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Quote of the day by The Alchemist writer Paulo Coelho: 'Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures' - lessons on emotional cost of isolation by Eleven Minutes and Wept authorPaulo Coelho's quote from Eleven Minutes states that loneliness is a more profound suffering than physical deprivation. He argues that whil...
Inaugural ceremony of 46th session of World Heritage Committee gets underway in DelhiThe Kanwar Yatra 2024 is set to begin on Monday, with the Kanwar Mela area divided into 14 super zones and 35 zones. Over 5,500 police pers...
K-Pop boy group Seventeen to become UNESCO ambassadorsSeventeen, the 13-strong South Korean band founded in 2015, were second only to Taylor Swift for global revenue last year, according to the...
Third of world heritage glaciers under threat, warns UNESCO studyA third of the glaciers on the UNESCO World Heritage list are under threat, regardless of efforts to limit temperature increases, a study c...
Third of world heritage glaciers under threat, warns Unesco study
India re-elected to UNESCO executive board for 2021-25 term"India gets reelected to the Executive Board of UNESCO with 164 votes for the term 2021-25,” the Paris-based Permanent Delegation of India ...
World Arabic Language Day: Diversity, academia and futureArabic is a bridge between cultures and across borders, said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, calling it a true language of dive...
UNESCO contests move to change status of heritage site Hagia SofiaHagia Sophia is part of the Historic Areas of Istanbul, a property inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. “Hagia Sophia is an architect...
HRD minister launches draft 'Industry Guidelines on Digital Learning'The 2018 event was an international conference organised by the UNESCO, the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable...
France's Audrey Azoulay wins vote to be next UNESCO chiefThe US announcement this week that it's quitting UNESCO rocked the multi-day election and heightened concerns about the agency's funding an...
UNESCO chooses new chief amid tensions over Palestinian roleVoting by UNESCO's 58-member executive board starts Monday and continues through the week until a candidate wins a majority.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh may attend Bilateral meet at SCO Summit on disasterSingh is also expected to interact with Chinese officials at that meet as SCO, like BRICS, provides yet another multilateral forum to both ...
UNESCO as the ideal place for the dialogue between civilizations: Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-KawariRich cultural resources, such as the Indian ones, creative assets and the heritage in developing countries must act as engines of developme...
Varanasi and Jaipur make it to Unesco's Creative City NetworkThe PM's constituency Varanasi and Rajasthan's capital Jaipur have made it to the network in the categories — City of Craft and City of Mus...
Director General UNESCO declares Varanasi, Jaipur under Creative Cities NetworkThe PM's constituency Varanasi and Rajasthan's capital Jaipur have made it to the network in the categories- City of Craft and City of Musi...
HRD minister Smriti Irani conveys Indian solidarity with FranceIndia today expressed solidarity with the people and government of France as Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani attended a ma...
Smriti Irani to attend UNESCO conference in ChinaSmriti Irani would join about 40 education ministers from across the world in China this week at a UNESCO conference to deliberate on how i...
United Nations may declare yoga to be Indian heritageUNESCO director general Irina Bokova said that yoga is in the list of elements to be considered by the Intangible Heritage Committee for in...
- Teri gets Unesco chair on climate science
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization launched the Unesco chair on ‘climate science and policy’ at Teri Universi...
India making efforts towards environmental sustainability: UNESCOUNESCO today lauded India's efforts towards environmental sustainability and said a multi- dimensional approach in this regard is the need ...