Agra’s new airport may be built nearer to Vrindavan

May 9, 2012

ShareIANS: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 – 15:30 AGRA: Agra is furious. If its business leaders are to be believed, an airport that citizens of the Taj city were lobbying for may now come up between Mathura and Aligarh districts. The Uttar Pradesh government has reportedly initiated exercises to locate the proposed airport at a place called [...]

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Supreme Court: Vrindavan’s widows to be enumerated in full detail, children tracked down

May 9, 2012

Taking note of pitiable condition of widows in Vrindavan of Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed a seven-member panel to collect data on their socio-economic conditions.

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Public Accounts Committee (PAC) faults CPCB for Vrindavan Eco-cities program irregularities

April 28, 2012

ShareIrregularities in Eco-City Programme, probe role of CPCB: PAC (PTI) A report tabled by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in both Houses of Parliament today noted that the CPCB was authorised to implement the Eco-City Programme in six historically important cities including Kottayam, Puri, Thanjavur, Tirupati, Ujjain and Vrindavan and audit scrutiny of the projects [...]

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Yadav government announces plans to make Vrindavan a “tourist hub”

April 22, 2012

ShareAsian Age: The Akhilesh Yadav government is preparing an ambitious blueprint for the development of Mathura-Vrindavan, the birthplace of Lord Krishna, as a major tourist destination. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has asked various departments, including tourism, PWD, power, housing and forest, to develop the blueprint and present it to him at the earliest. The housing [...]

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Yamuna cleanup taken up in Agra to avoid Supreme Court intervention

April 20, 2012
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The Agra district authorities have begun an exercise to clean up the Yamuna, fearing Supreme Court action on non-implementation of its directives on the pollution threat to the 17th century Taj Mahal.

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Akhilesh Yadav wants faster work on Agra international airport, facilities at Vrindavan and Govardhan

April 19, 2012

ShareLucknow, April 19 (Headlines India): In a fresh impetus to tourism in and around the Agra region, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today asked officials to complete all ground work for the international airport project at Agra and to chalk out a plan to encourage tourist influx in the Braj area. Chairing a high-level meeting [...]

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Vrindavan Today’s tomorrow

April 18, 2012
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Due to lack of time and funds, it is not possible for me to continue with this project for the time being. If anyone wishes to sponsor this important endeavor so that we can get competent help and material facilities, we welcome their help.

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Film Review: “Rasa Yatra: A pilgrimage into the heart of India”

April 14, 2012

Share this is a review for the film Rasa Yatra, a four-year labor of love for film director Param Tomanec, artist in residence both at Vrindavan’s Sri Chaitanya Prema Samsthana and Oxford University’s Centre for Hindu Studies. The film guides its viewers through several scenes in India, eventually taking them to what Tomanec has called [...]

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Music event with compositions honoring Yamuna-ji supports river cleaning campaign in Vrindavan

April 9, 2012
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The banks of the polluted Yamuna river came alive to the soul-stirring strains of a unique musical protest that bemoaned nature’s bountiful beauty turning into a sewage drain and hoped for better sense that would one day revive its ‘divine glory’.

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Retired officer to fight urbanisation along Yamuna Expressway

March 1, 2012

Shanker said that retirement did not mean that she would give up the issue she had raised and that she would fight against “massive urbanisation along the Yamuna Expressway” besides filing “a defamation case against those who humiliated” her. “I am a free bird now. No restraints, no bindings’’, she said.

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