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Articles tagged under: Raksha Bandhan
SMC announces free city bus travel for women and children on Raksha Bandhan
August 27, 2023
Surat: Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has declared free travel for women and children on Raksha Bandhan festival day like every year. SMC has also announced that a special women-only bus shall be operated on the ONGC - Sarthana route on experimental basis. Raksha Bandhan this year falls on 30th August. DeshGujaratRead More
In Pictures: Raksha Bandhan 2022 celebration across Gujarat
August 11, 2022
Ahmedabad: The festival of Raksha Bandhan is being celebrated in the city with much fanfare. On the auspicious day of Raksha Bandhan, the sister ties rakhi to her brother and the Brahmins also change their Janoi, which has a special significance. View this post on Instagram A post shared by DeshGujarat (@deshgujaratinsta) Muslim women in the Jamalpur area of Ahmedabad tied rakhi to a cutout of PM Narendra Modi and prayed for his long life. View this post on ...Read More
In pictures: Brahmins change Janeu on Raksha Bandhan day
August 22, 2021
In pictures: Brahmins in Gujarat changing Janeu on Rakshabandhan today at Ahmedabad. View this post on Instagram A post shared by DeshGujarat (@deshgujaratinsta) Read More
In photos: Muslim women in Jamalpur, Ahmedabad tie Rakhi to Narendra Modi’s cutout
August 18, 2021
In pictures: Muslim women tying Rakhi to a cut out of Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi in Jamalpur area of Ahmedabad ahead of Raksha Bandhan on which sisters tie Rakhi to their brothers. The Muslim women in Jamalpur have also sent a silver Rakhi to Delhi for Prime Minister Modi. Read More
PETA billboard in Ahmedabad urges people to protect cows and go leather-free on Raksha Bandhan; Netizens ask, are Rakhis ever made of leather?
July 16, 2020
Gandhinagar: A billboard of animal rights advocacy group PETA in Jivraj Park - Vejalpur area of the city has triggered uproar on social media platforms. The billboard, appeals people to give up leather to protect the cows on the occasion of Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan. Netizens in their social media posts are asking, what is the connection of leather and Raksha Bandhan? Rakhis that are tied on Raksha Bandhan day are never ever made of leather! Leather is nowhere used while celebrating Raksha B...Read More
Raksha Bandhan celebrated with joy and enthusiasm across Gujarat
August 10, 2014Women MPs from Gujarat presented Rakhis brought from Gujarat based party workers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi Ahmedabad, 10 August 2014 Festival of Raksha Bandhan was celebrated with joy and enthusiasm across Gujarat today. Chief Minister Anandiben Patel tied rakhi to specially abled children, unprivileged women and police persons in Gandhinagar. She also visited national president of BJP Shri Amit Shah's residence in Thaltej area of Ahmedabad and ti...Read More
Chief Minister Anandiben Patel’s Raksha Bandhan programmes
August 09, 2014Gandhinagar, 9 August, 2014 Chief Minister Anandiben Patel will celebrate Raksha Bandhan at Adalaj police station in Gandhinagar tomorrow. Chief Minister will tie Rakhi to policemen at Adalaj police station which is located on Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway. She will also visit Dabhoda(Gandhinagar district) based Bhikshuk Gruh to celebrate the festival with women. Chief Minister has invited 500 deaf and fumb, blind, specially abled children at her home to tie...Read More
Rakhis featuring Modi in market ahead of Raksha Bandhan(video)
August 07, 2014var vtn_player_type="vp"; var ven_video_key="NTY3MTM1fHwxMzQwfHxudWxsfHwxLDIsMQ=="; var ven_width="405"; var ven_height="325"; Rajkot, August 7 (ANI), 2014 As Raksha Bandhan_draws closer, women and young girls in Gujarat are thronging the shops selling sacred threads known as rakhis that are available in different colours and varieties. In Rajkot, rakhis with miniature pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are selling like hotcakes for the festival. Th...Read More
Your raksha kavach protects me:Modi tells women on Raksha Bandhan(Video)
August 20, 2013Gandhinagar, 20 August 2013 var ven_video_key="MTQ2MTI1fHwxMzQwfHxudWxsfHwxLDIsMQ=="; var ven_width="405"; var ven_height="325"; Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi today celebrated Raksha Bandhan with women karyakartas and citizens in capital town Gandhinagar. In his brief address(presented in the video above) Shri Modi "I always experience that while serving the nation, I am always protected through the raksha kavach given to me by women of this...Read More
Muslim Rakhee maker thanks Modi for encouragement(Video)
August 19, 2013Ahmedabad, 19 August 2013 Muslim Rakhee making artist Iqbalbhai in Ahmedabad thanks Narendra Modi for encouragement and support. Iqbalbhai offers Rakhees with Narendra Modi's signature on it. He says such rakhee packets are in great demand. Iqbalbhai has made rakhees with social messages. He has been inspired by Chief Minister Narendra Modi's drives for social good causes like girl child education, ban on Gutkha etc. Iqbalbhai says the rakhees in his collection were made...Read More
