‘More pride for India’: Hoysala temples in Karnataka added to UNESCO World Heritage list
A day after including Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan in its list of heritage sites, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural…
A day after including Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan in its list of heritage sites, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural…
Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archeological Park welcomed nearly half a million foreign tourists in the first eight months of 2023, the…
Later, the team visited the Visva-Bharati traditional places of worship including the Kanch Mandir Upsana Griha, Santiniketan Bari (the first building that housed Debendranath Tagore and his family after Bhubandanga was bought by him), Uttarayan complex, Kala Bhavana, Sangeet Bhavana
The additions made on Wednesday were decided the extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee held online and chaired from Fuzhou, China, which is examining nominations from both 2020 and 2021, according to a Unesco statement.
World Heritage is the designation for places on Earth that are of outstanding universal value to humanity and as such, have been inscribed on the World Heritage List to be protected for future generations to appreciate and enjoy.