Sri Lanka, India discuss travel advisory
September 13th, 2012 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Sep 13 (IANS) Sri Lanka is holding discussions with India to lift a travel advisory issued after 184 Sri Lankan pilgrims were attacked in Tamil Nadu, a government spokesman ... Read more...
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Vaishno Devi pilgrimage resumes after forest fire (Lead)
June 23rd, 2012 - 12:41 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, June 23 (IANS) Pilgrimage to the Hindu shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi near Jammu resumed Saturday morning after it was suspended due to a forest fire.The fire broke out ... Read more...
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Valid passports must for Indian Haj pilgrimage from 2012
May 22nd, 2012 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) The government has brought about changes in the Haj pilgrimage programme and a key one is that all pilgrims must have a valid passport, External ... Read more...
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Manto, a forgotten man in his Punjab village
May 9th, 2012 - 1:57 pm ICT by IANS
Paproudi (Punjab), May 9 (IANS) Except for the Manto Yaadgari library, which too was set up only last year and has only two to three books by him, legendary writer ... Read more...
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Apex court observations on Haj subsidy (Lead, superseding earlier story)
May 9th, 2012 - 1:38 am ICT by IANS
Key elements of the Supreme Court order Tuesday on removing the Haj subsidy in the next 10 years:* Economics of the pilgrimage - "This court has no claim to speak on ... Read more...
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Remove Haj subsidy in 10 years, SC tells government (Third Lead)
May 8th, 2012 - 10:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday favoured doing away with the Haj subsidy and directed the government to eliminate the financial sops extended to pilgrims in ... Read more...
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Apex court observations on Haj subsidy
May 8th, 2012 - 9:36 pm ICT by IANS
Key elements of the Supreme Court order Tuesday on removing the Haj subsidy in the next 10 years:* Economics of the pilgrimage - "This court has no claim to speak on ... Read more...
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India pays Rs.600 crore as Haj subsidy annually
May 8th, 2012 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) India provides subsidy to over a lakh pilgrims who go to Makkah and Madina annually and spends over Rs.600 crore ($120 million) every year on ... Read more...
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Italian group seeks ban on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’
March 15th, 2012 - 12:17 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, March 15 (IANS/AKI) Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" -- an epic poem about travels through hell and heaven -- was racist and against Islam and should be banned from schools ... Read more...
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Case against Modi should be closed: BJP
February 11th, 2012 - 8:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) With the special investigation team (SIT) submitting its final report to a Gujarat court on Chief Minister Narendra Modi's role in the 2002 communal ... Read more...
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Tourism can boost Kashmir’s economic development: Omar
December 31st, 2011 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
Jammu, Dec 30 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday related economic welfare of the state to the development of tourism, asserting that boost to tourism would create ... Read more...
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Record 10 million pilgrims visit Vaishno Devi shrine (Lead)
December 29th, 2011 - 12:50 am ICT by IANS
Jammu, Dec 28 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday hailed all those who made it to the Vaishno Devi Shrine, with 10 million pilgrims offering prayers there ... Read more...
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Vaishno Devi shrine has record 10 million pilgrims
December 28th, 2011 - 7:01 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Dec 28 (IANS) The popular pilgrimage to the Vaishnodevi shrine set a new record on Wednesday when it crossed the 10 million mark of visitors, a first in ... Read more...
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Two killed, 15 wounded in Iraq attacks
December 20th, 2011 - 5:17 am ICT by IANS
Baghdad, Dec 20 (IANS) At least two people were killed and 15 wounded in separate bomb attacks in central Iraq Monday, the police said.In Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, ... Read more...
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First flight of Haj pilgrims arrives in Srinagar
November 30th, 2011 - 4:01 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Nov 30 (IANS) The first flight of pilgrims who performed the holiest Muslim pilgrimage of Haj this year reached here Wednesday.Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah received the ... Read more...
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Sabarimala: Pilgrims discover Q-coupon booking virtues
November 19th, 2011 - 4:04 pm ICT by IANS
Sabarimala, Nov 19 (IANS) Every year, Krishna Kumar used to spend a minimum of five hours in the queue to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the Sabarimala temple here. But ... Read more...
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Sai Baba devotees celebrate Avataar declaration day
October 20th, 2011 - 3:32 pm ICT by IANS
Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh), Oct 20 (IANS) Avataar declaration day, the first after spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba's demise, was celebrated Thursday with prayers in this Andhra Pradesh pilgrim town.Special prayers ... Read more...
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19 Indian Haj pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia
October 15th, 2011 - 11:10 pm ICT by IANS
Jeddah, Oct 15 (IANS) Ninteen Indian pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia while undertaking the annual Haj pilgrimage, an official statement said Saturday.A total of 61,847 pilgrims have arrived from ... Read more...
