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New six-lane highway to connect Govardhan with Jaipur, Agra
Vrindavan, 2017.05.01 (VT): With Yogi Adityanath’s government focused on developing roads to and within the State’s pilgrimage destinations, the road to Govardhan is also getting an upgrade. A new...
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Sants and Brajwasis Protest Mathura-Vrindavan Merger
Vrindavan, 2017.05.01 (AU, VT): A merger of the Vrindavan Municipality with Mathura seems imminent. But all over Vrindavan, Brajwasis are protesting against the merger. On Sunday a major meeting was...
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Vrindavan widows take to the streets to protest Mathura merger
Vrindavan, 2017.05.02 (VT): The world-famous widows of Vrindavan took to the streets on Monday to protest the proposed merger of Mathura and Vrindavan. Other elderly women and sadhvis also joined the...
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Vraja Vilasa: I worship the best of mountains
I worship the best of mountains, the mountains of Braj like Govardhan. Their colorful mineral pigments adorn Shri Krishna and his affectionate friends. By the sides of those mountains Krishna herds the...
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Ten thousand trees to be axed for Barsana highway project
Vrindavan, 2017.05.03 (VT, DJ): Recently we reported about a new six-lane highway to be built from Chhatikara to the Bharatpur Highway via Govardhan. Now another important road of Braj will be re-done....
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Village bans girls from using phones outside, to discourage love marriages
Mathura, 2017.05.03 (VT): On Wednesday, the village of Madora in Mathura District decided to ban girls from using mobile phones outside of their homes. By tightening control over girls, the village...
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The Trees of Vrindavan and Gauranga Das Babaji: Miracles and Blessings
Vrindavan, 2017.05.03 (VT): Siddha Gauranga Das Babaji Maharaj had a special relationship with the trees of Vrindavan. He talked to them and read to them from scriptures like Radha Ras Sudha Nidhi and...
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Lewd photo scandal: police catch suspect with help from Facebook
Vrindavan, 2017.05.04 (VT, DJ): Last week fifty school-age girls from Vrindavan had their photos secretly taken from inappropriate angles and uploaded on Facebook with lewd captions by an unidentified...
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Why a harassed Indian lesbian couple going missing does not make news
Mathura, 2017.05.03 (DailyO): In the last few years, there has been a significant difference in the way Indians see homosexuality. With activists speaking out more openly against the draconian Section...
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Mathura Ranked 352nd in Cleanliness Survey
Vrindavan, 2017.05.05 (DJ, VT): The Central Urban Ministry on Thursday issued a list ranking the sanitation levels of 434 Indian cities. Mathura came in 352nd on that list. It is a matter of great...
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Lord Sankarshan Comes from Tirupati to Govardhan
Vrindavan, 2017.05.06 (VT): A massive deity of Shri Sankarshan Bhagwan (a form of Dauji Maharaj) is being installed today at Sankarshan Kund in Govardhan. The beautiful black deity was sculpted in...
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Vrindavan residents hold hunger strike, rallies against Mathura merger
Vrindavan, 2017.05.06 (VT): All the major community groups of Vrindavan have found a common platform in protest of the Mathura-Vrindavan merger. The Vrindavan community has started an indefinite relay...
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Cops illegally sell human body to medical college, probe
Mathura, 2017.05.05 (PTI): The body of an unidentified person, who had been found dead, was allegedly sold to a private medical college in Mathura by policemen, prompting the authorities to order a...
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Shrikant Sharma Promises a Clean Mathura by October 2, 2018
Vrindavan, 2017.05.07 (AU, VT): UP Power Minister and MLA from Mathura Shrikant Sharma peformed an inspection of Mathura’s sanitary system on Saturday. The inspection was in response to the recent...
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Now BJP opposes merger of Vrindavan and Mathura municipalities
Agra, 2017.05.05 (Anuja Jaiswal, TNN): After Ascetics, BJP activists in Vrindavan are opposing their own government’s move to merge the municipalities of Mathura and Vrindavan and rechristen it as...
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The Difference Between Mathura and Vrindavan
Vrindavan, 2017.05.07 (VT): With the impending merger of Mathura and Vrindavan into a single entity called “Mathura-Vrindavan”, I have been thinking a lot about how misunderstood Vrindavan has become....
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Appearance Day of Shri Hit Harivansh
Vrindavan, 2017.05.08 (VT) The Appearance Day of Shri Hit Harivansh Mahaprabhu, the founder of the Radhavallabh Sampraday, was celebrated on Saturday. Shri Hit Harivansh’s family was from Deoband in...
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Shri Radharaman Lal’s 475th Appearance Day to be Celebrated on May 10th
Vrindavan, 2017.05.08 (VT): Four hundred and seventy five years ago, Shri Radharaman manifested from a shaligram shila by the love and prayers of the great saint Shri Gopal Bhatt Goswami. This most...
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Vrindavan Prepares for Narsingh Jayanti
Vrindavan, 2017.05.08 (VT): Preparations for Narsingh Jayanti (The Appearance Day of Narsingh Dev) are in full swing in all the Narsingh temples in Vrindavan. Masks of the Holy Face of Lord Narsingh...
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Vraja-vilasa : The rivers and lakes in the hot season
I always worship all the rivers and lakes of Vraja, in whose waters Krishna plays with his charming friends in the summertime, eager to defeat these friends, that also all desire victory, and with whom...
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