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The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has set out an ambitious roadmap to transform Katra into a clean, vibrant town equipped with modern infrastructure, aimed at improving the quality of life for residents and enhancing the experience of millions of pilgrims who visit the holy shrine every year, as newsonair reported.Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant…
NEW DELHI: The wife of a priest was stabbed to death inside a temple located on the premises of a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) housing society in east Delhi’s Mansarovar Park on Sunday. Within hours, police detained a suspect. He told cops that he wanted to kill the priest, Mahesh Sharma, as the latter harboured…
JAMMU: No evidence was found of any negligence on part of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board CEO and other officials in the death of more than 30 pilgrims in the Aug 26 landslide, the Bhawan police station SHO has said in an action taken report (ATR) submitted before a judicial magistrate’s court in Katra,…
At least seven people were killed and 150 injured after an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Afghanistan on Sunday.According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake hit at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles) near Mazar-e Sharif, which has a population of about 523,000.“A total of 150 people injured and seven martyred have…
VISHAKHAPATNAM/VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh police sealed Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in Kasibugga of Srikakulam district and barred public entry Sunday, a day after nine devotees were killed in a stampede at the newly built shrine, report Nalla Babu & Srikrishna Kummara.District police chief KV Maheswara Reddy said the temple would remain closed indefinitely. The bodies of…
JAMMU: A court in Katra town of J&K’s Reasi district has asked police to submit an action taken report (ATR) over a complaint seeking an FIR against Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) officials for alleged criminal negligence that resulted in the deaths of 34 pilgrims en route to the cave shrine in a…
