AHMEDABAD: Amdavadis have a reason to rejoice. The city has been officially included in Unesco`s World Heritage City tentative list. Ahmedabad is the only city from India vying for the coveted status. There are over 250 World Heritage Cities across the globe, but none in India.
Ahmedabad`s proposal was sent by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to Unesco in March this year.
The Sacred City of Kandy is likely to lose its World Heritage City status due to its air pollution levels that are higher than the national and World Health Organisation standards, claims an authority in the transport sector.
Head of the Engineering Faculty at the Moratuwa University Professor Amal Kumarage, who also heads the Department of Transport and Logistic Management, says the United Nat
UNESCO as an agency of United Nations has been active in capacity building in basic sciences, environmental and earth sciences as well as science policy, and has helped to launch many global programmes, among these some relating to biotechnology, biosphere reserves, biodiversity and sustainable development.
New Delhi, 19 Oct: India has nominated Santiniketan, the university town where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore founded Visva-Bharati, and the mountain range of Western Ghats for a place in Unesco's World Heritage list, officials said here today.
The cultural ministry recommended the inclusion of Santiniketan, the university town 180 km from Kolkata, under the cultural category, while the Weste
Expert hails participatory forest management
R. Wendy Strahm says World Heritage inscription is really about identifying which sites are the best of the best.
KOCHI: The Western Ghats have
While the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy readies to set up solar power plants at the three World Heritage Sites in the Capital, the New Delhi office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has voiced concerns over the move and shot off letters to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) seeking details of the project.
KOCHI: The country needs a network of biosphere reserves for conserving biodiversity and promoting value-added bio-resources, according to Natarajan Ishwaran, UNESCO director of Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences.
