Puja carnival planned at Serampore instead of Chinsurah
This year the district Durga Puja carnival will be held at Serampore, instead of Chinsurah as per the directive of chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
This year the district Durga Puja carnival will be held at Serampore, instead of Chinsurah as per the directive of chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
India, a land of cultural consciousness, great traditions, and rich heritage, is home to 43 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Among these, 34 are cultural, seven are natural, and one, Kanchenjunga National Park, is of mixed type.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded the inclusion of Charaideo Maidam of Assam in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and said that now more tourists would visit this place.
The Visva-Bharati University (VBU) authority has increased the entry fees for Upasana Griha and Rabindra Bhawan and the surrounding areas.
The Maidams at Charaideo showcase the glorious Ahom culture, which places utmost reverence to ancestors, Mr Modi said.
At a time when the education sector in West Bengal is daily hitting the national headlines for negative reasons after being saddled by the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam, a proposal from an education outfit under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has come as a breather for the state education department.
Durga Puja that has received an intangible cultural heritage tag from UNESCO has reached an altogether new dimension with the magical touch of Sentoo.
The Assam Chief Minister also informed that out of 52 tentative sites across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen Assam's Charaideo Maidam.
In the scheme of universal values “tolerance” appears to be the most misunderstood and abused in everyday life. The United Nations General Assembly first discussed over three decades ago the need to get educational institutions and the public to see “tolerance” as a staple of society. Therefore, in 1995, UNESCO created the Declaration of Principles of Tolerance as a way to define and provide awareness of tolerance for any and all governing and participating bodies. That day happened to be 16 November which got adopted as the UN International Day for Tolerance.
CBI is in the process of establishing links between two much-talked-about financial embezzlement scams in West Bengal.
