Shillong, Sep 23: The Meghalayan Age Caves (Mawmluh, Arwah, Mawsmai and Krem Puri caves), have been included in India’s seven new submissions to the tentative list of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention under natural category.

According to the UNESCO website, India submitted the seven properties on August 27. The list includes: Deccan Traps at Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra); Geological Heritage of St. Mary’s Island Cluster (Udupi, Karnataka); Meghalayan Age Caves (East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya); Naga Hill Ophiolite (Nagaland); Natural Heritage of Erra Matti Dibbalu (Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh); Natural Heritage of Tirumala Hills (Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh); and Natural Heritage of Varkala (Kerala).

With this, India now has 69 sites on the tentative list—49 cultural, three mix

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