Tag: Heritage

Dholavira, the archaeological site of a Harappan-era city, received the UNESCO world heritage site tag on Tuesday. While Dholavira became the fourth site from Gujarat and 40th from India to make the list, it is the first site of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) in India to get ...

#Pakistan News Hima in the southwest is home to rock inscriptions that are thousands of years old. Hima is among six sites such as Madain Saleh that have been added to UNESC World Heritage list. (AP) A sixth site in Saudi Arabia has been added to UNESCO's world heritage ...

Old Jammu Railway Station to be heritage site JAMMU TAWI, JUNE 8: Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer today said that the government is planning to develop historical Bikram Chowk Railway Station as a heritage site to attract tourists visiting the City of Temples. He was on a visit ...

On the other hand, cultural heritage which is intangible in nature is a subtle form of expression by a community depicting their ways of living, which is passed from one generation to another through continuing practices, expressions, customs, and values that are more often than not passed through oral ...

Farooq calls for protecting linguistic heritage of J&K Seeks incentivization of publication of journals, magazines, dailies in local languages Srinagar, Feb 20: National Conference (NC) President and Member of Parliament from Srinagar Dr Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said that mother tongue is the underlying component of one’s culture and ...

This year’s festive season has been extra special for artisans, weavers and handicraft makers across the country as they catered to the growing consumer demand for indigenous products, crafted to bring the rich culture of India to life.Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, also created a special collection of products ...

After Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia butchered and mocked Sen. Kamala Harris’s name at one of President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies last week, people of color recoiled in unpleasant familiarity.   “Ka-MA-la, KA-ma-la, Kamala-mala-mala. I don’t know, whatever,” Perdue of the Democratic vice presidential nominee at Friday evening’s rally ...

Tourism Dept begins renovation of Kashmir's heritage places Renovation aimed to upgrade tourism infra in J&K: Dir Tourism Owais Gul Srinagar, Oct 19: In a bid to upgrade the tourism infrastructure in the Valley, the tourism department has started a process to renovate the heritage place including some historic Jamia ...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has started preparing a dossier on the six Mughal Gardens in the Kashmir Valley in a bid to empanel them in the list of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) mandated world heritage sites. Locals are expecting that this consideration will boost ...

The Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) administration is all set to conserve the six Mughal gardens in a bid to empanel them as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) mandated world heritage sites. Also read: Amid masks and social distancing, Srinagar’s parks, gardens reopen for visitorsA meeting was ...