Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 17:14
After participating in festivals like Holi, Dussehra and Diwali, the widows of Vrindavan would be celebrating Christmas at the century-old Meerasahabhagini Ashram as the year comes to an end.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 14:40
The Government is keen that ashrams in Vrindavan, where large numbers of widows reside, set up solar water heating systems and is working to install the facility in one of the ashrams.
Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 15:49
Britain`s state-rescued Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to sell its asset management business Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Group to Aberdeen Asset Management for up to £660 million, it said on Monday.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 19:51
Over a thousand widows of Meerasahabhagni Ashram here, most of them fragile and in their 70s, on Thursday began Diwali festivities after the dusk by bursting crackers and lighting earthen lamps.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 17:16
Breaking the shackles of tradition, at least a thousand widows leading an inconspicuous life in this Mathura town will celebrate Diwali this year.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 18:08
Widows, who usually stay away from worshipping, have inaugurated a Durga Puja at Bhadreswar near Kolkata.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 6, 2013, 19:40
This Durga puja is a homecoming of sorts for 50 Bengali widows from Vrindavan and Mathura.
Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2013, 22:52
Widows will no longer have to present themselves before gazetted officers to verify their status for getting family pension.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 15:34
The government has done away with the requirement for widows to present themselves before two gazetted officers to "verify" their status for getting family pension in certain cases.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 15:16
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 15:40
The temple town of Varanasi on Tuesday witnessed a unique kind of Raksha Bandhan celebration as widows observed the ceremony of tying threads on the wrists of their "brothers" for the first time.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 09:12
Floods in Uttarakhand may have been a one-time event for many, but for the women who have lost their husbands in the disaster, it`s a lifetime agony.
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