Prabhas Patan: Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut today visited Somnath temple in Gujarat and offered prayer and puja. Kangana had a day ago also visited Dwarkadhish temple in the State and offered puja. DeshGujarat Read More

Prabhas Patan: Shri Somnath Trust has registered Rs. 5.98 crore revenue through donations, puja vidhi fees, prashad and Trust owned guest houses (atithi griha) during holy Shravan month. According to Shri Somnath Trust, the visitors had Rs. 2.13 crore Shiv prashad that include laddu and chikki. Parking department earned Rs. 11.50 lakh. Shri Somnath Trust has installed counting machines to count the number of visitors automatically. As per this, total 18 lakh people visited Somnath t...Read More

Prabhas Patan Somnath: Thousands of visitors had darshan of Somnath Mahadev at Somnath temple here today on Somvar (Monday) of holy Shravan month. The temple opened at 4.00 am. Palkhi yatra commenced at 9.00 am. Jamnagar based Jadeja family offered a turben to Somnath Mahadev like every year. The turban was made after hard work of one month by artist Golaplbhai Pithadiya. A group of 21 members of Chalta Bol Bam Group from Chhattisgarh (Bilaspur) arrived in Somnath with Ganga jal from...Read More

By Minakshi Bhaskar Vaidya, Prabhas Patan, Somnath: World famous Somnath Mahadev temple was rich, with presence of beautiful carving and number of sculptures inside and outside the temple structure in ancient time. To restore such glory, newer sculptures are being carved inside and outside the temple. While the task of carving newer sculptures on outer portion of the temple is over, a team of skilled sculptors have started carving new figures inside the main temple. Around a dozen skilled s...Read More

Somnath: Shri Somnath Trust has cancelled Ganga Dussehra celebration at Triveni Ghat which was scheduled to take place on June 12 in wake of Vayu cyclone. DeshGujaratRead More

Somnath: 69th anniversary of pran pratishtha ceremony of Somnath temple was marked today with various programmes at pilgrim town Somnath. Then President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad had presided over installation ceremony of Somnath Jyotirlinga at 11th of May 1951 at 9.46 am.   Read More

By Japan K Pathak Presented here are the historical details that throw light on how India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had opposed President Rajendra Prasad's decision to attend the installation ceremony of Somnath shiv linga, scheduled to take place on May 11, 1951. Rajendra Prasad was not Nehru's first choice for the post of President: Mathai in his book Mathai in his book Reminiscences of the Nehru Age writes: Nehru did not like the idea of Rajendra Prasad as President becau...Read More

Rajkot: Rs. 1.5 lakh fund was collected instantly in Giri Bapu's Shiv katha session for a poor girl who sells flowers in pilgrim town Somnath for living. A flower vendor girl Payal wishes to learn English to do tourist guide job in Somnath. Giri Bapu asked Payal to come to the stage of Shiv katha and narrated the details of what she does and what she wants to do. As Giri Bapu gave a call for fund, Rs. 1.5 lakh sum was collected instantly. Giri Bapu put this fund in a basket which is used to ...Read More

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today laid the foundation stone of Gujarat’s first-ever 6-lane flyover over single-piers to be built at a cost of Rs.90-crore near Gondal Crossing at Rajkot city for a permanent solution to traffic snarls. He said that another flyover will be built on the other end of Rajkot’s 150-feet wide Ring Road near Madhapar Crossing, for which the state government has already made financial allocation. Rupani said the Ghogha-Dahej Ro-Ro Ferry Service will be shortly ext...Read More