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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, along with her officers and city police, visited several spots for conducting the Varanasi-like Ganga Aarti in Kolkata.

The Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, founded by Swami Vivekananda, whose 161st birth anniversary is being celebrated throughout the country on Thursday, had spent Rs 943 crore on welfare works, both in India and overseas, during the ...

Vivekananda, original name Narendranath Datta, Datta also spelled Dutt, (born January 12, 1863, Calcutta [now Kolkata]—died July 4, 1902, near Calcutta), Hindu spiritual leader and reformer in India who attempted to combine Indian spirituality with Western material progress, maintaining that the two supplemented and complemented one another. His Absolute was a person’s own higher self; to labour for the benefit of humanity was the noblest endeavour. Born into an upper-middle-class family of the Kayastha (scribes) caste in Bengal, he was educated at a Western-style university where he was ...

A ghost organisation, Sevika Sangha, was trying to discreetly replace the old statue of Sister Nivedita – a disciple of Swami Vivekananda – with a new one. New marble plaques with Hindi quotations were also installed.

After a gap of two years, hundreds of devotees and followers of Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Swami Vivekananda could participate in Christmas celebration within the premises of the Belur Math - Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission in Howrah ...