Centre launches nationwide survey to map India’s manuscript heritage under Gyan Bharatam MissionIndia's Ministry of Culture begins a nationwide survey to map its manuscript heritage. This initiative aims to create a comprehensive digit...
16 Mar, 2026, 03.28 PM IST
Over 7.5 lakh manuscripts digitised under Gyan Bharatam; 45 centres onboarded: GovtOver 7.5 lakh manuscripts have been digitised, with 1.29 lakh now accessible on a dedicated portal through the Gyan Bharatam initiative. Th...
02 Feb, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
Request Sonia Gandhi to return Nehru's letters to Prime Ministers' Museum: ShekhawatUnion Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has asked Sonia Gandhi to return Jawaharlal Nehru's personal documents to the Prime Ministers' Muse...
28 Dec, 2025, 05.15 PM IST
Govt to launch beta version of AI-powered translator 'Adi Vaani' for tribal languagesDeveloped by IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIIT Hyderabad and IIIT Nava Raipur, in collaboration with Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs), the init...
30 Aug, 2025, 09.23 PM IST
Govt increases culture budget by Rs 100 crore, prioritises heritage and artsThe government has increased the Ministry of Culture's budget for 2025-26 to Rs 3,360.96 crore, with substantial allocations to the Archaeo...
01 Feb, 2025, 05.47 PM IST
Rare manuscripts bring alive India's wide historical connect across AsiaA recent exhibition in New Delhi showcased South Asian manuscripts, highlighting their journey across Asia over two millennia. The exhibiti...
04 Nov, 2024, 10.08 PM IST
Traditional wisdom: How India’s repository of jnana is lying unread and unstudiedGrandparents as repositories and disseminators of traditional wisdom within families is a disappearing phenomenon. Not merely because 'nucl...
21 Sep, 2024, 12.57 AM IST
India restores Mongolia's sacred Buddhist texts, plans first official Sanskrit-Mongolian dictionaryThe governments of both countries recently hosted a ceremony at the famous Ganden Monastery of Mongolia in the presence of officials from b...
12 Oct, 2022, 09.23 PM IST
House panel raps Culture Ministry for vacancies in ASI, other bodiesAt least ten top institutions under the culture ministry, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Lalit Kala A...
07 Aug, 2021, 07.55 AM IST
Scanning of culture bodies to begin todayAll issues concerning 65 cultural bodies will be reviewed. Special sessions will be dedicated to look into pending CAG cases.
02 Nov, 2017, 12.34 AM IST
Neil Armstrong's bag containing traces of moon dust sells for a whopping $1.8 millionThe bag was auctioned on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of mankind's first moon landing.
21 Jul, 2017, 01.39 PM IST
From Palm leaves to Computers - ancient medical scripts turn digitalThe idea of cataloguing India's medical manuscripts was born at a seminar organised by the National Mission for Manuscripts and hosted by F...
30 Jun, 2016, 10.34 AM IST
Six per cent people treated by traditional medicine systems: SurveyReplying to queries, Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik also said 161 AYUSH wellness centres have been approved.
11 Mar, 2016, 04.59 PM IST
Who does the Taj Mahal belong to, Assaduddin Owaisi asks Cultural MinisterMinority Affairs Minister and senior SP leader Azam Khan recently said that Taj Mahal should be declared a property of the state's Waqf Boa...
08 Dec, 2014, 03.35 PM IST
Modi government yet to appoint heads to 11 cultural bodiesAccording to ministry officials, candidates for five such institutions were selected in May but the government is yet to approve these cand...
22 Jul, 2014, 03.03 AM IST
Google takes Indian modern art onlineNow to walk by the works of masters of Indian art like Raja Ravi Varma, Abanindranath Tagore, M F Husain, all you need is an Internet conne...
09 Apr, 2012, 09.15 AM IST
- More items to find way into digital library to check biopiracy
India has begun work to include 220 additional Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha text in its Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), which w...
27 Jul, 2010, 05.40 AM IST