Brutal murder of a dedicated worker of RSS in Kannur (Kerala) by frustrated CPM goons. RSS strongly condemns this cowardly act : Dr. Manmohan Vaidya, Akhila Bharatha Prachar Pramuk. CPM has initiated the politics of murder in Tellichery, Kannur once again. Today they attacked RSS Kannur district Shareerik shikshan pramukh Manojkumar with bombs, hacked him [...]
August 4, 2015
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Protesters demanding that Nepal be turned back into a Hindu nation scuffled with police Monday and threw chairs at the country’s deputy prime minister when he was collecting suggestions on a draft constitution. About 200 protesters from Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal stormed into the national stadium chanting slogans as Deputy Prime Minister [...]
August 3, 2015
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY • A chorus of upbeat song and dance reverberated through subdivisions here Sunday morning, as those who practice Hinduism celebrated Rath Yatra — a holiday in which figures of deities are brought out to the public. Hundreds of faithful pulled a chariot carrying figures of three decorated Hindu deities from the Hindu Temple of [...]
August 2, 2015
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MANAKAMANA, NEPAL, July 16, 2015 (Katmandu Post): The reconstruction of the Manakamana temple, a popular Hindu pilgrimage site which was damaged by the April 25 earthquake and its aftershocks, has been initiated. The damaged structure has already been pulled down and workers are digging a new foundation. Members of the Manakamana Temple Renovation Committee (MTRC) [...]
August 2, 2015
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WASHINGTON, DC: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D, HI-02), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, has introduced a bipartisan resolution calling on the government of Bangladesh to increase human rights protections, strengthen democratic institutions, and prevent the growth of extremist groups in the country. The resolution comes as ISIS and [...]
July 30, 2015
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A majority of people wanted the word to be replaced by “Hindu” or “religious freedom,” according to Nepal’s Constituent Assembly In a major change, Nepal’s political parties have agreed to remove the word “secularism” from the new constitution. Nepal was declared a secular country in 2007 after Nepal’s hardcore Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist joined [...]
July 29, 2015
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Dr APJ Abdul Kalam speaking on Vedas at AMA in Ahmedabad . > problems with sound quality < Speech Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on Vedas, at AMA in Ahmedabad – ‘Celebrate the great souls, celebrate great books, celebrate great lives. Nation transformed into lack of ethics. We need citizen of ethics, citizen of value, citizen [...]
July 28, 2015
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It was once prophesised that fascism or at least various forms of totalitarianism would sneak back by camouflaging themselves as an indefinable ‘freedom’. Now under this ‘freedom’ western academics and their willing collaborators in India’s universities, media and political chattering class were able to crush anything remotely smacking of India’s civilisational genius as reactionary Hindutva [...]
July 24, 2015
Ranbir Singh
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Now that everybody had had his say on the “Rajiv Malhotra plagiarism affair”, we can better discern the larger context that explains the different forces at work here. Plagiarism The trigger was the discovery that seven passages in Malhotra’s work, mainly in his book Indra’s Net, had been lifted verbatim from unacknowledged work by others, [...]
July 23, 2015
Dr Koenraad Elst
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Christians and Muslims in Nepal are criticizing the draft version of a new constitution that bans religious conversion. Spurred to action by the recent earthquake, Nepal’s government introduced the draft for public comment on June 30, Reuters reported. Religious minorities are concerned about its impact on their religious freedom and the government’s haste to finalize [...]
July 21, 2015
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