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Prince Harry told Meghan not to take photo in front of Taj Mahal

‘I didn’t want anyone thinking Meg was trying to mimic my mother,’ the Duke of Sussex said

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2023

Harry: I told Meghan not to take photo in front of Taj Mahal

The Duke of Sussex’s book Spare will hit bookshop shelves on Tuesday after days of headlines.

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2023

Covid Alert: No Entry For Tourists In Taj Mahal Without Testing

With the surge in Covid cases in China and other countries, Taj Mahal has been put on alert, said Anil Satsangi, District Health Information Officer. Read on for details:

Dynamite News · Dec 22, 2022

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ASI gets water, property tax notices for Taj Mahal

AGRA: The Archaeological Survey of India has been asked to pay a water tax of nearly Rs 2 crore and a property tax of about Rs 1.5 lakh for the Taj Mahal, along with a Rs 5-crore service tax for the Agra Fort, in an apparent first-of-its-kind action by local…

The Times of India · Dec 20, 2022

Uttar Pradesh: ASI Gets Notice To Pay Rs.1.4L House Tax On Taj Mahal

The Agra Municipal Corporation has served notices on the ASI asking it to pay property tax and water bills for the Taj Mahal. Read on for details:

Dynamite News · Dec 20, 2022

Can’t reopen history after 400 years: Supreme Court on Taj Mahal

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking re-writing of the history of Taj Mahal, saying, 'Everything cannot be reopened after 400 years'. It also attempted to curb filing of frivolous PILs by imposing Rs 1 lakh cost on a petitioner seeking a declaration that…

The Times of India · Dec 5, 2022

Supreme Court Junks ‘Publicity Interest Litigation’ On Taj Mahal Age

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking determination of the age of the Taj Mahal. Read on for details:

Dynamite News · Dec 5, 2022

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I'm a Celebrity: Fans in hysterics after Matt Hancock's incorrect Taj Mahal answer

His Bushtucker Trial partner Owen Warner said: "I could have told you that!"

Bristol Post · Nov 12, 2022

View Taj Mahal on ‘chandni raat’ 4 times this month; dates, timings and ticket price inside

Yes you read that right! You can admire the beauty of the Taj Mahal in the moonlight four times this month! According to the official announcement, the white marble beauty will be open to admirers for night viewing during 'Sharad Purnima' for four nights in October.

The Times of India · Oct 7, 2022

Taj Mahal most-visited ticketed ASI site for domestic tourists in 2021-22: Report

While the Mughal-era mausoleum ranked first, the Red Fort and the Qutub Minar — both UNESCO-recognised sites in Delhi — were the second and third most visited sites

The Hindu · Sep 28, 2022

No commercial activities within 500 metres of Taj Mahal: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has directed the Agra Development Authority to immediately stop all commercial activities within a 500-metre radius from the peripheral wall of the iconic Taj Mahal. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Sep 27, 2022

Bobby Ghosh: Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power

My Iranian friends take great pride in the enormous global influence of their cultural heritage. From the Taj Mahal in India to American greeting cards with quotations from Rumi, the markers of Persian civilization are ancient and modern, sublime and ridiculous — but above all, ubiquitous.

Tribune News Service · Aug 18, 2022

Eiffel review – celebrated tower builder gets cheekily tall backstory

Romain Duris brings authority to this fanciful version of history, which has Gustave Eiffel erecting the monument as a Taj Mahal for his lost love

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2022

Durham miners’ hall applies for Unesco world heritage status

Redhills assembly hall, built in 1915, joins group application for same status as pyramids and Taj Mahal

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2022

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The Hindu · Jul 21, 2022

Data | Taj Mahal is India’s top-grossing monument, despite rapid decline in foreign tourists

Earnings from the Taj Mahal were over five times than that of Delhi’s Red Fort and ten times than that of Mamallapuram monuments in Tamil Nadu and the Sun Temple in Bhubaneshwar each

The Times of India · Jun 24, 2022

Trash near Taj Mahal: Rs 1 lakh fine on firm

AGRA: A day after a 10-year-old climate activist shared pictures of heaps of plastic waste around the Taj Mahal on her Twitter handle, Agra Municipal Corporation imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on a private company tasked to maintain sanitation and hygiene in a 2-km radius of the World…

Radio France Internationale · May 21, 2022

Indian court rejects demands to unlock sealed chambers of Taj Mahal

A court in India has dismissed a request to open locked rooms in the Taj Mahal in a search for Hindu idols in the 17th century wonder.

The Hindu · May 18, 2022

ASI shares images of Taj Mahal’s ‘underground cells’

BJP MP Diya Kumari on May 11 claimed the land on which the Taj Mahal was built originally belonged to Jaipur's ruler Jai Singh

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Al Jazeera · May 18, 2022

‘Textbook repeat’: India courts hear Hindu-relics-in-mosque pleas

India’s top court and court in Varanasi hear petitions by Hindu groups claiming Mughal-era mosque has Lord Shiva relics.

The Hindu · May 18, 2022

BJP targeting religious places to divert people's attention from issues such as unemployment, inflation: Mayawati

"This can spoil the situation anytime. Years after Independence, the manner in which people’s religious sentiments are being incited, as part of a conspiracy in the guise of Gyanvapi, Mathura, Taj Mahal and other places, will not strengthen the country but will only weaken it. The BJP needs to pay…

The Times of India · May 17, 2022

Taj Mahal's "closed rooms" photos made public by ASI; might put controversy around world-famous monument to rest

Taj Mahal, one of the most famous landmarks in India, both historically as well as for tourism purposes has been in news for a number of reasons recently. Most recently, the beautiful white-marble structure has been in the news as a petition was made to open the "locked rooms" in…

The Times of India · May 12, 2022

Taj Mahal cells not always locked, have no idols: ASI officials

AGRA: Contrary to claims made in a petition to the Lucknow HC seeking unlocking of the Taj Mahal's "22 permanently locked rooms", many in its basement, "as they could be housing Hindu idols from ancient times", top Archaeological Survey of India officials told TOI on Thursday that the contention in…

The Hindu · May 12, 2022

Allahabad HC rejects plea seeking to open 20 rooms of Taj Mahal

The Lucknow bench pulled up the lawyer of petitioner Rajneesh Singh, who is the media in-charge of the BJP’s Ayodhya unit, for filing the PIL in a ‘casual’ manner

Newslaundry · May 12, 2022

Why does truth not seem to matter in India anymore?

Dickens could not have imagined how accurately he would be describing the world more than a hundred and fifty years later. For today we do live in a world where it is at once the best of times and the worst of times, where vaccines work and don’t work, millions…

The Hindu · May 11, 2022

Don’t fall prey to right-wing provocations, Mehbooba urges Muslim community

Let them take all the mosques, Qutub Minar and Taj Mahal, she says

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