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Nation celebrates Chhath Puja
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 6 (ANI): Chhath Puja is being celebrated in several states today. Thousands of devotees celebrating the festival gathered on the banks of the Yamuna river, lakes and canals in the national capital early this afternoon to pay obeisance to the Sun God on the third day o
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PM ready to talk to anyone to pacify situation in J-K: Shafiq Mir
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 6 (ANI): Shafiq Mir, the chairman of Jammu and Kashmir panchayat conference, on Sunday expressed satisfaction with the assurance given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to normalise the situation in the state where more than 90 people have been killed and thousands wound
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McGraw Hill Education India launches revised 'self-study' guide
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 5 (ANI): McGraw Hill Education India, a global provider of teaching and learning solutions for professionals and students of all ages has launched the revised and updated version of General Studies Paper 1 Manual, a complete self-study guide for thousands of civil ser
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Centre of Tibetian Buddhism - Larung Gar is now just rubble
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Nov.5 (ANI): It used to be a fine ancient monastery- a sprawling complex housing thousands of monks and nuns, going through various stages of learning about Buddhism. The scholars it produced went on to lead many monasteries themselves, and even entered local and regiona
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In Simla, pelt stones to appease Goddess Kali
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Simla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): Thousands of devotees recently gathered in Simla district's Dhami village to appease Goddess Kali through the ancient practice of stone pelting.
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Devotees risk lives while travelling to Chitrakoot for holy dip
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Uttar Pradesh [India], Oct 31 (ANI): Thousands of devotees risked their lives while travelling on the rooftop of trains and hanging from the sides of the coaches to attend a religious event in Chitrakoot district in Uttar Pradesh over the weekend.
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Thousands make bee line to Jagannath Temple to observe 'Badabadua Dak
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Puri (Odisha) [India], Oct. 30 (ANI): On the occasion of Diwali today, thousands of people from far-off places were seen making a beeline to the Jagannath Temple located in Odisha's Puri and offering tributes and homage to their ancestors since dawn.
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ISIS executed 232, took thousands as human shields near Mosul: UN
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Oct. 28 (ANI): The United Nations has asserted that the ISIS has executed 232 people and taken thousands of people to use as human shields against advancing Iraqi forces near Mosul.
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Devotees pray for peace at shrine of Baba Ganj Sahib
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India] Oct. 28 (ANI): Thousands of devotees on Wednesday thronged the shrine of Sufi Saint Baba Ganj Sahib here to pay their respect on his 81st Urs or death anniversary.
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Closure of bauxite mining firms resulting in thousands losing jobs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Oct.19 (ANI-Businesswire India): Various bauxite mining companies are planning to wind-up their businesses along the Western Ghats (i.e. Dapoli & Shriwardhan) in Maharashtra due to many issues hitting their operations adversely, mainly local socio-political disturbances i
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Uttarakhand flood 2013: Over 50 skeletons found of washed away victims
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Garhwal (Uttarakhand) [India], Oct. 16 (ANI): After the devastating floods that ravaged Uttarakhand in 2013, killing hundreds of thousands of people, Garhwal Range Inspector General Sanjay Gunjyal today said more than 50 skeletons of people washed away have been found on both the sides of Ke
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Targeted by Pakistani Army, Air Force thousands of Pakistani Pashtuns flee
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Oct. 15 (ANI): Operation 'Zarb-e-Azb' by the Pakistani armed forces against various terrorists groups, especially against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in North Waziristan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on 15 June, 2014 has claimed hundreds of lives t
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