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An artist, flutist, artiste and cardiologist. Colonel K Sitaram who served in the Indian Army for 28 years, is a man of many talents. His stint in the army led to him witnessing what a war could do a country and its citizens. And he himself was in the thick of it. “That was memorable,” Col Sitaram said while discussing those turbulent times at his home at Gunrock Enclave in Secunderabad.
National Farmers Day 2019: Every year India celebrates National Farmers Day on December 23 to mark former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh’s birth anniversary. The government organizes many programs and debates, seminars on agriculture on this day.
The temple of Chauhaath Yogini (which resembles the Parliament building itself), also known as Ektto Mahadev Temple, is an 11th Century temple located in the Murena district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Ananyo Bhattacharya, a 22-year old student of Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology in Surat, suggested the name Bibha for the star, and 13-year-old Vidyasagar Daud of Singhad Spring Dale Public School in Pune suggested the name of Santamasa for the planet.
Tandav dance is the dance called Lasya or the dance moves of goddess Parvati. Its name means beauty, grace, happiness and compassion. The rhythmical steps of this dance are full of harmony, grace and tenderness and are supplementing to the brute male energy of the dance of Shiva. It is a symbol of the harmony of the ancient tempo of the creation of the world.
Created by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay over the last three years, the portal — www.indianculture.gov.in — is a digital resource of documents, artefacts, paintings and other items available in the archive. The minister said the project is a part of the prime minister”s Digital India initiative to showcase information about the rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage of India both at home and abroad.
Claimed to be a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, the department will make the information available on its official website. “These state-protected monuments include palaces, forts, heritage buildings, inscriptions, archaeological sites, temples, mosques, and dargahs. Monuments located in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Kalaburagi and Belagavi divisions will be included in this project,” an official said.
A new research — led by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, in collaboration with IIT-Bombay — has reported “unequivocal evidence” that there existed a perennial river on the plains of northwestern India. The river, according to the researchers, flowed roughly along the course of the modern Ghaggar. Researchers say that this river was the Saraswati mentioned in the Rig Veda.
Manohar is considered the Father of Indian Bodybuilding. One cannot contest this fact as he put Indian bodybuilding on the map post independence. His success on the world stage was an inspiration for others to follow and now we have several winning international events and doing the country proud. Manohar was the first drop in what created the ocean.
In just over a year of its unveiling, the Statue of Unity has surpassed the footfall at the 133-year-old Statue of Liberty in the US, with an average of over 15,000 tourists visiting the monument in Gujarat daily. “With 74 per cent increase over the daily average of the first year, that is, November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019, daily average of 15,036 is now registered in the first month of this second year.
