Tamil Nadu Govt To Create Database Of Temple Lands; Can We Expect Accountability Next?

According to a press release, Tamil Nadu government officials will create a database featuring properties belonging to temples across the state. The Tamil Nadu government, like most other states in India, controls and manages Hindu temples in the state. The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious And Charitable Endowments Department, the state government body responsible More...

Cow smugglers using SUVs to dodge police – Times of India
BHOPAL: To dodge cow vigilantes and cops of Madhya Pradesh, cattle smugglers have started using luxurious and tailor-made SUVs. The fact surfaced on Saturday morning after a Tavera stuffed with six cows rammed More...

Three Right Wing Activists Attacked In A Week Are Jihadis Targeting Tamil Nadus Hindu Leaders Again
Last week Tamil Nadu was witness to attacks against three Hindu Nationalist activists. At least two of these attacks (one victim killed and another reportedly grievously injured) are suspected to have been the More...

Exodus of Hindu families from Kairana a reality, finds NHRC probe report – Times of India
MEERUT: A report of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the alleged exodus of 250 Hindu families from Kairana in Shamli district of western Uttar Pradesh, parts of which were made public on the rights panel’s More...

Pregnant victim’s cousin behind Thane honour killing
MUMBAI: Days after a man and his nine-month pregnant wife were found murdered in their rented house in Dyghar near Shil Phata, the Thane police cracked the honour killing case with the arrest of the woman’s More...

5 members of gang involved in temple thefts in Karnataka held
Five members of an interstate gang, which had allegedly stolen a number of precious objects worth over Rs 26 lakh from several temples in Kartakata, were arrested in Thane, police said today. The accused were arrested More...

Mumbai BJP President, Ashish Shelar seeks Navratri celebration to run till midnight on last three days
Mumbai, India: In a grand Bhoomi Puja held today at Pushpanjali Gardens, Borivali, where ‘Dandiya Queen’ Falguni Pathak will be performing her ‘Navratri Utsav’, MLA and Mumbai BJP President More...

California town rejects Indian American community’s plans for a Swaminarayan Gurukul center
Indian Americans in the Southern California city of Norco have been stymied by the City Council in building a Swaminarayan Gurukul community center, which would host Indian language classes for children and yoga More...

Did Zakir Naik’s IRF Buy UPA Support Through Donation to Rajiv Gandhi Trust? – Hindu Post
The recent furore over Salafist Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s role in indoctrinating several IS (Islamic State) terrorists might make the casual news watcher think that his radical preaching is a recent phenomenon. More...

Thieves break into temple, steal antiques worth crores – Times of India
New Delhi: Burglars broke into the Khandelwal Digambar Jain Mandir near Shivaji Stadium early on Friday and fled with idols, golden umbrellas and jewellery. The antiques stolen from the 250-year-old temple are More...