Narendra Modi to unveil 112-ft tall face of Lord Shiva Deity on Maha Shivaratri

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a 112-ft tall face of Lord Shiva or ‘Adiyogi’ at Isha Foundation in Coimbatore on Maha Shivaratri, which is on February 24. In a statement Isha Foundation said on Saturday that the face will be largest such on the planet, recognising the first yogi’s unparalleled contribution to humanity. “This More...

With Quran, Vedas, The Ramayana and The Gita in Darul Uloom – Jagaran
संजय मिश्र, देवबंद से लौटकर। इस्लामी शिक्षा के बड़े संस्थान में उर्दू-अरबी और फारसी More...

Tension at Vellayani over temple fete – The Hindu
The city police have deployed additional reinforcements at Vellayani where an argument over raising flags has snowballed into a tension among RSS-BJP and CPI(M) activists. The controversy cropped up at the Vellayani More...

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee honours Bihar CM
THE SHIROMANI Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC) honoured Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Amritsar Sunday for hosting the 350th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Gobind Singh in Patna Sahib earlier this More...

Bihar Chief Minister pays obeisance at Golden Temple
Amritsar, Feb 19 (PTI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today paid obeisance at the Golden Temple here. Kumar was received by Punjab Cabinet minister Daljit Singh Cheema and SGPC chief Kirpal Singh Badungar at More...

CNG push for langar at Golden Temple
Under the Smart City project, work has been launched to lay a CNG (compressed natural gas) pipeline to replace LPG and wood as the cooking fuel at Sri Guru Ram Dass Ji langar hall in the Golden Temple. Municipal More...

Shivaji through the eyes of Swami Vivekananda – Sanskriti
It was a beautiful moonlit night and Swamiji was sitting in the verandah of the bungalow of the late Mr. Bhattacharjee on the South Beach of Madras, conversing in Hindi with Mr. Munshi Jagamohanlal, the private More...

Command Control Centre at Tirumala soon: IG
Tirupati: IG Rayalaseema Range (RR) N Sridhar Rao said on Friday here that the police department will soon set up a state-of-the- art Command Control Centre (CCC) on the hill station for monitoring the Tirumala More...

‘Tirupati Laddu’ turns bitter for temple trust as it causes Rs 140 crore annual loss – Hindustan Times
The most sought-after ‘Tirupati Laddu’ has caused an annual loss of over Rs 140 crore to the cash-rich administration of Lord Venkateswara hill shrine for the last three years owing to its subsidised price and More...

Maha Sivaratri festival begins in Rameswaram
The 12-day Maha Sivaratri festival began at the Sri Ramanathaswamy temple in this pilgrim island here with flag hoisting ceremony on Friday. Hundreds of devotees witnessed the ceremony conducted in the ‘Mesha More...