New Delhi: Former Director of the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Gujarat, Shri Yadubir Singh Rawat, a senior archaeologist, has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Shri Rawat who hails from Uttarakhand has been living in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He has worked at the excavation of Dholavira in Kutch, Vadnagar in North Gujarat, and other important sites. He is especially known for his excavations at Vadodara under then Chi...Read More

Porbandar: A police complaint has been filed against 19 owners of various properties located within the 200-meter limit of Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace Kirti Mandir here. Harish Jivanlal Dasre, a conservation assistant of Junagadh sub circle of the Archaeology Department of India (ASI) has filed a complaint under the Archaeology Department's rule 1959 and amended rule 2010 under which no new construction can be done without permission of the Archaeological Department within 100 meters and 200...Read More

Gandhinagar, Japan K Pathak: Religious Hindu flag was hoisted atop an ancient Galteshwar Mahadev mandir for the first time yesterday probably after centuries. This could become possible due to construction of Shikhar of this mandir by the efforts of Government of India. A 52 gajj size flag atop a 75 ft high Shikhar was hoisted on auspicious occasion of Somvati Amas on the last day of Shravan as Shikhar construction was over. Galteshwar Mahadev is located in a small village Sarnal, near Da...Read More

Gandhinagar: Archaeological excavation has been launched by a team of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) last week at Vihar village near Mansa in North Gujarat in Gauchar land near Vihariya Hanuman mandir and it is in progress. In the outskirts of Vihar village, there are two small mounds and it be presumed that there are Buddhist structured, most likely to be monasteries (Vihar in Sanskrit) buried there. DeshGujarat Read More

Ahmedabad: Shri YS Rawat, Retired Director of Archaeology and Museum, Government of Gujarat has been added to the Ahmedabad World Heritage City Trust (AWHCT) as a Trustee. The Trut meeting has also decided to take services of Utpal Padiya and RJ Vasavada as Officer on Special Duty and Mentor. Read More

New Delhi: The Ministry of Culture has announced 7 new circles of Archaeological Survey of India. This information was shared by the Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (IC), Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a video message tweeted by him today. Shri Patel said that the Ministry of Culture has taken this step in accordance with the Prime Minister’s call to facilitate and strengthen the process of preservation and registration of archaeological monuments along with registration of ar...Read More

New Delhi: Photography will be allowed in all of the monuments and archeological sites administered by the ASI, except the mausoleum at Taj Mahal, the Ajanta Caves and the Leh Palace, says the order issued by Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) after Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned the logic behind the photography restrictions at an event to inaugurate a new headquarters of ASI earlier today. ASI administers and manages 3,686 protected monuments and archaeological sites. The PM...Read More

Patan: An twelfth century sandstone marble Brahma - Brahmani statue which was stolen from historic town Patan in North Gujarat in 2001 has been retrieved from London after 16 years. The statue arrived at Delhi based Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) last year on 22 December. It has been at present kept at the Purana Qila museum temporarily. It will be eventually taken back to Patan after Baroda Circle of ASI makes proper security arrangements. An individual in London had released advertisemen...Read More

New Delhi: The archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara (Nalanda University) in Bihar has been included in the UNESCO's World Heritage List, which also featured three new sites from China, Iran and Micronesia. The inclusion of the four new sites was announced at the 40th session of The World Heritage Committee meeting in Istanbul in Turkey. "Congrats...! Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara is now a #WorldHeritageSite. Thank you @UNESCO @IrinaBokova," India's Culture Ministry tweete...Read More