Elephants worship Lord Ganesha in MudumalaiAugust 24th, 2009 MUDUMALAI - A group of elephants on Monday worshipped Lord Ganesha at a temple in Mudumalai on the occasion of the ongoing 10-day Ganesha festival. The unique annual ceremony is being conducted by elephants in Mudumalai Tiger sanctuary for last 25 years.
Rising water level submerge many Uttar Pradesh villagesAugust 21st, 2009 DURGAGANJ VILLAGE - The rising level of river water over the past couple of days has submerged many villages and rendered thousands of villagers homeless in Uttar Pradesh. Several rivers, including the Ghaghra, Rapti, Sharda and Saryu, are in spate.
Ram temple is an electoral issue, says Vinay KatiyarApril 23rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Ram temple was very much an issue this election and the party's Hindutva's agenda was intact, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP leader Vinay Katiyar said Thursday. 'The Ram temple is an issue in this election but presently we will not disclose our strategy on how we are going to solve it,' Katiyar told reporters in Faizabad, 180 km from this Uttar Pradesh capital, about the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
25 missing after boat capsizes in Uttar PradeshApril 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - More than 25 Hindu pilgrims returning from a temple were missing after the boat they were travelling in capsized in the Yamuna river in Uttar Pradesh Saturday, an official said. The accident took place near the Beejal ghat in Jalaun district, some 250 km from Lucknow, district magistrate P.
BJP is not a temple construction company: NaqviMarch 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Going totally against what Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh had promised last month, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that his party is not a temple construction company. 'BJP is not a construction company to build a temple, mosque, church and gurudwara.
BSP releases list of 80 candidates for Uttar PradeshMarch 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati released a list of candidates for 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. She also announced that the BSP's nationwide campaign would start from Saturday.
Uttar Pradesh polling stations to have telecom facilitiesMarch 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Each of the 128,112 polling stations in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections will have at least one telecommunication facility to ensure prompt and direct connectivity with voting officials, India's poll panel chief here said Thursday. 'We have taken some special measures to curb cross-border movement of people, which in the past has been the cause of trouble during polling in areas along inter-state borders,' Chief Election Commissioner N.
Now a temple for Lalu Prasad and wifeMarch 3rd, 2009 PATNA - Admirers of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi are building a temple dedicated to the couple in Bihar. It will come up in a village in Kaimur district, about 150 km from here.
Polling schedule for statesMarch 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The following is the polling schedule for states announced by Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami Monday:
Phase 1
April 16 - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andaman and Nicobar Island, Lakshadweep.
BJP, RLD finalise poll alliance in Uttar PradeshFebruary 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday said that it has finalised its pre-poll alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a party with some influence in western Uttar Pradesh. 'The alliance with the RLD has been finalised.
Woman offers tongue to deity in Uttar PradeshFebruary 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A childless 27-year-old woman cut off her tongue in an Uttar Pradesh temple and offered it to the deity for getting a son, the police said Tuesday. Meena Devi Monday evening visited the Bholebaba Siddheshwar Nath temple in Lahar Marg locality in Sitapur district, 90 km from here, and offered her tongue to the deity.
We are determined to build Ram temple: BJPFebruary 6th, 2009 NAGPUR - Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls expected in April-May, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday sounded the Ayodhya bugle, saying a grand Ram temple would definitely be built in the Uttar Pradesh town where the 16th century Babri masjid once stood. BJP president Rajnath Singh, addressing the party national council meeting on the second day of the party conclave here, said that building a temple to Lord Ram was the party's 'nishtha and aastha (vow and aspiration)' and they were looking for an opportunity to build the temple at Ayodhya, where fundamentalists demolished the Babri masjid in December 1992.
Orissa temple performs purification after foreigner's visitJanuary 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The daily rituals at 12th century Jagannath Temple in Orissa’s Puri city were delayed for over six hours Friday after a foreigner allegedly entered into the temple premises - an act seen as defiling the premises. The man who claimed himself to be Sebastian, 45, from Chile and a Hindu tried to enter the temple premises early Friday morning soon after the main gate opened, but was prevented by the policemen deployed there, the police said.
Muslims help lay foundation of temple in BiharJanuary 14th, 2009 PATNA - Muslims have joined hands with Hindus to lay the foundation of a new temple, dedicated to the sun god, in a Bihar town. The two communities got together to lay the foundation of a temple at Manikpur Bazar in Kurtha in Arwal district, about 80 km from the state capital.
20 men arrested in Uttar PradeshJanuary 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Twenty members of an inter-state gang, involved in manufacturing and supplying spurious country-made liquor, have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh, police said Tuesday. The men were arrested from the Narayanpur village of Ballia district, about 300 km from here, Monday late night.
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