timesofindia.indiatimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 25, 2009: Nepal’s last king, 62-year-old Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah, left Nepal Wednesday to visit New Delhi, accompanied by his wife, former queen Komal, and sister, former princess Shobha Shahi. This is Shah’s first trip outside Nepal since his fall from power. The former god-king, now plain Mr Gyanendra Shah, left Nepal as a commoner, apparently…
www.myrepublica.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 23, 2009: The number of sadhus (holy men) visiting Pashupatinath temple from India during the Shivaratri festival this year has gone down dramatically. Officials at Pashupatinath’s Goshwara Guthi Office, entrusted with hospitality for the visiting sadhus, said only about 1,650 sadhus turned up for Mahashivaratri, down from about 2,500 last year. Until two years ago, the…
www.newstrackindia.com KARACHI, INDIA, February 18, 2009: A historical temple of Lord Shiva in the Jamshed Town area of Karachi has been the victim of a land grab. Built in the late 1930’s, the temple occupied over two acres of land, but most of that has now been captured by builders. The temple caretaker, Ashok Kumar, claimed the builders have occupied…
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www.nepalmountainnews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 24, 2009: Around four million devotees from within and outside the country visited the revered Hindu temple of Pashupati Nath on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on Monday. Devotees had lined up to Old Baneswor and Chabahil to get a chance for worship in the temple from as early as 3 am. Devotees had to stand…
fijidailypost.com FIJI, February 24, 2009: For Mahasivaratri, many temples in Fiji observe a three-night festival which culminates with a grand prayer ceremony on the last night (tonight). Devotees strongly believe that sincere worship of Lord Shiva on the auspicious day of Shivaratri, absolves a person of sins and liberates him from the cycle of birth and death. Shivaratri is considered…
www.nytimes.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, February 25, 2009: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday, in one of the most closely watched free speech decisions in years, that a tiny religious sect could not force a Utah city to let it erect a monument to its faith in a public park. The fact that there is already a Ten Commandments monument…
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p class=”source”/p p class=”summary”br /Around 200 workers had been engaged in the construction of the venue for the past two weeks. The sound system arranged for the venue is of one lakh watts. As many as 35 light towers have been erected around the sprawling maidan.br /br /The programmes at the venue will start from February 23 morning. Sanskar channel…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com GOA, INDIA, January 22, 2009: Mahashivratri – a festival dedicated to lord Shiva – will be celebrated with much fervor across the country and state on Monday. The twin temples of Chandreshwar and Bhutnath are located on a hillock near Quepem, while one of the most ancient shrines of Shiva is the Saptkoteshwar of Narve. It is more than…