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  Know about the weekend getaways around Delhi

  India | December 15, 2014 10:24 IST

  New Delhi: After long and jam-packed weekdays of working surrounded by files and making yourself inside-out to match the deadlines, you feel completely exhausted. And if you are a Delhiite you can feel the very

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  Raksha Bandhan celebrated with great enthusiasm

  India | August 10, 2014 20:04 IST

  New Delhi: Raksha Bandhan, the festival that reaffirms the treasured bond of love and care between brothers and sisters, was celebrated today across the country with great enthusiasm.Feasting, merry-making and exchange of gifts marked the

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  Widows of Varanasi preparing 'rakhis' for 'brother' Modi

  Politics | August 03, 2014 16:16 IST

  Varanasi: This ‘Rakshabandhan' festival will be special for hundreds of elderly widows of Varanasi as they plan to send 1,000 ‘rakhis' along with sweets to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who made his parliamentary debut in

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  Holi frenzy grips Krishna land

  India | March 17, 2014 12:59 IST

  Vrindavan/Mathura: Holi festivities gripped the Krishna land here Sunday with a riot of colours and devotional prayers in temples dotting the region.Vrindavan temples were enveloped in colourful clouds of gulal. Saffron colour made from fragrant

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  Bengali widows from Vrindavan return to Kolkata for Durga Puja

  India | October 07, 2013 9:20 IST

  Kolkata:  This Durga puja is a homecoming of sorts for 50 Bengali widows from Vrindavan and Mathura, for the first time in years after they had been abandoned by their families.The old women came back

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  Security tightened for Mathura, Vrindavan temples

  India | July 08, 2013 15:03 IST

  Mathura, July 8: Security of temples in the holy towns of Mathura and Vrindavan has been beefed up following blasts at Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya in Bihar, a senior government official said today."As soon

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  Rattled IPL chief Rajiv Shukla prays at Vrindavan temple

  Cricket | May 17, 2013 22:47 IST

  Mathura, UP, May 17: IPL commissioner Rajiv Shukla today offered prayers at the famous Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan and prayed for the success of Indian Premier League. Speaking to reporters outside, Shukla said BCCI

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  Mathura, Vrindavan drenched in colour on Lathmar Holi

  India | March 22, 2013 15:26 IST

  Mathura, UP, March 22:  Five days before the actual Holi festival, women revelers beat men with sticks in the traditional Lathmar Holi at Barsana, the village of  Lord Krishna's consort Radha. Thousands of pilgrims and

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  11 killed in college bus, auto collision in Vrindavan

  India | March 12, 2013 11:58 IST

  Mathura, March 12 : Eleven people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a bus belonging to GLA University and an auto in Vrindavan  here today.While ten persons died on the

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  Oprah Winfrey explores India in two-part series

  Hollywood | July 11, 2012 18:04 IST

   New Delhi: US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey's experiences on her maiden visit to India, connecting with people in the country right from slum-dwellers to the elites, will be shown as a two-part series on