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India’s top 5 monuments were built by Muslim rulers
The Taj Mahal and four other monuments earned atleast 146.05 crore, which is more than half the total revenue generated by centrally-protected monuments, in 2017-18. Official data shows that India’s top five revenue-generating monuments were all built by Muslim rulers. These monuments are the Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Fort, Red Fort and Qutub Minar. Qutub Minar was built by rulers of the Delhi Sultanate, while the rest were constructed by the Mughals. These five monuments have earned the government 146.05 crore. The Taj Mahal has continued to be the highest earner at Rs 56.83 crore. There have been a few politicians that have sparked controversy in the last year, by claiming that the Mughal-era monument did not represent Indian culture. 64.58 thousand people visited the Taj Mahal in 2017-2018 compared to 2016 -17 which saw 50.66 thousand people visiting the monument. In 2017, the UP tourism department had omitted the Taj Mahal, which is a UNESCO world heritage site. The Argo Fort, which was built by Mughal emperor Akbar, has a total earning of Rs 30.55 crore and is the second highest revenue generator in the last financial year. The Konark Sun Temple in Odisha came in second after the Taj Mahal, as the Konark Sun Temple has 32.3 thousand visits and generates Rs 10.06 crore as revenue. Officials have said that the temple is mostly popular with Indian tourists, as 32.21 thousand people visited the temple in 2017. India tourists are charged Rs 30 per head for the entry fee to visit the world heritage monuments across the country. However foreign tourists have to pay Rs 500 each. “It is impossible to communalise the entire Indian population through the meaningless political venom spewed by politicians,” said historian S. Irfan Habib, explaining the increase in visitors to the Taj. “No matter what they say about the Taj Mahal and Red Fort, Indians will continue going there,” he added.
Russian cosmonauts score in space with Pakistan -made football
Taj Mahal: Agra
Fatehpur Sikri: AGRA
RED FORT: DEHLI
Agra Fort, AGRA
Qutub Minar, Delhi
Pakistani fans, who were happy to hear the news of footballs made in Sialkot being used during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, now, have another feat to celebrate. A recent video, released by Russian state space agency Roscosmos, shows two Russian cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev engaged in a makeshift game of football in space. Artemyev and Shkaplerov, both wearing official FIFA World Cup Russian 2018 t-shirts, will take one of the Sialkot-manufactured footballs to zero-gravity habitable artificial satellite – the International Space Station (ISS) and hold a match thousands of kilometres up in the sky. In the cosmic match, one of the two can be seen defending a goalpost made of Russian flag while the other kicks to score goals with the Adidas Telstar 18 footballs. The Adidas Telstar 18 footballs are manufactured in Sialkot, Pakistan, for the FIFA World Cup 2018. The company that manufactures the Adidas Telstar 18 footballs said that they had made ‘footballs for the German Bundesliga France Ligue and the Champions League’ as well. Khawaja Masood, the chairman of Forward Sports, had said: “This is an honour for us … that we are going to provide footballs for the world cup once again. We are very excited to meet this challenge.” The training session in the orbit around the Earth was staged in the honour of the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2018, which takes place in Russia. The ball will return to Earth alongside the crew on the Soyuz MC-07.
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