In a first of its kind endeavour, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) and Royal Enfield have come together in a unique partnership to promote and safeguard the Intangible Cultural Heritage of India, beginning with the Himalayas. The announcement
Two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef had recorded the highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, a monitoring group said Thursday, though the reef remains vulnerable to climate change and widespread bleaching. According to a report by the Australian Institute
India’s Ambassador to Bhutan, Ruchira Kamboj, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer from Batch 1987, was appointed as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York on June 21. Kamboj will succeed TS Tirumurti as the Indian ambassador to the
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in school education under the initiative PM eVIDYA, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, has won the Ministry of Education UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the year 2021. The PM eVIDYA has
Researchers have found that lead poisoning is responsible for the loss of crocodile teeth in a lake at a World Heritage site in South Africa. The study sampled blood and adipose tissue from the tails of 25 blue crocodiles on St Lucia
The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize after the recommendation of the international award jury. The BAJ was formed in 1995 as a non-governmental association of media workers with the objective of promoting freedom
A new United Nations report, launched last week, has “looked underfoot to solve global water crises”. The focus of the latest edition of the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR) is not only to highlight the increasing importance of groundwater, a resource
The Monday news from Russia carried accounts of bloggers and small businesses “relishing” their final moments scrolling through Instagram on Sunday. March 13, 2022, was Instagram’s last day in Russia, as Moscow asked the photo and video-sharing social networking service to shut
A massive, unspoiled reef of giant rose-shaped corals has been discovered off the coast of Tahiti apparently unharmed by the bleaching effects of the ocean warming due to climate change, UNESCO announced Thursday. The reef is approximately 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) long
The UN cultural agency observed the 50th anniversary of its Man and the Biosphere Programme, which was created in 1971 for promoting a long-lasting connection between people and nature. Biosphere Reserves encompass the main functions of conserving biodiversity and cultural diversity, socio-culturally
