{"id":3698,"date":"2023-03-04T05:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:46:54","slug":"dhara-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dhara-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhara Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dhara Initiative:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>During its yearlong activities, it has been successful in creating public awareness, and stakeholder participation and helped to devise a framework for the <strong>promotion and revival of multiple domains of Indian Knowledge Systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The programme was conceptualized as a series of lectures and discussions dedicated to specific areas of inquiry highlighting India\u2019s civilizational achievements.<\/li>\n<li>The Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Division of the Ministry of Education located at AICTE, New Delhi is the key execution partner for Dhara events.<\/li>\n<li>Many conferences have taken place on diverse and distinct themes titled: Indian contribution to Mathematics, Indian National Calendar, Dhara Astronomy and Astrophysics etc.<\/li>\n<li>The next conferences planned in the series are based on the <strong>metallurgical, agricultural and ancient economic thoughts and traditions of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> <strong>Ministry of Culture.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is Astronomy?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth\u2019s atmosphere. That includes objects we can see with our naked eyes, like the Sun , the Moon , the planets, and the stars .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1903868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The unique flagship initiative \u2018Dhara: An Ode to Indian Knowledge Systems\u2019 of Ministry of Culture completes one year<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhara Initiative deals with specific areas of inquiry highlighting India\u2019s civilizational achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}