Kolkata, May 22 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she will attend the canonisation of Mother Teresa in Vatican on September 4. Banerjee’s decision followed an invitation extended to her by…
Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), May 21 (IANS) The month-long Simhasta Kumbh ended on Saturday with the third and last ‘shahi snan’ (royal bath) by ascetics, saints and seers of various ‘akharas’ that had gathered here on…
Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh), May 21 (IANS) Six persons were killed when their jeep collided with a truck while returning from Ujjain’s Simhasta Kumbh Mela on Saturday. Nine others were injured in the accident that occurred…
Ujjain, May 21 (IANS) The final sacred bath of the month-long Simhastha Kumbh started on Saturday morning with ascetics belonging to the Juna Akhara first taking a dip in the Kshipra river in this district…
Lhasa, May 21 (IANS) The 11th Panchen Lama, a spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, blessed thousands of pilgrims in Lhasa on Saturday by conducting a traditional “head-touching” ritual. The 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu,…
Colombo, May 21 (IANS) A total of 540 prisoners were released on Saturday in Sri Lanka on a presidential pardon in view of Vesak, a holy day for Buddhists all over the world. The country’s…
Vatican City, May 20 (IANS/AKI) A true commitment to human rights means valuing each and every person as an individual, Pope Francis said on Friday. “The firm commitment for human rights springs from an awareness…
Cairo, May 20 (IANS/AKI) A mass will take place here on Sunday for the 66 killed when an EgyptAir plane crashed into the Mediterranean, Coptic Pope Tawadros II announced. The mass for the victims of…
Haridwar, May 20 (IANS) A spiritual group based here will plant scores of herbal trees on a 195-km stretch along the Kshipra river in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. The Gayatri Pariwar group said this would…
Rome, May 20 (IANS/AKI) Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday voiced “deep sadness” at the death of his friend Marco Pannella, the veteran Italian radical politician, rights campaigner and peace activist. “The Dalai…
Phnom Penh, May 20 (IANS) A golden urn containing relics of the Buddha, which was stolen in 2013, was returned to a mountaintop shrine on Friday in Cambodia. The return of the relics to the…
By Sandeep Puranik Ujjain, May 20 (IANS) It was a tough journey for 84-year-old Kantabai Nagar, but she finally made it. Despite her stoop, an undeterred Kantabai came all the way from Tirupati Nagar, Indore,…
Vatican City, May 19 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis on Thursday called for greater diplomatic efforts to disarm those fuelling violent conflicts in the world and to end human and drugs trafficking which often fund the “evil”…
Ujjain, May 19 (IANS) Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, who was recently given a clean chit by the National Investigative Agency in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, on Thursday offered prayers at the Mahakal temple here during…
Kathmandu, May 19 (IANS) A two-day International Buddhist Conference started in Kathmandu on Thursday. Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, while inaugurating the conference, said it aims to spread message to the world that the Buddha…
Chandigarh, May 19 (IANS) Four people have been arrested in connection with the attack on Sikh preacher Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale near Punjab’s Ludhiana city while raids were on to arrest the others and uncover the…
Islamabad, May 19 (IANS) The Pakistan government will provide to Sri Lanka the bone relics of the Buddha for an exposition throughout the island-nation during the Buddhist festival of Vesak. The relics kept at the…
Guwahati, May 19 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday prayed to Goddess Kamakhya as counting trend showed that his Congress was trailing to the BJP in the assembly elections. “People have made the…
London, May 18 (IANS) The newly-elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has invited US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to visit the British capital to show him that Islam is “compatible” with western values and…
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Thousands of devotees of the Nirankari sect gathered here as spiritual leader Baba Hardev Singh, who died in Canada last Friday, was cremated with full honours at the national capital’s…