Source: www.zeenews.com
CHANDIGARH, INDIA, July 12, 2009: 1.4 million pilgrims from various parts of the country and abroad are expected to take a holy dip in the Sarovar waters at Kurukshetra during the solar eclipse fair on July 22.
“This will be the longest duration eclipse of the 21st century. We are expecting more than a million pilgrims to visit Kurukshetra and we have made all arrangements so that people can take the holy dip there from 5:30 a.m. to 7:25 a.m. on that day,” Haryana’s Tourism Minister Kiran Choudhry said at a press conference here today.
“It’s going to be a rare event, second in the series of three eclipses one after the other. First there was lunar eclipse on July 6, and there will be another lunar eclipse on August 6,” she said.