Postal stamps of Vedanta Desikan unveiled
Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu unveiled commemorative postage stamps on the 750th birth anniversary of ‘Vedanta Desikan’ a religious philosopher, at the Sardar Patel Conference hall at the Vice-President’s secretariat.
World Heritage Day 2019
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in 1982 had decided to celebrate April 18 as as the International Day for Monuments and Sites or World Heritage Day.
More than 19,500 mother tongues spoken in India: Census
There are 121 languages which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India, which has a population of 121 crore
India gets its 37th WORLD UNESCO World HERITAGE SITE.
India’s nomination of the “Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai ” has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.