Adi Shankaracharya

From Mahakal Lok Corridor to Kashi Vishwanath, how Narendra Modi is reviving temples across India

The inauguration of the Rs 350-crore Mahakal Lok Corridor in Ujjain is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s untiring drive to return Hindu temples to their past glory. Since assuming office in 2014, he has seen several restoration projects, such as the Kashi Vishwanath Dham to Somnath temple

PM Modi to commission India's first indigenous aircraft carrier on 2 September

PM Modi will be in Karnataka and Kerala on 1-2 September to attend several programmes, including a visit to the birthplace of Adi Shankaracharya at Kalady village near Cochin airport. He will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of projects worth around Rs 3,800 crores in Mangaluru

Meet Arun Yogiraj, the Kedarnath Shankara sculptor who will be making Netaji statue in Delhi

Arun Yogiraj will carve out the Netaji statue from a huge black jade granite stone that will be transported to Delhi from Telangana. The statue will be placed at India Gate

How Swami Vivekananda, a modern monk with deep Vedantic roots, transformed India

Swami Vivekananda was as much the product of his time as he was ahead of it

Off-centre | How Narendra Modi is reversing the 'break India' campaign with his Kedarnath push

As he unveiled the statue of Adi Shankara, the prime minister not only combined vikas (development) with vishwas (faith), but also tried restoring and reviving the broken cultural continuity and greatness of India

Uttarakhand will receive more tourists in next 10 years than it did in 100 years, says Narendra Modi at unveiling of Shankaracharya statue

The prime minister was speaking after he unveiled a 12-foot statue of Adi Guru Shankaracharya, which has been reconstructed after its destruction in the 2013 Uttarakhand floods

Narendra Modi offers prayers at Kedarnath temple, unveils 12-foot Shankaracharya statue

Kedarpuri reconstruction is considered the prime minister's dream project

Narendra Modi unveils Adi Shankaracharya statue in Kedarnath: 12-foot-tall sculpture honours great philosopher and theologian

Adi Shankaracharya is credited for consolidating the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and unified and established the current thoughts in Hinduism

Veteran South Indian actress LV Sharada passes away in Bengaluru following prolonged battle with cancer

LV Sharada passed away in a Bangalore hospital on 21 March. She was suffering from breast cancer

ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: Award winning authors Ben Okri, Markus Zusak among speakers on Day 2

At Jaipur, notable author Markus Zusak of the bestselling novel, The Book Thief and Nobel laureate Sri Venki Ramakrishnan are among the many notable figures in literature and science who will be present on the second day of the annual literary extravaganza