For thousands of years Ganga has been pivotal in the economic, social and religious life of the people. It is considered as a Goddess and mother in Hindu tradition....
Breaking a coconut for Gods and Goddesses is indeed a very common practice in India and hence holds a lot of importance in Hinduism. The coconut fruit is an essen...
Know the various forms of Adi Shakti during the festival of Navratri Navratri is almost always referred to as Navdurga utsav,...
Ayyappa is the Hindu God worshipped in the famous Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple in Kerala. Story of Ayyappa is based on legends that are popular in South India. Legend ...
Navratri Colours 2018: Navratri 2018 is just around the corner and Indians are looking forward to celebrate the nine avatars of Hindu divine Goddess Durga. The fest...
With Navratri just around the corner, there is a significant degree of bliss and felicity in the air surrounding the people of different cultural backgrounds. Owing...
With Navratri just around the corner, there is a significant degree of bliss and felicity in the air surrounding people of different cultural backgrounds. Owing t...
A thousand years after the Buddha’s nirvana, Buddhists finally acquired a goddess of (almost) equal stature to the Buddha. Before this, the only goddess who...
The name of a town near Tokyo in Japan has its origin from Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Counsel General of Japan, Takayuki Kitagawa, on Sunday said that the town &ndash...
India is a land of diverse cultures, with each state having their own traditions and festivals. Teej is one such festival which is mainly celebrated in the northe...
The tale goes back to the time when King Shantanu was the leader of Hastinapur. Shantanu had wedded Goddess Ganga who later gave delivery to a son. But she drowned ...
The Ashtadikpalas are eight in number. As their collective name suggests, they rule the eight quarters or the eight directions of the universe. Ashta means eight,...
Symbolizing victory of positivity over negativity, Navratri literally means 'nine nights' in Sanskrit; Nav - Nine and Ratri - nights. During these nine ni...
The Sapta Matrika are affiliated to Mother Shakti and Skanda, the warrior god. ‘Matrikas’ means mother and ‘Matris’ indicate a group of moth...
In Hindu religion, each day of a week is dedicated to a particular God or Goddesses. Friday or Shukrawar is dedicated to Shakti – the Mother Goddess in Hind...
Nanda Vrata is dedicated to Shiva and it is believed that Goddess Sati observed this vrat to get Shiva as her husband. It is observed during Phalgun Shukla Paksha...
Story of Brahma Purana Brahma is the Hindu God of creation and one of the ‘Trimurti&r...
We have grown up being told Lakshmi (goddess of wealth) and Saraswati (goddess of knowledge) always fight and avoid staying in the same place. This is based on th...
After the ginormous success of Kaabil, Hrithik Roshan is all set to return to celluloid as mathematician Anand Kumar. In the film bankrolled by Sajid Nadiadwala, ...
On January 31, when the whole world will admire the Blue Moon, a rare astronomical occurrence, Wiccans in Mumbai will worship the Moon Godde...
I’ve been to over 10 countries and I recently travelled to Dubai for the first time ever (shocking, no?). Dubai to Indians is what Goa is to Mumbaikars. Almos...
With the launch of a new product, every brand wants to make a big deal out of it. It spends a ton of money on advertising and wants to grab the attention of the m...
Why ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ director could not get the actor he wanted.
Nowadays, people are getting more acquainted with Bollywood than Hollywood movies, because of the sheer talent and presence of our celebrities on the foreign soil. ...
Rajkumar Hirani, the man who forged the most surreal oeuvre of cinematic excellence with merely five films to his name. An industry outsider who happened to be a cr...
One can’t say that thievery is an easy profession, it being a crime is another matter altogether. But one has to set a target, sneak into a house, work stealt...
Delhi, Mumbai too are on the first-ever Prosperity & Inclusion City Seal and Awards (PICSA) Index
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Manchester, has developed a metal-organic framework, or MOF, material that provides a selective, fully...
Mayank Pratap Singh topped the Rajasthan Judiciary Services Examination after completing his five-year law college studies.
There is an increasing public perception that the social dynamics inside the IIT-Madras, which has an exclusive and elitist academic environment, is out of sync wit...
From a moffusil girl in Bihar to becoming the first woman pilot of Indian Navy, it’s been a long journey
Vinay Sharma, one of the convicts facing death penalty for the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student in Delhi, had filed a mercy petition before P...
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The study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, revealed that any form of microbial life was absent in the hot, saline, hyper acid ponds of the ...
Onion price rise: Flanked by their friends, the smiling couple in their bright, crisp wedding clothes takes hold of a packet of onion on their wedding
For the present age Bollywood isn’t only a bollywood outlet, yet it had connected sincerely with the sentiment of fans. From the previous 104 ye...
Very often we hear about or come across look-alikes of celebrities who are living a totally different life, somewhere in another part of the world, miles away. Yo...
When I hear the word startup the image of some youngsters working in a cool environment for 5 days of the week and hanging with venture capitalists in restaurants a...
According to a report by Vice, WWE seems to have committed a pretty clumsy slip-up, accidentally releasing an internal production feed of the NXT UK tapings from ...
‘Bikanervala’ is a leading brand in the line of Indian snacks and sweets. Their specialization in this field dates back to about a hundred years back....
Weeks after Amit Shah accused NCP leader Praful Patel of treason for having bought a property from the wife of an accused terrorist, the 'Mirchi' factor h...