monuments
- Middle East
Ancient mosques, churches and monuments damaged in Gaza war
Gaza City: Muneer Elbaz remembers the joy of visiting the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza with his family, praying at a site where people have worshipped over centuries as empires came and…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad’s Charminar among top 10 monuments with highest Indian visitors
Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s famous tourist spot Charminar found a place in the list of the top 10 Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) monuments with the highest Indian visitors. During the financial year 2023-24,…
- India
Fifty ASI protected monuments ‘missing’: Ministry of Culture
The Ministry of Culture in its latest submission at the Parliament revealed that as many as 50 centrally protected monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) are untraceable or missing. The…
- World
French energy sobriety plan to switch off Paris monuments at night
Paris: The lights on the Eiffel Tower will be switched off at 11.45 p.m. from this week onwards, in a bid to save electricity due to the energy crisis. Other major monuments…
- Featured News
Charminar: Decoding the mysterious animals and birds on the monument
The most proportionate and balanced monument built by the Qutb Shahis in the late sixteenth century, the Charminar, is beautifully embellished both from the outside and the inside. Like all Qutb Shahi…
