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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicTemple cities

Topic: Temple cities

Madhya Pradesh HC orders ‘status quo’ on temple construction in police stations, seeks govt explanation

The order comes in response to petition seeking demolition of such illegal religious structures on grounds that they violate Supreme Court ban on religious construction on public land.

How KCR built his ‘Tirumala’ dream in Telangana — Rs 1,200 cr & non-stop work through Covid

Telangana CM has envisioned Yadadri in the lines of the Tirumala temple. Political observers believe it will consolidate ruling TRS's Hindu vote base, & undermine BJP’s ‘Hindutva pitch’.

How Scotsman Patrick Geddes may have started India’s obsession with vastu

Sociologist and pioneering town planner Patrick Geddes also coined the term ‘temple-city’ after seeing the towns of Madras Presidency.

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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.