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The Crime Branch-CID has told the court of Judicial Magistrate (JM)-3, Vellore, that Fakruddin alias ‘Police’ Fakruddin has confessed that he and his two associates Bilal Malik and Panna Ismail were involved in five murders, including those of four leaders of Hindu outfits, in different parts of the State in the last two years. The [...]

It was my great pleasure to be invited to the September 29th, 2013 Hindu Unity Day organized by the tireless and dedicated Narain Kataria and Arish Sahani of the Indian American Intellectuals Forum.  The event hosted many bright lights of the international Hindu community, including Dr. Subramanian Swamy and Baba Ramdev. The entire event was [...]

From the booklet: “Mahishaasuramardinee Stotram is a reverential praise of goddess in her destructive form. She is invoked as the light of knowledge that destroys the darkness-demon of our self-ignorance and consequent suffering. This song or stotram has been around the world and back twice already, meeting great musicians and curious listeners along the way.” [...]

This Stotra is from Durga Shaptashati, where Mother Goddess is invoked as the Destroyer of Demons/Negativities/Unjust Forces of Adharma or Unrighteousness. To bring an end to the forces of darkness, we invoke the Mother Principle, the One who nurtures, and who cannot bear to see Her children being persecuted by such evil forces. SHRI MAHISHASURA [...]

CHITTOOR: Two suspected terrorists were taken into custody while two others escaped and a police inspector succumbed to stab wounds during a 12-hour joint operation by police teams from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in the sleepy town of Puttur in Chittoor district on Saturday. The police teams were assisted in Operation Puttur by the [...]

Brussels: Even as India prepared to celebrate Durga Puja next week, the monarch in faraway Belgium, King Philippe, invoked the power of Durga to seek help in nations’ search for “unity of purpose” and in taking up challenges of the times. A great lover of India, who has led four economic delegations to the country, [...]

If India ’s academia is dominated by Stalinist professors with their inflexible Marxist dogma, how does this reflect upon how people outside the country view Hinduism? In India secularism is a strange beast which constantly warns of the threats which Hindu fundamentalism and fascism pose to the very fabric of democracy yet having the gall [...]

BHUBANESWAR: A court in Odisha Monday held seven people guilty of the murder of Swami Laxmananda Saraswati and four of his aides in Kandhamal district of Odisha in 2008, a lawyer said Monday.  Special additional district session Judge R.K. Tose pronounced the verdict in his court at Phulbani, the headquarters of Kandhamal district, about 200 [...]

Nathuram Verma has been a highly sought-after Dalit priest in Kota, Rajasthan for 10 years, providing much needed spiritual leadership in a community shunned by high-caste Hindu priests.  In Hindu culture, priests perform numerous community rituals. But Brahmin priests often refuse to do so in parts of India where Dalits live in marginalised society.As a [...]

Baba Ramdev addresses Hindu Unity Day 2013 along with Dr Subramanian Swamy [...]