The Collector donated a pair of gold stirrups, studded with rubies, to Goddess Meenakshi, who had saved his life.
Refusing to go back to England after superannuation, Rous Peter spent his last days in Madurai.
As per his wish, he was interred at the St. George’s Church.
Madurai
Anand Prakash Chouksey, a Burhanpur-based educationist, who also owns a hospital and a school, has built the replica of the Taj Mahal near his school premises and gifted it to his wife Manjusha Chouksey.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the revamped Rani Kamalapati railway station, earlier known as Habibganj, in the Madhya Pradesh capital.
This station, recently named after the queen of Bhopal’s Gond kingdom , has the first central concourse with connectivity to all platforms with modern world-class facilities.
It is a common misconception that Indian Railways can change the name of its stations. That is not the case.
The name of Bhopal’s Habibganj railway station has been changed to Rani Kamlapati station. The BJP government of Madhya Pradesh proposed this to the Centre last week, which gave the clearance without any delay.
This is to coincide with the inauguration of the station, which has been redeveloped at a cost of around Rs 100 crore with private participation — a first such large-scale PPP model in station redevelopment in India, in the works for the past few years.
“School Education Department and Higher Education Department of GoWB – both have won the prestigious SKOCH GOLD awards. Heartiest congratulations to all officials and members for this remarkable achievement,” Banerjee wrote on Twitter.
The Skoch Award covers the best of efforts in digital, financial and social inclusion.
These women in and around Basbari range used their traditional culinary skills by offering Bodo dishes to tourists coming to the famed Manas National Park, known for one-horned rhino and Royal Bengal Tiger, but the endeavour initially floundered due to absence of entrepreneurial skills.
Mitali G Dutta, a culinary entrepreneur, came to know about their attempts and came forward to help these poor women in association with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) by skilling them and helping them market
Suyash Keshari, the 25-year-old wildlife presenter, filmmaker and conservationist from the heart of India, Madhya Pradesh, has recently released the trailer of ‘Safari with Suyash — TV’ for his OTT platform.
This is the Sela Tunnel, the longest bi-lane road tunnel in the world. The Sela tunnel is being constructed by the Border Roads Organisation at an altitude of 13,800ft near the Indo-China border.
It is being built on the 317km long Balipara-Charduar-Tawang (BCT) road which connects West Kameng, East Kameng and Tawang districts of Arunachal Pradesh to the rest of the country.
The Sela tunnel will provide all weather connectivity to Tawang. It will also ensure better movement of troops and weaponry to various locations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
Arunachal Pradesh
Santosh George Kulangara