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Srinagar: Korean Ambassador Chang Jaebok Tuesday said that Korea and India need to put efforts to increase tourist footfall from Korea to Kashmir. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the 3rd G20 Tourism Working Group Meeting, Korean Ambassador said that both governments need to promote cultural exchanges to ...

Films have been Muzaffar Ali’s passion but poetry, painting, couture, cars, dogs, horses, India’s composite culture, Sufism and Rumi’s humanism figure no less in his autobiography Zikr: In the Light and Shade of Time. Like many autobiographies, Ali presents the events of his life in chronological order, beginning with ...

RAMBAN, Apr 28: Under the overall guidance of Secretary Tourism, Dr. Syed Abid Rasheed Shah, the Directorate of Tourism Jammu today organized a one Day Cultural Bonanza titled ‘Sanasar Tulip Festival’ at Sanasar.The event witnessed cultural festivities and live singing performances by Sangram Hanjra, Chaman Lehri and others. It ...

The Indian Penal Code was originally written by Thomas Babington Macaulay, the colonial ideologue now better known for his 1835 “Minute on Education,” which proposed teaching Shakespeare and Milton in India to create a class of ersatz Englishman – a charter text for colonial mimicry. Written immediately after the ...

Source link www.rferl.org Just months before the Taliban was ousted from power in 2001, the hard-line Islamist group took a wrecking ball to Afghanistan's pre-Islamic history. That spring, the Bamiyan Buddhas that had stood tall for more than 1,400 years were reduced to rubble over the course of a ...

While there has been no official statement, the political connotations are difficult to miss. There have been instances where political groups have opted to resort to violence as an expression of their opposition to Pakistani artists. It was in 2014 when a pre-moderate Shiv Sena members barged into a press conference to ...

The bustling Souq Waqif in Doha, a recreated market square consisting of old clay buildings, stalls, alleyways and tunnels, has become a social hotspot at the World Cup. From jewelry to carpets to sandals to painted portraits of the Emir of Qatar to budgies in golden cages – if ...

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India oi-Madhuri Adnal | Published: Friday, September 16, 2022, 23:53 New Delhi, Sep 16: The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Friday endorsed the holy city of Varanasi as the first ever tourist and cultural capital of the grouping for the year 2022-23. Foreign Secretary Vinay ...

FRONT PAGE Queen Elizabeth II, monarch who ruled for 7 decades, dies Syllabus: Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance. Mains Examination:  • General Studies I: History of the world will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars, redrawal of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization, ...