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No point allowing temples to open without devotees, says Delhi's Kalkaji T
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 13 (ANI): Delhi's Kalkaji Temple Peethadhiswar Mahant Surendra Nath Avdhoot on Sunday slammed the Delhi government for allowing temples to open without devotees and termed the move "pointless".
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Kedarnath priests continue sit-in protest to disband Devasthanam Board
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 13 (ANI): Priests have been sitting on a silent protest outside the Kedarnath temple, demanding that the Uttarakhand Char Dham Devasthanam Management Board be disbanded.
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Selling crops grown on temple land? Official in UP's Banda says show Aadha
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Banda (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 8(ANI): Priests and caretakers in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district are flummoxed as they have been asked to produce the Aadhaar cards of 'gods', if they wanted to sell produce of crops grown on lands belonging to temples and temple mutts.
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China prosecutes Christians, arrests priests in Hebei on charges of 'brain
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 28 (ANI): China on May 20th seized four Christian priests working as seminary professors along with three priests who had been carrying out pastoral work in Hebei province on charges of 'brainwashing'.
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Badrinath priests slam U'khand minister's visit to shrine, call it breach
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], May 23 (ANI): Badrinath shrine priests on Sunday have objected to Uttarakhand's COVID in-charge Dhan Singh Rawat and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders' visit and called it a breach of the COVID curfew norms.
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Punjab Police nabs 2 Khalistan Tiger Force activists involved in Dera Prem
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 23 (ANI): Punjab Police on Saturday arrested two activists of the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), allegedly involved in the murder of a Dera Premi and firing on a priest.
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Pulwama resident arrested in Delhi for planning to kill Hindu priest
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): A 26-year-old resident of Pulwama was arrested in Delhi's Pahar Ganj for planning to kill a priest, Swami Narsinghanand.
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Ashes of cremated Covid-19 victims pile up at Ghazipur crematorium as rela
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Ashes of Covid-19 victims who were cremated are piling up at the Ghazipur crematorium here as relatives are hesitant to collect them due to the fear of contracting infection, said the chief priest and cremation manager.
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Kanpur: Case against unknown persons for posters calling for beheadings
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 14 (ANI): Kanpur Police on Tuesday registered an FIR against unknown persons in connection with the display of posters calling for the beheading of Dasna Devi Temple priest Narsinghanand and former UP Shia Central Waqf Board chief Wasim Rizvi.
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Morning 'aarti' performed at Delhi's Jhandewalan Temple on first day of Na
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi/ Varanasi [India] April 13 (ANI): On the first day of Chaitra Navratri, the morning 'aarti' was performed at the Jhandewalan temple in the presence of priests and their family members.
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Temple priest strangled to death in UP's Bulandshahr
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 29 (ANI): The priest of the famous Dhakwale temple in Achru Kalan village of Shikarpur Kotwali area in Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh was allegedly strangled to death on Monday, police said.
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Prayers offered at Ujjain's Mahakaleshwar Temple on Holi
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) [India], March 29 (ANI): Priests offered prayers on Monday at Mahakaleshwar Temple in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain on the occasion of Holi.
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