T'puram: Israeli team visits Santhigiri Ashram

T'puram: Israeli team visits Santhigiri Ashram THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A twenty-member Israeli team including four children has visited Santhigiri ashram on Wednesday. For the elderly among the team, it was a nostalgic visit to the state as they were Malayalees by birth. It was 58 years back that these Jews had migrated to Israel along with their families as part of their decision to settle down in the promised land. Majority of them were visiting their birth place...
11:54 AM, Jan 27, 2012

Stampede in Haridwar leaves 16 people dead

Stampede in Haridwar leaves 16 people dead New Delhi: Sixteen devotees on Tuesday died in the holy town of Haridwar in a stampede that took place after a wooden gate at the entry to an Ashram collapsed. As many as 14 women lost their lives in the stampede during a ceremony attended by over five lakh people. The accident took place when the pilgrims tried to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Shanti Kunj Ashram to take...
08:29 PM, Nov 08, 2011

Gujarat Cong leader Vaghela breaks his fast

Gujarat Cong leader Vaghela breaks his fast New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's key rival, senior Congress leader Shankarsinh Vaghela broke his counter-fast on Tuesday. Leaders from the State Congress sat on a fast from Saturday to counter Modi's programme and to promote "non-violence". Vaghela launched his fast at Sabarmati Asharam on Saturday, which was more or less been low profile with senior Congress leaders abstaining from the event. They called Modi's agitation a five-star fast...
10:19 AM, Sep 20, 2011

Congress begins counter-fast, slams Modi

Congress begins counter-fast, slams Modi New Delhi: Gujarat Congress leaders Shankarsinh Vaghela and Arjun Modhvadia on Saturday began their fast as a counter to Chief Minister Narendra Modi's three-day fast, calling it a Satyagraha. "What is the need for Modi to spend taxpayers' money to hold a lavish fast? He could have held his fast at the CM's residence as well. The Modi government is corrupt, and is facing many corruption allegations," Modhwadia said. GPCC...
10:33 AM, Sep 17, 2011

Narendra Modi or Cong: Whose fast is better?

Narendra Modi or Cong: Whose fast is better? Ahmedabad: Unlike the hot and humid Ram Lila Maidan, the big, cool hall at the Gujarat convention centre is the spot where Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be sweating it out for three full days. Luxury seating arrangements and every other comfort that you can think of will be here. After all it is 'Gujarat's Lion' who is on a fast. And even before the lion could roar, the...
09:59 AM, Sep 16, 2011

Ramdev's aide Balkrishna goes 'missing'

Ramdev's aide Balkrishna goes 'missing' Dehradun: Yoga guru Ramdev's aide Balakrishna has gone 'missing' two days after the CBI had registered a case against him for allegedly furnishing fake educational degree for procuring a passport, police said on Tuesday. A missing persons report has been lodged in Kankhal police station in Haridwar on Monday night by Balakrishna's bodyguard Jayendra Singh Aswal. According to the report, Aswal reached Balkrishna's Divya Yog ashram residence to accompany him...
04:36 PM, Jul 26, 2011

Wife of Baba Amte passes away

Wife of Baba Amte passes away Nagpur: Sadhana Amte, wife of one of the country's most respected social leaders Baba Amte, died on Saturday at Anandwan ashram in Chandrapur district, family sources said. She was 85. She was not keeping well since the past one month, they said. She is survived by sons Dr Vikas and Dr Prakash Amte, a Magsaysay Award winner. Popularly known as Sadhana 'tai', she supported her husband actively when he started...
08:25 PM, Jul 09, 2011

Maha CID to investigate theft of Gandhi's glasses

Maha CID to investigate theft of Gandhi's glasses Nagpur: Maharashtra CID will probe the disappearance of Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles from Sevagram Ashram in Wardha district, police said on Tuesday. Chief Minister Prithiviraj Chavan had on Monday night said that Additional Secretary (Home) would conduct a probe into the issue but finally the state CID has been entrusted with the job, they said. The round specs, kept in a glass covered box along with other personal belongings of the...
10:11 PM, Jun 14, 2011

Why did 36-year-old Nigamanand have to die?

Why did 36-year-old Nigamanand have to die? New Delhi: In his lifetime, Nigamanand, an ascetic fighting a lonely battle against quarrying activities in Uttarakhand, tried to draw the attention of the national media to an environmental disaster waiting to happen in the state. In his death, the 36-year-old Sadhu, who went into a coma and died on Wednesday following his four-month-long fast in the same hospital at Dehra Dun where Ramdev was admitted, has forced civil society,...
04:09 PM, Jun 14, 2011

Gandhi's glasses missing from Wardha ashram

Gandhi's glasses missing from Wardha ashram Wardha (Maharashtra): Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles have reportedly gone missing from the Sevagram Ashram in Wardha, Maharashtra. The incident reportedly took place in February 2011 but only came to light on June 13, 2011. The Ashram employees, however, are neither confirming nor denying the incident. They only confirmed that the other Gandhi articles in the Ashram's possession are safe. Mahatma Gandhi came to Wardha in 1936 and settled at the Ashram,...
12:04 PM, Jun 13, 2011

Ramdev's yoga ashram, aide in legal trouble

Ramdev's yoga ashram, aide in legal trouble New Delhi: After the midnight police crackdown on his Satyagraha camp at Ramlila Ground in New Delhi, there's more trouble for Baba Ramdev. The ownership of the land, on which his Yoga ashram in Haridwar is located, is being contested in court. The plot originally belonged to Udaseen Akhada which is represented by Mahant Rajendra Das and as per the norm cannot be sold, registered, transferred to anyone else. After...
12:00 PM, Jun 06, 2011

Ramdev's yoga ashram, aide in legal trouble

Ramdev's yoga ashram, aide in legal trouble New Delhi: After the midnight police crackdown on his Satyagraha camp at Ramlila Ground in New Delhi, there's more trouble for Baba Ramdev. The ownership of the land, on which his Yoga ashram in Haridwar is located, is being contested in court. The plot originally belonged to Udaseen Akhada which is represented by Mahant Rajendra Das and as per the norm cannot be sold, registered, transferred to anyone else. After...
12:00 PM, Jun 06, 2011

Nation pays homage to Mahatma on Martyrs' Day

Nation pays homage to Mahatma on Martyrs' Day New Delhi: India on Sunday paid homage to the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi with prayer meetings and floral tributes on his 63rd death anniversary observed as Martyrs' Day. It was on January 30, 1948 that Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi. The day commenced with 2-minute's silence at 11 am, followed by prayer meetings at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Hundreds of students chanted devotional songs...
12:23 PM, Jan 30, 2011

Jolie-Pitt Hindu wedding tickles Canada

Jolie-Pitt Hindu wedding tickles Canada   Toronto: The reported decision by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to have a Hindu wedding in an ashram in Rajasthan next year to formalize their live-in relationship has drawn curious reaction from the Canadian media and readers. Isn't Hollywood's hottest couple, like other celebrities, trying to appropriating Hindu culture to make their wedding look glamourous? asks the Globe and Mail in its lifestyle section. "Actually, it all makes sense,'' it...
03:07 PM, Dec 17, 2010
Villages kids hardly know who Mahatma is

Villages kids hardly know who Mahatma is

The Mahatma used to say "the heart of a nation lies in its villages". CNN-IBN travels to a village to find out how villages are doing. ...
04:43 PM, Oct 02, 2010
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