However, nothing has yet progressed due to several legal and logistical complications. The mansion usually lies deserted, barring some security guards. Occasionally, film and television shootings take...

In recent years, the memorial complex has been used as a venue for several cultural events. It also serves as the venue for the naval concert, which generally coincides with the National Navy Day on D...

An ugly construction built the behind of the fountain is a latrine, and that has killed the visual appeal by a great extent. No one can see the rear of the fountain and the land around is covered in w...

Windamere Hotel, considered one of the best colonial accommodations in the country and a landmark in Darjeeling, is caught in an ownership struggle which, tourism industry stakeholders say, has cast a...

The high court has admitted a public interest litigation filed by citizens’ groups seeking to know the parameters set by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) to downgrade or delist a heritage st...

French ambassador Alexandre Ziegler unveiled plaques declaring three buildings in Chandernagore heritage structures on Wednesday. He was accompanied by members of the West Bengal Heritage Commission. ...

Hastings House, the country home of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of Bengal, is a stately mansion. The heritage property has many stories to tell, some of ghosts that still haunt it. Sin...

Sir — The recent decisions taken by the Archaeological Survey of India for the conservation of the Sun temple at Konark, Odisha — a world heritage site — are welcome. The ASI will take down the ...

His first attempt at heritage preservation was a disaster. An oil painting in the family had been ravaged by termites. It was the 1960s, the hand-held pesticide spray gun was still a novelty. The teen...

One of the two stairways of National Library’s Belvedere has been covered with an anti-skid mat and painted deep red-and-yellow that conservation architects said was incompatible with the heritage s...