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 …
Mumbai: The director of archaeology and museums, state, has issued a stop-work notice to the builder carrying out excavation work near the Magathane caves. Anita Rane-Kothare, a historian and professor from St Xavier's College, has been fighting a lone battle to save the sixth century caves from encroachers. However, recently, …
British archaeologists have found an example of extreme climate change and a bloody resource war in the disappearance of an ancient South American civilisation. The Nasca, who once flourished in the valleys of south coastal Peru and disappeared around 1,500 years ago, helped to cause their own demise by damaging …
Batala: Shiv Kumar Batalvi, who won the Sahitya Academy Award and is also known as the John Keats of Punjab, has penned down the best of Punjabi literature. However, a section of the residents here has made his memorial into a garbage dump and the authorities concerned have a turned …
NDMC May Put Brakes On Work As Notified 16th Century Tomb Lies At Construction Site New Delhi: A multi-level parking lot for Delhi High Court lawyers coming up next to the National Stadium has run into trouble with NDMC
S. Ganesan D.M. Mohabey, Director, Palaeontology Division, Geological Survey of India, delivering a lecture at the Bharathidasan University in Tiruchi on Wednesday.
Management courses are changing; they are becoming shorter, crisper and much more focused. As several sectors in India flourish, from retail and fashion to finance and risk management, the need for creating a competent manpower with domain knowledge is becoming imperative. Topics which deal with inclusive growth and societal benefits …
The Shahjahanabad Redevelopment Corporation is putting in place 3-dimensional Geographic Information System (GIS) for round-the-clock monitoring of 1,200 monuments under its ambit. The idea is being seen as a comprehensive solution to check encroachment and damage to the city
Express News Service A 16th century castle in Kargil, a 17th century monastery in Ladakh, a historic civic centre in Shimla and a palace in Uttar Pradesh figure in the list of 93 heritage sites in 47 countries which the world is at the risk of losing. The list
LUCKNOW: The chance discovery of a Jurassic nest by geologists in Tamil Nadu reiterates Darwin's philosophy of "nothing is constant'', incidentally in the 200th year of the `Theory of Evolution'. Underscoring this thought, noted geologist Prof Ashok Sahni, on Thursday, hailed the discovery by Periyar University researchers. "Dinosaurs represent one …
Hundreds Of Dino Egg Clusters Found Radha Venkatesan | TNN Coimbatore: Geologists in Tamil Nadu have stumbled upon a Jurassic treasure trove buried in the sands of a river bed. Sheer luck led them to hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs, perhaps 65 million years old, underneath a stream in a …
New Delhi: Qutub Minar will now come under intense scrutiny for keeping tabs on the extent of its tilt. After requests from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), a team of experts from Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee will arrive in Delhi next month and conduct a periodical study …
The Mayans penchant for building places of worship brought their downfall In 2001, when a hurricane ripped through the jungles of northern Guatemala, an uprooted tree at the base of the ruins of a pyramid exposed stones bearing one of the longest texts of hieroglyphs ever found. The inscriptions belong …
Ramya Kannan CHENNAI: The best news from the Union Culture Ministry this year is that India has submitted 20 nominations under the Intangible Cultural Heritage category to UNESCO, according to Union Culture Secretary Jawahar Sircar. It is expected that UNESCO will choose all or 90 per cent of them. The …
