Major Adhikari was a man par excellence and had won our hearts. His supreme sacrifice for the nation shook us till the roots. A fascinating excerpt from Param Vir Chakra Captain (Honorary) Yogendra Singh Yadav's book, The Hero of Tiger Hill.
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Dedicated to Goddess Parvati, the festival of Teej is celebrated differently in Nepal and in the various states of India. Here's a quick look at some of them:
Mahant Deependra Giri, the custodian of the holy mace, accompanied by over 100 'sadhus' reached the shrine with the Charri Mubarak this morning, Shri Amarnath Shrine Board officials said.
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In over 47 years as a journalist in Delhi I have never seen a Union Cabinet that is scared of the CBI, it has always been the other way. But whether by happenstance or through deliberate design, the CBI now has the Manmohan Singh ministry at its mercy, reveals T V R Shenoy.
The Trimbakeshwar Temple authorities have gone back on their April 3 resolution wherein they decided to ban entry of men too into the core worship area at the famous Lord Shiva shrine in Nashik.
To mark the festival of Maha Shivratri, here's a list of temples dedicated to Lord Siva in various parts of the world.
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Shri Amarnath Shrine Board Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Naveen Choudhary on Saturday said, "from 7th May on wards, the interested Yatris can reserve their heli-seats for Amarnath yatra through the web based on-line Reservation System by logging on to the Shrine Board's website".
Katiyar, however, made it clear that a final decision on these contentious matters will be taken by saints.
The film has some strong perfromances from Indrajith and the supporting cast.
The annual Thrissur Pooram, billed as the mother of all temple festivals in Kerala, will not be held this year in the wake of the nationwide lockdown, the Kerala government said on Wednesday. The iconic festival, known for the parade of richly caparisoned jumbos, performance of traditional music ensembles and a sea of cheering people, was to be held at the sprawling Thekkinkadu Maidan in Thrissur city on May 2 this year.
At least 12 pilgrims, five of them women, were killed and 22 others injured when a speeding container ran over them on the New Delhi-Kolkata NH 2 in Bihar's Aurangabad district early on Tuesday
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'He also granted the temple freedom from all taxes and decreed that no one could litigate against it ever.'
The film is directed by the superstar's daughter Soundarya R Ashwin.
he one-and-a-half-month-long Kumbh Mela ended on Monday with devotees from different walks of life and parts of the country taking a holy dip on Mahashivratri.
The 45-day annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Himalayan shrine of Amarnath ended on Saturday after the traditional puja inside the shrine. The Shravan Purnima, which coincides with Raksha Bandhan festival, witnessed religious fervour with the arrival at the cave shrine situated at a height of 3,880 metres after a night halt at Panjtarni.
The expelled BJP leader can be spotted posing happily for a picture with four others at the backdrop of a Lord Shiva temple in Deogarh in Jharkhand.
As many as 13 people, including a jawan of the Government Railway Police, were injured when armed robbers opened fire and beat the passengers of an express train with rifle butts near Bhalui halt in Bihar early on Friday morning. The robbers also looted cash and other valuables, worth Rs 2 lakh, from the passengers traveling on the Sealdah-New Delhi Lal Quila Express, Railway officials said. The condition of the jawan, who received a bullet injury, is said to be critical.
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In the wake of guidelines to check the spread of coronavirus, only a few family members of the victims are being allowed to attend their last rites. At such a difficult time, the sanitation workers are helping these families by performing the last rites of the deceased.
Earlier, women would not enter the cave as Baba Balaknath believed to be an incarnation of Kartikeya, elder son of lord Shiva is considered to be a bachelor and women used to offer worship at a platform few metres away from the cave.
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The policemen, most of whom are deployed on daily shifts, were sitting on wooden beds under a Neem tree, watching a steady stream of mediapersons arriving with a variety of questions.
Filmmaker SS Rajamouli's magnum opus Bahubali is set to release on July 10.
Devotees were not allowed to enter inside the temple premises when Modi was offering prayers.
The issue of pilgrimages to the Amarnath and Vaishnodevi shrines, both located in Jammu and Kashmir, was discussed at a high-level meeting attended by Union ministers G Kishan Reddy and Jitendra Singh and senior officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Jammu and Kashmir administration. The Amarnath Yatra is likely to commence on July 21.
BJP leader Vinay Katiyar said like a Shiva temple, water drips from the ceiling in the Taj Mahal.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a roadshow in Vadnagar, his birthplace, in Mehsana district as he arrived on the second day of his visit to Gujarat
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Tharoor claimed that this quote of the unnamed RSS source was quoted in a news article that he had read some years ago.
President offers prayers at Somnath temple
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Abhishek Bachchan along with his actress wife Aishwarya Rai and mother Jaya Bachchan visited the Kedarnath shrine and offered prayers to Lord Shiva in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand on Friday.
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