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Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025
As Telangana celebrates its first UNESCO world heritage site, there is a growing clamour for the state government to redouble its efforts to get the inscription for this 429-year-old city.
The World Heritage Committee of the Paris-based Unesco made the announcement during its 44th session held online and chaired from Fuzhou, China.
This comes as the first major success of Telangana to get global recognition for its cultural heritage after attaining statehood seven years ago.
Retiro Park, just off the Paseo del Prado in the centre of the Spanish capital, is one of the city's most visited attractions.
With the addition of these six sites, UNESCO has 48 proposals in the tentative list of India.
This small hamlet, the Ahalia Heritage Village, has medicinal plants, wild creepers, paddy fields, groves, ponds and sculptures.
The rock engravings by the ancient man continue to attract tourists and historians to these caves situated on the Ambukuthi Mala in Kerala's Wayanad district.
The custom goes far beyond the pizzaiuolo's spectacular handling of the dough -- hurling it into the air in order to "oxygenate" it -- to include songs and stories that have turned pizza-making into a time-honored social ritual.
Every year, demoiselle cranes (Grus Virgo), the smallest of 15 crane species, travel around 5000 kilometres from their breeding grounds in Eurasia to India.
After S.K. Misra retired as the Principal Secretary to former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in the early 1990s, he continued his work in the fields of conservation and restoration of heritage.
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