Rawat credited Congress party with the withdrawal of the Devasthanam Board Act in Uttarakhand, saying it was against the autonomy of temples.
Film actor and director Abhishek Kapoor stated that he fought hard to complete 'Kedarnath' and spent his own money to do so. People wanted to leave because they thought Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was ''not a star," he said.
BJP has planned grand programmes throughout Uttarakhand, which is scheduled for assembly polls early next year, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Kedarnath Temple in the hill state in a short while from now.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate reconstruction projects worth Rs 400 crore during his visit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of Kedarpuri reconstruction projects worth Rs 400 crore during his visit to the state.
Both Charanjit Singh Channi and Navjot Singh Sidhu, after reaching Dehradun, also met party leader Harish Rawat—who was earlier Congress’s Punjab affairs incharge.
The deceased have been identified as labourers from Nepal, who were engaged in a hotel construction in Uttarakhand’s Pauri district.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi besides offering prayers at the holy site will also inaugurate the Kedarpuri projects.
It is for the second consecutive year that Covid has cast a shadow on the pilgrimage to the temple which has been kept out of bounds for pilgrims in view of rising coronavirus cases.
Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri are the four famous shrines.
Rawat reversed his predecessor's decision and decided to remove the management of 51 temples from state control
The Char Dham Yatra will begin this year after the reopening of the four temples.
The natural calamity refreshed the memories of the deadly Uttarakhand Floods in 2013 which devastated the state and killed more than five thousand people.
Banks of the Chorabari lake in Kedarnath collapsed due to a cloudburst in 2013, leading to widespread destruction.
This is PM Narendra Modi's fourth visit to the temple dedicated to Lord Shiva in the last two years.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.