American students get insights on temple rites | Times of India
KOCHI: For a group of 17 students with the Semester at Sea the world’s premier shipboard education programme founded in 1963 the temples in the city are treasure troves to have first hand experience of Hindu rituals which most of them have read from books and the internet alone. “To see in person all the sculptures and idols and structural More...
Panel likely to appoint Vigilance officer for Puri temple | The New Indian Express
CUTTACK: The Justice BP Das Commission of Inquiry, constituted by the State Government to recommend reforms in Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri, is likely to appoint a Vigilance officer in the temple and also revamp More...
Bhopal: Meditate as your decision will impact 7cr people of state | FPJ
BHOPAL: Spiritual teacher Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Wednesday stressed on the need of a meditation room in state Assembly. Addressing stress removal training session for MLAs at Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday, he said More...
PM Modi to address International Yoga Festival via video conference today
New Delhi, Mar 2 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the International Yoga Festival, taking place in Rishikesh, via video conference on Thursday. “At 12:30 pm I will address @IntlYogaFest at More...
The second Swadeshi Indology Conference : Global Perceptions of Indian Heritage
The conference had six components: an inaugural function, a few plenary sessions, paper presentations, Vakyārtha Sadas sessions, release of monographs, and a valediction. Everything went on as planned, except More...
Mumbai: Ahead of BMC elections, Gurudwaras, Swaminarayan temples to prod devotees to vote
Gurudwaras and Swaminarayan temples are now among the list of religious institutions that will be prodding voters to vote during the elections. Catholics have already urged in their community magazines that people More...
Rajasthan: Vasundhara Raje govt launches all-expenses paid pilgrimage by air for senior citizens | The Indian Express
In a bid to earn ‘punya’ (reward for good conduct according to Hinduism) for Rajasthan, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje launched an all-expenses-paid pilgrimage via air travel by seeing off the first batch of More...
Simple yoga key to stress free & healthy life: Sri Sri at Madhya Pradesh Assembly
Bhopal: In his 45 minute interaction with leaders and visitors in state assembly on Wednesday, Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar highlighted benefits of yoga for professionals, who spend long hours before More...
65 kg of Udaipur’s herbal gulal for Australian embassy
UDAIPUR: Holi is still a fortnight away, but tribal women in selected blocks of Udaipur have no time to rest. Their busy hands have not a minute to spare as they have deadlines to meet for their hand-made herbal More...
Holi: The festival of spiritual upliftment and social harmony
Holi is around the corner and at many places the festivities have already started in the form of Phagotasa celebrated for fortnight. In Braj region of UP and at Govind Devji Temple in Jaipur the festival of Phag More...