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MIDWEST EDITION | EAST COAST EDITION | Volume 7 • Issue No. 375 SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 | THE COMMUNITY FIRST www.hiindiaLive.com
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People flooded the Vatican to celebrate the highly-anticipated canonization of Mother Teresa, an event which Catholics and nonCatholics alike looked forward to since the nun’s death
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Ganesh festivities begin Modi talks with fanfare, prayers tough on terror G The festival, initiated in an open public format in 1892 by Mumbai’s Bhausaheb Laxman Javale alias Bhau Rangari, enters the 125th year IANS, MUMBAI/HYDERABAD/ BHOPAL/CHENNAI/BENGALURU
anesh Chaturthi, marking the beginning of 10day festivities, was celebrated across the country with the installation of idols of the elephant-headed Hindu god. Cities in various states wore a festive look as the festivities kicked off amid gaiety and the prayers by devotees. Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra shifted into a festive gear with the arrival at homes and public places of thousands of big, medium and small idols for the annual Ganeshotsav. The festival, initiated in an open public format in 1892 by Mumbai’s Bhausaheb Laxman Javale alias Bhau Rangari, enters the 125th year. It was popularised on a mass scale by freedom-fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak from 1893 onwards in Pune to unite the people against the British Rule and in the struggle for Indian Independence. In less than a decade, it had spread across the state in a big way and even other parts of the country where public Ganeshotsav celebrations were held. A century and a quarter later, the festival has transformed into Maharashtra’s biggest, most opulent, glittering fiesta drawing lakhs of devotees and tourists, with the biggest celebrations held in Mumbai, Pune
Ganesh festivities begin with K fanfare, prayers
Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh with family members perform rituals on Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai. (Photo: IANS)
and the coastal Konkan region. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis started the Ganeshotsav at ‘Varsha’, the official chief ministerial bungalow, with an ‘aarti’ (an invocation) and his wife Amruta sang bhajans in praise of Lord Ganesh. Union Surface Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and his family also installed an idol at their private home in Nagpur and performed a puja before a large gathering.
No special status for Andhra, Center promises aid
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NEW DELHI/VIJAYAWADA: Making it clear that Andhra Pradesh will not be accorded special category status, the Centre said the state will be provided monetary compensation through externally aided projects. After day-long suspense and hectic consultation in the national capital, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced on Wednesday night that the state will get monetary advantage equivalent to what it would have got if it was accorded the special category status. Jaitley made it clear that then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement made in Rajya Sabha on Feb 20, 2014 for according special status to Andhra Pradesh can’t be implemented as the 14th Finance Commission has recommended that
the special category status can be given to only hill states and NorthEastern states. “We have decided to give a special assistance measure for the state of Andhra Pradesh wherein an amount equivalent to what they would have got if that statement could have been implemented, will be compensated to the state by virtue of externally aided projects,” he said without giving any figure. Jaitley, who was accompanied by central ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu and Y.S. Chowdary, said this special assistance will be for five years — 2015-2020. On Polavarm irrigation project, he said from April 1, 2014 when it was declared a national project, the entire funding will be met by the Centre.
At Mumbai’s King’s Circle, one of the biggest draw is the 68-kg pure gold adorned with 325 kg silver, including a 15-kg silver marquee for the idol installed at the GSB Seva Mandal. Among the celebs, film stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Sachin Pilgaokar, several Marathi actors, television stars, and others like Lata Mangeshkar have installed Lord Ganesh idols at their homes in
Mumbai. Thousands of idols were installed in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana. The festivities also began amid fanfare in Andhra Pradesh. In Hyderabad, Lord Ganesha’s idols of all sizes and in different colours and ‘avtars’ were installed in specially decorated ‘pandals’ or on makeshift platforms in residential neighbourhoods and commercial centres. About 40,000 idols have been installed in public places.
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arnataka was set for a shut down on September 9 in protest against the state government releasing Cauvery river waters to Tamil Nadu on the Supreme Court’s order. “The day-long state-wide shutdown is in protest against the Supreme Court order and to express resentment over the state government releasing the water when we don’t have it for drinking and irrigation,” Kannada Okkuta (federation) president Vatal Nagaraj told reporters. Several pro-Kannada and farmers’ organisations have extended support to the shutdown, which
will disrupt normal life, with bus services suspended, schools, colleges, hotels, shops, markets, theatres, banks and factories remaining closed. “Unfortunately, Karnataka is always at the receiving end in inter-state river water disputes, bet it with Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh (Krishna river)
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