Jammu: A large number of Amarnath pilgrims who assembled in Jammu on Sunday to leave for the cave shrine in Kashmir courted arrest after the state administration did not allow them to start the pilgrimage before the scheduled date. Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) has fixed June 25 the date to commence the religious journey and it will conclude on August 2. Around 600 yatris from across the country assembled...
02:59 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader Uma Bharti is expected to lead a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)-sponsored, parallel Amarnath pilgrimage from Jammu on Sunday. The leader has been demanding that the Amarnath Yatra be allowed for two months. The Jammu and Kashmir government has allowed the yatra, which begins on June 15, to proceed for 37 days. ...
11:28 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Literature, the soul of cultural exchange, is giving conventional diplomacy a run for its space in South Asia with the mushrooming literary festivals that are provoking, discussing and building new bridges across cultures. Five major literature festivals - the Jaipur Literature Festival, Mountain Echoes in Bhutan, the Kathmandu Literary Yatra, the Galle Literary Festival in Sri lanka and the Karachi Literature Festival - which have been showcasing literature...
10:45 AM, May 28, 2012
Jagan Mohan Reddy was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula village of Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh, to former state chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and Vijaya Lakshmi. He has a sibling - his sister Sharmila. Like his other family members, Jagan is a Protestant Christian. After having early schooling in the Pulivendula village, Jagan was enrolled in Hyderabad Public School. Jagan's plunge into politics came in 2004 when he...
10:08 AM, May 28, 2012
Kolhapur: At least three people were killed and three others injured during a stampede at a religious procession in Chandgarh in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. The stampede took place on Wednesday during the rath yatra at the Lakshmi Devi temple. The victims came under the rath after its wheel came undone and were crushed to death. The crowd walking behind the rath surged ahead leading to the stampede. The...
02:28 PM, May 23, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 'Seva Yatra' was attacked in Buxar. A few locals threw stones at one of the cars in the Chief Minister's cavalcade. Reports say the locals were angry over frequent power cuts and water shortage. The windshield of the car was smashed. Nitish Kumar escaped unhurt from the attack. No arrests have been made in connection with the attack yet. ...
10:35 AM, May 23, 2012
Jaipur: In continued bickerings in Rajasthan BJP, in-house critics of the leader of the opposition Vasundhara Raje on Monday hit back at her camp demanding action against the MLAs who had offered to resign in solidarity with her threat to quit the party during the standoff with party veteran Gulabchand Kataria. On the other hand, Raje appeared to have piped down as she issued an appeal to her supporters in...
02:53 AM, May 08, 2012
Srinagar: The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) on Monday said 100 post offices across the country would register devotees for the annual pilgrimage this year. The post offices are located in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and Gujarat, an SASB spokesman said. The list of all the 100 post offices was available on the website of the Board, he said. The post offices would start registering pilgrims from...
04:39 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) started the registration for the annual pilgrimage to the cave shrine devoted to Lord Shiva on Monday. The annual pilgrimage is scheduled to start on June 25, but the registration process across the country started much earlier to enable the state administration to make suitable arrangements for the pilgrims. The pilgrimage will end with Raksha Bandhan on Aug 2. The process of...
10:52 AM, May 07, 2012
Jaipur: In Rajasthan, the rift in the BJP's state unit is out in the open. The party high command summoned former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to Delhi, after she threatened to quit over another leader's proposed yatra. "I will quit the party if Kataria goes ahead with his yatra," Vasundhara said. Vasundhara had threatened to leave the BJP objecting to RSS backed leader Gulabchand Kataria's proposed "Lok Jagran Yatra" in...
09:30 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: In Rajasthan, the rift in the BJP's state unit is out in the open. Forty-two MLAs supporting Opposition Leader Vasundhara Raje have offered to quit. This after a very dramatic party meeting on Saturday night where leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje threatened to quit. Raje has been summoned to Delhi by the party high command on the emerging political crisis. Raje made the...
03:10 PM, May 06, 2012
Vasundhara Raje has threatened to quit the party over objection to senior party leader Gulab Chand Kataria's proposed Lok Jagran Yatra. ...
08:22 AM, May 06, 2012
Jaipur: In dramatic developments reflecting intense feud in Rajasthan BJP, Leader of the Opposition Vasundhara Raje on Saturday threatened to quit the party objecting to a political campaign proposed by senior party leader Gulabchand Kataria who later decided to give up the move. At a meeting of the state party core committee, Raje said she would resign from the party's membership if Kataria did not withdraw his decision to take...
12:58 AM, May 06, 2012
Hundreds of babies were tossed by a temple priest from on top of a chariot and caught by waiting crowds. ...
06:45 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood star Salman Khan has turned into a businessman - he has invested in the online travel portal Yatra.com and will also be the face of its new marketing campaign in India and the US. The association will strengthen the company's connect with the masses and increase the brand's recall value in tier-II and III towns, said a press statement. Salman is looking forward to the venture. "I am...
04:42 PM, Mar 28, 2012
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