Palanpur: Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today speaking here announced that 500-metre area around Ambaji Shaktipith temple and Somnath Jyotirling temple as ‘No Non-Veg Zone’, with ban of non-vegetarian. He said the government decided to start development works worth Rs.338-crore for Banaskantha district for drinking water, stairway leading up to the Ambaji temple, skywalk, two-way ropeway, toilets, CCTV cameras, public address system, dining hall for 2,000 at a time, new Prasad grih, rooftop...Read More

Ambaji: Nita Ambani, wife of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman and billionaire Industrialist Mukesh Ambani, chairperson and founder of the Reliance Foundation and a non-executive director of Reliance Ltd today visited famous Ambaji temple in North Gujarat to perform special puja and place daughter Isha Ambani's wedding invitation before the mother goddess Ma Amba. Ambani family is among major donors to Ambaji Temple Trust. Ambaji temple was decorated with flowers on Ambani's arrival....Read More

Ambaji: Mumbai based pilgrim Bhavik Mohanlal Sanghvi has donated 522 gran gold in the form of Jaldhari to Ambaji Mandir Trust. The donation is valued at Rs 15.16 lakh. Navratri is one of seasons during which the temple trust receives huge amount of donation. The other period during which gold and cash donation inflow is witnessed in high proportion is Bhadarvi punam fair which concluded recently. DeshGujaratRead More

Ambaji: 19-25 September Bhadarvi Punam fair 2018 has concluded today at pilgrim town Ambaji in North Gujarat. According to the government release, 26 lakh pilgrims had darshan of Ambaji during the fair. More than 22 lakh prasad packets were distributed among pilgrims. Over 3 lakh deovotees had bhojan prasad. 6,773 religious flags were offered to the temple. 1600 State Transport(ST) buses were operated covering more than 11,000 trips. 6 lakh pilgrims were offered transport service. Ahmedabad base...Read More

Ambaji (North Gujarat): Special focus has been kept on cleanliness and plastic-free theme during the week long Bhadarvi Poonam Mela of the world famous Ambaji temple in Banaskantha district of North Gujarat which began today. Several first-time measures including deployment of drone cameras for surveillance and provision of Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) for preventing any possibility of missing of a children in the highly crowded fair and easy tracking in such cases h...Read More

Ambaji (Gujarat): Days before the famous Bhadarvi Poonam mela in Ambaji pilgrimage town in Banaskantha district of North Gujarat, local business community and street vendors today organized a bandh and also clashed with police to protest against the complete ban on use of plastic in the town. Police has also detained around half a dozen demonstrators. After closing their shops, the business community members also tried to block the road near Jodi Vakli circle by keeping burnin...Read More

Ambaji: Pilgrim town Ambaji will get a bypass highway which will divert the traffic to and from Rajasthan to a bypass and make the pilgrim town free from traffic of trucks and other highway vehicles. At present, the trucks and other highway vehicles need to pass through the pilgrim town on way to and from neighbouring state Rajasthan. A new bypass which ay come up next to GMDC ground will solve the issue of traffic in Ambaji town as highway vehicles will be diverted to bypass on way to Abu Ro...Read More

Ambaji: Two buses were attacked by unidentified persons on Hadad - Ambaji highway early in the wee hours today. A complaint has been filed in this regard in Ambaji police station. According to complainant Arvind Parmar who is driver in Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation(GSRTC), he was driving the bus to reach Ambaji. At 2.30 am the bus suffered stone pelting near Chikhla village slop next to Ranpur on Hadad-Ambaji road. Main frontal glass and one window glass were broken after hit by s...Read More

Ambaji: With effect from Wednesday, April 18, the time of darshan and aarti in Ambaji temple has changed. The new time table is between Akhatrij and Ashadhi bij. Instead of two aartis per day, now three aartis will be performed. Mangla aarti will take place at 7.00 am, Madhyahan aarti at 12.30 pm and Sandhya aarti will be done at 7.00 pm. Darshan in mandir will be available between 7.30 am to 10.45 am in the morning, 1 pm to 4.30 pm in the afternoon and upto 9.15 pm after Sandhya aarti...Read More