Officials said the fire was put out by und 2.15am on Thursday.
MADURAI: As many as 10 electronic goods shops on the Town Hall Road in Madurai were gutted in a fire that broke out on Wednesday night. No death or injury was reported.
A fire and rescue services department official said they received a call at 10.45pm. A fire tender from Thideer Nagar station led by station fire officer Venkatesan reached the spot. The fire had already spread to three shops when the first tender reached.
Other fire stations were alerted. Soon, fire tenders and personnel from Meenakshi Temple, Tallakulam, Anupanadi stations reached the spot. In total, six fire tenders were engaged.
Case studies in divine beauty. Where there are people, there are usually places of worship. Temples are typically associated with Asian-origin religions like Buddhism, Sikhism and Hinduism, so it’s no surprise that the continent dominates our list. From the modern metropolises of Japan to the vertiginous valleys of the Himalayas, here are a few of the finest temples anywhere on Earth… 1. Meenakshi Temple, India Eye-openingly colourful and quite joyous to behold, the Meenakshi Temple in Tamil Nadu is so bright and vibrant it looks borderline unreal. Of particular note are the 985 pillars spread through the complex, each carved with scenes from the princess Meenakshi’s wedding to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. Built and rebuilt several times down the centuries, the current iteration dates from the 16th century, and remains an important site of pilgrimage.
Opinion: An India viewed through French eyes
ByTrisha GuptaTrisha Gupta / Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 10:59 IST
Mahabharata was both a way to enter
Indian culture and to look at it from the outside.
“Writing for film is filming,” Jean-Claude Carrière used to tell his screenwriting students. “You have to know that what you write, is not written to be published. It is written to be forgotten and to be transformed into something else. Into another kind of matter. [That is] absolutely essential.”
The legendary French screenwriter, who died on February 8 at 89, exemplified the art of collaboration so necessary when writing for cinema. Over a wide-ranging career, he worked with some of the finest directors of the 20th century, from the masterfully comic Jacques Tati (who originally hired Carrière to novelise his films), to the surrealist Luis Buñuel (with whom he wrote six memorable films, including Belle De Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie),
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Delhi s Bharat Darshan park to open in April
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New Delhi, Feb 11 : South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) hopes to open its under-development theme park Bharat Darshan to the public in the starting weeks of April. The corporation officials said that Municipal Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti has directed the officials to speed up the project which is coming on a six-acre plot in Punjabi bagh. Almost 80 per cent of the work is complete. We hope that the remaining work will be finished by March so that we can open it for the public from April first week, Randhir Sahay, additional commissioner told IANS.