recognised best toured with a knowledgeable guide.
China was silent on its reported decision to withdraw its candidate from the race for UNESCO's Director-General.
The US stopped funding UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member in 2011.
The declaration of six-hundred year old Ahmedabad as a world heritage city by the UNESCO was hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani
There’s one such monument that has managed to survive a massive earthquake in 16th century and has been struck by lightning twice.
Its World Heritage Day today and one of the best day to promote and spread awareness regarding the cultural heritage of India. UNESCO too through its Unite 4 heritage programme has started the initiative to promote the international monuments.
A Kerala-based NGO will today be conferred with the prestigious UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy for its literacy-linked skill development activities at a ceremony in Paris. The Jan Sikshan Sansthan (JSS), based in state’s Malappuram,
India will be half a century late in achieving its education goals and the country needs to undergo fundamental changes in the education system if it wants to meet the 2030 sustainable development goals
India's "unique" Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve is among the 20 new sites added by the UN's top cultural body UNESCO to its World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
Beijing: China's capital Beijing is set to build a UNESCO international centre for creativity and sustainable development, the first of its kind, an official said on Monday.The centre, which will be officially launched next year,
Islamabad: Pakistan will push for inclusion of eight more of its sites in the list of Unesco's world heritage sites."These sites are of national and cultural universal importance, and will attract tourists from across borders
Sanaa (Yemen) : Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes against Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies have killed 29 people, including civilians, in the capital Sanaa,security and medical officials there said today.The coalition's airstrikes hit an apartment building
Damascus: The Islamic State (IS) terror group has blown up three funerary towers at the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities expert said on Friday.The three tombs are Jamblique, built in 83 A.D. and
Paris: Director-General of Unesco Irina Bokova on Tuesday "expressed profound dismay" and condemned the destruction of the temple of Bel in Syria's Palmyra.She said the site was "a construction unique in design and one
Hiroshima: The crumbling brick and concrete walls of the Atomic Bomb Dome, as it is known today, rise above the Motoyasu River. The bomb so devastated Hiroshima that there are few other reminders of the
Paris: The Unesco on Thursday condemned the killing of two Iraqi journalists by Islamic State earlier in July, and called for swift justice to those responsible.Iraqi nationals Suahaa Ahmed Radhi, a newspaper editor in Nineveh,
United Nations: The head of a UN agency mandated to defend freedom of expression has called on Indian authorities to investigate the mysterious death of TV reporter Akshay Singh while covering the Vyapam scam in
Berlin: The French Champagne Vineyards where the world famous sparkling wine is produced has now been granted the 'World Heritage' site status, joining the likes of Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China.The property,
Sanaa: Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels and their allies in Yemen destroyed historic houses today in the center of the capital, Sanaa, a UNESCO world heritage site.Rescue teams digging through the debris pulled the bodies
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