No physical offerings such as 'prasad' distribution or sprinkling of holy water will be allowed inside the religious place.
Love was certainly in the air as Bollywood wives celebrated Karva Chauth over the weekend.
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Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit hosted a wedding reception for his daughter Shaarika and son-in-law Tapas in Mumbai over the weekend.
Guests trouped out of Arpita Khan's party and into Mukesh Ambani's, on the other side of Mumbai.
See who came to congratulate the newlyweds.
Kannada actress Rukmini Vijayakumar played superstar Rajinikanth's sister in Kochadaiyaan.
The film is directed by superstar's daughter Soundarya R Ashwin.
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In his letter to Modi, the Rajya Sabha MP, whose party is a key ally in the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government, said he was pained by the erosion of standards of conduct by the high Constitutional office of the Honourable Governor.
A 14-year-old boy was beaten to death by a group of people in the heart of Guwahati on Friday night after he was allegedly caught breaking into a paan shop with another eight-year-old boy.
Five more devotees died en route the Amarnath shrine pushing the toll since the commencement of the annual yatra to 47 even as the number of pilgrims paying obeisance at the cave temple crossed the 3-lakh mark on Sunday.
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The Kannada film is an average entertainer with a rather tame ending.
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The government had issued standard operating procedures for devotees and officials managing places of worship to ensure strict implement of coronavirus-related protocols and curb spread of the infection.
Baadshah Pehlwaan comes out as a film is not only as a thorough entertainer but also a thought-provoker, feels Prasanna D Zore.
Himesh Reshammiya's maiden attempt at Tamil music fails to impress.
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Krishnamurthy said that on the day of the blasts, Maharashtra FSL officials and the police collected samples from different incident sites and analysed them in the train car-shed before they were brought to the lab on Wednesday.
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With focus on 'Mission 150' for the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday expressed confidence that the traditional 'puja' at Pandharpur next year would be performed by a chief minister from the Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance.
'But you have to keep in mind the entertainment value. It can't be preachy.'
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'We often celebrate scholastic excellence while ignoring the majority of students who aren't there yet,' Pratham CEO Rukmini Banerji tells Geetanjali Krishna. 'It's time we celebrated the bottom.'
Bollywood has been giving their daughters a lot of love on Daughter's Day.
Besides their terrific acting talent, of course!
The search for the missing Malaysian airliner under India's 'Operation Searchlight' has been expended to the Bay of Bengal area 900km west of Port Blair by the navy, the defence ministry said on Friday.
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