India

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 [...]

SILCHAR (Assam): BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power. “As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from Bangladesh will be done [...]

I was shocked and aghast to read the comments of author Wendy Doniger calling Indian Judiciary as the main villain in this case. Equally shocking was the article of Ram Chandra Guha carried by your esteemed newspaper stating that courts have failed to protect artistic rights. Equally stunning was the letter of Arundhati Roy calling [...]

If a poem is a projection of the poet’s mind and heart, this one being taught at Calicut University has made many people uncomfortable. Why? Because the poet here is an ideologue of terror group Al Qaeda! Ibrahim al-Rubaish’s ‘Ode to the Sea’ captures his feelings during his incarceration in the Guantanamo Bay prison on [...]

New Delhi:  All copies of American scholar Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus: An Alternative History”, published by Penguin, will be recalled and destroyed as part of a court-backed settlement with a group that called the book “insulting to Hindus.” Penguin India reportedly agreed to “pulp” all remaining copies of the book in a pact signed in [...]