Amid tight security arrangements, Ganesha idols were taken out in procession in Madurai on Tuesday. Idols of various sizes and colors are carried in goods vehicles and carts, mostly by youths, who dance to the beats of drums.
Thousands of citizens took out a peace procession and staged a sit-in at Ghantaghar Chowk in Kandhkot town on the second consecutive day in protest against police’s failure to recover the hostages, including several members of the minority Hindu community in Pakistan’s Sukkur, Dawn reported
During the brief pilgrimage, people are dressed as cows and lunatics, go around the city wearing odd costumes, commemorating those who died within one year. The bereaved families offer fruits, bread, beaten rice, curd, and money to those participating in the procession including the cows.
Eight elephants, Arjuna, Bhima, Gopi, Dhananjaya, Varalakshmi, Vijaya, Mahendra and Kanjan headed to Mysore under the leadership of elephant Abhimanyu.
Reacting to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) call to take out a procession in Haryana's Nuh, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday claimed that targeted violence and collective punishment through demolition is being given to the Muslims.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) president Alok Kumar on Monday said that the Braj Mandal Shobha Yatra will be taken out and will not stop in Nuh, where section 144 has been imposed following the call for a procession in the district.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will lead large-scale processions in the nation's capital, Dhaka, on Friday afternoon as part of their one-point simultaneous movement to compel the government to resign and hold the following election under a non-party caretaker government, according t
As illegal structures are being razed in the violence-hit Nuh from where stones were allegedly pelted on a religious procession during the clashes, Nuh Deputy Commissioner Dhirendra Khadgata said that ban on the internet in the district will continue till the situation normalises.
District town planner Vinesh Kumar said that the commercial building of the "Sahara Family Restaurant" was constructed illegally. He said that it was the same building from where hooligans pelted stones on a religious procession.
The Shia community applauded the central and J-K administration for lifting the ban on Azadari processions, mourning Imam Hussain’s martyrdom, in the Kashmir valley after a hiatus of more than three decades.