Today's Word of the Day: Palimpsest is a manuscript page that has been written on more than once, or anything that shows evidence of earlie...

Over 7.5 lakh manuscripts have been digitised, with 1.29 lakh now accessible on a dedicated portal through the Gyan Bharatam initiative. Th...

Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat announced India is experiencing a cultural renaissance and introduced the Gyan Bharatam Mis...

The Centre has generated Rs 279 crore from scrap disposal during a cleanliness campaign led by the Department of Administrative Reforms. Th...

Grandparents as repositories and disseminators of traditional wisdom within families is a disappearing phenomenon. Not merely because 'nucl...

Infosys 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...

The treasured manuscript "is in fact a 20th-century forgery."

Much of the current conversation around Rushdie understandably centres on the explicitly political aspects of his work: the 1989 fatwa, the...

World Giraffe Day is celebrated today the world over to remind humans that the tallest animal in the world is around but sadly their number...

The one-year course revolves around the study of history and literature, and deciphering historical manuscripts.

London, Nov 11 (IANS) The black ink used by Egyptian scribes to write on 2,000-year-old papyri fragments also contained copper, an element ...

The work involves scientific repairing, removing "all the enemies" from the documents (such as iron pins, needles, cello and brown tapes), ...

Under the MoU, the two countries would collaborate in preserving, identifying and publicising written heritage and iconographies heritage, ...

According to ministry officials, candidates for five such institutions were selected in May but the government is yet to approve these cand...

The Royal couple, on their maiden visit to the state, will be reaching Kochi after completing their visits to Dehradun, New Delhi, Mumbai a...

Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Thursday flagged-off the 'Jan Ashirvad Yatra' of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

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