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Colours of freedom! It's a Holi for widows in Vrindavan

Breaking the shackles of tradition, hundreds of widows played Holi with gulal and flowers in the land of Lord Krishna. Around 800 widows participated in the festivities in ashrams of Vrindavan in......

SC sets up panel for Vrindavan widows

Taking note of pitiable condition of widows in Virandavan of Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed a seven-member panel to collect data on their socio-economic conditions. A......

Krishna in jeans: Head priest sacked

The head priest of one of India's oldest and most widely acclaimed Krishna temple Banke Bihari Mandir at Vrindavan in Mathura has been fired for attiring Lord Krishna's deity in jeans and T- shirt......

Woman gang-raped, dumped in south Delhi

A 42-year-old woman was allegedly sedated and raped by three men in Uttar Pradesh who then dumped her in south-east Delhi, the police said on Thursday. The fresh case comes close on the heels of a......

Hindu-American Tulsi wins Democratic primary in Hawaii

Tulsi Gabbard, 31, a Hindu American, has won the Democratic Primary from the second Congressional District in Hawaii.Gabbard is set to create history becoming the first Hindu ever to be elected to......

This Janmashtami, hi-tech flute for Lord Krishna

The lyrical sound of the flute, often associated with Vrindavan, Lord Krishna and his numerous gopis, can also fill up auditoriums and big music halls without distorting its charming musical......

'Ajit Singh wants airport near his village'

Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has written a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav asking him to send a team of experts to Muthura to set up an international airport there, as......

Government ready for talks with Air India pilots

Ajit Singh, Minister for Civil Aviation has asked the striking pilots of Air India to restore the conditions before going on illegal strike in order to press for their demands.He told rediff.com......

Pledged shares haunt promoters

Pradeep Jain, chairman of Delhi-based Parsvnath Developers, must be a worried man. Share prices of his firm have halved in the past five sessions, wiping off Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.5 billion) of its......

Railways to start Bharat Teerth tourist trains

To promote tourism, Railways will be launching 16 special Bharat Teerth trains connecting popular tourist sites as also pilgrimage centres in different parts of the country. "The running of Bharat......

Scuffle between journos and Oprah's guards at Vrindavan

On her maiden trip to India, American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey's visit to the holy town of Vrindavan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, on January 19was marred when her bodyguards were involved in a......

Special: Excerpts from Mohammed Rafi's life

Iconic singer Mohammed Rafi would have been 88 today, had he been alive. On his birth anniversary on December 24, we present excerpts from the book written by his daughter-in-law Yasmin K......

'I'll wear a sari to the Oscars'

Unrecognisable in stiff short hair, a western pant-shirt-overshirt ensemble, Seema Biswas looks nothing like audiences are used to seeing her. She tells Sonia Chopraabout her award-winning......

Gautam Ghosh-Scapgnini tie-up

Bengali director Gautam Ghosh will soon direct the first Indo-Italian co-production based on the first novel of a well-known Italian producer Sergio Scapagnini. The film Story Of Lala will go on......

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Q. legend of pootana associated with Holi?
Sudhakar Kuruvada: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/legend-of-pootana-associated-with-holi/25301400/answers/

Q. Play of colours on the eve of Holi celebrations?
Sudhakar Kuruvada: A. pootana came to Vrindavan in an il intention to kill the child Krishna in a plea of breast feeding ....... but Lord Krishna took her life ............ more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/play-of-colours-on-the-eve-of-holi-celebrations/25301247/answers/25301433

Q. what is that atma..?why it leaves the body?
Harpreet: A. There is no tradition of holding puja and is meant for pure enjoyment.The tradition of playing colours is particularly rampant in north India and...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/what-is-that-atma..why-it-leaves-the-body/24100345/answers/25301262

Q. Kanha ko kanha kyon kahaa gayaa..? krishna ko krishna kyon kahaa gayaa?
Pooja Donawat: A. It is explained in the following verses from the Bhagavad Gita(2.22,2.13,2.20) that the soul passes on to another body at the time of death.However...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/kanha-ko-kanha-kyon-kahaa-gayaa..-krishna-ko-krishna-kyon-ka/23983829/answers/24100399

Q. Which is the most popular dance form in India?l
Anantharaman: A. Achala (): Baby Achyut (): Infallible Avyukta: Crystal clear one Banke Bihari ( ): corrupt form of Van Ke Vihari ( ) which means one who...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/which-is-the-most-popular-dance-form-in-indial/23828743/answers/23983923

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Rattled IPL chief Rajiv Shukla prays at Vrindavan temple

Mohan Shyam Sharma [ Updated 17 May 2013, 22:47:42 ] Mathura, UP, May 17: IPL commissioner Rajiv Shukla today offered prayers at the famous Banke... ...

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Tomorrow I will not be gifting my mother either flowers or a card. No spa treatment. No manicure-pedicure. Like all the other 364 days this year, I... ...

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SP plans to hold meet to woo Brahmin voters

LUCKNOW: In an apparent bid to woo Brahmins, Samajwadi Party will hold a "Brahmin sammelan" in the state capital on May 12. "This would be the... ...

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