Hindu forums demand investigation against anti-superstition body

The Hindu Vidhidnya Parishad and Hindu Janjagruti Samiti have demanded a probe into the alleged financial irregularities by Akhil Bhartiya Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti (ABANS), an organisation that works against supersition. Advocate Virendra Ichalkaranjikar, president of the Hindu Vidhidnya Parishad said on Saturday that they have procured information under the RTI Act, which shows that ABANS has not submitted the complete details of their accounts and financial transactions to the government. "Four days back, we had filed a complaint...

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Pakistan Hindus eager to exercise their franchise in Rajasthan polls

Saturday, Nov 30, 2013, 22:44 IST | Agency: PTI With issues of their rehabilitation and citizenship figuring in poll manifestos of various political parties, over one lakh Pakistani Hindu migrants in Rajasthan are eager to participate in the upcoming Assembly elections and vote for the candidate of their choice. Hindu Singh Sodha, President of Seemant Lok Sangthan, an organisation for welfare of Pakistani Hindu migrants, said the community was elated that...

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Fear of another Jamaat attack haunts Hindus

Fears of recurrence of attacks continue to haunt Hindus of Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila despite the return of the male family members, the filing of a case and deployment of additional police. On Thursday, at least 12 women and children were beaten up and at least five shops and two houses were torched and looted allegedly by Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir activists at Ghoshpara village of Jongra union. Taking place on the third day of the opposition-sponsored 71-hour blockade, the attack, the second one on Lalmonirhat Hindus...

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Landlord kills Hindu girl in Umerkot

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Hindu Outfits to Jointly Oppose Islamic University

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Arrests in post 9/11 'hate' attack on Hamilton Hindu temple

Hamilton police have arrested three men in the attacks on the Hindu Samaj temple and Hamilton Mountain Mosque that took place just days after the September 11, 2001 World Trade Centre terrorist attacks. The case against the three would be prosecuted as a hate crime, police said. The Hindu temple was destroyed in the arson. The three accused are Christopher Pollard, 33, Scott Ryan, 33, and Damien Marsh, 34, all from...

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Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi cleared of murder

Pondicherry: An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted a hugely popular Hindu seer of murdering a temple manager nine years ago in a case that stirred outrage among his millions of devotees. Sessions Judge C.S. Murugan told the packed court in the southern city of Pondicherry that witnesses failed to support the case against the 78-year-old known as the "Hindu pontiff", the Press Trust of India reported. The 2004 arrest of Jayendra Saraswathi,...

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Financial help for Hindu temples

SELANGOR government has decided to only award financial assistance to Hindu temples registered with the Malaysian Hindu Sangam. In announcing the decision, Selangor executive councillor for poverty and estate affairs V. Ganabatirau said the Negri Sembilan, Perak and Malacca state governments had already implemented this. “Hindu Sangam is the umbrella body to oversee the situation and work together with the temples. “We have set up a committee...

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Notice to Chief Secretary on PIL against Hindu succession Act

The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday ordered notice to the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary on a public interest litigation petition seeking declaration of Section 29-A of the Tamil Nadu Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 1990, of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, as null and void. The petitioner, R. Thangaraja, who runs the Mass Education and Action for Rural Development Society, an NGO in Virudhunagar district, said Section 29-A imposed a few restrictions on married daughters in inheriting properties. The amendment was in contravention...

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Angola 'bans' Islam, Muslims, becomes first country to do so

According to several newspapers, the tiny African country of Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims. The Angolan Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva was quoted by news agencies and Angola newspapers as saying, "The process of legalisation of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice." As part of the ban, the Angolan government ordered the demolition of the mosques in the country. According to Silva, the decision was...

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President of UK Hindu Forum Arjan Vekaria dies

Picture courtesy: sgadi dot com Arjan Vekaria, President of Hindu Forum of Britain, has died, the organisation has said. Vekaria died in India on November 23. He was 59 and was born in Kampala, Uganda. He was expelled from the country in August 1972 by Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator. He then went to India to continue studies until June 1974. He arrived in the UK the same year. "It is with great sadness that we announce the news that our...

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Christian Woman Jailed in Bali for Insulting Hindu Offerings

A Balinese woman carries an offering as she celebrates the religious festival of Galungan at a temple in Denpasar, on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali on October 23, 2013. (AFP Photo) A Christian woman residing in the Hindu-majority island of Bali was sentenced to 14-months in prison for calling Hindu offerings “dirty and disgusting,” the Supreme Court recently announced. “The defendant Rusgiani, who is also known as Yohana, has...

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Lack of funds causing Sanskrit's plight: Indologist

The deplorable state of Sanskrit learning in India has rendered inaccessible the knowledge that should otherwise be flourishing, said French-born Indologist Michel Danino, who is known for his works disproving the theory of Aryan invasion, here on Sunday. He was delivering the keynote address at the one-day national seminar on ‘Reflections of Swami Vivekananda on Sanskrit Language and Literature’ held in the city as part of Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary year. “The lack of funding for Sanskrit learning, the paucity of students...

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Vishwa Hindu Parishad protests against Pakistan singer Atif Aslam's Ahmedabad concert

Thirteen Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists, who staged a protest against Pakistani singer Atif Aslam's concert to be held on Saturday, were detained here today. "They had not obtained permission for the demonstration. They were detained in the afternoon and were produced in a court before being released," a police officer said. VHP's Jay Shah said the activists were protesting in a democratic manner, and demanded that the concert to be held at Sardar Patel Stadium be cancelled. "When Pakistan does not allow release of Indian films,...

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1,600 sued over torching of Hindu locality in Barisal

November 19, 2013 At least 1,613 people were sued in two separate cases over the killing of a youth that led to an arson attack on a Hindu locality in Barisal sadar upazila on Friday. A victim of the arson, Devranjan Haldar, lodged a case with Bandar Police Station early yesterday accusing 1,600 unidentified people for attack and torching houses. On Thursday night, locals of Nomopara, a predominantly Hindu locality in Char Kawa village, and their neighbouring village Char Aicha clashed over a badminton game that left Parvez Gazi, 20, a college...

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VHP, Bajrang Dal oppose anti-superstition Bill

November 18: Expressing fear that the proposed anti-superstition Bill would endanger Hindu traditions, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal have said they would launch a series of protests and a legal struggle against the Bill. A meeting of astrologers, temple administrators, and regional leaders of Hindu organisations held on Saturday on the demerits of the Karnataka Superstitious Practices Bill 2013, the draft of which was submitted by the National Law School of India University. During the meeting, the astrologers...

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Hindu locality burnt after a youth’s death

November 17, 2013:Govt probe says 15 houses gutted fully, seven partly; damage estimated at Tk 1cr; most Nomopara residents flee village; police deployed; meeting for amity held; some arson victims get money, tin sheets It all started with a trivial matter on Thursday evening when youths gathered at the primary school premises in Nomopara, a predominantly Hindu locality in Char Kawa village, about six kilometres east of Barisal city, to...

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