The Ministry of Culture on Thursday, 5 November 2026 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google Arts & Culture to digitise India’s cultural heritage. The agreement, signed virtually by Culture Secretary…
The UNESCO-ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission concluded its five-day inspection of the Hampi World Heritage Site on 28 October, with the experts sharing preliminary observations with Karnataka’s Tourism Department in Bengaluru.
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has added three Indian sites to its Tentative List: the Karst-mud-volcano Complex of Baratang and the Andaman Subduction Volcanoes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Sirpur…
The Karnataka High Court on Friday, 16 October, upheld the constitutional validity of the 2010 amendments to the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, which impose a 100-metre 'prohibited'…
A routine excavation to build a public library in Gharuan, Kharar, turned into a treasure hunt after children playing at the site spotted old coins on August 24. As word spread, locals…
Journalist Sowmiya Ashok's new book, 'The Dig: Keeladi and the Politics of India’s Past', examines how the archaeological site at Keeladi in Tamil Nadu has become a contested symbol of Tamil identity…
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has said a structure discovered at Golconda Fort in Hyderabad is a small rectangular chamber, not a tunnel. An ASI team that included an archaeologist and…
Foreign tourists pay 10 to 20 times more than Indian citizens for entry to major monuments such as the Taj Mahal and Amber Fort, according to Nikkei Asia. The gap has widened…
The 16th-century Jal Mahal in Narnaul, Haryana, has been refilled with water after nearly a decade, restoring a key feature of the 1591 monument. The revival was led by the Haryana government's…
The Archaeological Survey of India's Epigraphy Division has deciphered an 11th century Telugu inscription discovered near Satakodu village in the Nallamala forest of Andhra Pradesh's Markapuram district. ASI Director K. Munirathnam Reddy…
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