cultural heritage Archives

March 18, 2025 11:18 AM

India’s cultural heritage goes digital: NMMA leads comprehensive preservation efforts

Launched in 2007, the National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) aims to systematically document and digitize India’s vast built heritage, sites, and antiquities. Despite being one of the richest nations in cultural heritage, India has fa...

June 27, 2024 9:24 AM

Hunar Indian Folk & Tribal Art Exhibition opens in Dubai, highlighting rich cultural heritage

The Dubai Art Centre, one of the city's oldest art institutions, is currently hosting the "Hunar" exhibition, a captivating display of Indian folk and tribal art. The exhibition highlights the rich cultural heritage of India's folk and tribal art for...

February 6, 2024 4:32 PM

Union Culture Minister G. Kishan Reddy inaugurates India’s First Digital National Museum of Epigraphy

Union Culture Minister G. Kishan Reddy on Monday laid the foundation stone for India's digital National Museum of Epigraphy at the Salar Jung Museum. Spearheaded by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), this museum will house approximately one la...

December 7, 2023 5:55 PM

Centre launches “Mera Gaon, Meri Dharohar” project to chronicle and map cultural heritage of villages

Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, overseeing culture, tourism, and development of north Eastern Region, announced a new project in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday aimed at highlighting the cultural richness of villages across the nation. Developed in part...

August 9, 2023 11:55 AM

US first lady Jill Biden attends event at UNESCO in Paris

The US first lady Jill Biden attended a flag-raising ceremony at UNESCO in Paris yesterday. With this, Washington has officially re-entered the UN agency after a controversial five-year hiatus. Before the flag-raising, Biden made remarks about the im...