The worst land grab in decades in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening the survival of isolated tribes that have no contact with the outside world, a rights group said Wednesday. Ranchers and settlers in the remotest reaches of northwestern Brazil…
Category: Heritage
Jamdani set to get registration as GI product
Dhaka – Jamdani, the country’s one of the finest muslin textiles, is going to get registration by this month as Bangladesh’s first Geographical Indication (GI) product.Senior Secretary of the Industries Ministry M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan made the disclosure while addressing…
World Tourism Day Tuesday
Dhaka – The government is formulating a “practical” and “application” based Tourism Master Plan (TMP) to explore all the untapped potential, which is the also a motto of World Tourism Day.
Celebrate the world’s indigenous peoples
Danielle Nierenberg August 9 was International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme is Indigenous Peoples and Education to highlight the importance of education and preserving indigenous knowledge. Around the world, many indigenous people cannot access the basic…
RU ethnic minority students demand constitutional recognition
The ethnic minority students formed a human chain on Monday at Rajshahi University (RU) and demanded constitutional recognition of the country’s ‘indigenous people’ and formation of a separate land commission for them.
The death of world heritage sites
Martin Wagner and Noni Austin San Francisco, California – Climate change has clai med another victim. Almost one-quarter of the coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area – one of the world’s richest and most complex ecosystems –…
Traditional medicine for modern times: Facts and figures
Andrea Rinaldi and Priya Shetty review the facts, figures and challenges of mixing modern and traditional medicine. For millennia, people have healed with herbal or animal-derived remedies, using knowledge handed down through generations. In Africa, Asia, Latin America and the…
World Heritage meeting reveals emerging threats to European sites
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on 14 July expressed concern over three sites facing severe pressures from harmful industrial activities, but failed to take bold action to protect them. At the meeting, WWF objected to a sharp logging increase in…
UNESCO announces 4 new World Heritage Sites
UNESCO has put four new sites on its World Heritage List.The new sites, announced Friday, include China’s Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape, Iran’s ancient aqueducts known as Qanat, and India’s archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara.The World Heritage Committee also…
Indian minister threatens regulators, media, civil society over ILR
On June 7, 2016, (as widely reported by media[i]) Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti “threatened to go on hunger strike if the Ken-Betwa river linking project is further delayed and termed the attempt to delay the project by environmentalists…
No action yet against theft of rare Varendra Museum artifacts
Sakib Al Hasan Nearly three thousand rare exhibits including 185 archaeological objects were lost from country`s only Centurion & historical Varendra Research Museum under Rajshahi University (RU have not yet been recovered. So far, no action has been taken against…
Kohinoor Diamond Belongs To Britain, it was gifted says India Govt
New Delhi: India should not try to reclaim the famous Kohinoor diamond as it was neither stolen nor forcibly taken, the government said Sunday. That stand, the Supreme Court has warned, could mean “You will face a problem in the…
Napoleon’s last home recreated in Paris’ exhibition
Paris – France’s national army museum has recreated the home where Napoleon lived his final years, bringing furniture and belongings from the remote Atlantic Island of St. Helena to central Paris for the first time since he was exiled there…
2 swords stolen from Rabindranath’s Kuthibari
Two ancient swords have been stolen from poet Rabindranath Tagore’s historic Shilaidaha Kuthibari in Kumarkhali upazila.
Syrian Army retakes Palmyra from IS
By RFE/RL Syrian government forces, backed by Russian airstrikes, have recaptured the historic city of Palmyra from Islamic State (IS) militants, an advance that President Bashar al-Assad hailed as an “important achievement” demonstrating the success of his army’s fight against…
Bangladesh turns 45 Saturday
Dhaka – The nation celebrates the 46th Independence and National Day on Saturday with due respect. On March 26, 1971, the people took up arns following the crackdown on unarmed Banglalees on the midnight of March 25 by the Pakistani…
Scans of King Tut’s tomb unveil hidden rooms
Apparent discovery in King Tut tomb could shine light on mystery that has fired imagination of archaeologists for years. Scans of King Tut’s tomb appear to have revealed two hidden rooms – a discovery that heightened speculation the chambers contained…
What really wiped out the Mayans?
Mayan civilization is one of the oldest and the most mysterious civilization of the ancient world. There had been so many stories told about their extinction, most of which are assumptions. British journalist Robin Wylie discussed what may be the…
What really wiped out the Mayans?
Mayan civilization is one of the oldest and the most mysterious civilization of the ancient world. There had been so many stories told about their extinction, most of which are assumptions. British journalist Robin Wylie discussed what may be the…
What really wiped out the Mayans?
Mayan civilization is one of the oldest and the most mysterious civilization of the ancient world. There had been so many stories told about their extinction, most of which are assumptions. British journalist Robin Wylie discussed what may be the…
‘Ekusher gaan’ now in 12 languages
Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano Ekushey February’, the most iconic song of the Language Movement that holds a special place in the heart of every Bangladeshi, has been sung in 12 different languages.Besides Bangla, the song, which has become an emblem…
Nude statues covered during Iran’s President visit
An imposing equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dominated the room where Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on Monday.But Rouhani could not admire some of the other masterpieces at Rome’s world-famous Capitoline Museums,…
Meet Ukraine’s Darth Vader
Darth Vader was bent on galactic domination, but his Ukrainian namesake enjoys more mundane pursuits – local politics, walking the family dog and embroidery.While audiences around the world have had to wait 10 years for the latest film in the…
Guinness records break moulds
From a dog skate-boarding through a tunnel of human legs to a man holding lit candles in his mouth, people around the world have been marking Guinness World Records Day with a range of quirky feats.From the young to the…
Developing countries for balanced approach to intellectual property
Geneva, Mirza Alas – Developing countries stressed the need for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to have a balanced approach to intellectual property during their general statements at the 55th Assemblies of the organization’s Member States. The 55th Assemblies…
Hardinge Bridge’s 100 years celebrated
The centenary of the country’s largest steel railway bridge ‘Hardinge Bridge’, built over Padma at Paksey point of Pabna in 1915, was celebrated on Saturday. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) and Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)…
“Mian Dalan” in Jhenidah needs salvage 92 years of glory
Jhenidah: The 92 years old historical “Mian Dalan” (Zamidar Bari) of Jhenidah can be a tourist spot. Local sources alleged ‘Zamdiar Bari’ (house of landlord) built by son of Zamidar Selim Chowdhrury, and one of the few relics of Jhenidah,…
Historic Nepal sites set to reopen after quake
Nepal is set to reopen all the heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April’s devastating earthquake. Among those sites set to open are the historic Durbar squares or “noble courts”,…
10 most expensive paintings in the world
A painting by Pablo Picasso has sold for $179.4m, earning it a place on the top ten list of the most expensive paintings ever sold – a list we first published in February this year when a piece by Gauguin…
UK has just unearthed new ‘top secret’ colonial-era Govt files
By Katie Engelhart The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has located a new cache of colonial-era government documents, VICE News has learned. The documents, some with “Top Secret” classifications and tantalizing subject titles, originate in the Colonial Office — the…