WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
PREETI KARMYOGI, NEW DELHI The Archaeologi cal Survey of India has handed over the entire Hampi World Heritage Site to the Bengaluru circle. The much awaited move has been taken on the demand of various stakeholders and conservationists to ensure better administration.
The internet is killing newspapers and giving birth to a new sort of news business The race is crowded, but San Francisco stands a fair chance of becoming the first major American city without a daily newspaper. The San Francisco Chronicle, founded in 1865, is trimming its already pared-down staff …
Archaeologists have unearthed four pharaonic temples in the Sinai peninsula, including one of mud brick with fortified walls that served as an important religious center at the eastern gateway to ancient Egypt. Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities said on Tuesday the temples dated to the beginning of the rule of …
Navi Mumbai: Excavation underway near the 500-year-old Janjira Fort and the historic Nawab Tomb is worrying locals who fear that these heritage structures may be in danger. The area is being excavated for soil that is required for the ongoing Dighi-Port project on the other side of the creek in …
Rrishi Raote / New Delhi April 11, 2009, 0:14 IST While neglected structures continue to dot the city of Delhi, Rrishi Raote wonders how to get them listed. Walking through the enormous Siri Fort park near his home in Delhi, BBC journalist Sam Miller says he passed it
Ahmedabad: Appreciating the heritage awareness programme undertaken by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), especially among children, National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities (NMMA) has approached it to devise a capsule programme that could help heritage cities across the country emulate this concept. Conservationists across the globe have been targeting children in …
Observations of Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal, at the Ladies' Study Group Charitable Trust Annual Award Ceremony, The Taj Bengal, Kolkata, April 7 2009.
>> A California law that banned the sale or rental of violent video games to minors was struck down February 26 by a US federal appeals court >> More than 1,815 digital maps will be completed in 2009 marking official and clandestine roads, rivers, settlements, and schools in Brazillian Amazon. …
Some of the oldest words in the English language were probably used by our ancestors in the stone age. Mark Pagel of the Reading University in the UK believes that words such as
March 27: The AP Congress Committee has lodged a complaint with the AP High Court that the Campaign for Housing and Tenural Rights (CHATRI), a voluntary organisation, has been misusing law to intimidate and extract benefits from it. The APCC president, Mr D. Srinivas, submitted an affidavit to the court …
Over 90 less known and unprotected monuments in the Capital will sport a new look before the 2010 Commonwealth Games as the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has started conserving and documenting the heritage structures which would be major tourist attractions during the mega-sporting event. Heritage …
