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A month and a half after the election results, it seems to me that the media is still living in the past. If, on the one hand, the political parties that lost the elections have not learnt their lessons, the media, on the other, is in a state of denial. The issue here is the [...]

New Delhi: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on Monday declared that no legal status has been granted to the Shariat Courts and religious decrees or fatwas are illegal if they tread on the rights of an individual.  The apex court further objected to the Shariat Courts ordering punishments against innocent people and said [...]

CHENNAI: Police probing the murder of Hindu Munnani leader K P S Suresh Kumar in Ambattur in June have claimed to have identified four suspects. “We have identified their hideouts and will nab them soon,” a senior police officer said. While three of the suspects are from Melapalayam in Tirunelveli district, one is from Kerala, [...]

Tirunelveli (TN): A 38-year old Hindu Munnani leader was murdered during wee hours today in front of his house at Sankarankoil near here by three unidentified men, triggering tension in the area, police said. Jeevaraj was a former town secretary of the right wing organisation, they said, adding the incident occurred when he was having [...]

A priest killed his tribal wife who was half his age in the name of sacrifice in Bagulamukhi temple in Kurara village of Dindori district.The incident occurred on Saturday night when Satyanand, 50, tied his wife Manju Shyam, 24, with a rope and killed her ostensibly to seek the blessings of Goddess Bagulamukhi. The victim [...]

The Prime Minister flagged off the first train to Udhampur, from Katra Railway Station, and spoke to schoolchildren on board the train. The train was flagged off amid vociferous chants of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” by the children. The Prime Minister also went around the Railway Station and suggested that solar energy be used to [...]

New Delhi: At least 660 rape crisis centres will be established across the country and named as Nirbhaya centres, as a tribute to the victim of December 16, 2012 Delhi gang-rape case.  The centres will be set up in all the 640 districts and 20 additional locations in the country and the project will cost [...]

The politically aligned Dwarka Sankaracharya’s tirade against Shirdi Sai Baba comes at a time when the ruling Congress-NCP is desperate to retain Maharashtra in the upcoming Assembly election The spectre of a looming Congress-NCP defeat in the Maharashtra Assembly election, due later this year, most likely provoked the Dwarka Sankaracharya’s vituperative attack on the Sai [...]

After 23 years, a group of Kashmiri Pandits prayed at Nandkishor Asthpan temple at Seer Jagir area of the volatile Sopore police district, considered a hotbed of Kashmir militancy, hinting at their return and rehabilitation in the Valley soon. The Kashmiri Pandits prayed at the temple on Saturday and then were guests of their Muslims [...]

Tapan Ghosh is the founder and head of Hindu Samhati, West Bengal. He has been a tireless activist fighting for Hindus and Hindu causes in the state at immense personal risk. How did the idea of founding an organization like Hindu Samhati strike you? Well, it was the farthest thing from my future plan, when [...]