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The video’s circulation has, however, sparked concern among heritage experts and officials, who fear that such breaches could compromise the monument’s preservation.
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Actress Ananya Panday visited the monument of love - Taj Mahal - during her visit to Agra recently.
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The move comes days after India carried out precise strikes under Operation Sindoor on nine terror hubs in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on May 7 in response to the dastardly Pahalgam massacre.
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Camouflaging vital installations is one such exercise that stands out for its symbolic and strategic resonance. It's a scenario that harks back over five decades, to a moment when India faced the very real prospect of war and responded with quiet ingenuity: hiding the Taj Mahal.
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India's heritage monuments saw a 19.35 percent rise in footfall in FY 2023-24, but ticket revenue dropped by 2.83 percent. Explore why more visitors didn’t translate into higher earnings.
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Dipayan Ghosh and Kasturi Patra, Greyhound’s owners, left no stone unturned in their desperate attempt to locate their pet. Their exhaustive search spanned drone surveillance, CCTV footage analysis, door-to-door inquiries, and a Rs 50,000 reward.
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Bomb disposal squad, dog squad and other teams were pressed into service but nothing suspicious was found, ACP Sayed Areeb Ahmad, entrusted with Taj Mahal's security, told PTI.
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'New Agra' will come up along Yamuna Expressway and will roughly be located around 190 km from Noida and around 140 km from the upcoming Noida Airport in Jewar. The land for New Agra will be procured from 60 villages in Etmadpur tehsil of the city of Agra.
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Water leakage from the dome also reached the chamber housing the tombs of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. A video of the inundated garden has been circulating on social media, sparking concern and curiosity among locals and tourists.
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The bench questioned the benefits of the designation and noted that declaring a city “heritage” does not guarantee improvements such as increased tourism or cleaner conditions.
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Raj era paintings: Between the first war of Independence in 1857 and Indian Independence in 1947, European, American and Japanese painters who visited India went beyond the bigger cities. An ongoing art show and an upcoming auction offer different perspectives on India during those eventful years of colonial rule.
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Ahead of Elon Musk's much-anticipated visit to India, a look back at the time when the Tesla CEO recalled his visit to Agra's Taj Mahal in 2007.
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A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela disposed of the public interest litigation (PIL) which claimed Mughal emperor Shah Jahan did not construct the Taj Mahal and only carried out renovation of the palace of Raja Man Singh.
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Yamuna's flood water has touched the outer wall of the Taj Mahal in Agra. The Yamuna River has crossed the 'low-level flood' mark of 495 feet in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. This has happened for the first time in 45 years. However, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has assured that there is no threat to the monument as it is designed to withstand floods. But locals are afraid that the rising water levels could damage their houses and belongings.
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According to Central Water Commission (CWC), the portion of the river flowing alongside the Taj Mahal rose to 152 metres (499 feet) late on July 18, well above the warning level for potential danger of 151.4 metres.
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'The last time the Yamuna touched the back wall of the Taj Mahal was during high floods in 1978,' Prince Vajpayee, conservation assistant at ASI, said.
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'I know the craze in this country about Kdrama and Kpop and I want people to see hat there is also a Korean who loves India and is learning their language,' Jiwon said.
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Radhika Gupta said that Indians are made to pay extravagant amounts of money while visiting museums and other international tourist sites where the rates are subsidised for locals.
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'The insects breed in the nearby Yamuna and until they are eradicated with a regular flow of clean water in the river, these spots will continue to reappear at the Taj Mahal,' ASI’s chief assistant conservator at the Taj Mahal said.
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Ellie Hamby and Sandy Hazelip visited 18 countries across all seven continents.
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The initial images show the Taj Mahal in the construction phase with workers striving to build the structure. The last photo shows the fully-built structure.
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In videos being widely circulated online, BJP MLA from Assam, Rupjyoti Kurmi, asks, 'If the Taj Mahal really is a monument of love dedicated to Mumtaz, then why did Shah Jahan marry thrice after her death? This is not what we should teach our children.'
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