Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) - Thousands of people, including foreign tourists, were Wednesday celebrating Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, in his home ground where Hinduisms most popular god was said to have been born.
Temples in Mathura, Vrindavan and Agra, known as the brajbhoomi, were decked up with flowers and devotees flocked to them from across the country.
Mathura, which is known as Krishnas Janmbhoomi (birthplace), had the most number of people queuing up to seek a glimpse of the idol of Krishna, also known as the blue-god who is part of the Hindu Trinity. Pilgrims started arriving in huge numbers Monday itself, taking advantage of the extended weekend owing to Indias Independence Day Tuesday.
The river Yamuna looked pristine, flowing right up to the brim of the vast banks.
Related Travel Information
NEW DELHI: The mercury soared to an abysmal high — touching 47 degrees in some parts — on Sunday, leaving almost 50 people dead across the country. Though authorities did not have exact figures of casualties, reports coming in from different states pointed to the harshest summer in a long
New Delhi - The major monuments of Agra, which draw thousands of tourists every day, have been interlinked through radio communication networks by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for better security.
Minister for Culture and Tourism Ambika Soni said the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Itimad-ud-Daulah, Ram Bagh, Mehtab Bagh, Akbars
Airtel launched Airtel broadband and telephone services in Agra last week. The city will now form part of the Airtel network of fixed-line services present in Ghaziabad, Noida, Meerut and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, besides 10 other states.
Announcing the launch of these services, in Agra, Rohtash Mal, CEO,
Four persons, including the son and wife of a hotel owner, were arrested tonight in connection with the alleged rape of a Japanese tourist in Pushkar.
The arrested included Babloo, whose father owns Hotel Quiet Palace, Roshani, the wife of the owner, Raju and Sanjay, Ajmer superintendent of police Sriniwas Janga
NEW DELHI: This team did not even make it to the second round of Microsofts world premier student technology competition Imagine Cup-2006 which ended here on Friday. But they are winners nevertheless.
For a team that calls itself AG-107 from Lebanon, just having made it to Agra (where they took
AGRA: At least four students were injured on Thursday when police resorted to lathi charge to disperse them when they blocked the Agra-Kanpur by-pass here to protest the cancellation of BSc forestry results, examination for which was held in 2004.
However, Senior Superintendent of Police, Agra, Rajiv Krishna said that
Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos will arrive in India April 11 for a weeklong visit that will focus on intensifying economic and technological cooperation between the two countries.
Accompanied by senior ministers and a business delegation, Papadopoulos will visit Agra, Mumbai and Bangalore.
In Bangalore, Papadopoulos - the fifth president of
With the rise in petroleum prices throwing household budgets out of gear, Agra industrialists, utilising CNG for operating their units, too have got worried at the imminent rise in gas prices.
According to local industrialists, CNG was being delivered to their units by Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL)
AGRA : Recently Abishek Kumarasubramanian, a student of IIT-Madras, became an instant star amongst fellow techies– he was selected for a one-year internship with Bill Gates and will work directly with his technical assistants team at Microsofts Redmond headquarters after winning the Microsoft Code4Bill contest.
Now, four Indian students
Apart from a few large footwear manufacturers, the Agra footwear industry mainly comprises 800-1,000 small-scale units engaged in the manufacture of low-cost leather and non-leather shoes and accessories.
But while the footwear manufacturers in the upper price segment are reaping the maximum profits by exporting footwear to European countries,