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 …
KONARK/BHUBANESWAR: With water-logging posing a serious threat to the historic Sun Temple at Konark, an expert team sent by State Government inspected the heritage site to examine the drainage system there. A six-member team comprising engineers and officials from the government and state-owned Orissa Construction Corporation (OCC) yesterday visited the …
Sweta Dutta While the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy readies to set up solar power plants at the three World Heritage Sites in the Capital, the New Delhi office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has voiced concerns over the move and shot off letters …
City anchor: high court had set up panel to initiate restoration of water bodies; Bulk of work done by delhi govt; ASI, CPWD too chip in It has taken eight long years, but if all goes well, Delhi will have nearly 300 replenished water bodies by this monsoon. As per …
: The Archaeological Survey of India has stopped work on a new bridge across the Yamuna here as it is very close to a Mughal-era monument. Superintending archaeologist A.R. Siddiqui said:
A combination of scuba gear equipped treasure hunters and government apathy is gnawing away at Goa's underwater heritage, according to scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), a central marine research institute. NIO scientists, who have discovered three centuries-old shipwrecks in the seas off Goa, have warned that amateur …
PAINTING>> FOOD • USA To explain the super-sized American fare, scholars have turned to an unusual source: artists’ renderings of the New Testament’s Last Supper. Their findings show servings are marching heavenward for 1,000 years. Brian Wansink of Cornell University and his brother Craig, a bible sch olar at Virginia …
PARUL CHANDRA The past is likely to have a better future with the culture ministry setting the ball rolling for the implementation of the amended Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act. And for this, it wants the states to actively cooperate with the Centre. On Friday, the ministry …
In the absence of legal protection, heritage buildings are giving way to multi-storey plazas in Goa, which is known for its Indo-Portuguese architectural marvels. "We have been lobbying hard to save these buildings but many a time we can't help. Without legal protection bulldozers raze them down in no time," …
The single biggest challenge facing the conservation of world heritage is climate change, as it threatens the culture and way of life for many countries, International National Trusts Organization (INTO) chairman Simon Molesworth said. Molesworth was invited by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) to speak …
The government of Western Australia has launched a review of the language it uses when referring to aboriginal people. The state’s indigenous affairs minister Kim Hames has asked the Aboriginal Advisory Board to recommend the most appropriate collective term to use. Dozens of aboriginal organizations have been asked to give …
Proud of their self-styled image as a nation of doglovers, people in the UK are chewing over a government proposal to insert a micro - chip in every canine in the country. Six million dogs would be tagged as part of a planned crackdown against those who use dangerous animals …
A group of innova tive young architects from Delhi's School of Planning & Architecture (SPA) have created a wonderfully userfriendly pedestrian map for Garli -India's first heritage village notified by the Himachal Pradesh government in 2002 located about 450 km north of the capital amidst the still picturesque Kangra Valley. …
Wary of social media, US defence department has finally allowed the country’s troops to use networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Department officials say the benefits of using social media outweigh the risks to security. The decision means websites blocked by the Pentagon in 2007—including YouTube—will be unblocked. However, …
Brazil’s Catholic Church is suing Hollywood for using unauthorized images of one of Rio de Janeiro’s famous landmarks: the statue of Christ, the Redeemer. The city’s archdiocese is demanding unspecified damages from Columbia Pictures for showing the statue being destroyed in a worldwide apocalypse in the film 2012. The archdiocese …
The greater Indus valley was home to Neolithic cultures starting from 7000 BCE. They formed the antecedents of the urban Harappan civilization, whose rise and decline are dated to 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE respectively. At its peak, the Harappan civilization covered an area of more than a million square …
An ancient artefact is at the centre of a diplomatic row between Iran and the UK. Iran’s national museum has threatened to cut all ties with the British Museum to protest a decision to delay the loan of an ancient Persian treasure. The Cyrus Cylinder dates back to the 6th …
In satellite photos, like those on Google Maps, one can see the bright blue roof of a building in the shape of a hammer and sickle: Fabrika Kukhnya, or Kitchen Factory. Situated in southeast Russia, it’s a huge factory canteen dating from the height of Soviet industrialization in the 1930s. …
An engraver fired by Chile’s mint for an error that led to the release of 1.5 million coins featuring the name of the country as Chie said his bosses covered up the mistake. The error showed up on Chilean 50-peso pieces in 2009. Engraver Pedro Urzua Lizana said he unknowingly …
