‘Police tag’ helps in tracing missing kids at temple fete | The Hindu
Children and senior citizens going missing at huge congregations is nothing new. But this novel intervention by the Tirupati Urban district police helped trace two dozen victims in no time. Coinciding with the More...
Temple tank being filled with water | The Hindu
A large volume of water has been pumped out from various borewells and channelised into the temple tank for the forthcoming float festival at Srirangam on Marh 8. Despite these efforts, not much water has been More...
River Ganga unlikely to be cleaned up by 2018 | The Hindu
The government is unlikely to be able to clean the Ganga by 2018, a target set by Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti. Key reasons, according to sources in the Water Ministry, include “unreasonable” directions More...
NGT bans camping activities within 100 meters of Ganga in Uttarakhand | The New Indian Express
NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday lifted the ban on camping activities on the beaches of river Ganga in Uttarakhand conditionally imposed earlier, however, prohibiting them within 100 m of More...
150-year-old temple in Shivajinagar regains lost glory | Times of India
BENGALURU: Tucked away from crowded Shivajinagar is the nondescript 150-year-old Sri Ekambareshwara Swamy Temple that has a Shiva lingam believed to have brought from Varanasi (then Kashi). One could easily miss More...
Two multi-storey sarai, parking to come up near Golden Temple | Hindustan Times
In view of the increasing footfall of devotees and tourists at the Golden Temple, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has resolved to replace the nearby Akali market with a big complex that would More...
MLA wants jobs for locals in temple renovation | The Hindu
Barely weeks after the High Court allowed the construction of the dilapidated temple for Vakula Matha, considered the foster mother of Lord Venkateswara, on a hillock that was completely razed by the quarry industry, More...
Indore: Renovated Durga Mata Temple dedicated | FPJ
Indore: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan dedicated renovated Durga Mata Temple here on Wednesday. Renovation work of the 200-year-old Subhash Choke located temple was done by Indore Development Authority with Rs More...
The rise of Hinduism in Australia
Reverend Albert Lange was disillusioned by Christianity before he converted to Hinduism. In 1979 he became Bhakta Dasa. “I was an atheist before I found my truth in the Hare Krishna movement,” he said. Mr Dasa More...
From terrorism to climate change, PM Narendra Modi prescribes Yoga as global panacea | The Financial Express
Prime Minister Narnedra Modi on Thursday said that “World is today threatened by challenges-terrorism, climate change.” Underlining that “there should be peace among nations”, PM Modi prescribed Yoga as More...