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Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. The much-awaited Ram temple consecration will be held on Monday.

Workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu constitute the majority of labour force from India in the construction industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, according to a report. Going by the data of Huntr, the UAE-based marketplace connecting migrant workers with enterprises, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu are the highest contributors to the migration of construction workers from India to the GCC countries.

Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged the issue of couples opting for destination weddings abroad and said people should be encouraged to «Wed in India» so that wealth remains within the country. Virtually addressing the foundation laying ceremony of the Khodaldham Trust Cancer Hospital to come up in Gujarat's Amreli city, the PM also appealed to the people to help promote domestic tourism. Modi said his government has taken steps to ensure that people do not face difficulties in the treatment of cancer by setting up around 30 new hospitals for providing medical care for the disease and ensuring the availability of medicines at affordable prices.

Pran Pratishtha ceremony of Ram Lalla at Ayodhya Ram Mandir on January 22, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shared a playlist consisting of 70 bhajans dedicated to Bhagwan Shri Ram on social media. Taking to microblogging platform X, PM Modi wrote, “Over the last few days, many people have been sharing their favourite #ShriRamBhajan.

India and Myanmar remain fenced, allowing resident of either side to cross the border and travel up to 16 km inside the other country without a visa and stay up to two weeks. This was called the Free Movement Regime (FMR). The Indian Government has now planned to stop the FMR, and fence the complete border with Myanmar.

Ram Lalla in his birth place in Ayodhya and the temple's 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony will be the beginning of the campaign for «reconstruction of Bharatvarsh» which is for harmony, unity, progress, peace and well-being of everyone, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday. In an article posted on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) website, Bhagwat referred to the «continuous struggle of the Hindu society» for the construction of the temple in Ayodhya and said the «conflict and bitterness» over the dispute should now come to an end. After years of legal struggle, the Supreme Court pronounced a «balanced» verdict on November 9, 2019, after examining «the truth and facts» and also hearing the arguments of all the parties in the case, he said.

Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, the Chief Representative of JICA India, Saito Mitsunori, said that the PM Gati Shakti plan has accelerated public works in the country. In an interview with PTI, Mitsunori also expressed Japan's interest in enhancing India's border road networks and participating in the transnational power transmission project with Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Maldives over viral social media posts by the country's junior ministers mocking his visit to Lakshadweep, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a fresh pitch for the promotion of domestic tourism. During his recent layover at Lakshadweep, PM Modi called for the Indian island cluster to be developed as a destination for beach tourism. Addressing the foundation stone-laying ceremony of Khodaldham Trust Cancer Hospital in Gujarat, PM Modi urged fellow countrymen to take nine solemn pledges, including promoting tourism in the country. «Think about your country first. Do whatever you wish for your country first.

consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya is set to take place on Monday in a grand ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the "Pran Pratishtha" ceremony, which commences at 12:20 pm and concludes by 1 pm.

consensus next month on reforming the dispute settlement system of the global trade body as there are wide differences over the issue between developed and developing countries, a GTRI report said on Sunday. The trade minister of the 164-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) will gather in Abu Dhabi in February for the 13th ministerial conference (MC) to resolve different issues such as reforms in dispute settlement mechanisms, agriculture-related matters and a moratorium on customs duties on e-commerce trade.

Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on January 22, the temple Trust has sent out invites to representatives of more than 50 countries. One of them is Kim Chil-su from South Korea. He belongs to the Queen Heo dynasty. Queen Heo, also known as Suriratna, was the princess of Ayodhya, who, according to popular legend, travelled to Korea and started the Karak dynasty in that country. For the past several years, the India-Korea connection of Ayodhya has been in the news. In 2018, draped in an elegant saree, South Korean First Lady Kim Jung-sook soaked in Diwali festivities in Ayodhya much to the delight of the people of this pilgrim town. From the moment she arrived in Ayodhya on Tuesday till she departed, local people, especially the youth, applauded and cheered her at the multiple events she attended, along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had emphasised the historical connection between Ayodhya and Korea. He had suggested highlighting and strengthening this connection to showcase Ayodhya and Lord Ram’s relevance internationally. Following his guidance, the First Lady of Korea was invited to Ayodhya. Also Read| From Nayar to Nripendra, a tale of two IAS officers in Ram Mandir

32 crore tourists visited the state in 2022, with an impressive footfall of 2.21 crore in Ayodhya alone. The total expenditure by these tourists exceeded ₹2 lakh crore.

Vladimir Lenin has been gone for a century, but the evil he did lives on. The first leader of the Soviet Union died on Jan. 21, 1924, in Gorki, Russia (now called Nizhny Novgorod), after repeated strokes.

As the world devolves from the unipolar world led by the US in the immediate aftermath of the end of the Cold War to an international order more in flux–not yet multipolar and not quite bipolar either–small states are gaining outsize ability to shape their own destinies. Long used to being ignored, many small countries are increasingly capable of playing rival states against each other and expanding their diplomatic space. Maldives is a classic case in point.

crime. Not because it is the bloodiest: Stalin and Mao killed many more people in gulags and famines than the nearly 6m Jews murdered by the Nazis. But the Holocaust was seen as so monstrous that the UN adopted the Genocide Convention, promising never again to allow an attempt to wipe out a group of people, or part of one, simply because of their nationality, race, religion or ethnicity.

The South African government says it will challenge an auction of artifacts belonging to the country’s anti-apartheid stalwart Nelson Mandela

Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.”

On the surface, the platform beneath a new generation of automobiles has little to do with politics and elections

A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast has been identified as one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby taking off across the country

European Union Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders has praised efforts by Poland's new pro-EU government to restore the rule of law and says they may lead to the release of billions of euros of EU funds for the country that were frozen under the p...

The surge in illegal activities, through Chinese loan apps, has raised concerns about the exploitation of unemployed youth and financially-stressed individuals in India.