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Hans India
22-07-2025
- Hans India
Hyd'bad top cop flags off grand Bonalu procession
Hyderabad: Hyderabad City Police Commissioner CV Anand, accompanied by his wife Lalitha Anand, visited the Sri Akkanna Madanna Temple on Monday and officially flagged off the Ghatam procession. On this occasion, the Commissioner expressed his immense happiness to participate in the procession and extended his gratitude and best wishes to the temple management and the organisers. The Commissioner highlighted the remarkable 350-year history of the Sri Akkanna Madanna Temple. He noted that during the Qutub Shahi rule in 1675, pujas were performed here for a decade. Following the demise of Akkanna and Madanna, the pujas ceased. However, after India gained independence, the temple was meticulously reconstructed, and its sacred pujas and festivals were joyfully resumed. Anand recounted that Goddess Mahankali was historically invoked to protect everyone from plagues, diseases, and floods, and she consistently provided that protection. CV Anand also mentioned that the Bonalu festival has been celebrated grandly for the past month, with Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Konda Surekha taking a special interest and providing all necessary support to organise it on an unprecedented scale this year. Regarding security arrangements, the Commissioner explained that robust police security had been put in place at the temple and along the Ghatam procession route to prevent stampedes. He also stated that arrangements had been made in coordination with all departments to ensure devotees faced no inconvenience. He further noted that She Teams and Crime Teams had been deployed specifically to prevent eve-teasing, pickpocketing, and chain snatching. The Commissioner thanked all Hyderabad officials for performing their duties to ensure the Bonalu festival was conducted peacefully. Among the officials present were Vikram Singh Mann (Additional CP, Law and Order), D Joel Davis (Joint CP Traffic), K Apoorva Rao (DCP Special Branch), Sneha Mehra (DCP South Zone), Rakshitha Krishna Murthy (DCP CAR Headquarters), and Venkateswarlu (DCP Traffic).
Hans India
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hans India
Temples in Old City get decked up for celebrations
Hyderabad: The stage is all set for the last leg of state festival of Ashada Masam Bonalu in the city, as the temples in the city, particularly in the Old City, have been decked up with illumination for the two-day cultural extravaganza on Sunday and Monday. Starting from Sri Jagadambika Temple in Golkonda Fort on June 26, the Bonalu Festival was grandly celebrated in different parts of the city. There was Kalyana Mahotsavam of Sri Yellamma at Balkampet, two days festival on July 13 and 14 at Sri Ujjaini Mahankali at Secunderabad as part of the Lashkar Bonalu Jatara, at Mahankali temples at Begum Bazar, Goshamahal, Chandanwadi on July 16. Now the final date of pooja will be held in all parts of the city and the major attraction will be at the Old City. The Ummidi Devalayala Uregimpu Committee, which has 25 temples from Old City, has made big arrangements for the grand celebrations of Bonalu during the last Sunday of Ashada Masam. While the festival falls on Sunday and Monday, the temples gave a crowded look from Thursday itself where several VIPs, Shiva Sattulu came to the temple with offering and Bonams. The Ghatam Sthapana was completed on July 13 in the old city temples like Sri Lal Darwaza Simhavahini Mahankali Temple, Sri Akkanna Madanna Mahankali Temple. On Friday, the Executive officer of the Vijayawada Sri Durga Malleshwara Swamy temple Sena Nayak along with vedic scholars and officials visited the Lal Darwaja Simhavahini Sri Mahankali Temple and presented Silk Clothes to the Goddess. The Lal Darwaja Temple Committee Chairman B. Maruti Yadav welcomed them and honoured them.
