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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.
In this episode of Rag Rag Mein Ganga, get to know the city of Patna. Know about the significant place of Champaran in the history of Indian Freedom Struggle, play a little cricket with Rajeev in the famous Gandhi Maidan, find peace in Patliputra Karuna Stupa and take a glance at the unique artifacts of Patna Museum.
PM Modi, the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the key Gulf nation, offered prayers at the Shreenathji Temple in Manama, the oldest temple in the region, and also the ‘prasad” that he bought with the RuPay card after launching it in the UAE on Saturday. The facelift for the Shreenathji (Shree Krishna) temple in Manama will kick off later this year.
