• 

  US: World's largest Akshardham Hindu temple outside India in the modern era opens in New Jersey

  World | October 08, 2023 14:59 IST

  It took a combined total of about 4.7 million hours of work by artisans and volunteers to hand-carve about 2 million cubic feet of stone. The four varieties of marble from Italy and limestone from Bulgaria travelled first to India and then over 8,000 miles across the world to New Jersey.

• 

  India celebrated Diwali with traditional fervour

  India | October 24, 2014 8:12 IST

  New Delhi: Diwali, the festival of lights, was celebrated with traditional fervour across the country with people exchanging sweets and gifts with friends and relatives, decking up their houses with earthen diyas and tiny lights

• 

  Let women in the West drink and wear jeans, we should stick to our traditions: BJP leader

  Politics | January 15, 2013 10:52 IST

  Sagar,Jan 14: After Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijaywargiya drew flak for 'Lakshman rekha' remark, his senior colleague Babulal Gaur on Sunday said 'foreign culture' of women wearing jeans and T-shirts, drinking liquor and dancing with