The Tibetan national flag was hoisted for the twelfth consecutive year on Sunday at the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple in Milton Keynes, serving as a powerful emblem of solidarity with the Tibetan people, the Central Tibet Administration (CTA) reported.
Ahead of inauguration of Digha Jagannath Temple in West Bengal, Union Minister and West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was trying to win the Bengal elections scheduled to be held next year by climbing on the shoulders of Lord Jagannath.
Mata Tirtha Aunsi or the Nepali Mothers' Day is a festival for mothers which falls on Nepali first month Baisakh (end of April/ early May) when thousands of devotees climb up the hill to reach the sacred pond and offer prayers.
"Our policy is 'Live and let live'. The majority community in India has never done anything to the people of the minority community. In Bangladesh, it has become difficult for Hindus to stay alive. Temples were torched, they have done such a big injustice," Singh told reporters in Kolkata.
Drone visuals showed a massive sea of devotees filling the temple streets as the ornately decorated temple car was pulled through the street of Srirangam.
Referring to the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed, Nadda said that he had prayed to Lord Ganesha that through his strength and wisdom, "India can emerge from this hour of crisis."
The grand annual Chithirai Car Festival, also known as Viruppan Thirunal, was celebrated with great devotion at the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Trichy.