Three-day 8th edition of the International Film Festival of Shimla has begun at Gaiety Theater, Shimla, and Himachal Pradesh. The festival will screen around 86 films and will be participated by 50 directors from India and abroad. There are 27 films in the international category, 34 ...

India has nominated Garba to inscribe on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list for 2022. Last year, Durga Puja was also listed on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage representative. India was elected by UNESCO to serve on the distinguished Intergovernmental ...

Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, inaugurated a "Mango Festival" in Brussels on June 17 to raise awareness among Europeans and establish a market for Indian mangoes in Europe. India is a big supplier of mangoes to the rest of the globe, but most of the mangoes end up in the ...

List of Folk Dances of Different States in India: Dance is an art form that is different for everyone. It is not only about moments it is about the feelings and emotions we express through dance. In a diverse country like India, there are more languages than in States. If we talk about dance forms ...

Union Minister for Culture, Tourism & DONER Shri G Kishan Reddy inaugurated the three-day North-East festival called ‘Ishan Manthan’ atthe Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts today in New Delhi on March 25, 2022. Member Secretary of IGNCA Dr. Sachidanand Joshi, Voice Chancellor of JNU ...

A nine-foot-tall bronze statue of the first ruler of the Sikh Empire, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was vandalised by an activist of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) at the Lahore Fort in Pakistan’s Punjab province, according to media reports. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Maharaja ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has inscribed 33 new cultural and natural sites to its World Heritage List recently. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A prehistoric solar observatory in Peru, an ancient Harappa city in India, and a railway ...

The National Gallery of Australia will remove 14 works from its Asian art collection and return them to the Indian government. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The works being returned are: dancing child-saint Sambandar of 12th century belonging to Chola dynasty,processional standard , ...

The Harappan city of Dholavira, in present-day Gujarat, was named the 40th Indian site on UNESCO’s World Heritage list. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 While Dholavira became the fourth site from Gujarat and 40th from India to make the list, it is the first site of the ancient Indus Valley ...

India’s nomination of Rudreswara Temple, at Palampet, Mulugu district, near Warangal in the state of Telangana has been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The decision was taken at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO. The ...