Praveen Togodia sets off Ravan Dahan in the city
Nagpur: Sanathan Dharam Yuva Sabha like every year, this year too had organized the Ravan Dahan on October 22, 2015. Including around 148-150 Youth, around 384 members of the Sanathan Dharam Yuva Sabha worked hard to make the event different,...
Gond Tribals worship Rawan as their Lord!
Demanding ban on Rawan Dahan Nagpur: Gond tribals populating the rural areas in Vidarbha find themselves as descendants of Rawan, who was a Dravidian, and worship him as their religious Lord. At many tribal houses there are found the pictures of...
Vishwa Hindu Parishad launches India Health Line
Nagpur: Vishwa Hindu Parishad, one of the custodians of Hindu ideology, has now decided to offer its services in the field of health, and has thus launched India Health Line, a nation wide programme on health sector, which will be...
Dragon Palace Temple, Deekshabhoomi will soon get world standard status, declares CM Fadnavis
Nagpur: “Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is revered and followed not only in India but he is global leader in real sense of term. The Maharashtra Government is making all out efforts to bring Babasaheb’s leadership in front of the...
Lakhs of Ambedkar followers visit Deekshabhoomi on Dhammachakra Pravartan Din
Nagpur: Deekshabhoomi is considered as a pilgrim centre for the Buddhist brethren. Every year thousands congregate at Deekshabhoomi for various religious rites and programmes organized at this place. This year too lakhs of visitors congregated at Deekshabhoomi on October 22,...
Woman grabs dead man’s Rs 1.50 cr property by becoming ‘fake wife’
Nagpur: In a well-planned conspiracy, a woman prepared forged marriage papers depicting herself wife of a dead man and later grabbed cash, valuables and other property to the tune of Rs 1.50 crore with the help of other fake documents....
Religious discipline should be practiced in financial policy, says RSS Chief Bhagwat
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat stressed that there is a need to apply religious discipline in leading the financial matters. Backing his views eminent scientist and Niti Ayog member too aired similar views at Vijayadashmi Utsav organised at RSS headquarters...
Ex-PI of Sonegaon Police Station faces HC heat for assaulting hotelier
Nagpur: The then Police Inspector of Sonegaon Police Station came in the line of fire of Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court for assaulting an owner of hotel Papa Penchoo Oye. However, the PI Anil Bhaurao Patil, who was directed...
Dashera celebrations across Nagpur show city’s truly cosmopolitan nature
Nagpur: We are seeing them coming into Nagpur from all four directions over the last week, mostly walking. They come in walking briskly but quietly on the side of the road, sometime single file sometime three deep. There are women,...
Coal Employees’ Sarvajanik Durga Puja Mandal observes its silver jubilee
Nagpur: Coal Employees under the aegis of Coal Employees Sarvajanik Durga Puja Mandal, CMPDIL Complex, Kasturba Nagar, Jaripatka, Nagpur observed silver jubilee of their Mandal from Oct 18 to 22, 2015. After performing traditional puja and arati, etc, the silver jubilee...
Live Report : Cluster of Power at RSS Dussehra Shastra Pujan
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's traditional Shri Shastra Pujan and Vijayadashmi Utsav has been the regular affair in Nagpur for years immemorable. This Dussehra too, RSS has continued its tradition and organized the programme at Reshimbagh ground here early Thursday. The...
City Youth Congress protests against rising prices in a novel way
Nagpur: The City Indian Youth Congress activists, led by its President Bunty Shelke, on Wednesday staged protests at Ganeshpeth Square against rising prices and raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The activists burned the...
City cops, FDA jointly seize stock of banned scented tobacco worth Rs 11.59 lakh
Nagpur: City police and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a joint raid on Tuesday seized a huge stock of banned scented tobacco worth Rs 11.52 lakh. The late night raid was carried out at a vacant land near Sainath Fabrication...
Nagpur decks up for Dhammachakra Pravartan Din celebrations on Oct 22
Lakhs of followers of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar will converge here on the occasion of 59th Dhammachakra Pravartan Din to be celebrated on Thursday (October 22) Nagpur: The historic monument Deekshabhoomi and City of Nagpur are all decked up to welcome lakhs...
‘Varan’ disappearing from Maharashtrian cuisines since dal has become so costly
Nagpur: Since tur dal climbed over Rs. 200 a Kg. it has put unbearable strain over managing food budgets - specially for lower class hand-to-mouth families. It has to be be understood that tur dal or arahar dal out which the...
Shocking yet true! Promiscuity increases during Navratri-Garba in the city
Nagpur: With girls and boys getting a free reign for these nine days, and no constraints from parents, teachers and hostel wardens, many boys and girls enjoy the togetherness of their companions during this period. Why should we be bothered? Who...
Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat, Nagpur conducted 10 days muharram sermons
Nagpur: Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat, Nagpur conducted 10 days muharram sermons under the guidance of 53rdd Dai His Holiness Dr. Sydena Muffadal Saifuddin (T.U.S). Moharram also marks the dark period surrounding the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the prophet's grandson. Imam Hussain was...
What symbolic Ravan Effigy would you burn? ‘Whatsapp’ and Facebook’ Youngsters reply!
Nagpur: On Dashera, the effigy of Ravan is burnt publicly, with much fanfare all over India. We all know the story of how he kidnapped God Ram's wife Sita and then a war was fought to rescue her, at the...
Rich tributes paid to martyred cops on Police Commemoration Day
Nagpur: City police on Wednesday paid rich tributes to policemen who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty to mark Police Commemoration Day being observed on Wednesday (Oct 21). Top brass of Nagpur police including Joint Commissioner of Police Rajwardhan,...
Kasturchand Park made ready for Rawan Dahan on Thursday
Nagpur: To mark this year's Dussera celebration as usual, Kasturchand Park in the city has been made ready for burning of effigies of Ravan, Meghnaad and Kumbhakaran, which have been artistically prepared and erected on the park-ground. On the other hand,...
City gears up for ‘Ravan Dahan’ at Kasturchand Park
Nagpur: The Sanatan Sanstha which organizes the “Ravan Dahan” every year on Dussehra or Vijayadashmi without a break. Late in the night on October 20, 2015, the organizers of the event finished giving the final touches to the three effigies...
