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 ...

Liverpool has been stripped of its World Heritage status after a UN committee found developments threatened the value of the city’s waterfront. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The decision was made following a secret ballot by the UNESCO Committee at a meeting in China. UNESCO had ...

Gwalior and Orchha cities of Madhya Pradesh have been selected by UNESCO under ‘Historic Urban Landscape Project’, which was started in the year 2011, for the inclusive and well-planned development of fast-growing historical cities while preserving the culture and heritage. Daily Current ...

National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) will be renovated and reorganised as a part of the commemoration of the 75th Independence Day next year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is the premier art gallery which aims to acquire and preserve works of ...

Recently, three more caves in Nashik hill have been found by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), after the discovery of Trirashmi Buddhist caves or the Pandav Leni by a British military officer. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It is believed that these caves could be dwellings of ...

The French presidency has appointed Laurence des Cars, the current director of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, to head the world’s largest museum as of September 1. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Louvre is the world’s largest art museum, based in Paris. It is located on the Right Bank of the ...

Six Indian sites, including the temples of Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu, the Ganga ghats in Varanasi, and the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, have been added to the tentative list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 These proposals will remain in tentative ...