The temple administration s initiative soon became the talk of the town even as the Etah district recorded 81 Covid-19 positive cases on Wednesday
AGRA: On the second day of Chaitra Navratri Wednesday, devotees visiting a temple in Etah were taken by surprise when they found the idol of goddess Durga wearing a face mask and priests offering masks as ‘prasad’. The temple administration’s initiative soon became the talk of the town even as the Etah district recorded 81 Covid-19 positive cases on Wednesday.
Manoj Sharma, a priest at the Durga temple located on GT Road in Etah, said, “As Navratri is coinciding with the second Covid-19 wave in Uttar Pradesh and people are thronging temples in a large numbers, we have put a face mask on the idol of the goddess and have been distributing face masks as ‘prasad’ to promote Covid-appropriate behaviour among devotees. Besides, we have made proper arrangement for hand sanitiser and also placed Covid-19 advisory at several places o
Joe Biden greets Indian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians on their New Year
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Synopsis (First Lady) Jill (Biden) and I send our warmest wishes to the South Asian and Southeast Asian communities who are celebrating Vaisakhi, Navratri, Songkran and the incoming New Year this week. Happy Bengali, Cambodian, Lao, Myanmarese, Nepali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Thai, and Vishu New Year! Biden said in a tweet on Tuesday.
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Biden and the US first lady were joined by several lawmakers in greeting Indian Americans and Sikhs on the occasion of Vaisakhi. (First Lady) Jill (Biden) and I send our warmest wishes to the South Asian and Southeast Asian communities who are celebrating Vaisakhi, Navratri, Songkran and the incoming New Year this week. Happy Bengali, Cambodian, Lao, Myanmarese, Nepali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Thai, and Vishu New Year! Biden said in a tweet on Tuesday.
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