In a unique blend of modern technology with religion and mythology, India 's first multi-language Internet portal,
Webdunia.com will let its users pay obeisance to their favourite gods and goddesses and seek blessings thousands of miles away from the comfort of their own home.
On Monday September 24, 2007 as part of Ganeshotsava, Webdunia will feature prayers (aarti) from Mumbai's Shri Siddhivinayak Temple on a special video. This will allow the devotees to have darshans of Lord Shri Siddhivinayak.
Shri Siddhivinayak Temple, Mumbai is the centre of faith and attraction for common man and celebrities alike. In keeping with the sentiments of worshippers of Lord Ganesha, Webdunia.com will allow its users to watch this exclusive video along with a historical and mythological write up on famous temple that is known to attract hundreds of thousands of devotees during the 10-day long Ganesh Utsav. This will be available across all 9 languages that Webdunia offers.
It may be recalled that in the recent past celebrities like Amitabh Bachhan, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan visited the temple to pay their obeisance and seek blessings.
Webdunia has featured important religious places--Temples , Mosques, Gurudwaras, and Churches—in its Dharma Yatra (Religious Journies) Channel in 9 Indian languages. The viewers get information on the selected religious places in the form of detailed write ups, exclusive photo gallery and videos.
In the coming weeks Webdunia will feature the famous Dargah of Khhwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer and Sawai Madhopur based Mahavirji, a temple famous with the followers of Digamber Jains. This is in lieu of 'Paryushan' that are on for Digamber Jain followers. The religion channel also carries information on how to get there, in addition to exclusive stories and coverage by its team of special correspondents.
Some of the recent holy places covered on Webdunia include the famous temples of Mahankaal, Sabrimala, Shri Omkareshwar, Shri Nagchandreshwar, Tryambakeshwar, Mangalnath, ISKCON and Khajrana .
It may be recalled that as a part of its ambitious plan to emerge as the country's largest portal, Webdunia launched portals in 5 additional languages—Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Punjabi. This takes the total number of language portals to 9, highest by a single company.
With these 9 portals, Webdunia is now able to reach over four-fifth of India 's population. As literacy rate is more than 60%, nearly 500 million Indians can now view the latest news, sports, entertainment and astrology via Webdunia.
Unique Email in 11 Indian languages
Webdunia email service has now build in ease of input in 11 Indian languages, seamless transmission and display on a recipient's computer screen. The email service is available in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Interestingly, for sending an e-mail in any of the 11 languages the sender does not need a language key board or language software. Nor does the recipient need any language software.
About WebduniaWebdunia, India's largest multi-lingual portal, offers quality content to the people of different religions, cultures and age groups. Nine Indian language portals of Webdunia offer channels like news from the world of politics, sports and human interest stories, Bollywood, Life-Style, Religion, Science, IT, Career, Astrology, Literature, etc. Live cricket commentary, ticker and Webdunia Poll are some other major highlights of Webdunia language portals.
Email service is available in 11 languages—Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
Headquartered in Indore, Webdunia Content and Technology development centres operate from Chennai, Indore and Thiruvananthapuram.
Notes to the Editors
1. Webdunia portals are in 9 languages
2. Email service is available in 11 languages-Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati,
Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
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