The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) released its 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report, titled "Technology in Education: A Tool on Whose Terms," which supports for a global ban on smartphones in schools where technology integration does not improve ...

26 % of world’s population does not have safe drinking water: UNESCO report-- A report presented by UNESCO at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York reveals that a significant portion of the world’s population still does not have access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. According ...

Visva-Bharati University: Rabindranath established Visva-Bharati University in 1921. The UNESCO "heritage" tag will shortly be applied to it. It will be able to become the first university of living heritage.  Bidyut Chakraborty, Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, stated that the ...

UNESCO dedicates International Day of Education 2023 to Afghan girls, women: UNESCO has decided to dedicate the International Day of Education to be celebrated on January 24, 2023, to Afghan girls and women. An overview of the news UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said that ...

Urban-20 conference: The Urban-20 conference in Gandhinagar has a new logo, website, and social media accounts thanks to Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. The UNESCO heritage city Ahmedabad will host the Urban 20 cycles as part of G-20 meetings between February to July. Senior ...

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurates the UNESCO-India-Africa Hackathon 2022: Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has launched the UNESCO-India-Africa Hackathon 2022 at the Gautam Buddha University in Greater Noida. The Union Ministry of Education organised the Hackathon, ...

Telangana's Warangal, two cities of Kerala join UNESCO learning cities: Warangal (Telangana), Thrissur (Kerala) and Nilambur (Kerala) have joined the Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) of UNESCO. September 2022 Current Affairs Quiz Reason: For their outstanding efforts to make ...

India has nominated Garba to inscribe on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list for 2022. Last year, Durga Puja was also listed on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage representative. India was elected by UNESCO to serve on the distinguished Intergovernmental ...

India has been elected as a member of the Intergovernmental Committee of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for the 2022-2026 cycle. The elections for the Intergovernmental Committee was held during the two-day General ...

UNESCO has inscribed "Durga Puja in Kolkata" on the representative list of "intangible cultural heritage of humanity", giving international recognition to the biggest religious festival of the 331-year-old city and the state of West Bengal. The UNESCO’s announcement was welcomed ...