In news that is bound to bring cheer to the heritage movement in Rajasthan and the rest of India, the walled city of Jaipur was honoured with the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage Site tag. Jaipur becomes the second city after Ahmedabad to earn this tag, as far as an entire city goes.

Early on Saturday morning, during a session in Baku, Azerbaijan, the World Heritage Committee inscribed seven sites on to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The remaining six sites that made it to the list include Dilmun burial mounds (Bahrain), Budj Bim cultural landscape (Australia), archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City (China), Ombilin coal mining Heritage of Sawahlunto, (Indonesia), Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: mounded tombs of ancient Japan (Japan) and the megalithic jar sites in Xiengkhouang — plain of jars (Lao People's Democratic Republic).