Pilgrims

Drones sprayed holy water from the Ganga on thousands of Hindu pilgrims on Friday to reduce crowding during a massive festival being held despite soaring Covid cases in the country.

There will be no restrictions on movement for pilgrims to Mata Vaishno Devi and Shiv Khori Shrine, informed the district administration of Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi on Friday.

Hindu pilgrims from India, US and Gulf region prayed at 100-year-old renovated Maharaja Paramhans Ji mandir in northwest Pakistan on Saturday amidst tight security, one year after temple was demolished by a mob belonging to a radical Islamist party.

12 pilgrims died and over a dozen injured in a stampede at Jammu and Kashmir's Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. The stampede was triggered by a "minor altercation among some young boys" amid a massive rush of devotees on New Year, officials said today.

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday cautioned people not to allow certain forces wanting to disturb peace in this pilgrim city to succeed.

The bells of Bethlehem rang out under grey skies on Christmas morning across streets whose closed pastel or green shutters were like an Advent calendar that nobody had turned up to open.

Indian citizens and persons of Indian origin visiting the Kartarpur Sahib corridor, have been allowed to carry and bring back money up to Rs 11,000

Pakistan on Tuesday issued visas to 112 Indian pilgrims to visit a prominent Hindu temple complex in Punjab's Chakwal district.

The Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor project in Varanasi is aimed at transforming pilgrims' experience of the temple town. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a keen interest in the project, his office has said.

The administration in Ladakh has decided to impose fines on pilgrims visiting the Union Territory for Sindhu Pushkaram, a festival of the river Sindhu (Indus), for littering and throwing trash in the open near the Sindhu river.

24 people have been reported dead and many others washed away in floods following incessant rains in Andhra Pradesh. Visuals from the temple town of Tirupati show hundreds of pilgrims trapped in massive floods.

Pakistan has temporarily relaxed its mutually agreed limit with India of 10 days advance intimation before the arrival of Sikh pilgrims to the revered Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan.

Tirumala was caught in a massive flood of unprecedented scale on Thursday, leaving hundreds of pilgrims stranded even as a heavy downpour under the influence of a depression in Bay of Bengal battered the temple-town Tirupati.

More than 20 months after the Kartarpur corridor was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a jatha of Sikh pilgrims from India crossed over to Pakistan on Wednesday ahead of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.

A jatha of Indian Sikh pilgrims crossed over to Pakistan today to pay obeisance at the Gurudwara Darbar Sahib through the Kartarpur corridor that reopened today.

Drones sprayed holy water from the Ganga on thousands of Hindu pilgrims on Friday to reduce crowding during a massive festival being held despite soaring Covid cases in the country.

There will be no restrictions on movement for pilgrims to Mata Vaishno Devi and Shiv Khori Shrine, informed the district administration of Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi on Friday.

Hindu pilgrims from India, US and Gulf region prayed at 100-year-old renovated Maharaja Paramhans Ji mandir in northwest Pakistan on Saturday amidst tight security, one year after temple was demolished by a mob belonging to a radical Islamist party.

12 pilgrims died and over a dozen injured in a stampede at Jammu and Kashmir's Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. The stampede was triggered by a "minor altercation among some young boys" amid a massive rush of devotees on New Year, officials said today.

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday cautioned people not to allow certain forces wanting to disturb peace in this pilgrim city to succeed.

The bells of Bethlehem rang out under grey skies on Christmas morning across streets whose closed pastel or green shutters were like an Advent calendar that nobody had turned up to open.

Indian citizens and persons of Indian origin visiting the Kartarpur Sahib corridor, have been allowed to carry and bring back money up to Rs 11,000

Pakistan on Tuesday issued visas to 112 Indian pilgrims to visit a prominent Hindu temple complex in Punjab's Chakwal district.

The Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor project in Varanasi is aimed at transforming pilgrims' experience of the temple town. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a keen interest in the project, his office has said.

The administration in Ladakh has decided to impose fines on pilgrims visiting the Union Territory for Sindhu Pushkaram, a festival of the river Sindhu (Indus), for littering and throwing trash in the open near the Sindhu river.

24 people have been reported dead and many others washed away in floods following incessant rains in Andhra Pradesh. Visuals from the temple town of Tirupati show hundreds of pilgrims trapped in massive floods.

Pakistan has temporarily relaxed its mutually agreed limit with India of 10 days advance intimation before the arrival of Sikh pilgrims to the revered Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan.

Tirumala was caught in a massive flood of unprecedented scale on Thursday, leaving hundreds of pilgrims stranded even as a heavy downpour under the influence of a depression in Bay of Bengal battered the temple-town Tirupati.

More than 20 months after the Kartarpur corridor was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a jatha of Sikh pilgrims from India crossed over to Pakistan on Wednesday ahead of the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak.

A jatha of Indian Sikh pilgrims crossed over to Pakistan today to pay obeisance at the Gurudwara Darbar Sahib through the Kartarpur corridor that reopened today.