Jodhpur, Mar 17 : Traders here are performing a ritual in honour of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth, to ward off global recession.

The nine-day ritual being held at the central grounds here commenced on Friday and will conclude on March 21.

Over 400 priests have been performing the rituals amid Vedic chants which reverberate in the entire neighbourhood.

According to head priest Prakharji Maharaj, the ritual would release latent energies of intellectuals and enable them to solve the global recession.

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Jodhpur, Mar 8 : Around 70 vintage cars rolled out at a rally here on Sunday.

The Jodhpur Heritage Car Club hosted the rally.

An array of classic and vintage cars were first lined up at the famed Umed Bhawan Palace of the erstwhile Maharaja (ruler) of Jodhpur from where they were flagged off to Khimsar, a village on the outskirts of the city.

The cars will head back to Jodhpur in the evening and would assemble at Mehrangarh Fort, where a prize distribution ceremony is scheduled to be held.

The world is going ‘royal’ in the real Pink City style on this Holi. Many non-resident Indians (NRIs) in Europe, Middle East and USA will play Holi with the famous gulal gota made of lac and filled with eco-friendly arrarote gulal.

The trend has got the fancy of many in Jaipur, as people bored of throwing water balloons on each other have cling to the eco-friendly way of playing Holi with gulal gota.