Pune/Nashik, March 7 (IANS) Moving swiftly to avoid a possible confrontation, Maharashtra Police on Monday evening detained over 100 women activists planning to storm the sanctum sanctorum of the renowned Trimbakeshwar Temple in Nashik district,…
President Pranab Mukherjee. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will not attend the World Culture Festival to be organised by spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living foundation,…
Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) A 700-year-old tradition was broken at the famous Mankameshwar temple here on Monday when water from the Gomti river was used for ‘jal abhishek’ on Mahashivratri to spread the message of…
Bhopal, March 7 (IANS) The annual festival of Mahashivratri, a special day of reverence for Lord Shiva, is being celebrated on Monday across Madhya Pradesh with faith and fervour. Outside all Shiva temples, there were…
Pune, March 7 (IANS) About 200 members of women’s organisation Bhumata Ranragini Brigade (BRB) here on Monday left for Nashik city and resolved to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Trimbakeshwar Shiva temple, officials said….
Mandi, March 7 (IANS) Deities from hundreds of village temples started assembling in this historical town of Himachal for the week-long Mahashivratri festival that began on Monday, organisers said. “A total of 216 deities have…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday extended his greetings to the people on Maha Shivratri. “Maha Shivratri greetings to everyone,” Modi tweeted. Maha Shivratri, celebrated annually in reverence of Lord…
Chandigarh, March 7 (IANS) Thousands of people offered prayers at various temples across Punjab and Haryana on Monday to mark Maha Shivratri amid tight security arrangements. In view of intelligence reports of the possibility of…
Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh was put on high alert on the occasion of Shivratri, following inputs from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) on the possibility of terror attacks at temples and religious places, an…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 6 (IANS) The Indian government will shift, out of Yemen, the Indian mother superior of an aid home in Aden where four nuns including were killed and an Indian priest kidnapped in an…
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo: IANS) Thiruvananthapuram, March 5 (IANS) There is no trace of the Catholic priest from Kerala, taken away by unidentified gunmen following Friday’s attack on a care home for…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 5 (IANS) There is no news of the Catholic priest from Kerala who was taken away by unidentified gunmen following Friday’s attack on a care home of the elderly in Yemen’s Aden, run…
Kolkata/Aden, March 4 (IANS) Four nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, including one from India, were killed by unidentified gunmen at a care home for the elderly in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, a…
Kolkata/Aden, March 4 (IANS) Four nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, including one from India, were killed by unidentified gunmen at a care home for the elderly in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, a…
Aden/Kolkata/Thiruvananthapuram, March 4 (IANS) Four nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, including one from India, were killed by unidentified gunmen at a care home for the elderly in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, a…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Friday united against the BJP-led government for its stand on the minority institution-character of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Almost all opposition members were…
Washington, March 4 (IANS) The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan body that monitors religious freedom abroad, has expressed disappointment at the denial of visas for what it said was a long…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Hindu Ezhava leader Vellapalli Natesan’s Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS) on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of the coming assembly elections in Kerala. Union…
Pope Francis waves upon his arrival to Cathedral in Santiago, Cuba, 22 September 2015. Pope Francis’s first visit to Cuba ended with a mass in Santiago. The pope delivered the last sermon of his Cuban…
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Feb 24, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Congress vice president on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on…