- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
INVITEES to the 'pran pratishtha' (consecration) ceremony at the Ram temple started arriving Sunday (21) in the northern Indian holy town of Ayodhya -- once a sleepy town now resplendent with new infrastructure and gripped by heightened religious fervour -- on the eve of a seminal event in India's politico-religious…
THE consecration of the much-awaited Ram temple in the northern Indian holy town of Ayodhya will take place on Monday (22) and the Indian space agency -- the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) -- released a glimpse of the magnificent temple as seen from the space using the country's own…
ON January 22, 2024, the world will witness the consecration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, a holy town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with an estimated 7,000 attendees. The “pran pratishtha’ (consecration) ceremony will be held on this day and will be presided over by prime…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi was at his religious best ahead of the inauguration of the Ram temple in the northern holy town of Ayodhya on Monday (22). He is on a tour of the southern state of Tamil Nadu this weekend and on Saturday (20), the prime minister offered…
INDIA'S Central Consumer Protection Authority (CPCA), a regulatory body that looks to safeguard consumers' rights by curbing unfair trade practices, has pulled up e-commerce giant Amazon for allegedly involving itself in deceptive trade practices by selling sweets as 'Sri Ram Mandir Ayodhya Prasad' (divine sweets from Ram temple). The Ram…
AS hundreds of Myanmarese soldiers have continued to flee to the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram over the past few months amid a civil war in the country sparked by a military coup of 2021, the government of the state has alerted New Delhi about the development and urged it…
IN a shocking incident in which a stage plan turned into a tragedy, a US-based Indian tech chief and founder of a multinational software company lost his life and its president seriously injured when an iron cage contraption carrying them overturned during a corporate event. The incident happened at Ramoji…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Friday, January 19, 2024: India's negotiations with France on its proposed procurement of 26 Rafale-M fighter jets and three Scorpene submarines are moving forward "positively", people familiar with the matter said on Friday, days ahead of French president Emmanuel…
INDIAN civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday (18) inaugurated the first Airbus A350 aircraft of India, marking the arrival of the state-of-the-art aircraft to Air India's fleet and the country's growing stature as a major player in the global aviation industry. The inauguration took place on the inaugural day…
PAKISTAN and Iran on Friday (19) agreed to the spirit of “mutual trust and cooperation" and the need for closer cooperation on security issues as the two sides began to pick threads of tattered ties following their tit-for-tat missile strikes in each other's territory. Pakistani caretaker foreign minister Jalil Abbas…
