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The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has set out an ambitious roadmap to transform Katra into a clean, vibrant town equipped with modern infrastructure, aimed at improving the quality of life for residents and enhancing the experience of millions of pilgrims who visit the holy shrine every year, as newsonair reported.Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant…
Museums abroad are increasingly confronting the legacy of looted cultural heritage in their collections, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has become the latest institution to act. On Wednesday, the museum announced it will return three sculptures to India after rigorous research revealed the sculptures had been removed illegally from temples in Tamil…
Grace Lee (Image source: Instagram/@bigsis.grace) Grace Lee, 30, a Harvard Business School graduate and former JP Morgan analyst, went viral recently after sharing a deeply personal reflection on her career, health, and startup struggles via Instagram. In the post, she shared her “museum of failures” whereby she explained the different experiences that many successful people…
The country’s first transport museum, the National Rail Museum, offers a comprehensive archive of India’s railway history. The foundation stone was laid on October 7, 1971, by then President of India V. V. Giri, and it opened to the public on February 1, 1977, as the Rail Transport Museum. It was later renamed as the National Rail Museum…
NEW DELHI: In a rare gesture, Jordan Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II on Tuesday drove Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Jordan Museum.This comes as PM Modi is visiting Jordan to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.Earlier on Monday, Jordanian Prime Minister Jafar Hassan welcomed…
Paris, the French capital, is home to the world’s most-visited museum, the Louvre. But the news is that the museum is all set to hike its entry fee from 2026; but the catch here is that the new rule will be applicable only to Non-EU visitors. This means, travellers coming from non-European nations would have…
Soldiers patrol in the courtyard of the Louvre museum after the heist French authorities have filed preliminary charges against four individuals in connection with the theft of crown jewels worth $102 million from the Louvre Museum, with investigators still searching for a fifth suspect believed to be the mastermind behind the heist.According to Paris prosecutor…
A 38-year-old woman has been charged in connection with the high-profile jewel heist at the Louvre Museum, news agency AFP reported.France was brought to a halt on October 19 after jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) were stolen from the Lourve museam. The robbers forced open a window, cut into cases with power…
French authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the high-profile theft of France’s crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre Museum, officials confirmed on Sunday. The arrests come a week after the dramatic heist, in which thieves made off with royal artifacts worth an estimated 88 million euros (102 million dollars), leaving the world’s most-visited museum…
Two suspects have been arrested in the $100 million Louvre jewel theft, one week after what has been termed as the “heist of the century”, French media outlet Le Parisien reported on Sunday.The stolen items consisted of a sapphire diadem, a necklace, and one earring from a set associated with 19th-century Queens Marie-Amelie and Hortense.What…
