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 …
India's 1600-km long Western Ghats mountain chain, which has forests older than the Himalaya mountains, has been added to list of world heritage sites by the United Nations. The Western Ghats mountain chain is recognised as one of the world's eight "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity. The chain's forests, which …
Renowned environmentalist Dr Ranjit Bhargava has highlighted the need for including Rishikesh and Haridwar in the Upper Ganga Region which he has been urging the Government to work toward getting it declared as a UNESCO World Heritage site A meeting and a seminar on the issue were held at Parmarth …
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 …
New Delhi: Next time you visit Qutub Minar, take care not to litter. Or you may just find yourself being forced to pick it up and junk it in the bin by a volunteer. You better keep toilets in the complex clean and don’t scribble on the pillars and walls. …
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 …
Delhi Metro’s ‘Heritage Corridor’ has hit a roadblock once again. The Phase III project is stuck in a deadlock between the National Monument Authority (NMA) and the Delhi Metro with the former insisting on a “structural impact study” to be conducted by IIT in Delhi or Roorkee. However, Delhi Metro …
The Centre came up with a blank today on whether to declare Ram Setu in the Palk Strait a national monument, leaving the Supreme Court with no option but to interpret the government’s silence as its unwillingness to take a position “this way or the other”. In its order, an …
Avoids Giving National Monument Status To Geographical Feature In Palk Strait. The Centre on Thursday shied away from taking a stand in the Supreme Court on whether it intended to confer national monument status on Ram Sethu, a geographical feature in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka resembling …
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 …
Delhi has slipped from sixth to eighth position in primary education over the past year and from seventh to eighth in upper primary education over the same period, a survey has revealed. Child Rights and You (CRY), an NGO, conducted the survey to provide an assessment of schools run by …
That Predictable Strong Arm Anti-GM crop NGOs come under fire as a draft bill threatens arrest of activists who provoke fear against GM technology without “scientific evidence” NGOs “linked to the Church” under fire for opposing uranium mining in West Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, in 2010 Medecins Sans Frontieres under the …
KOLKATA, 29 FEB: The curator of Victoria Memorial was directed by the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today to make an inventory of the exhibits in this marble mausoleum and give an affidavit to the court within four weeks. …
The high court on Wednesday directed the Victoria Memorial Hall curator to prepare an inventory of the exhibits in the museum within four weeks and table it before the bench hearing the case. The division bench of Justice P.C. Ghose and Justice M.K. Chakrabarti passed the order after green activist …
Lok shikshan kendras are being set up in every Haryana village with a population of 5,000 each under the Saakshar Bharat Mission, a Centrally sponsored scheme. Samir Pal Saro, Director General, School Education, Haryana, said these kendras would be equipped with a library and one would be able to get …
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 …
JORHAT, Jan 17 – Visiting the erosion-hit areas at Salmora, Majuli this afternoon, P K Bansal, Union Cabinet Minister of Water Resources and V H Pala, Minister of State for Water Resources, stated at a meeting held in the Majuli College playground near Daria Bridge that Majuli has enough potential …
Karma Tshiteem is the secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission, the novel name of Bhutan’s Planning Commission. He tells Aditya Batra how the concept has fared in the new democracy.
Proximity Of Line To Heritage Structures Had Upset Conservationists New Delhi: Even before work started on phase III of the Delhi Metro, the project could be heading for delay. The controversial heritage corridor, which will go from Janpath to Mandi House, ITO, Delhi Gate, Jama Masjid, Red Fort and on …
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 …
