Inscriptions on a copper plate owned by Mumbai-based Raghuveer Pai became a vital link in establishing the day and year in which Chalukya king Pulakeshin II emerged victorious over emperor Harshvardhana.
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** 6 UNESCO heritage sites added in India
Six sites, including the Ganga ghats in Varanasi , temples of Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu and the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, have been added to India’s tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites, Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said on Wednesday.
Mr. Patel said six of the nine sites submitted by the Archaeological Survey of India had been accepted by UNESCO for inclusion in the tentative list, which is a requirement before the final nomination of any site.
** The forgotten Scots of the first Everest expedition of 1921 – one died, the other went mad
A century ago, in May 1921 the first expedition to reconnoitre and to possibly attempt to ascend Mount Everest left Darjeeling in India.
On it was George Mallory who died on the mountain in 1924 and whose name is forever associated with Chomolungma to give the mountain its correct name.
But also on the expedition were two Scotsmen, Alexander Kellas from Aberdeen and Harold Raeburn from Edinburgh – both of whose mountaineering achievements were arguably greater than those of Mallory. Today they have been largely forgotten.
** Column | A Russian prince in Travancore
Peter the Great welcomed the idea of Indian traders living within the boundaries of the Russian Empire, and the city of Astrakhan had a small but thriving community of Indians from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, visited India, where he was disgusted with the sight of “redcoats.”
Going against European convention, he also had a very close friendship with King Rama V of Siam.
Russia managed to get one of its best glimpses of India when Prince Alexey Saltykov, a former diplomat, visited the country twice in the 1840s.
He wrote a book in French titled Voyages dans L’Inde (Journeys in India), which is a compilation of his letters and notes, accompanied by his drawings.
** This Kerala woman drives solo across India amid testing times
Kottayam-native Nidhi Shosha Kurian is a daring young woman who embarked on a solo pan-India trip in her car.
** COVID-19 surge: Air bridge between Dubai, nine Indian cities to transport urgent relief items ready
** World-renowned infectious disease expert Dr Rajendra Kapila dies at 81 of Covid-19
Dr Kapila and his wife Dr Deepti Saxena Kapila had got both the doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the US. The couple had returned to India in March and stayed in Ghaziabad.
Dr Rajendra Kapila, a world-renowned infectious disease expert, succumbed to the coronavirus in New Delhi on April 28, it has emerged. The Rutgers University professor, known for his extensive works on HIV-AIDS, was 81 years of age, reported the Hindustan Times.
** The rising Korean wave in India
Join the Korea Tourism Organization India and The Hindu in an online discussion on the rising Korean wave in India — from K-Beauty, K-Drama and K-Pop, to Korean food and more — and how it will influence post-pandemic travel to South Korea.
** Krithi Karanth becomes first Indian woman to get ‘Wild Innovator Award’
Dr Krithi K Karanth, Chief Conservation Scientist at Bengaluru-based Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS), has been chosen as the first Indian and Asian woman for the 2021 ‘WILD Innovator Award’.