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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicUNESCO world heritage site

Topic: UNESCO world heritage site

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.

‘Floating’ bricks, sandbox tech: Engineering skill behind 13th C Telangana temple’s UNESCO tag

The Kakatiya Rudreswara Temple, also known as the Ramappa Temple, in Telangana was last week inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 39th such site in India.

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Mumbai fashion weeks need a revamp. Not Dharavi & Girgaon

Bless Mr Adani’s kind heart. So glad his view from the private jet will improve by 2032.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.