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16 Indian Haj pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia
October 14th, 2011 - 7:54 pm ICT by IANS
Jeddah, Oct 14 (IANS) Sixteen Indian pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia while undertaking the annual Haj pilgrimage, an official statement said Friday.Also, the first child birth for an Indian ... Read more...
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Two killed in Maharashtra road accident
August 13th, 2011 - 8:34 pm ICT by IANS
Aurangabad (Maharashtra), Aug 13 (IANS) Two people, including a pilgrim, were killed Saturday as a mini-truck ran into pilgrims walking towards the famous Lord Vithoba temple at Pandharpur in Maharashtra's ... Read more...
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Indian tourists duped, assaulted in Nepal
August 2nd, 2011 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 2 (IANS) When Sunil Gautam, a resident of Patna in India's Bihar state, went on a visit to Nepal's pilgrim city Janakpur across the border, he had no ... Read more...
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Al Qaeda threat to Kerala shrines, Jayalalithaa?
July 27th, 2011 - 4:04 pm ICT by IANS
Guruvayoor (Kerala), July 27 (IANS) A letter posted from Chennai to this pilgrim town Wednesday warned of a bomb attack by the Al Qaida on two of Kerala's most ... Read more...
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Sai trust member quizzed by police for five hours (Second Lead)
June 25th, 2011 - 11:51 pm ICT by IANS
Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh), June 25 (IANS) Police in this pilgrim town in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district Saturday questioned Sathya Sai Central Trust member R.J. Ratnakar for over five hours over ... Read more...
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Ratan Tata’s visit to Puttaparthi personal
June 18th, 2011 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, June 18 (IANS) Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata's visit to Puttaparthi Friday was purely personal to pay his respects to Sathya Sai Baba and he did not attend any ... Read more...
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One pilgrim killed as bus overturns in Punjab
June 17th, 2011 - 5:02 pm ICT by IANS
Anandpur Sahib (Punjab), June 17 (IANS) A woman was killed and a man was critically injured when a bus carrying pilgrims overturned near this Punjab town Friday, police said.At least ... Read more...
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Trust decides to open Sathya Sai Baba’s personal chamber
June 14th, 2011 - 10:49 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, June 14 (IANS) Nearly two months after the demise of spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba, the trust managing his empire Tuesday decided to open Yajur Mandir, his personal chamber ... Read more...
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Fast hasn’t ended, they wanted to kill me: Ramdev
June 5th, 2011 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANS
Hardwar, June 5 (IANS) A visibly emotional Baba Ramdev Sunday accused the central government of betraying him and trying to kill him. Upon reaching his ashram in this pilgrim ... Read more...
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Rs.10 lakh robbery in Maharashtra bank
May 6th, 2011 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, May 6 (IANS) Four people Friday siphoned off Rs.10 lakh from the cash box of a Bank of India branch in the pilgrim town of Pandharpur in Maharashtra's Solapur ... Read more...
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Sathya Sai Trust defers selection of new chairman
May 1st, 2011 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, May 1 (IANS) The Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust has postponed the selection of its chairman to next week, apparently due to lack of unanimity among trustees.The trust Sunday ... Read more...
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Write god’s name 125,000 times to repay this ‘loan’
April 30th, 2011 - 10:11 am ICT by IANS
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), April 30 (IANS) In the eight decades of its existence, over 100,000 people have opened accounts here. Ram Ramapati Bank in this popular pilgrim city is a ... Read more...
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Six special trains, buses to be run for Puttaparthi
April 25th, 2011 - 4:02 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, April 25 (IANS) Six special trains and a large number of buses are being run from different parts of Andhra Pradesh and also from the cities of Bangalore and ... Read more...
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Varanasi is Anna’s launch pad for spreading movement
April 25th, 2011 - 2:49 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, April 25 (IANS) The pilgrim city of Varanasi will be the launch pad for a nationwide expansion of social activist Anna Hazare's battle against corruption. He arrives Friday for ... Read more...
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Devotees begin last ‘darshan’ of Sai Baba
April 24th, 2011 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh), April 24 (IANS) Thousands lined up at Prashanti Nilayam in this pilgrim town for a last 'darshan' of spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba, who died Sunday.The devotees, ... Read more...
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Azad, Abdullah condole death of Sathya Sai Baba
April 24th, 2011 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, April 24 (IANS) Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Sunday condoled the death of spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba, describing ... Read more...
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Andhra governor, CM pay last respects to Sathya Sai Baba
April 24th, 2011 - 4:50 pm ICT by IANS
Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh), April 24 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and his cabinet colleagues Sunday paid their last respects to spiritual leader Sathya ... Read more...
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