Bishkek: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to confront countries using terrorism as an instrument of state policy and reject “double standards” to combat the menace, even as he asserted that dialogue and diplomacy are the only way forward to resolve global conflicts. In the presence of Pakistan Prime…
Ayodhya (UP): The Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust will select the first CEO of the Ram temple today from a likely shortlist of three during a meeting that may also announce the panel’s two members and general secretary after reviewing 5,585 applications, sources said on Tuesday. The meeting follows the controversy over the alleged…
U Lakshman Rao In today’s digital life, “Good Morning” has become more than a greeting for many people. Every day, WhatsApp fills with verses, quotations, downloaded pictures, motivational messages, jokes, religious thoughts, philosophical views and assorted material from different platforms. The sender often believes that forwarding such content is a thoughtful and meaningful gesture. The…
It was in the year 1988, in May, at the peak of summer in Hyderabad, that a visit to Sikkim, Darjeeling and Kalimpong via Siliguri and Bagdogra, after a flight to Calcutta, remains nostalgic even today. Glimpses of that journey remain captured in the mind as though etched there eternally. The Himalayan ranges are a…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula Among the luminous revelations of the Rigveda, the hymns composed by the sage Vishwamitra in the sacred Gayatri chandas stand as radiant expressions of humanity’s earliest spiritual intuition and disciplined scientific contemplation. In these hymns, Agni is not merely the physical flame kindled upon the altar, but the conscious divine principle that unites…
The venerable sage Nārāyaṇa, absorbed in profound devotion, worshipped Lord Shiva with unwavering concentration and offered exalted hymns of praise. Acknowledging Shiva as the Absolute Reality, the eternal foundation of all existence, he declared that whoever truly realizes this supreme truth attains the highest merit and ultimately reaches liberation. With a heart overflowing with devotion,…
Sri Matsya Venkateswara Swamy Temple is located on a hill at Devarampadu village in Rajupalem Mandal, Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh. The temple is popularly known as Nethi Venkanna and is also associated with the name Palnati Tirumala. This unique shrine is especially known for the worship of Lord Venkateswara in connection with the Matsya, or…
PALFINGER has already done the easy part in India: it has sold the equipment. The harder part begins when an Austrian lifting-equipment specialist starts putting serious money, engineering capability and manufacturing muscle behind the Indian operation and then asks the Indian market to decide whether the proposition is worth paying for. That makes bauma CONEXPO…
Dhaka: Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday met Bangladesh’s Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Abdul Moyeen Khan and discussed ways to deepen people-to-people ties and strengthen local government structures. During the meeting, Minister of State Mir Shahe Alam was also present. “The discussions focused on deepening the people-to-people ties between India…
Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday accused the BJP-led West Bengal government of pursuing “political vendetta” against his party after he was questioned for nearly six hours over a scuffle at his office here last week during the removal of an unauthorised billboard. Banerjee, who walked out of Shakespeare Sarani police station after…
