Budget promises big leap for primary education
The decision to implement Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) at the national level is a big leap forward in the educational sector. As promised in the Budget, 1.8 lakh schools will become operational in the next three years. This means there will be an elementary school at every habitation within a …
Funding for education of the poor
Ar Rs. 840 per school going child, the Government spends twice as much as their parents do in a year, but the State needs another Rs. 7,186 crores to bring education to 59-million children still left out. And the Government were to honour its commitment of providing free elementary education, …
Delhi launches education-for-all project
The Delhi government has launched an ambitious project to provide quality education to the city's children who do not have access to schools. According to a government estimate, more than three lakh children in the city do not go to schools. The project, Citizens' Mission, is being carried out with …
Pre-historic rock shelters discovered in Urdain
Pre-historic rock paintings and rock shelters of great archaeological value have recently been found at Urdain village in Raisen district, near here. The paintings confirm that the people of this area had used farm implements like plough as far back as 10,000 years ago. This is perhaps the most ancient …
India's first mobile conservation lab
Indian museum will launch the country's first mobile conservation laboratory on Tuesday, which is aimed at providing preservation facilities to private and small museums in West Bengal.
Mandu, Bhimbetka on World Heritage list shortly
The enchanting monuments of Mandu and stoneage rock shelters and paintings of Bhimbetka in the State (M. P.) will shortly appear on the World Heritage list of UNESCO. A formal intimation of this from International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a wing of UNESCO, is expected any day. As …
For Rs 2 cr, Dwarka could emerge as the world's first underwater museum
The Marine Archaeology Centre of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, has submitted a proposal to the Gujarat government to build a unique underwater museum to view the remains of the submerged city of Dwarka. Noted marine archaeologist, Dr S.R. Rao who was awarded Britain's first World Ship Trust …
CBRI develops eco-friendly technology for brick making
Some good news has come with the development of a simple and efficient Gravitational Settling Chamber design that incorporates an innovative approach for the removal of particulate matters from effluent gases released from brick kilns, by the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) here.
Schools to adopt monuments
Rajasthan proposes to seek school children's participation in the protection of historic monuments in the state. In a unique scheme, being mooted by the State Government, each school will be made to adopt one monument of historical and cultural significance in its neighbourhood.
Archeologists discover Kalahandi's stone heritage
Kalahandi district in Orissa, wracked by periodic drought and starvation in the modern age, seems to have had a glorious past as remains of several fortified settlements from the Stone Age up to the medieval periods have been unearthed recently.
ASI drive to preserve J&K monuments
The Archaeological Survey of India, which has 69 monuments in the state under its charge, has planned a special maintenance drive. In Jammu region, repair of the Akhnoor Fort ramparts, restoration work at palaces of Ramnagar, and grill fencing at Kirmachi in Udhampur have been undertaken.
World Bank asks CMC to impose water charges
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation must impose water charges on all house-owners in the city, feels a World Bank team , in the city recently to study its water supply and drainage problems. The bank will privide a grant, to improve water supply and the drainage system. The civic authorities had …
Konark temple may soon be a heap of stones
The majestic Sun Temple at Konark which has put Orissa on the world heritage map with its architectural splendour and exquisite carvings is crumbling with the stone erosion and weathering effect taking a heavy toll. Salt action, wind, humidity, algae and fungal growth have also contributed to the perishing splendour …
Dinosaur pelvis discovered
Archaeologists said they have discovered a dinosaur's pelvis weighing two tons, that dates from about 140 million years ago, at a dig, North of Lisbon.The bone was found near Lourinha, about 75 km north of the capital on Tuesday and is part of a Sauropod, a 20-ton, four-legged herbivorous dinosaur, …
New laws to preserve heritage
The Delhi government may soon enact laws to protect buildings in Delhi which are not covered under the Arcaeological Survey of India's list of protected monuments.
An early sign of fire use may just be all smoke
Evidence from an ancient Chinese cave has cast doubt on prevailing theories about the taming of fire by human ancestors, suggesting the the epochal achievement occured mauch later than scientists have long believed. The findings, if confirmed, could rewrite 60 years of anthropology text books and reshape the modern view …
Earliest fake stone is discovered in Iraq
Last week, archaelogists and geologists reported finding the first evidence of artificial stone in the ruins of Mashkan-shapir, a city that existed about 4,000 years ago in what is now southern Iraq. Artisans had apparently heated fine grained alluvial silt to melting temperatures, then slowly cooled it to produce rock-hard …
Controversy over Ghalib's haveli
Nine months after the high court directed the Archaecological Survey of India (ASI) to declare the haveli of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib a national protected monument, the controversy surrounding the haveli seems to have been revived with the government declaring it "unsuitable " for such a classification.
