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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 Prof. SantishreeDhulipudi Pandit and National convener of PrajnaPravah Shri […]
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 Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) seized Lahore in 1799 after he was invited
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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 connecting the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf were among the sites
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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 [alam], from Hyderabad, arch for a Jain shrine (11th-12th century), seated Jina,
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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 Civilisation (IVC) in India to
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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 Rudreswara temple was constructed in 1213 AD during the reign
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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 previously warned that the developments, including the new Everton
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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 Affairs Quiz 2021 Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan virtually launched UNESCO’s ‘Historic Urban
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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 modern art from 1850s onward. It is
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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 Buddhist monks, and while their antiquity has
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