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Monday, November 10, 2025
TopicUNESCO world heritage site

Topic: UNESCO world heritage site

Santiniketan gets a Unesco tag when its heritage is actually in decline

Will the increased attention on Santiniketan and rise in tourism push Rabindranath Tagore's cultural hub further into the arms of urbanisation?

After French tourist’s fatal fall, Spanish woman now slips and injures leg in Fatehpur Sikri

Spanish tourist rushed to Agra were she underwent MRI, X-ray tests. Meanwhile, fact-finding team finds lapses while inspecting site where a French tourist had fatal fall Thursday.

‘Fitting tribute’, says EAM Jaishankar as Santiniketan gets UNESCO World Heritage Site tag

Established in 1901 by Rabindranath Tagore, Santiniketan was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions and a vision of the unity of humanity.

Assam’s Charaideo Moidams are sacred. Now Unesco bid moves it to India’s political centre

Showcasing Ahom dynasty’s burial mounds is part of the BJP govt’s emphasis on warriors who fought the Mughals. Ahoms stopped Mughals’ expansion into the Northeast.

Assam’s pyramids: All about Ahom dynasty ‘burial mounds’, India entry for UNESCO World Heritage tag

The Charaideo Moidams are mounds containing remains of Ahom dynasty royalty, who ruled present-day Assam from the 13th to the 19th century.

‘To live is to kill’ — a Malabar pit viper and gliding frog affirm nature’s basic law

Amboli Ghat is known as the ‘Cherrapunji’ of Maharashtra. The UNESCO World Heritage Site sustains its ecosystem with nature's most essential law.

Explore the magnetism of Maharashtra at the Dubai World Expo 2020

To showcase Maharashtra’s vibrant culture, art, history, and business potential, the state is participating in the Dubai Expo from 19 November to 2 December 2021.

A quiet ‘Chipko movement’ brewing in Assam to stop 6,000 Sal trees from felling

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Meet the new additions to UNESCO’s World Heritage sites

A UNESCO panel added 13 new sites in 2020-2021, including the Harappan city of Dholavira in India.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.