Prime Minister Narendra D Modi on Tuesday paid floral tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at the Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar in Gujarat's Narmada on the birth anniversary of the country's first home minister which is celebrated as National Unity Day. In New Delhi, Congress MPs Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi paid homage to Indira Gandhi on the 39th anniversary of the late prime minister's assassination.
Rajinikanth -- the one and only Thailavaa -- visited an exhibition that showcased 120 photographs featuring Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin's personal and public life to mark the DMK leader's 70th birthday at the Raja Annamalai Mandram in Chennai.
The 133-feet Thiruvalluvar statue was recently maintained by the Tamil Nadu government with chemical coating for saving the granite monument from the sea's salt wind in Kanyakumari.
Kapil Dev at a special event hosted by the consulate general of India in New York as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations.
The exercise achieves synergy between combat elements and aims towards the Indian Army's superior offensive capability.
Vijay, with his chief ministerial ambitions, is a one-man army, at least as of now, and his campaign team considers him omnipresent. He has to be present in all districts, if not all constituencies at the same time, as there is no second-line leader or platform speaker in the party, who can draw crowds, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
A school teacher from Kesarpura village near Ajmer in Rajasthan was gifted a helicopter ride by her son as a retirement gift on her last working day.
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi visited Wayanad.
On his first visit to India after election as Germany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz had a couple of typically Indian experiences on Sunday, February 26, 2023.
Uddhav has promised he will be at Sena Bhavan every day to meet Shiv Sainiks and others, as part of his plan to rebuild the party.
Shamila, a Coimbatore-based post graduate mechanical engineering student turned poultry farmer, holds an egg laid by one of the hens at her farm, which measured 3.1 inches in size and had a circumference of 5.5 inches and weighed 90 grams, in Coimbatore, January 5, 2023.
The Navratri festival begins on Monday, September 26, 2022.
Dancers of the Diablada Urus group perform during the carnival in Oruro, Bolivia.
Glimpses of the At Home reception hosted by President Droupadi Murmu on Independence Day at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Rubber snakes, resembling real reptiles, hung by police personnel around the Cumbummettu police station in Kerala's Idukki district. The reason? To frighten monkeys who pester the cops!
His Holiness The Dalai Lama arrived at Tsuglag Khang at Mcleodganj in Dharamsala, May 25, 2022 to attend a prayer offered by the Sakya Tibetan Buddhist Tradition for his long life.
'When we were able to visit his home, they just sort of ran up. They were hugging him.' 'He was just incredibly kind and generous to them.'
A Mahapanchayat was convened on June 1, 2023 by Bharatiya Kisan Union President Naresh Tikait in support of the wrestlers demanding Wrestling Federation of India President and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's arrest.
Did you know India is the only country where lions and tigers can be found in the wild?
Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh has begun practising his asanas for next month's International Yoga Day in right earnest.
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022, the day, he would have turned 54, a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata celebrated the singer's birthday.
Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa visits the Napier bridge at Mamallapuram near Chennai on International Chess Day, July 20, 2022.
The largest Hindu temple in United States, BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham, is scheduled to be inaugurated at Robbinsville, New Jersey, on October 8, 2023.
Children dress up as Lord Krishna on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami.
His wards are busy playing the IPL, so Indian cricket's Head Coach Rahul Dravid took some time off to savour the majesty of the Taj Mahal in Agra.
The Indian Army's Durga Battalion rescued a man stranded in the Betar river in Poonch on Sunday, July 17, 2022.
Sameer Wankhede, right, with wife Kranti Redkar, centre, receives the Bharat Ki Shaan Award from Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota in Mumbai, August 16, 2022.
'The water scarcity being faced by 30 lakh people of Delhi is only because of the BJP.'
Mumbai, infamous for its voter apathy, stepped out to exercise its franchise on Wednesday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid along with La Liga President Javier Tebas.
Young women celebrate Holi at the Taj Mahal complex.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat at the RSS office in Mumbai on Monday, August 1, 2022.
An Aughad sadhu seen during Varanasi Masan Sobha Yatra.
A confectioner in Kolkata displays confectionery created in the likeness of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on Sunday, the opening day of the FIFA World Cup 2022.
Dr Rohini Acharya -- the Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate from the Saran Lok Sabha constituency -- filed her nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections, April 29, 2024, accompanied by her father and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, mother Rabri Devi and younger brother Tejashwi Yadav.
Prime Minister N D Modi interacted with members of the National Disaster Response Force and Indian Army who were deployed on Operation Dost in earthquake-shattered Turkey on Monday, February 20, 2023.
The No 1 T20 Cricketer in the world disappointed fans and spectators during Mumbai Indians's first IPL 2023 game against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, scoring an anaemic 15 before being caught by Shahbaz Ahmed off Michael Bracewell.
Mustafa-Ibn-Jameel, a 27-year-old calligrapher from Kashmir, broke the world record by writing the Quran on a 500-metre scroll.
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