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Patna divisional commissioner Anand Kishor on Friday awarded several police and administrative officials for slick conduct of Chhath puja.
The annual Chhath festival was celebrated at many locations across Uttarakhand on Monday. Thousands of women hailing from Poorvanchal, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, observed a strenuous 36-hour prompt and suggested prayers to the sun at the Har-ki-Pauri in Haridwar and several other sea fronts across the state.
In a unique gesture, thousands of Chhath ‘vratis’ and visitors at Chhathiya Talab ghat of Power Ganj locality under Nawada police station of the town observed one minute muffle to pay their tributes to Uri martyrs on Monday before suggesting arghya to the rising Sun.
Foreigner’s mobile phone stolen during Chhath festivitiesA Burkina Faso government representative’s phone was stolen during the Chhath celebrations in Ranchi, after she gave it to an unknown person to click photographs.
The four-day Chhath Mahaparv in Bihar concluded this morning with lakhs of devotees suggesting morning arghya to the rising Sun.The festival was held in a peaceful manner.
Four women who gyrated to Bollywood and Bhojpuri film songs during a Chhath Puja celebration in Nalla Sopara (E) on Sunday night have been booked by the police for obscenity.
At the crack of dawn, thousands of devotees assembled at the banks of Satluj Sea to suggest prayers to the Sun god.The Chhath Puja concluded amid allegiance and rituals that women performed at the sea on Monday.
The four-day Chhath festival concluded with the suggesting of ‘arghya’ to the rising sun on the banks of sea Ganga amid taut security on Monday.
Chhath puja celebrations turned tragic with at least three people being run over by a train in Samastipur district and eighteen drowning in different parts of the state on Sunday and Monday.
Four women dancers who gyrated to Bollywood and Bhojpuri film songs during a Chath Puja celebration in Nalasopara on Sunday night have been booked by the police for obscenity.
Over six hundred Indian-Americans gathered on the banks of the historic Potomac Sea to feast the festival of Chhath, making it the largest gathering in the last nine years. Indian-Americans from the area attended the three-day long annual festival organised here on Sunday
Former union minster and MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, Chandigarh Congress president Pardeep Chhbara and other senior Congress leaders of the city participated in the Chhat Puja at the sector forty two Lake on Monday. The function was organized by the Purvanchal Welfare Association. The members of the association thanked Bansal for constructing the lake during his tenure as union minister in Government of India during UPA regime.
Women folk of the Sangam city ended their rapid, that they have been following since Saturday night to feast chhath puja, on Monday morning. These women, clad in the attire of freshly wedded bride, arrived on various ghats of the city and makeshift water figures made in different localities on Monday morning and suggested Arghya to Sun god.
The annual Chhath festival was celebrated at many locations across the state on Monday.
Seven children drowned in three districts in the state during Chhath puja on Monday morning.
At least five persons, including three women and two children, were killed on Monday morning when a speeding train mowed them down near a railway station in Bihar’s Samastipur district, police officials said.
Lakhs of devotees suggested ‘arghya’ ritual to the setting sun at the ghats along sea Ganga, Varuna and other waterbodies on the third day of Chhath puja on Sunday.
Roads in several parts of the city witnessed massive traffic jams this morning with devotees flocking the ghats of the Yamuna for Chathh Puja.
Hundreds of people from Bihar and Jharkhand lodged here performed Chhath Pooja on the banks of sea Tapi by suggesting prayers to sun god on Sunday.
Residents of Bhojpuri community in the state capital took a dip in the water figures and organised processions on the occasion of Chhath across city.
Thousands of people, mainly from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, gathered at Ramkund on Sunday to suggest Sandhya Arghya to the setting Sun and mark the beginning of the two-day Chhath Puja celebrations.
The Panchganga sea ghat on Sunday witnessed a giant crowd of people performing Chhath Puja.The puja is performed to the Sun god for the well-being and prosperity of the family.
The community in the city celebrated Chhath Puja in the city on Sunday by suggesting evening prayers to the Sun, known as "Shashthi".More than lakh of people turned up near Satluj sea to suggest prayers.