Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which had pointed out violations in building permits given to constructions in Kochi, also brought to notice violations in construction activities in the conservation zone of Fort Kochi. The report found that Kochi corporation gave permits for building construction in …
PUNE: NCP MP Supriya Sule's demand to restart riverside road construction work has riled city environmentalists, who have asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) not to succumb to the NCP leader's pressure and engage in illegal work. Sule had recently threatened to undertake an agitation if the PMC failed to …
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued bailable warrants against State Environment Minister Bijayashree Routray and the ASI chief over non-appearance of anyone on their behalf to respond on the issue of environmental pollution around the famous Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson …
Govt Reworked On Documents After UN Body Rejected Five Of The Six Monuments Last Year Six hill forts of Rajasthan have been included in Unesco’s World Heritage list. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which evaluates cultural properties for Unesco, has recommended the inclusion of Chittorgarh Fort (Chittorgarh), …
New Delhi: For connoisseurs of history, the 2013-14 Budget paves the way for a new era of heritage conservation. For the first time, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, described as an “institution of excellence”, has been granted Rs 100 crore. Established in 1984, Intach is India’s largest …
More and more of the capital’s best known monuments may now be illuminated through solar energy. Building on the experience gained over the last three years and keen on promoting the use of environment—friendly solar energy, the Delhi government plans to light up more of the capital’s historical sites through …
Aug. 16: Garbage dumped by people on the banks of the Brahmaputra is leading to pollution of the surroundings around the rock-cut sculptures of Vishnu Janardan on the river bank near Sukreswar temple, said officials of the Guwahati circle of the Archaeological Survey of India. These beautifully engraved life-size sculptures …
High Tide Hits Mamallapuram Temple In TN, Revives Tsunami Fears Mamallapuram: Giant waves, more than 12 feet high, hit the northern side of the famous shore temple at Mamallapuram, 60km from Chennai, on Tuesday evening, leaving the heritage monument three feet deep in water. The temple town was virtually empty …
Chandigarh: The Punjab government is planning to start eco-tourism trail in Shivalik Hills where fossils of wild camel, horses and bulls dating back to nearly three million years have been found. The fossils, found during excavations in 20 villages in Mirzapur and Siswan area near Chandigarh, were sent to Wadia …
New Delhi: Continuing uncertainty over the fate of numerous parking projects has become a cause of concern for not only vehicle users but also the city’s planners. While there are plans to raise parking fees in the city, only one of the 41 multi-level parking projects conceived by the erstwhile …
Even as Assam has renewed its campaign to get UNESCO World Heritage Site status for Majuli, one of the largest inhabited river islands in the world, some in the state are blaming the Archaeological Survey of India for the failure of its previous attempt. UNESCO had returned Majuli’s nomination for …
New Delhi: MCD is conducting a study to assess the feasibility of levying additional parking fee on vehicles parked on public land, especially in residential colonies. This comes after the special task force directives. While the government and the civic agency are considering increasing parking rates and levying new fee …
GUWAHATI, April 17 – Governor JB Patnaik today asked the authorities concerned to take urgent steps for making the Majuli Cultural Landscape Management Authority (MCLMA) fully functional. He also desired that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) should submit the required number of copies of the island’s nomination dossier and …
Residents Flout Heritage Law, Illegal Structures Rise Within 100M Of Monument Khirki village in south Delhi has no time for heritage laws. From the roof of its Tughlaq-era Khirki Masjid, you can see workers with hammers at work inside houses and scaffoldings raised along the walls of buildings creeping up …
Planned by British architects Chapman Taylor, and to be executed by the National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC), East Kidwai Nagar is an ambitious redevelopment project, pegged at an approximate cost of Rs 4,500 crore. The government plans to raze the existing 2,331 government quarters in East Kidwai Nagar and replace …
The Centre does not have unlimited powers to allow construction and mining in prohibited and regulated areas, the Supreme Court has ruled. The public interest must be the core factor for consideration of grant of permission for the construction activities within such areas, the court has said. “Public interest must …
A city-based NGO today urged Dispur not to allow construction at Urvasi island on the Brahmaputra. The NGO, Citizens First, submitted a memorandum to chief secretary Naba Kumar Das, objecting to an application filed by Samir Damodar Ropeway Pvt Ltd, seeking permission for construction on the island to shore up …
Lucknow: When Shah Jahan decided to build the Taj Mahal on a wooden base on the banks of the Yamuna, he got everything right from design to science. Except for one thing: he never factored in the Yamuna going dry. In the Mughal era, wood was used to lay solid …
