Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the development, saying people in India and across the world were delighted ...

India’s festival of lights, Diwali, was on Wednesday announced as an addition to UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list, sparking celebrations. The United Nations cultural agency, meeting in the ...

Deepavali, the festival of lights, is now part of the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The festival is a new inscription on the list, alongside cultural ...

MADURAI: Amid ongoing court cases over lighting of deepam at the deepathoon (stone pillar) atop the Thiruparankundram hill, ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on Wednesday included Diwali and 23 other festivals and traditions from around the world to the representative list of the ...

Anurag Kashyap ’s neo-noir thriller Kennedy will be available to stream on film social catalogue service, Letterboxd’s online ...

Bangladesh secures UNESCO recognition for Tangail saree's weaving craft as an intangible cultural heritage, enhancing its ...

UNESCO added India’s Diwali festival to its intangible heritage list on Wednesday, prompting celebrations across the country. Millions worldwide take part in the festival, which marks the triumph of ...

From Yemeni musical poetry, Italian and Egyptian cooking, to Ghana's highlife music, and India's Hindu festival of lights ...

From Argentine cuarteto dancing to Yemeni musical poetry, Italian cooking and India's Hindu festival of lights Diwali, UNESCO is weighing 68 nominations to add to its intangible cultural heritage list ...

A continent as large as Asia rarely speaks in a single tone. From above, the Rohingya refugee camps at Bangladesh’s Cox’s ...