new delhi, Jan. 30 -- India has formally submitted Meghalaya's living root bridges, known as Jingkieng Jri or Lyu Chrai, for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List for the 2026-27 cycle. Chief minister Conrad K Sangma said the nomination dossier was handed over in Paris by India's ambassador and permanent representative to UNESCO, Vishal V Sharma, to World Heritage Centre director Lazare Assomo Eloundou. "We are hopeful that the living root bridges will be inscribed this year, ensuring that the Indigenous communities - the true guardians of this living heritage - receive the global recognition they so richly deserve," Sangma said in a post on X. The nomination covers living root bridges located across the southern slopes of the Khasi a...