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Manduadih railway station is now Banaras railway station ‘officially’ as the North Eastern Railway has received the final approval from the Indian Railways and its code has changed from MUV to BSBS.
The United Kingdom authorities have returned 15th-century idols of Lord Ram, Sita and Lakshman to India, confirmed Minister of Culture Prahlad Singh Patel on Tuesday.
Buddhist sites has been identified as one of the 15 thematic circuits under the Swadesh Darshan Scheme. A total number of 5 projects for an amount of Rs. 353.73 crore have been sanctioned for the development of Buddhist Sites under the Swadesh Darsha Scheme.
Indian Railways is all set to a lay a railway line of 327 kilometres, connecting Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath and Kedarnath of Char Dham, via Dehradun and Karanprayag in the state of Uttarakhand.
The Ministry of Culture has announced 7 new circles of Archaeological Survey of India. This information was shared by theUnion Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (IC), Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a video message tweeted by him today. Shri Patel said that the Ministry of Culture has taken this step in accordance with the Prime Minister’s call to facilitate and strengthen the process of preservation and registration of archaeological monuments along with registration of artefacts with self declaration.
Keeping in mind the Narendra Modi government’s focus on providing better connectivity to Buddhist sites, Ladakh Governor R.K. Mathur is aggressively pursuing projects to ramp up internal connectivity, which, in turn, can go a long way in building India as a cultural soft power.
On 15th August 2020 while India celebrated its 74th Independence Day, a team of passionate mountaineers under the platform Mountains of India created a world record for “Most Photos of People Mountaineering Uploaded to Facebook in One Hour”. The world record attempt took place on digital platform created for dedicatedly promoting Indian Himalaya with name “Mountains of India”.
Indian and Australian artists came together on the occasion of India’s 74th Independence day to come up with a joint composition called ‘Sur Sagar’, the confluence of music.
Narendra Modi has not only become the longest-serving non-Congress Prime Minister of India but he also has the longest tenure as head of an elected government, which includes his term of more than 12 years as Gujarat chief minister, among all PMs.
It gives me great pleasure to greet all the people of India, living in the country and abroad, on the eve of the 74th Independence Day. August 15 fills us with the excitement of unfurling the tricolour, taking part in celebrations and listening to patriotic songs.
