Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Taj Mahal

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

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

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

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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

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

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

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

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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

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

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

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

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 Hindu

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…

The Times of India

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.

Radio France Internationale

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

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

Al Jazeera

‘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

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

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…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Times of India

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

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

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

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

Dynamite News

Taj Mahal: Boon for tourists; bane for residents of nearby villages

Taj Mahal is a great tourist attraction for visitors round the year but an obstruction in the routine life for the people of five nearby villages for Taj Mahal’s security reasons. An exclusive story on Dynamite News:

Benzinga

Elon Musk And Mom Get Nostalgic About India Visit And Seeing The Taj Mahal

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Monday recalled his visit to the Taj Mahal more than a decade ago, prompting his mother Maye Musk to share an interesting anecdote about his grandparents visiting India on th

The Times of India

UP: Taj Mahal entry to be free for 2 hours on Tuesday

AGRA: Entry to the Taj Mahal will be free for all visitors for two hours on Tuesday as local Muslims will offer a special namaz on Eid-ul-Fitr at the mosque inside the monument.

1 2 3

People

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Nasdaq

21,403 stories

Bharatiya Janata Party

Archaeological Survey of India

41 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.