They said that Nihita and her family had been allowed to conduct a tika ceremony, along with the relatives of hundreds of other prisoners.

Carrying forward the ceremony in traditional style, sisters perform aarti for their brother and apply a red tika on the brother's forehead.

In the past, until the fall of Monarchism in 2008, the only Hindu Monarch on the Planet, the King of Nepal, used to put tika on the foreheads of the people.

In Hinduism, the tilaka, tilak or tika ( ; tilak ) is a mark worn on the forehead and other parts of the body.

The Rajput chief replied that, in order to dissipate their fears on this head, as well as to perpetuate the remertlbrance of the supremacy thus voluntarily conferred, he would solemnly bind himself and his successors to receive the tika of inauguration from the hands of the descendants of the elders of Shekhsir and Roneah, and that the gadi Should be deemed vacant until such rite was administered.

The fifth and last day of Tihar is Bhai Tika, a day where sisters put " tika " on foreheads of brothers, to ensure long life, and thank them for the protection they give.

A boy, wearing the Tilaka | tika, made for special occasion of Bhai teeka in Nepal

Formerly, women among the well-to-do used to wear for the head, like rnuda, rakhadi, kegada, phul, gulabache phul and chandrakora, for the neck, such as thushi, galasari, Putalyachi mal ; and tika ; for the ears the bugadi, karaba ; kudi, kapa and ghuma ; for the nose, nath, phuli, moti.

Sikaran comes from the root word sikad which means kick in Tagalog, Capampangan ( e. g. sikaran daka-" I'm going to kick you "), as well as Cebuano ( e. g. " sikaran tika ").

This is a day when the dog is worshipped by applying tika ( the holy vermilion dot ), incense sticks and garlanded generally with marigold flower.

A boy wearing a Dhaka topi | Nepali cap and a tika.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

The decoration will be presented by A. Trichieri, Italian consul general in Boston, at a ceremony at 30 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the plant, which this year is celebrating its golden anniversary.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27, 1957, the Best Foreign Language Film category was introduced.

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

The ceremony of such a blessing is similar in some aspects to the consecration of a bishop, with the new abbot being presented with the mitre, the ring, and the crosier as symbols of office and receiving the laying on of hands and blessing from the celebrant.

Speech cards used by President George H. W. Bush at the signing ceremony of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) on July 26, 1990.

* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

Arguments for Stigand having performed the coronation, however, rely on the fact that no other English source names the ecclesiastic who performed the ceremony ; all Norman sources name Stigand as the presider.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

The potency of this brew varies radically from one batch to the next, both in potency and psychoactive effect, based mainly on the skill of the shaman or brewer, as well as other admixtures sometimes added and the intent of the ceremony.

A ceremony is held Tomb of the Unknown Soldier every 11 November on the anniversary of the armistice signed between France and Germany in 1918.

Shortly after the death of his father Dom Pedro declared that he had married Inês in a prior secret ceremony in Bragança, promptly taking revenge on the killers in a very gruesome manner and exhumed her body.

The first three C-295s, designated C-105A Amazonas in Brazilian service, were commissioned into service in a formal ceremony at Base Aérea de Manaus on March 31, 2007.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

For the aristocracy these trials were a well-organized ceremony, sometimes going on for days, with the borzoi accompanied by mounted hunters and Foxhounds on the Russian steppe.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

It also gave support to the Cornish language, and commemorated Thomas Flamank, a leader of the Cornish Rebellion in 1497, at an annual ceremony at Bodmin on 27 June each year.

It was unveiled in a ceremony at Qufu on September 24, 2009.

The agreement was signed at a ceremony on board the USS Iwo Jima, docked in New York for the Navy's annual Fleet Week.

In a formal ceremony on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Queen Elizabeth II signed both acts into law on 17 April 1982.

Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple ; thus only about fifty people attended the ceremony.

Work on the house started on 7 May 2001 and when the framework was completed on, a Japanese ceremony was held to mark what was considered an auspicious occasion.

The occasion was marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the governor, Marie Bashir and the premier of New South Wales, Morris Iemma.

To preserve the purity of the occasion, no executions were permitted between the time when the religious ceremony began to when the ship returned from Delos, which took several weeks.

Giles's Thomas of Canterbury, Oxford, 1845 ), which is probably an expansion of a sermon he preached in 1220, on occasion of the translation of the relics of Thomas Becket ; the ceremony was the most splendid that had ever been seen in England.

The Liberalia of March were, since earliest times, the occasion for the ceremony of the donning of the toga virilis or libera ( which marked the passage into adult citizenship by young people ).

In 2008, on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the defence of Reims, a major ceremony was held in remembrance of the Black Army of Reims, attended by Jean-Marie Bockel, Rama Yade and Adeline Hazan.

As material given to propagandists said, the 16 fallen were the first losses and the ceremony was an occasion to commemorate everyone who had died for the movement.

This may be seen in the photograph below where a red canopy has been erected to shelter the Pope as well as an illuminated cross, on the occasion of the Way of the Cross ceremony.

The divorce ceremony took place on 10 January 1810 and was a grand but solemn social occasion, and each read a statement of devotion to the other.

The ceremony was first described by the chronicler John of Viktring on the occasion of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286.

On the part of the state this day was the occasion of a peculiarly solemn and secret ceremony in the sanctuary of Dionysus en limnais-ἐν λίμναις, " in the marshes ", closed for all the rest of the year.

" For the 100th pipe-banging, the Archbanger wants a special ceremony, and is persuaded to allow Mokey to recite a poem for the occasion.

This was the first occasion that the ceremony had taken place outside England.

A public ceremony was conducted on February 8, 2009, on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America in Washington, D. C., by William D. Boyce, a Chicago publisher.

A few years later, when Governor Baels took his daughter to a public ceremony, she had the occasion to meet King Leopold, who presided at the event, for the second time.

A ceremony is an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion.

The most famous occasion when the triple tiara was used was the papal coronation, a six-hour ceremony, when the new pope was carried in state on the sedia gestatoria ( portable throne-see image of Pope John XXIII, left ), with attendants fanning the pontiff with ostrich-feathered flabella to the location of the coronation.

A dedication ceremony to mark the occasion took place 20 May 1950, with Lieutenant Nellis's family in attendance.

In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Qahtan Abbas, Iraq's tourism and antiquities minister, said that only 6, 000 of the 15, 000 items looted in 2003 had been returned.

The completion of sixty years service with the FR by Robert Evans ( for almost 25 years as Manager ) was marked on 6 November 1954 and a special train was run ( with difficulty ) from Minffordd to Porthmadog to celebrate the occasion and convey Mr Evans, his wife, Alan Pegler ( Company Chairman ) and guests en route to a clock presentation ceremony.

Though this is usually a decision made by Christian political parties, it can be said that it would not benefit a same-sex couple if the official performing the ceremony was unhappy doing so, potentially ruining the occasion.

Following the game, an emotional ceremony with past and present Tigers greats was held to mark the occasion.

Although the King has used the occasion to choose wives a few times, the ceremony is not about him primarily.

The crossing of the divide at Height of Land Portage was the occasion for ceremony and initiation rites for the fur-trading Voyageurs of the 18th and early 19th centuries.