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New Delhi, Mar 20 ANI): Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday greeted the people of the country on the occasion of Navroz, the Parsi New Year.
Dr Singh said the festival brings values of peace and religious harmony in India, adding that the festival is also a living symbol of the rich diversity and the [...]

London, March 20 (ANI): A sceptic challenged an Indian tantric to kill him live on television, after the guru proclaimed that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers.
Sanal Edamaruku, self-appointed sceptic-in-chief of Indian Rationalists’ Association, demanded Pandit Surender Sharma to exterminate him.
Both men were invited to a talk show for the challenge.
The [...]

Washington, March 10 (ANI): People’s beliefs about how God is directly involved in their personal life and well-being have become the subject of a new research.
Sociology Professor Scott Schieman, University of Toronto, who based his study on data from two recent national surveys of Americans, found new patterns about these beliefs and the ways they [...]

Kolkata/Allahabad, Sept 18 (ANI): Scores of people gathered in Kolkata and Allahabad on Friday to take a holy dip, or ‘Tarpan’, in the Ganges, on the last day of the ‘Pitrapaksha Mela’.

The ‘Pitrapaksha Mela’ is held annually in September. Hindus pray for the salvation of their ancestors on the ocassion.

The ritual is [...]

Gaya (Bihar), Sep 11(ANI): Tomoko Lee, a Japanese national, offered ‘Pinda Daan’, a Hindu ancestral worship rite in Gaya on Friday.

Lee said that it was dedicated to her grand parents.

“Yes, ‘Pinda Daan’ I have done for my grandfather and grandmother. Grandmother died about two years ago and grandfather died about a half year ago,” [...]

Bhopal, Sep.10 (ANI): Abandoned by their own children, many elderly people at an old-age home in Bhopal, performed ‘Shraadh’ for themselves during the ongoing ‘Pitrapaksha’.

As per Hindu tradition, one’s children or family members perform the Shraadh, the ritual of remembering the deceased.

These elderly [...]

Gaya, Sep 7 (ANI): With the onset of the fortnight long ‘Shraddha,’ solemn Hindu ceremonies, a serpentine queue of devotees has begun trotting up the Pret-Sheela (ghost-stone) hill shrine in Gaya to pray for the salvation of their ancestors and get rid of the evil spirits.

Elderly faithful, from far and wide, are carried by [...]

Washington, Aug.22 (ANI): U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday used his first Ramazan message to assure Muslims that his administration had an ‘unyielding’ determination to resolve issues that plague relations between the Muslim and western worlds.

“We are…committed to keeping our responsibility to build a world that is more peaceful and secure. “That is why [...]

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Jamshed-e-Navroz is a festival celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Zoroastrian year. The new year of the Parsis corresponds with vernal equinox or with the [...]

Raisen (Madhya Pradesh), July 16 (ANI): A cave, which is of great archaeological interest and could hold immense tourism potential, has been discovered at Patni village of Raisen district in Madhya Pradesh.

The one-mile long cave known as Mrigendranath cave sits underneath the green and partially rocky hill of Patni village. Locals had known it for [...]

Madna (Uttar Pradesh), July 4 (ANI): Delay in Monsoon in Uttar Pradesh, is upsetting villagers and farmers of Madna village, as they are going through a tough time as the fields in the region have almost dried up.

Harvesting was supposed to start by June 15 but with the delay in [...]

Chhattarpur (Madhya Pradesh), June 25 (ANI): The delayed monsoon has motivated people in Madhya Pradesh’s Chattarpur area to perform prayers and also sing ‘Ragas’ or, traditional songs to appease Rain Gods.

Women on Thursday carried water pots on their heads as part of a [...]

Allahabad, June 25 (ANI): Women ploughed fields and sang songs in a ritual to appease the rain gods in Allahabad.

Fervently praying for the timely arrival of the monsoon, people across the country are performing various rituals to appease the rain God.

“All of us together performed rituals with flowers and incense sticks. Together we ploughed [...]

Lahore, June 20 (ANI): A group of 500 Sikh pilgrims will arrive in Lahore on Sunday by special trains to observe the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh from June 27-30.

The pilgrims are scheduled to visit Gurdwara Janamasthan in Nankana Sahib, where they will stay till June 26. They will also visit Lahore’s Gurdwara Dera [...]

Washington, May 23 (ANI): American actress Brooke Shields has revealed that she was left terrified after a spot on her face turned out to be pre-cancerous.

The 43-year-old star, who used to love spending time in the sun, said that the incident served as a wake-up [...]

Barada (Jharkhand), May 16 (ANI): In a bizarre ritual, tribals living in a remote village Barada in Jharkhand, pierced their bodies with iron hooks above 90 feet above the ground and hang in air suspended.

The villagers perform the tough ritual, to thank God Shiva. This annual ritual [...]

Gaya, May 5 (ANI): Personnel of Bihar Police arrested a few persons involved in the kidnapping of a young boy and conducting his marriage with a girl child by force in Gaya district.

A 15-year-old boy named Lal Babu was kidnapped on Sunday for the wedding, which was solemnised under compulsion and at gunpoint.

A student of [...]

Washington, April 7 (ANI): Archaeologists have found five structures, each in the shape of an enormous “foot”, in the Jordan Valley in the Middle East, which testify to the biblical concept of ownership of the land with the foot.

According to archaeologist Professor Adam Zertal of the University of Haifa, who headed the excavating team that [...]

Gaya, Mar 26 (ANI): A woman conducted religious rites for the salvation of her sons’ souls in the presence of two snakes at Gaya in Bihar.

This was after she dreamt that her departed sons were reborn in her neighbours’ house as snakes!

Devaki and her [...]

Jodhpur, Mar 17 (ANI): Traders here are performing a ritual in honour of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth, to ward off global recession.

The nine-day ritual being held at the central grounds here commenced on Friday and will conclude on March 21.

Over [...]