Samrat Samprati Museum's message important for world facing instability & unrest: PM ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Samrat Samprati Museum in Gujarat, highlighting its message of peace and non-violence amidst g...
31 Mar, 2026, 01.49 PM IST
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
PM Modi launches portal to digitise ancient manuscriptsPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the 'Gyan Bharatam' portal, a digital repository to preserve and disseminate ancient Indian manuscrip...
13 Sep, 2025, 05.28 PM IST
Country going through era of cultural renaissance: Culture Minister Gajendra Singh ShekhawatUnion Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat announced India is experiencing a cultural renaissance and introduced the Gyan Bharatam Mis...
11 Sep, 2025, 12.23 PM IST
Reawaken brittle, buried textsGranthas, ancient texts in various languages, hold invaluable knowledge. These texts cover diverse subjects. They face threats from time, n...
22 Aug, 2025, 11.01 PM IST
Unveiling the past: How a library in Jerusalem is rescuing Palestinian manuscriptsThe Khalidi Library in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem contains manuscripts dating back centuries before the establishment of Israel and off...
25 Jul, 2023, 09.08 AM IST
Automation, data analytics should be exploited to enhance IAF's logistics capabilities: Air Force chiefDigitisation, automation and data analytics should be exploited to enhance logistics capabilities of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marsha...
16 May, 2023, 07.00 PM IST
Sudha-Narayana Murthy's Trust gives Rs 7.5 Cr for research on rare books in Sanskrit & PrakritInfosys founder NR Narayana Murthy and his wife Sudha Murty's family nonprofit, the Murty Trust, has announced a grant of Rs 7.5 crore to t...
09 Dec, 2022, 05.14 PM IST
National Archives of India set to get a digital makeover of its vast repositoryRight now scholars looking for material have to visit the archives and request for a document to be retrieved, a process that can take from...
15 Aug, 2017, 01.07 AM IST
France keen to speed up Indo-French library digitisation projectAlthough the project was officially initiated a few months ago, it has not been able to gain momentum due to logistics constraints
16 Mar, 2017, 04.27 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
India, France sign MoU on preserving written heritageUnder the MoU, the two countries would collaborate in preserving, identifying and publicising written heritage and iconographies heritage, ...
28 Oct, 2015, 07.09 PM IST
Uttarakhand Governor calls for digitising Sanskrit textsPaul said the ancient language occupied a pre-eminent position among the classical languages of the world globally.
20 Mar, 2015, 05.30 PM IST
Government spends Rs 25 lakh this fiscal for archives' digitisationNoting that some documents were in good shape, Sharma said the government would work towards ensuring the safety of manuscripts and old doc...
02 Mar, 2015, 03.48 PM 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
- J&K bank to digitise rare manuscripts in Jammu and Kashmir
As part of its project aimed at preserving cultural heritage and artefacts of the state, the J&K Bank plans to digitise rare manuscripts, w...
25 Mar, 2008, 10.52 AM IST