New Delhi/Mumbai, Mar 27 : The nine-day ''Navratri'' festival began across India with religious fervour on Friday.
In New Delhi, devotees queued up outside the temples early in the morning to pay their obeisance to Goddess Durga.
"Today is the first Navratri so we have come here to pay obeisance. We have firm faith in goddess. She has always listened to our prayers and fulfilled them," said Vijay Singh, Bhandari, a devotee.
"Navratri", dedicated to Goddess Durga is celebrated twice in a year, during the spring and the autumn season.