Jaipur: Three pilgrims died while four others sustained serious injuries in a stampede which broke out in the Khatu Shyam temple in Rajasthan’s Sikar on Monday morning. The stampede was reported at 5.00 a.m., when a huge crowd of devotees assembled for ‘darshan’ on the occasion of Ekadashi. Devotees had been standing in a queue […]
Tirupati: Two devotees were killed and three others injured in a road accident while they were on their way to Tirumala temple on Sunday. The dead were identified as Sharanya and Mithun of Erode in Tamil Nadu. According to reports, the driver may have dozed off at the wheel. The car they were travelling in […]
Amaravati: At least six pilgrims, including two women, from Andhra Pradesh were reported missing in the cloudburst and flash floods near the Amarnath cave in Kashmir, according to State government sources here on Sunday. The six pilgrims who remained untraced after the tragedy near the holy cave were identified as Vinod Ashok (Vijayawada), Gunishetty Sudha […]
Jangaon: At least four pilgrims from the district headquarters were stranded four kilometre ahead of the Amarnath cave in Pahalgam district of the Kashmir valley. The stranded pilgrims are Taduri Ramesh, Jilla Satyanarayana, Pallela Lakshminarasaiah and his wife Siddi Laxmi, according to their relatives. They left for Delhi in a train on July 3 and […]
Uttarkashi: At least 24 people were killed after a bus carrying pilgrims fell into a gorge near Damta on the Yamunotri National Highway in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district on Sunday, police said. The bus had around 30 pilgrims from Panna district of Madhya Pradesh and a driver. The accident took place between Damta and Barnigad, which […]
Hyderabad: TSRTC Chairman Bajireddy Govardhan and VC&MD VC Sajjanar on Wednesday flagged off mini-bus services to Yadagirigutta at Uppal bus stop. The chairman said the TSRTC was facilitating the pilgrims reach Yadadri directly without any hassles with mini-buses from various places. Sajjanar said these services were available not only from Hyderabad but also from various […]
Announcing the Haj policy on Saturday, the ministry of Haj and Umrah said that in light of the continuation of coronavirus pandemic and emergence of new mutations, it has been decided that Haj
The street of Baddipochamma temple, an associate temple of Vemulawada Rajarajeshwara Swamy temple, was jam-packed with scores of devotees thronging the shrine
