Clearing of the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya has begun with heavy earth-moving machines moving into the 67.7 acre premises, marking the beginning of the process of Ram temple construction. Chief priest of the makeshift temple, Acharya Satyendra Das, told IANS on...
Union minister Nitin Gadkari expressed hope in Mumbai today that the Ganga river will become completely clean by 2020 considering the pace at which its rejuvenation programme was in progress. He said most of the 221 projects under the Namami Gange Mission...
PHNOM PENH: India on Wednesday signed an MoU with Cambodia to help the Southeast Asian nation on restoration and preservation of an ancient Lord Shiva temple, a world heritage site. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed after external affairs minister...
Jains were once a thriving community in Tamil Nadu, but now there are less than 30,000 Jains in the entire state. We are used to seeing joggers and walkers on Chennai’s roads every morning. But a new troupe of people are seen in the mornings, armed with cameras and...
Malaysia: A famed Malaysian Hindu temple complex has had its steps painted in a dazzling array of colours, sparking excitement from some visitors but angering officials who oversee heritage sites. The Batu Caves complex, a series of caverns set in a limestone hill on...
There have been numerous media attempts to paint Kanwariyas as perpetrators of violent crimes in recent weeks. Earlier we have reported how CNN News 18 had tried to paint an incident of mob violence by Muslims as ‘Kanwariya Menace’. The trend seems to continue....
NOTE: A shorter version of this article appeared in SatyaVijayi.com. This version appeared earlier in TheRationalHindu.com. A CRIME STORY — THE PRIMA FACIE CONSPIRACY Say there is a huge mansion with a fence around it. Assume that the rear side of the mansion...
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced that the salaries will be paid from the state’s treasury with effect from September 1. The Telangana government on Friday announced that priests at Hindu temples in the state will be paid salaries at par with...
This article was originally published at Medium. Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below the Tian Shin Mountains) was Indic in culture and it was a thriving part of the...
More than 1,200 antiquities and artefacts have been unearthed in Keezhadi in the excavations being undertaken by the Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology. So far, five trenches (11 quadrants) have been excavated at the site. “The unearthed antiquities consist of...
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