Warangal: Prohibition and Excise Minister V Srinivas Goud has reiterated that the State government was striving to get UNESCO heritage tag to the historic Kakatiya Fort as well as the Thousand Pillar temple in Warangal. Goud also added that several steps were being taken to develop Warangal as a tourism and sports hub as it […]
Hyderabad: The Telangana Tourism department is organising Kakatiya Heritage Tour every weekend. The two-day package tour covers Bhongir Fort, darshan of Narsimha Swamy at Yadagirigutta temple, Kolanupaka Jain Temple, which is one of the significant Jain temples in South India built centuries ago, and archaeological site museum, Thousand Pillar Temple, Bhadrakali Temple, and Warangal Fort. […]
Warangal: Jwala, an NGO that is working against corruption, paraded a ‘corrupt man’ with his head half tonsured and half moustache on a donkey through the thoroughfares of Hanamkonda on Thursday on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day. The ‘corrupt man’ symbolises the corrupt officials and employees in government and government agencies. The procession was […]
Warangal: The Rs 7.50 crore newly-laid 400-m eight-lane synthetic track, complying fully with the requirements of the International Association of Athletics Federation, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (JNS) in Hanamkonda, helped Telangana be selected for hosting the 60th National Open Athletics Championships (NOAC) beginning today, according to Athletics Association District president Errabelli Varada Rajeshwar Rao. […]
Hyderabad: Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud on Thursday urged Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy to expedite measures to nominate Golconda Fort, Qutb Shahi Tombs, Charminar and Thousand Pillar Temple in Hanamkonda for the UNESCO World Heritage Site recognition. After Ramappa temple was recognised as World Heritage Site by UNESCO recently, the State government has […]
“The Thousand Pillar temple is one of the important monuments under Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which was added once to the tentative list of World Heritage sites by UNESCO," he said
