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Pinjore Heritage Festival in Yadvindra Gardens in Full Swing
"Panchkula (Mera Chandigarh):-The three-day Pinjore Heritage Festival was inaugurated by Union Minister of Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni, in the Yadavindra Gardens on Friday."
UN threatens to act against Britain for failure to protect heritage sites
Think of Britain and you think of 'heritage'. Much of its tourism is based on Olde England and the glories of British architecture so its shocking to find that the UN and some British experts believe that the UK is... Scottish Highlands crofters blame sea eagles for leap in lamb deaths
More than 200 lambs have died since August because farmers say that Sea Eagles are killing them and thus threatening their livelihoods.Fifteen of the birds were released in August and since then farmers in Gairloch,... Iran, Portugal revive historic fort ar Hormuz
" Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:15:47 GMT Iranian and Portuguese experts mull over restoration of fortress built by Portuguese navigators on south Iranian Persian Gulf island of Hormoz. Portugal's Ambassador to...The Heritage Behind Reggae & Soccer
Many people are surprised to hear Bob Marley was a fanatic soccer player and fan. That doesn't seem to fit their image of world's most legendary reggae star: The lazy reggae beats, the dreadlock Rastafari easy going... Mohenjodaro, the 3,500 Year Old Archaeological Site Needs Serious Attention
Mohenjodara, or Mound of the Dead, is on the West Bank of the River Indus in Pakistan. It was discovered in 1922. Mohenjodara was built entirely of unbaked brick in the 3rd millennium B.C., and is located in the... Archeologists awaken sleeping Buddha
Just near the ruins of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, archeologies made a great finding. They managed to unveil a giant reclining Buddha that dates to the... Oil Crisis Pales in Comparison to New Threat
The ongoing oil crisis pales in comparison to a recently-identified threat slowly catching the attention of reporters and think tankers alike.In the opening paragraph of a Wall Street Journal Online opinion piece published today, readers were asked to use their imaginations... Bakewell Pudding seeks EU protection
The Bakewell Pudding is that rare thing a food that can trace its history to a place over many years and becomes synonymous with the place and the place with the food. It is not the same as its imitator the Bakewell...STUDENT RETURNS O'S PRAYER NOTE
" The yeshiva student who took Barack Obama's personal note to God from the Western Wall in Jerusalem has gone public - sort of - to apologize. With his face obscured and his identity given as "Aleph," the first Hebrew letter of his name, the young man told Channel 2 TV...U.S. regulators seize two more banks, engineer sale
While these two banks are small players, the fact that their are 90 institutions on the list that the FDIC examiners monitor. It would be great to have some good news one of these days. " U.S. regulators took over two banks on Friday and sold them to Mutual of Omaha Bank,...Cambodia, Thailand deploy troops to disputed border
The border standoff between Cambodia and Thailand deepened after Thai protesters crossed into Cambodia on Tuesday to visit the temple and were briefly detained. Their arrest sparked off the row and now both countries have deployed large armed troops. ... The Badger Menace
"Winston Churchill called the battlefields of England ‘the punctuation marks of history’, places where the nation’s future sometimes turned over the course of a few bloody hours.The battles of Hastings (1066),... Indonesian "kris" added to World Heritage list
Previously the kris was used to fight, now only for the decoration, the collection or the religious ceremony/culture..."Denpasar (ANTARA) - UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has named... Legacy of Tagore to be preserved in the UK
London. July 13, 2008. The dance form of first Asian Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, will be the subject of a major study and preservation in the UK. "The project entitled Legacy, supported by Britain's Heritage...
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