hindu temples

KARACHI: The issue of the Hindu temples being threatened by the construction work in Karachi and mobs in Hyderabad dominated the proceedings of the provincial assembly on Friday. Soon after the session was declared open by speaker Agha Siraj Durrani, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Khurram Sher Zaman raised the issue of the Shree Ratneshwar Mahadev Temple [...]

A Hindu temple has been desecrated and set on fire by unidentified persons in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, two weeks ahead of an annual fair at the holy site. The caretaker of the temple of Hindu deity Hanuman, in Latifabad town told police that three men came on Friday to offer prayers. “But after offering [...]

SINHALA BUDDHIST ETHNO NATIONALISM – Masquerading as Sri Lankan ‘Civic Nationalism’ Culture plays a crucial role in the life of a community. A community or a people is identified and revered by its flourishing culture. History shows that an oppressor…. aims to erase the identity of the oppressed and this means destroying first the oppressed people’s [...]

ISLAMABAD: Out of 428 minorities’ places of worship in the country, 408 have been converted into toy stores, restaurants, government offices and schools after 1990, a survey has found. Another shocking figure disclosed in the survey conducted by the All Pakistan Hindu Rights Movement (PHRM) was that only 20 Hindu temples out of the 428 places [...]

KARACHI: A frenzied mob attacked a Hindu temple and set a dharamshala on fire over alleged desecration of a holy book, prompting authorities to impose a curfew in the Larkana city of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. The protesters attacked the temple, set the dharamshala on fire on Saturday night and surrounded the house of a [...]

ISLAMABAD: The minority Hindu community in Pakistan is struggling to protect its temples and the land around them from the land mafia, a media report said on Wednesday.  Most of the Hindu inhabitants migrated to India at the time of Partition, leaving behind a number of properties and places of worship. “These properties have been [...]

What is scandalous is the corruption after the takeover of temples as politicians and officials loot the temple’s wealth and land, and divert donations of devotees to non-religious purposes The Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment on January 6, 2013, allowing my Special Leave Petition that sought the quashing of the Tamil Nadu Government’s G.O. [...]

A NGO is urging the Tourism and Culture Ministry to stop a housing developer from demolishing remnants of ancient temples in Bujang Valley and to preserve the area. PETALING JAYA: A housing developer has demolished several temples sites, including an 8th century heritage site, in Bujang Valley, Kedah, and the authorities are not taking any [...]

CHITTOOR: Two suspected terrorists were taken into custody while two others escaped and a police inspector succumbed to stab wounds during a 12-hour joint operation by police teams from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in the sleepy town of Puttur in Chittoor district on Saturday. The police teams were assisted in Operation Puttur by the [...]

Thiruvananthapuram: Temple boards in Kerala have received a letter from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) seeking details of the stock of gold in their possession, a temple board official said Thursday.  Speaking to reporters, a top official of the famous Guruvayoor Devasom Board said a letter had been received from the RBI seeking details [...]