The Diwali festival marks the victory of good over evil, and uplifting of spiritual darkness. Symbolically it marks the homecoming of goodwill and faith after an absence, as suggested by the Ramayana.

Here is wishing everyone a very happy Diwali and a prosperous New Year!

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Diwali News

• Goa blast case team’s investigative skills under cloud

  Panaji, Nov 21 (IANS) The chief of the Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the Diwali-eve blast in Goa has come under a cloud with a court picking holes in his crime investigation skills in a 2000 blast in Vasco allegedly carried out by Islamic militant outfit Deendar Anjuman (DA). District and Sessions judge Desmond D’Costa, [...]

• Congress discusses banning Sanatan Sanstha

  Panaji, Nov 20 (IANS) The Congress Friday discussed the issue of banning right-wing Hindu outfit Sanatan Sanstha, some of whose members have been arrested in connection with the Diwali-eve blast in Goa. Speaking to reporters after the Congress legislature party met at the chief minister’s residence, Congress legislator and deputy speaker of the Goa legislative assembly [...]

• Another Sanatan Sanstha member held in Goa blast case

  Panaji, Nov 18 (IANS) A self-defence instructor associated with the Sanatan Sanstha was Wednesday arrested for the Diwali-eve blast in Margao in which two members of the Hindu group were killed while carrying a bomb, police said. Superintendent of Police Atmaram Deshpande said Dilip Managaokar, 39, was involved in planting an improvised explosive device (IED) that [...]

• Calling Young Akshay

  Nikhil Advani’s team is having some trouble finding a boy to play the teenaged Akshay Kumar in his next film, Patiala House. They have now launched a nationwide hunt for a boy who will suit Akshay. The film stars Akshay Kumar and Anushka Sharma as the leads. The team in charge of the auditions for [...]

• White House celebrates Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary

  Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) After Diwali, the Obama White House for the first time celebrated Gurparab, Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary, with about 125 Sikh men in colourful turbans and women in traditional Punjabi dress. President Barack Obama himself was not present, but senior officials led by Christina M. Tchen, head of the White House office [...]

• Jharkhand tribes hold fashion show during annual Sohrai festival

  By Girija Shankar Ojha Karandih Village (Jharkhand), Nov.15 (ANI): Tribals in Karandih Village in Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur district recently celebrated the annual ‘Sohrai’ festival with much fanfare. It included a fashion show that attracted much attention, especially of the tribal youths here. This tribal festival is quite popular in Jharkhand as well as Orissa and is mainly [...]

• Sanatan Sanstha is threat to nation: Goa home minister

  Panaji, Nov 13 (IANS) The Hindu rightwing group Sanatan Sanstha, five of whose associates have been booked in connection with the Diwali-eve blast in Goa, is a threat to the entire nation, state Home Minister Ravi Naik said here Friday. “Their threat is not to Goa alone, but to entire Bharat,” Naik told a local news [...]

• Engineer held in Goa blast case

  Panaji, Nov 11 (IANS) The Goa police Wednesday arrested another right-wing Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha (SS) member, an electronic engineer, for the Diwali eve blast in Goa, officials said. The accused, Dhananjay Ashtekar, 20, is a Ratnagiri-based engineer, police claim, and worked in tandem with other SS associates who had planned to detonate gelatin sticks amidst [...]

• Princeton university to host Indian festival in chapel

  New York, Nov 6 (IANS) America’s prestigious Princeton University will host its official celebration of the Indian festival of Diwali at the university chapel Nov 14 as part of its recently created Hindu Life Programme. The Diwali celebration will be hosted by the university’s recently created Hindu Life Programme with Vineet Chander as a full-time coordinator. [...]

• Goa blast: Two policemen moved from probe team

  Panaji, Nov 4(IANS) Two policemen probing the Diwali eve bombing in Goa have been relieved of their duties, as opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Home Minister Ravi Naik of influencing the investigation in the Margao blast that killed two people last month. Police spokesperson Atmaram Deshpande Wednesday admitted that two constables who were part [...]

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