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Santiniketan, Western Ghats named for Unesco listings [1]

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

Publication Date: 
20/10/2010
Statesman (Kolkata) [2]
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UNESCO [3], Society And History [4], Western Ghats [5], West Bengal [6], Monuments [7]
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