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  Modi to plant sapling of Bodhi tree in Nepal

  Politics | November 22, 2014 12:20 IST

  Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will plant a sapling of Bodh Gaya's sacred Bodhi tree in Lumbini during his visit to Nepal next week, an official said Saturday."The Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee (BTMC) has

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  'Bodhi' trees gets a place in Vietnam's Presidential palace

  World | September 15, 2014 17:07 IST

  Hanoi: A second sapling of the revered ‘Bodhi' tree from Gaya in Bihar was today planted in Vietnam's Presidential palace by President Pranab Mukherjee, 55 years after India gifted the first offshoot of the holy

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  President Pranab Mukherjee to gift Bodhi Tree sapling to Vietnam

  India | September 08, 2014 13:11 IST

  Patna: President Pranab Mukherjee will gift "a sapling" of the sacred Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya to Vietnam during his visit to that country, a temple official said on Monday."BMTC has sent a sapling of

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  Branch of historical 'Bodhi tree' falls in Sarnath

  India | June 21, 2014 23:21 IST

  Varanasi: One of the branches of the historical ‘Bodhi tree' in Sarnath, where Gautama Buddha had given his first sermon and set in motion the ‘Dharma-Chakra', has fallen.According to Ven-Baddegama Nanda Thero, Assistant Bhikku in-charge

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  Third live bomb defused in Gaya

  India | July 07, 2013 18:22 IST

  Gaya, July 7: A third bomb was recovered on Sunday from a village near Bodh Gaya hours after serial blasts rocked the temple town in Bihar's Gaya district in which two monks sustained injuries, police