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Varanasi to get new lease of life with new sewage treatment plants
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Varanasi, a historical city regarded as the spiritual capital of India, draws pilgrims who bathe in the Ganga River and perform funeral rites.
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3,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims to visit Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 19 (ANI): Around 3,000 Sikh devotees will travel to Pakistan via Attari border on April 11 from the national capital to celebrate Baisakhi at Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasan Abdal city.
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JK: Vaishno Devi temple witness heavy influx of pilgrims on New Year
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Katra (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Jan 1 (ANI): A heavy influx of pilgrims was seen at Vaishno Devi temple who thronged the hill shrine to seek blessings for a peaceful year ahead.
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Sabarimala Temple revenue crosses Rs 156 crore
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): The revenue of Sabarimala Temple during this pilgrimage season has exceeded Rs 156 crore, Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president N Vasu said.
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Sabarimala temple board receives letters, money orders from devotees
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): In the ongoing Sabarimala season, letters are pouring in for the deity Ayyappa, which also includes money orders. The letters are addressed to Sabarimala Dharmasastha and after 39 days of pilgrimage, the Travancore Devasom Board (TDB) rec
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Delhi HC to hear plea challenging AAP govt's free pilgrimage scheme next y
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday said that it will hear on January 24, 2020, a petition challenging the national capital government's free pilgrimage scheme.
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Pak pilgrims, diplomats offer chaadar at Hazrat Nizamuddin shrine on Urs
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 14 (ANI): A group of Pakistani pilgrims, accompanied by diplomats from the Islamabad High Commission in India, offered traditional chaadar at the Shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia in New Delhi on Saturday on the occasion of 716th Urs (death anniversary) of the Sufi sai
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Pak High Commission issues visas to Indian Pilgrims for visit to Shadani D
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi issued visas to two groups of Hindu pilgrims from India for visit to religious sites in Pakistan.
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Pakistani cleric threatens Sikh pilgrims from visiting Kartarpur Gurdwara
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 3 (ANI): Despite opening the Kartarpur corridor on a noble to allow Sikh pilgrims visiting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Prime Minister Imran Khan has not been able to curb the religious fanaticism and barbarism that exists on his land in the so-called name of Islam
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India becomes first country to make entire Haj 2020 process digital, says
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 1 (ANI): India has become the first country in the world which has made the entire Haj 2020 process 100 per cent digital, said Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday.
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India gifts 2 electric vehicles to Pashupati Temple Trust to help elderly
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Nov 27 (ANI): The government on Wednesday gifted two electric vehicles to Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) in Nepal to help elderly pilgrims and differently-abled visiting the holy temple.
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US-based advocacy group urges Imran Khan to reopen Khokhrapar border cross
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Nov 27 (ANI): A US-based advocacy group has urged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to reopen the Khokhrapar-Munabao border with India so as to facilitate the travel of, both, the Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan to Dargah Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan, and Hindu devotees from
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