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Ayodhya October 1990: A tale of Fascism, police Brutality and Hindu Massacre In month of October 1990, about 1.1 million (11 lakh) Hindus had assembled in Ayodhya to peacefully protest and raise the centuries old demand for the rebuilding of Ram Mandir, at the site where Hindus believe that Lord Rama was born. However under [...]

NEW DELHI: The Kashmiri Pandit community that was displaced years back from Kashmir valley in wake of militancy celebrated the arrival of Spring and the New Year with a Kashmiri Rock Festival and a cuisine festival. The programme was attended by thousands of young Kashmiris across the NCR. This is a unique festival. It binds us [...]

Raipur, March 27: The Muslim Gaurakshak Sammelan held under the auspices of Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) has demanded that cow be declared ‘National Animal’ and complete ban be enforced on its slaughter for the betterment of the people and environment. In a resolution passed at the end of the two-day first ever conference of Muslims [...]

Three of the world‘s top religious leaders – Pope Francis of the Vatican, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr Mahmoud Azab have joined hands in the biggest ever push to eradicate modern day slavery and human trafficking in India by 2020. On the surface this may look laudable. But [...]

A Protest was organized by a body of several Kashmiri Hindu Organizations to protest against the renaming of the Shankaracharya hill in Kashmir to Takht-E-Sualiman. A lot of points were brought up in the assembly by several speakers including the anti Hindu rhetoric of the Indian Government lead by the Congress party in the Center. [...]

BANGALORE: According to the parents of Priyanka and Sonali, who jumped into Sankey lake, seven girls of Mary Immaculate High School, Lakkasandra, were made to stand outside the staff room for playing Holi on Monday. “There was a special class on Monday. Many girls played Holi near the school, and authorities were unhappy with them. [...]

Mathura: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is doing the ground breaking ceremony at Mathura, the birth place of Lord Krishna, to build the world’s tallest temple. It will be a 700 feet high skyscraper spread over an area of 5.5 acres and also have 70 floors. The ISKCON is hoping to complete the [...]

The Kashmiri separatists survived from being an ideological orphan as the health of their ideological father Syed Ali Shah Geelani deteriorated thrice a day but he held his breath finally. Geelani, the chairman of Hurry-at Conference (G) has severe illness and people doubt about his survival potential. In fact a New Delhi based news channel [...]

MUZAFFARNAGAR: BSP MP Kadir Rana, two party MLAs and former UP minister Saeed-uz-Zama of Congress are among 10 persons charged by the SIT probing the Muzaffarnagar riots for provoking communal tension with inflammatory speeches during a Muslim community panchayat. The charge sheet was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Narender Kumar by the [...]

The barrage of vicious propaganda unleashed by a section of the visual and print media in Kerala against the Amritanandamayi Math is obviously motivated to bring down the high respect and reputation with which millions of people across the world hold that spiritually-oriented service organisation. There is a method in this madness. Any flimsy excuse [...]