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ISKCON Rathayatra in Mathura on 9th March
Mathura, 2018.02.28 (VT) While temples around Braj are celebrating Holi by throwing colours and flowers, Vrindavan’s ISKCON temple is a Holi-free zone, although the white floor still turns pink from...
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Vrindavan’s temple flowers made into herbal ‘gulal’ powder for Holi
Vrindavan, 2018.02.28 (VT) Everyone knows that ‘gulal’ powder is not really made of roses – it is made with chemicals that cause allergic reactions in people with sensitive skin. Every year on Holi,...
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From devi jagrans to live shows in LA, Hemnat Brijwasi’s journey is stuff of...
Mathura, 2018.03.01 (TOI): In the sleepy Naugaon village of Mathura district, a five-year-old Hemant Brijwasi would be woken up by his father sometime before midnight. After a quick wash, the two...
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Cultural program and Holika burning in Mathura
Mathura, 2018.03.01 (VT) A statue of Holika will be burnt this evening in Mathura, during a cultural program that will be inaugurated by Mathura by the Mayor and MLA Shrikant Sharma. The Holika statue...
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Helicopter will run from Lucknow to Mathura, Ayodhya, Varanasi and Delhi
Mathura, 2018.03.01 (VT) A RS 200 crore (US$32 Million) contract signed at the UP Investors Summit in Lucknow last month will see a private company provide a helicopter service linking Major cities to...
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Vrindavan’s widow sisters have their own Holi celebrations
Vrindavan, 2018.02.28 (VT) Hundreds of widows played Holi together at Radha Gopinath temple on Tuesday. Holi is one of those festivals that help people forget about material discomforts, difference in...
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Falen priest wears Prahlad’s garland, runs through fire
Falen, 2018.03.03 (VT) Thousands of visitors and locals watched in amazement as a priest from Falan’s Prahlad temple ran through fire. Babulal Punda ran through the fire at 8pm on Thursday night. The...
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BJP’s Manoj Tiwari unveils ‘Yamunosa’ project to revive the Yamuna
Delhi, 2018.03.03 (VT) The Yamuna in Braj may be about to become cleaner as Delhi BJP leader, Manoj Tiwari has unveiled plans to stop Delhi drains from running into the river. The minister said that...
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar celebrates Holi in Kosi Ashram
Kosi, 2018.03.03 (VT) The world famous founder of the Art of Living movement, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spent Holi this year in his Kosi Ashram. Thousands of fans filled the ashram to have darshan of Sri...
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Charkula Dance in Radha Rani’s village
Mukharai, 2018.03.05 (VT) Villagers and guests watched in awe as women danced with 108 lamps and pots on their head weighing a total of 51kg in a program held in Mukharai village, near Radha Kund (see...
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Protests against the commercialization of Holi
Braj, 2018.03.05 (VT) In the wake of this year’s Holi celebrations, voices are being raised against the commercialization of the festival. Talking about the secular Holi parties that are taking the...
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Rang ji’s Rath Mela starts tomorrow
Vrindavan, 2018.03.05 (VT) Tomorrow Rang ji’s Brahmotsav festival will begin. The festival is also known as Rang ji’s ‘Rath ka Mela’ because Thakurji is taken out on a rath (cart) in the morning and...
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Nayati Hospital Chairperson receives award for service to Brijwasis
Mathura, 2018.03.05 (VT) Chairperson Niira Radia was presented an award by Braj Kala Kendra in recognition for the affordable modern health care that Nayati Medicity has been providing to the people...
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Disaster in Braj’s villages
Mathura, 2018.03.05 (NDTV) Hundreds of acres of crops were damaged on Sunday after hailstorm hit some 36 villages in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district. Tehsil teams have been sent to ascertain the loss...
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PM Modi’s wife in Govardhan
Govardhan, 2018.03.06 (VT) Jashodaben, wife of Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed abhishek of Giriraj today at Danghati temple in Govardhan. Jashodaben told media that she has previously been to...
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Female athlete shows villagers that wrestling is not just for cowherd boys
Fanchari, 2018.03.06 (VT) When Neelam Chaudhary returned from Greece with a bronze medal, the villagers of Fanchari, some of whom frowned upon her interest in wrestling, presented her with a hanuman...
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Mathura mechanic provides insider knowledge to diesel-siphoning mafia
Odisha: 2018.03.06 (IT) Police have busted an inter-state diesel theft racket in Bhubaneswar with the arrest of 12 persons including the mastermind Vineet Gupta, a mechanical engineer from Mathura who...
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Astha Goswami takes the sound of Braj to Delhi
Delhi, 2018.03.07 (FAB) Veteran Kathak dancer Padmabhushan Vidushi Uma Sharma arranges ‘Braj Raas’ and ‘Hori Rasiya’ at her dance school Bhartiya Sangeet Sadan in East of Kailash in Delhi. This year...
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ISKCON Vrindavan to hold Jagannath Ratha yatra on March 9
Mathura, 2018.03.07 (OI) Mar 6 International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Vrindaban is organizing Jagannath Ratha Yatra festival on the lines of famous Puri’s Jagannath rath yatra, on...
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Village left without water
Mathura, 2018.03.07 (VT) Women in Mahuan village, near Farah, has no drinking water. The handpumps in the village produce only salty water, which is hardly suitable for bathing and watering plants....
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