Janmashtami 2025 LIVE Updates: 95 Govindas injured during celebrations, two dead

Janmashtami 2025 LIVE Updates: Dahi Handi in Thane: Five-year-old among nine injured

At least nine `Govindas`, some of them as young as five- and 10 years old, were injured during Dahi Handi celebrations in Thane city on Saturday, civic officials said in the evening: RDMC

Janmashtami 2025 LIVE Updates: 14-year-old `govinda` dies in Mumbai, death toll reaches two

A 14-year-old `Govinda` dies during Dahi Handi festivities in Mumbai and the death toll reached two on Saturday night with around 95 Govindas being reported as injured from various hospitals in city, the BMC said

Janmashtami 2025 LIVE Updates: Dahi Handi celebrations continue in Mumbai amid heavy rains in city

Amid heavy rains, a `govinda` team formed a 10-layer pyramid at an event in Thane, which Maharashtra transport minister Pratap Sarnaik claimed was a "world record". He also announced a prize of Rs 25 lakh for the Konkan Nagar Raja Govinda Team, which achieved the feat. "Earlier, a record of nine layers was set on our stage. Today, govindas of Konkan Nagar achieved ten layers," Sarnaik`s son Purvesh, who organised the Thane event, said: PTI

Janmashtami 2025 LIVE Updates: Sea of devotees throng Lord Krishna temples in Mumbai

In Mumbai’s Dadar, the crowd of devotees thronged Lord Krishna temples and celebrated Janmashtami by smashing handis hung several meters above the ground. The Krishna Janmotsav festivities in Dadar grabbed attention as a group of girls formed a human pyramid and were among the first in the city to break the city’s first Handi: IANS