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35 stories for “Culture” · September 2026
Clear filtersKumik 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...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, with the Landscape Alliance, has published "Forests for food: Nourishing people, sustaining the planet". It stresses the role of forests in reducing hunger and pover...
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...
The Jury Committee has chosen 10 Lok Sabha MPs, 2 Rajya Sabha MPs and 4 Parliamentary Standing Committees for the Sansad Ratna Awards 2026. The awards honour parliamentary performance measured through questions, debates,...
Hindi Diwas on 14 September recalls the day in 1949 when the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of the Union under Article 343. It has been observed every year since 1953. Ar...
India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, with its chairship built on four pillars: Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. The New Delhi Declaration covers cooperation in global development, peace...
Tamil Nadu has introduced five high-yielding teak clones to raise timber productivity and farmers' long-term income. The Green Tamil Nadu Mission (GTM), with the Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), Co...
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...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Russian translation of the Thirukkural during their bilateral meeting in New Delhi. The meeting took place ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit, wh...
Veteran Tamil scholar and orator Solomon Pappaiah passed away aged 90. He taught at The American College, Madurai, from 1961 to 1994 and headed its Department of Tamil; under his leadership the undergraduate Tamil progra...
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...
The Centre has proposed inserting Article 371(K) into the Constitution to grant Ladakh constitutional safeguards and greater local autonomy. The provision may set up a directly elected Union Territory-level body with leg...
