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Bathukamma, the floral festival of Telangana that runs for nine days, is being celebrated from 10 to 18 October 2026. The festival is dedicated to the worship of Goddess Gauri and is marked by honouring nature and womanh...
The Union government has sanctioned five Centres of Excellence for the classical languages Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit. They will support research and help preserve, document and digitise literary herita...
Mandar, a traditional folk percussion instrument of Jharkhand, has been granted a Geographical Indication (GI) tag by the Geographical Indications Registry in Chennai. The instrument has a cylindrical body made of red cl...
Five new sites have been added to India's UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage Sites, raising the total to 78. They are Bagh Cave Paintings, Group of Temples of the Chambal Valley, Udaigiri Caves, Ginnorgarh, and Site...
Mizoram has organised its first-ever 'Pluck & Pay' festival at Tualte and Chawngtlai villages in Khawzawl district. Under the concept, visitors pick fresh produce directly from farms and pay the growers on the spot. The...
The Meenakshi-Sundareswarar Temple in Madurai was consecrated after a gap of 17 years. Believed to be about 1,800 years old, it has 14 gopurams including four raja gopurams, the Golden Lotus Tank and many granite mandapa...
Kumik village in Zanskar was declared Ladakh's first Heritage Village on 15 September 2026. The village is known for its traditional mud houses, sacred spaces, farming practices and Buddhist traditions, and it holds Kanj...
Bengali novelist and short-story writer Saratchandra Chattopadhyay was remembered on his 150th birth anniversary. Born on 15 September 1876 at Debanandapur in Bengal, he wrote Devdas, Srikanta, Parineeta, Choritrohin and...
Digvijay Diwas, on September 11, commemorates Swami Vivekananda's historic address at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago on that date in 1893, where he represented Hinduism and opened with “Sisters and Brothe...
Four Indian cultural heritage sites have been placed on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, raising India's total to 73. They are the Rangpur-Sivasagar Historic Ensemble in Assam, the Colonial Penal Settlement in t...
Lakkundi in Karnataka's Gadag district will be surveyed with modern technology to locate monuments buried or hidden under vegetation. The State Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage (DAMH) signed an MoU with th...
Gollala Gudi Temple at Palampet village in Mulugu district, Telangana, has been declared a Monument of National Importance through a Gazette notification of the Union Ministry of Culture and Tourism. A Trikutalaya with t...
