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India's Abandoned Ghost Towns Show You How Quickly Power Crumbles and Photographs Remember

The city that was sure of itselfFatehpur Sikri was built to last forever. Akbar chose the site personally, commissioned sandstone palaces that still stand without a crack, and moved the Mughal capital there in 1571. Fourteen years later, the city was empty. The reasons historians give, water scarcity, a shift…

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Dhanushkodi: India's Abandoned Ghost Town Swallowed by the 1964 Cyclone That Erased It

The town that India declared deadOn the night of December 22, 1964, a cyclone made landfall at the southeastern tip of the Indian subcontinent with winds clocked above 280 kilometres per hour and a storm surge that put the entire spit of land under water. Dhanushkodi had roughly 1,800 residents.…

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The Rajasthan Village That Chose to Be Abandoned: Kuldhara's Haunted Two-Century Silence

What the Paliwals Left BehindWalk into Kuldhara today and the walls are still standing. That is the first thing that unsettles you. Ruins suggest collapse, a slow giving-in to time and weather. Kuldhara did not collapse. The stone houses of the Paliwal Brahmins are intact enough that you can see…

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Meet the Bengaluru techie couple who swam 32 km from Sri Lanka to India via the Ram Setu route in 11 hours; here's how they did it

Bengaluru couple Danish Abdi and Vrushali Prasade made history by completing a 32-kilometer open-water swim from Sri Lanka to India across the Palk Strait. They navigated rough seas for 10 hours and 45 minutes, reaching Dhanushkodi. Their remarkable feat, achieved with strict safety measures, has garnered widespread admiration for their…

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Why India's First Vertical-Lift Pamban Railway Bridge Is an Engineering Marvel?

PM Modi opens India's first vertical-lift rail bridge (Pamban), replacing 1914 structure. New ₹535-cr marvel allows ships & 100kmph trains. Here’s all you need to know about the tale of India’s first sea bridge. Read more at Dynamite News

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Four of a family from Sri Lanka arrive at Dhanushkodi islet

Sri Lankan family arrives in Rameswaram seeking refuge due to economic hardships, intercepted by Indian Coast Guard.

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PM Modi visits Dhanushkodi and Arichalmunai, worships at Kothandaramar Swami Temple

Prime Minister Narendra Modi concludes his spiritual tour by visiting Sri Kothandaramaswami Temple and Arichalmunai point in Dhanushkodi.

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The haunting Dhanushkodi cyclone of 1964

Remembering the devastating 1964 Rameswaram cyclone, Cyclone Michaung rekindles memories of its destruction & relief efforts.

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Here are the big stories from Tamil Nadu today

Tamil Nadu CM Stalin unveiled V.P. Singh statue at Chennai's Presidency College. Akhilesh Yadav and family members of the former PM were present. Stalin urged Centre to conduct caste census along with population census. PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss urged TN govt to investigate death of patient at Tiruvarur hospital due…

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Indian Coast Guard detains five Sri Lankan fishermen near Dhanushkodi

Five fishermen from Sri Lanka detained by ICG near Dhanushkodi for poaching. Boat confiscated and handed to Marine Police. Identified as Abdul Hameed, Ahmed, Vimal, Arul Prasad, and Ajit. Accidentally entered Indian waters; investigations by Central & State agencies.

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History-sheeter from Sri Lanka reaches Dhanushkodi through vessel; probe on

Jayaraasa, 41, Sri Lankan citizen, arrested by Mandapam police at Rameswaram. He escaped from Sri Lanka fearing arrest for criminal activities, reached Dhanushkodi by boat. Rumours of LTTE sympathiser. Central & State agencies inquired into history. Police registered case, to be produced before Judicial Magistrate & taken to Puzhal Central…

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Gap road stretch: farmers to begin indefinite day-and-night protest seeking compensation

A report submitted by former Munnar special tahsildar to Idukki District Collector says unscientific widening works on the Gap Road stretch of the Kochi-Dhanushkodi NH has resulted in repeated landslips in the region

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Four Sri Lankans arrive in Dhanushkodi, say economic crisis has made life unaffordable in the island nation

Four of a family from Jaffna in Sri Lanka reached the Dhanushkodi islet on a boat in the early hours of Monday, Marine Police in Rameswaram said. The Mandapam Rehabilitation Centre now houses about 270 people from Sri Lanka who have arrived since early last year, when the island nation…

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Ducking Sri Lankan Navy’s bullets, youth swims 13 km to Dhanushkodi

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Seven more Sri Lankan Tamils reach Dhanushkodi

The Sri Lankan Tamils were handed over to authorities at Mandapam Rehabilitation Camp

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Six more persons from Sri Lanka arrive at Dhanushkodi

They were taken to the Mandapam Rehabilitation Centre

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Tamil Nadu: 3 more Sri Lankan nationals arrive at Dhanushkodi

MADURAI: Three more Sri Lankan nationals fleeing the economic crisis in the island nation landed in Rameswaram island on Wednesday. They were identified as Jesintha Mary, 51, her 10-year-old son, from Thematta Kodai in Jaffna district and Aniston, 31, from Pesailai in Mannar district.

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Railways hopes to breathe life into the ghost town of Dhanushkodi

It is working to expedite plans to reconstruct the 18-km railway line between Rameswaram and Dhanushkodi

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Watch | How Dhanushkodi is a land of promise for Sri Lankan Tamils fleeing the economic crisis

A video on how Dhanushkodi is a ghost town and a ray of hope for Sri Lankan refugees

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In a first, six Andhra Pradesh students cross Palk Strait as team

MADURAI: Six young athletes from Andhra Pradesh, including two girls, swam the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka on Friday in nine hours and 27 minutes. This is the first time a team has crossed Palk Strait as previously it was individuals who did it.They covered 18 nautical miles…

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State awaits Centre’s word on asylum seekers from Sri Lanka

18 persons arrived recently in Dhanushkodi on Friday, taking the total to 60

The Times of India

Tamil Nadu: 18 more Sri Lankan refugees arrive in Dhanushkodi

RAMANATHAPURAM: Eighteen more Sri Lankan refugees including women and children reached Dhanushkodi in Ramanathapuram district on Friday fleeing their economic crisis-hit country.

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Economic crisis | 19 more Sri Lankans reach Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu

They say they starved for three to four days because of high prices of essentials

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Autism-affected girl creates history, swims from Sri Lanka to Dhanushkodi in 13 hrs

Jiya Rai, an Indian para-swimmer suffering from autism, has set a new record by crossing the Bakjala Junction in 13 hours from Sri Lanka's Thalaimannar to Arichalmunai in Dhanushkodi on Sunday.

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