Mumbai, Oct 21 – Awaaz Foundation, a Mumbai NGO fighting against noise pollution, Thursday welcomed the Shiv Sena’s demand to stop mosques from using loudspeakers to give the call to prayer. ‘The Shiv Sena has at last supported my request for banning loudspeakers atop mosques, though it took some provocation to reach this point,’ said [...]
Bangalore, Oct 21 – Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will embark on a two-day tour of China Sunday to open the first Art of Living ashram in Beijing. This is the first ever visit by an Indian spiritual leader to China. Ravi Shankar will attend a public satsang at the ashram, co-organised by the [...]
Bangalore, Oct 21 – Art of Living founder Ravi Shankar will inaugurate his global organisation’s first China centre in Beijing Sunday. On his maiden two-day trip to China, Ravi Shankar will also conduct a spiritual gathering (satsang) at the centre, co-organised by the state-run Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Art of Living [...]
Amritsar, Oct 20 – Barack Obama’s proposed visit next month to this Sikh holy city is off his itinerary, but Sikh religious leaders here say that the doors of the shrine are open for the US president to visit anytime. ‘Though I have only heard through the media that he is not coming but we [...]
New Delhi, Oct 20 – The Supreme Court Wednesday adjourned hearing on a bail plea by Rabindra Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh who is undergoing life sentence for the 1999 killing of Christian missionary Graham Staines and his two children Philip and Timoti in Orissa. Staines and his two children were killed Jan 22, 1999, [...]
Ayodhya, Oct 20 – Rejecting the Ayodhya verdict of the Allahabad High Court, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Wednesday demanded not only the disputed 90 ft x 120 ft plot where the Babri Masjid once stood, but also the over 67 acres of land nearby acquired by the central government. ‘We are not ready to [...]
Amritsar, Oct 19 – US President Barack Obama’s proposed visit to the Golden Temple seems to have run into trouble over the issue of what headgear he would wear to enter the holiest Sikh shrine. However, Sikh religious leaders are optimistic the issue will be sorted out within this week and Obama’s visit will be [...]
Bangalore, Oct 19 – The country’s richest shrine at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh may get unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance as part of security enhancement plans for the temple which is visited by thousands of devotees daily, a temple official said Tuesday. A two kg, battery-operated surveillance UAV, designed and developed by a Bangalore-based firm, [...]
Panaji, Oct 19 – A Hindu right-wing group, whose members have been accused of the Margao blast at a function to slay demon Narakasura on Diwali eve last year, plans to launch a campaign against the ‘glorification’ of the mythical monster. ‘Our campaign is against glorification of Narakasur. We want that Lord Sri Krishna who [...]
Dehradun, Oct 18 – Popular Himalayan Hindu shrines in Uttarakhand will be closed for the winters next month, officials said Monday. The temple priests decided to close Kedarnath and Badrinath temples for the public Nov 7 and Nov 18. A decision in this regard was taken by the respective priests on Dussehra (Sunday) after consulting [...]
Mumbai, Oct 17 – Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray was his usual fiery self at the party’s annual Dussehra rally and took potshots at all and sundry in a 45-minute-long speech laced with witticism and criticism here Sunday night. Coming close behind Thackeray was son and party executive president Uddhav Thackeray, who set the tone [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 17 – An extremely tall Ravan effigy being consigned to the flames in a village in Haryana’s Ambala district and revolving effigies of Ravan and his kin in Punjab’s Bathinda town were the highlights of the Dussehra festival in the two states Sunday. The Ramlila committee in Bathinda town in south-west Punjab put [...]
Mysore, Oct 17 – The 10-day Dussehra festivities here culminated Sunday as thousands of people from across India and abroad witnessed its grand finale – the famed ‘Jamboo Savari’ or procession of caparisoned elephants. The four-km procession route in the city of palaces was lined by men, women and children to see the majestic tusker [...]
Kolkata, Oct 17 – Four days of revelry and merriment came to an end Sunday as idols of goddess Durga and her four children were immersed by teary-eyed devotees in ponds, lakes and rivers across West Bengal on Bijoya Dashami. The banks of the Ganga and other rivers wore a festive look, as puja organisers [...]
New Delhi, Oct 17 – From paper mache and natural dyes to arrowroot and terracotta, most of the capital’s Durga Puja committees used bio-degradable material for their Durga idols so that the Yamuna and other waterbodies were not choked after their immersion Sunday. Dashami, the last day of the puja, sees hundreds of clay idols [...]
Lucknow, Oct 17 – The decision of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) to take the Ayodhya battle to the Supreme Court has prompted one of the key Hindu parties, Nirmohi Akhara, to follow suit, almost ruling out any chance of an out-of-court settlement. ‘We have no choice but to move the Supreme [...]
Kolkata, Oct 17 – Ending four days of revelry and celebration, idols of goddess Durga and her children were immersed by teary-eyed devotees in ponds, lakes and rivers across West Bengal on Vijaya Dashami Sunday. Banks of the Ganga and other rivers wore a festive look, as puja organisers came in colourful processions to the [...]
Mysore, Oct 17 – The famed ‘Jamboo Savari’ or elephant procession of the 10-day Dasara festivities, which draws thousands of visitors to this cultural capital of Karnataka every year, got underway on Vijayadashami Sunday. Amid pomp and pageantry, the majestic tusker Balarama, standing tall at 2.7 metres and weighing around 4,900 kg, led the procession [...]
New Delhi, Oct 17 – Three of India’s top bureaucrats, all from Kerala, turned gurus for 134 children as they led them into the world of letters here Sunday on the occasion of ‘Vidyarambham’ – as Vijaydashami is celebrated by Keralites across the world. It was a ‘humbling experience’ for the trio – President Pratibha [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 17 – Thousands of tiny tots across Kerala were initiated into the world of letters Sunday at temples, institutions and even churches on Vijayadashami day, celebrated as Dussehra in north India. During the ceremony, known as ‘Vidyarambham’, academics, litterateurs, teachers and politicians hold the children’s hands and help them write Malayalam letters on [...]
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