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With over 49,000 plant species reported as of 2018, India holds about 11.5% of all flora in the world. Now, a new fossil record has shown that India is the birthplace of Asian bamboo, and they were formed about 25 million years ago in the north-eastern part of the country.
K.K. Muhammed, former director, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), said petroglyphs had been found on menhirs or cists for the first time in Kerala. However, there were such inscriptions on huge rocks at the nearby areas of Ramakkalmedu and Thookkupalam. Thirty-seven menhirs, some of them fallen, were found in four sites on the hill. Petroglyphs were also found on a huge rock.
He said that the authority to give the heritage site tag is decided by the UNESCO committee which will convene in 2020, however, he assured that he would submit a positive report about the temple to UNESCO.
Addressing people at the Raman Reti ashram in Mathura, he said, “In India different religious traditions are followed and people live together with due respect to each other and the world should learn from it.” The spiritual leader said that the “our” practice of “Karuna” (compassion) and “ahinsa” (non-violence) is what the world needs today. “We need to spread Karuna and ahinsa not to preserve our own traditions, but also to bring peace across the world, as too much violence is happening around the world,” he said, adding that there is need for peace.
“Gilgit-Baltistan is a part of India. The members of the United Nations need to realise that Pakistan has become a huge stumbling block for the last 70 years,” Senge H Sering, an activist from Gilgit-Baltistan and the Director of the Institute of Gilgit Baltistan Studies in Washington DC, said at the 42nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
A 700-year-old artifact, which is an antique Natarajar idol, has been retrieved from art gallery in Australia. The idol was stolen from the Kulasekaramudayar-Aramvalarth Nayagi temple in Tamil Nadu in 1982. The idol investigation team headed by retired Inspector General of Police, Pon Manickavel played a crucial role in bringing back the 700-year-old statue belonging to the Pandyan era.
Speaking at an event on Tuesday, Jitendra Singh said, “Next agenda is retrieving parts of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir and making it a part of India. It is not only my party’s commitment, but it was also part of a unanimously passed resolution of the Parliament in 1994. This was passed by the Congress-led government of Narsimha Rao.”
In this episode of Rag Rag Mein Ganga with Rajeev Khandelwal, explore the city of Munger situated on the banks of Ganges. Get to know the local flavours of this district, travel in time in the Munger Fort, visit the Shaktipeeth Ma Chandika Sthan, Kashtharni Ghat and the revered Ajgaivinath Temple in Sultanganj.
According to Indian traditional thoughts ‘Veda’ is regarded as revealed scripture, self-evident, and self authoritative. It is not composed by any human authors. The Vedic hymns (Suktas) or verses (Mantras) are seen and only spoken by the seers (Rishis). These seers are neither author of the Mantras nor are they responsible for the contents of the Mantras. Yaska, the oldest expositor of Veda, has distinctly said that these seers received the sacred knowledge or knowledge was revealed to them.
Bishun Khare was born in Varanasi (formerly known as Benaras) on June 27, 1933. He earned degrees in physics, chemistry, and mathematics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and pursued his doctorate in physics from Syracuse University in New York. Thereafter, he did post-doctoral research at both State University of New York (Stony Brook) and the University of Toronto.
