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37 stories for “Culture” · February 2026
Clear filtersJaisalmer, the desert city in Rajasthan, has been chosen to host India's first Jain Chadar Mahotsav. The festival is scheduled to run for three days, from 6 March to 8 March 2026. As the first event of this kind in the c...
Overview: Celebrated on February 21, the 2026 International Mother Language Day theme focused on 'Multilingual Education – A Pillar of Learning and Intergenerational Learning.' In Tamil Nadu, the day was marked by the la...
By the close of 2026, visitors should be able to enter the first gallery of the Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum. The Ministry of Culture is creating the museum as part of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, and i...
The Prime Minister inaugurated the first Emergency Landing Facility in Northeast India on the Moran Bypass in Dibrugarh district, Assam, a highway stretch that can serve as an airstrip for military and civil aircraft in...
Fresh findings from Bhirrana suggest that the Indus Valley Civilisation may be nearly 8,000 years old. Radiocarbon dating of pottery and animal remains recovered there points to settlements and farming communities emergi...
Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh is the pilot district for the World's Largest Grain Storage Plan in the Cooperative Sector, with a 500 MT godown built at the PACS level in Parswada. The plan converges the Agriculture Infrastr...
Uttar Pradesh tabled a ₹9.12 lakh crore Budget for 2026–27, about 12.9% larger than the previous year. Capital expenditure accounts for 19.5% of the total, focused on education, agriculture, health and infrastructure. Th...
Tamil Nadu is rolling out a strategic roadmap to restore soil health and support sustainable agriculture. Soil fertility is being boosted through the Soil Health and Fertility Scheme, budgeted at about ₹206 crore. The pl...
ICAR's Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has succeeded in breeding the mangrove clam Geloina erosa in captivity. Known as mud clams and locally as 'Kandal Kakka' in northern Kerala, these burrowing bivalves inh...
Overview: The Tamil Nadu State Budget for 2026-27 was presented in the Legislative Assembly, prioritizing the 'One Trillion Dollar Economy' roadmap. Significant funds were allocated for digital transformation in the MSME...
India sent the Devnimori Buddha relics to Sri Lanka for public veneration at Colombo's Gangaramaya Temple from 4 to 10 February 2026. Kept at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, the relics were excav...
The highly esteemed Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology is currently conducting vastly extensive, scientifically rigorous archaeological excavations across eight major historical sites throughout the ongoing 2025-...
