India

India’s greatest river, the Ganges, is one of the world’s dirtiest. The river is revered by Hindus, but it is also the sewer that carries away the waste from 450 million people. Pollution from industry, agriculture – and even waste from religious ceremonies – has turned its sacred waters into a toxic and deadly cocktail. [...]

PUNAHA POKHRI (UTTARAKHAND): Thousands of Dalits led by outgoing BJP Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay and local activist Daulat Kunwar defied a centuries-old tradition on Friday and stormed a temple where their entry was earlier prohibited. However, soon after the community asserted their right to equal worship at the Silgur devta temple in Chakrata, around [...]

Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu (13th May 2016) – The Christian-majority Kanyakumari district saw a horrendous case of temple desecration by its majoritarian Christian police. The Koottalumoodu Bhagavathi Amman temple In Kanyakumari district of Tamilnadu (where christians are majority), conduct summer time festival every year. During the festival they burst firecrackers as part of festival at mid [...]

Hearing about the incident, more than 150 persons, belonging to various Hindu outfits gathered at Pudumund Police station .Tension prevailed near Hindustan Photo FIlm (HPF) area in the tourist town of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), following damage to eight Murthis of different gods in a temple, as a 40-year-old woman was taken for interrogation in this regard. [...]

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday submitted charge sheet before a special court against 10 accused in the double murder case of BJP leaders in Bharuch, claiming the killings were part of a larger conspiracy involving co-accused located in Pakistan and South Africa. Reportedly, the Dawood Ibrahim’s D-Company had lured people by [...]

It’s rare to see such bonding between parents and children in modern times where the only concern for children is caring for themselves and thinking parents to be a burden. All around us, we see, read and hear stories of children abusing their aged parents, leaving them to fend for themselves, enrolling parents in old [...]

Over the recent years there’s been a whole range of Hindu Blogs appearing over the net promoting Hindu based news.Much of the material is often plagiarized from various other blogs and even from the HHR website.But what’s been more worrying is that HHR has received several complaints over time claiming that many of these blogs [...]

It doesn’t happen often, but here I must totally disagree with David Frawley ( Read :  Hindus Need Long Term Political Strategy And Dharmic ). Or should I say: with the Sangh Parivar, for this is the standard argument I have heard from them for more than twenty years. The central refrain is “unity”. This [...]

Authorities have allegedly refused to make official the marriage of a Hindu man and a Muslim woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri town, fearing a resurgence of last year’s communal tensions sparked by the mob-lynching of 52-year-old Mohammad Ikhlaq over rumours that he slaughtered a calf. The couple from Chitehra village have failed to get their [...]

AGARTALA: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said on Thursday that he tried to open a dialogue with the Islamic State group but it rebuffed him by sending him a photograph of a beheaded man “I tried to initiate peace talks with the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) recently but they sent me [...]