With less than three weeks left for the annual pilgrimage season at Sabarimala to begin, the Travancore Devaswom Board and various governments departments are racing to finalise preparations. On Tuesday, Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan convened a meeting at Pampa to review the arrangements in place. The meeting decided to appoint Arun S. Nair as Sabarimala … Read more
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during a press conference, in New Delhi on November 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI On the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the Punjab government on November 27 launched the ‘Mukhya Mantri Tirth Yatra Yojna’ under which elderly people of the State would be sent on pilgrimage free of … Read more
Traffic on the national highway that connects New Delhi to Haridwar is crawling. As frustrated drivers with horns blaring wait, they watch men — and it is mostly men — overtake them on foot in a lane that has been blocked off for vehicles. In a kind of spiritual marathon that runs between 30 km … Read more
Ahead of the reopening of the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor for “Holy Darshan” on Wednesday, India and Pakistan have agreed to allow only fully vaccinated individuals to undertake the pilgrimage. This means that all pilgrims will have to carry a negative RT-PCR report and Covid-19 vaccination certificates. The Kartarpur Sahib Corridor links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in … Read more