Policemen stand guard in front of the historic Red Fort. File
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The historical site was closed from January 19 after a sample taken from dead crows was found positive for avian influenza.
Red Fort would remain closed to the public until further orders after dead crows at the site were found to have bird flu,an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) order said on Monday.
The historical site was closed from January 19 after a sample taken from dead crows was found positive for avian influenza. The ASI had ordered the site closed from January 19 till January 21. It remained closed till January 26 after that due to Republic Day celebrations, as is the norm every year. However, the closure was extended after violence broke out at Red Fort during the farmers’ rally on January 26.
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What the ruins of the original Nalanda university tell us about an old civilisation of India
An excerpt from ‘Indians: A Brief History of a Civilisation’, by Namit Arora. The ruins of the ancient Nalanda University. | Mrityunjay.nalanda / CC BY-SA 3.0
Our knowledge of Nalanda comes from three kinds of primary sources: archaeology, epigraphy (the study of inscriptions) and texts that survived in foreign lands after Buddhism and its texts disappeared from India by the mid-second millennium. Our chief sources for Nalanda are the writings of Xuanzang and Yijing, who spent two to three and ten years there, respectively. They’ve left us a portrait of its life in the seventh century, including its physical spaces, practices and rhythms of daily life, finances, curriculum and other features of its monastic community.
Union Budget 2021 | Culture Ministry budget cut by nearly 15%
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The Ministry has been allocated ₹2,687.99 crore.
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A view of the Vellore Fort, which is under the Archaeological Survey of India.
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The Ministry has been allocated ₹2,687.99 crore.
The Culture Ministry’s expenditure budget for 2021-2022 was cut by nearly 15% compared to the Budget Estimates (BE) for 2020-2021, according to the Budget documents tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on Monday.
The Ministry has been allocated ₹2,687.99 crore. It was ₹3,149.86 crore in the previous financial year, though the actual expenditure was ₹2,211.85 crore, according to the Revised Estimates (RE) for the year.
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