Rameswaram
Pilgrimage centre and a town in Tamil Nadu, India
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Rameswaram is a municipality in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Mannar Island, Sri Lanka. It is in the Gulf of Mannar, at the tip of the Indian peninsula. Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, is connected to mainland India by the Pamban Bridge. Rameswaram is the terminus of the railway line from Chennai and Madurai. Together with Varanasi, it is considered to be one of the holiest places in India to Hindus and is part of the Char Dham pilgrimage.
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DMK complains against Shobha Karandlaje for blaming Tamilians for Rameshwaram cafe blastTamil Nadu CM MK Stalin also reacted to the BJP leader's remarks, calling it a 'reckless statement' and said that such assertions could only be made by someone with direct involvement or detailed..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Rameshwaram cafe blast: NIA releases fresh CCTV footage of suspect, seeks help from public in...The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the premier anti-terror probe agency in the country, on Saturday released two videos and pictures of the suspect in Rameshwaram cafe blast case, seeking the..DNA - Published | |
PM Modi wraps up 11-day rituals, trips to temples ahead of consecrationPM Modi concludes 11-day temple visits before Ayodhya consecration. He offered prayers at Kothandaramaswamy temple in Rameswaram, where Vibhishana sought refuge after the Lanka war. Heavy security in..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Ahead of Ayodhya event, PM Modi visits Tamil Nadu temple linked to RamPrime Minister Narendra Modi prayed and bathed at Sri Ramanathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram. He also visited Sri Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam. Modi listened to Kamba Ramayana Parayanam and took a..IndiaTimes - Published | |
PM Modi takes holy dip in 'Agni theerth' beach; prays in TN templesExtending his visits to temples in the south with a Ramayana connect, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday worshipped in the Sri Ranganathaswamy and Ramanathaswamy temples in Tamil Nadu and took a..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Tamil Nadu: 12 fishermen reach Chennai after being released by Sri LankaTwelve Indian fishermen, released from Sri Lankan jail, reached Chennai on Friday. Another group of 15 fishermen arrived in Rameshwaram on Thursday after their release. In total, 64 fishermen from..IndiaTimes - Published | |
22 Tamil Nadu fishermen released by Sri Lankan authorityAs many as 22 fishermen from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, who were apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy who had strayed into international waters, have been released and they arrived in Pampan through..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Cyclone Hamoon makes landfall in coastal Bangladesh, 'storm warning cage number 2' mounted at Rameswaram's Pamban PortOn Tuesday a 'storm warning cage number 2' was mounted at Pamban Port in Rameswaram to warn fishermen about the Severe Cyclonic Storm 'Hamoon' over the Bay of Bengal, port officials.DNA - Published | |
Amit Shah in Rameswaram, says PM Modi fulfilled APJ Abdul Kalam's dreamsIndiaTimes - Published | Amit Shah flags off Tamil Nadu BJP yatra, slams 'INDIA'The Union home minsister addressed a huge rally in the temple town of Rameswaram, in Ramanathapuram, before flagging off Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai's five-month-long "Enn Mann, Enn Makkal (My..IndiaTimes - Published |
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19 more flee Lanka for Tamil Nadu, total arrivals in Rameswaram hit 39IndiaTimes - Published | Amid Sri Lanka economic crisis, family of four sails to Tamil Nadu's RameswaramThe family sailed to the shore in Tamil Nadu on a fibre boat on Thursday after they started sailing from the Jaffna coast in the north of Sri Lanka.DNA - Published |
Sri Lankan economic crisis: Six refugees arrive in Tamil Nadu’s RameswaramIndiaTimes - Published | |
