MP waives tax on Shankaracharya’s customised bus worth Rs 1.30 crore |Hindustan Times

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh government waived on Wednesday the road tax on a Rs 1.30-crore luxury bus owned by Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati, a move derided by social activists and the opposition AAP as religious bias. Sources said a state cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan decided on the tax waiver. Parliamentary More...

County students honor teachers, Hindu culture
Chandru Acharya lights a lamp as JR Sandadi helps to commence the ceremony for teachers. (Submitted photo) On May 22, educators from Carmel Clay Schools, Hamilton Southeastern Schools, and Westfield Washington More...

Haryana: Three-day yoga camp to start from June 12 in Panchkula
A three-day yoga training camp is being organised at Parade Ground in Sector 5, Panchkula, from June 12 and it will be inaugurated by Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki. Apart from Haryana Chief Minister Manohar More...

New book on Swaminarayan Hinduism launched in UK | Business Standard News
A new multidisciplinary book has been launched here in the UK which seeks to offer a better understanding of the evolution of the Swaminarayan Hinduism, a modern sect of Hinduism.Titled “Swaminarayan Hinduism: More...

Ujjain is spiritual capital of MP: CM Chouhan – Times of India
BHOPAL: Ujjain city has been decorated, improved and developed with hard work. This look of Ujjain should perpetuate and never deteriorate. Ujjain should become a centre of religious tourism in the country and world More...

Kumbh devotees brave the odds, all in good faith |DNA
More than a crore people in two days in a city like Ujjain, coming from all directions, belonging to different sects, carrying varied ideas of religion, but with a common belief that the mind needs an anchor in More...

Kumbh Mahaparv is not a Mela or Excursion. Govt. must maintain its sanctity without political interference: Swami Nischalananda
Going for Simhastha Parva has become like going for a fair or excursion ! MP Govt is diluting the significance of Simhasth for political mileage!! – Swami Nischalananda Saraswati, Puri Peethadheeshwar Shankaracharya. “Simhastha More...

Dry river fails to dampen Kumbh Mela spirit in Ujjain
Baburam Shakya, 73, took his fifth Simhasth Kumbh dip last month in Ujjain, a feat not many can boast of given it takes place once every 12 years. A Hindu devotee takes a holy dip in the Shipra river at the Simhastha More...

Simhastha Kumbh Mela: MP govt runs bus for differently-abled | Business Standard News
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today flagged-off an AC bus from his official residence here carrying visually impaired and other differently-abled people to the ongoing Kumbh Mela in Ujjain. The More...

10 Awesome Facts About the Kumbh Mela!
Hindus all around the world are known to celebrate festivals with much passion and fervour, sometimes to express joy and hope and sometimes to appease the gods in the hope of attaining salvation. The Kumbh Mela, More...