April 3, 2012 |
PANAJI: Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) on Monday appealed to the Russian government to respect religious sentiments of the local minority Hindu population and revoke a Russian court's order to demolish the largest Hindu temple and the vedic centre in Russia. In a memorandum submitted at the Porvorim office to the counsel of the Russian consulate in Mumbai, Vikram Varma, the HJS said, "We have learnt that a Russian local court has ordered demolition of the largest Hindu temple and vedic centre just when the dust, over the proposed ban on the most sacred text of Hindus (Bhagwad Gita)
June 16, 2006 |
NEW DELHI: India has lodged a formal protest against the demolition of a Hindu temple in Lahore which has agitated political parties and religious groups here. MEA spokesperson Navtej Sarna said on Thursday: "This matter has been taken up with the Pakistan government. " The matter, he said, was raised with senior officials of the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi. "Both India and Pakistan are strongly committed to protecting the shrines of minority communities on the two sides," Sarna added.
December 14, 2006 |
KENDRAPARA: Four Dalits entered the 300-year-old Jagannath temple in Orissa's Keredagada village on Thursday, defying opposition to their entry by upper castes for over a year. The four persons, all residents of Keredagada in Kendrapara district, came to the shrine separately, congregated there and entered the temple together, watched by a police unit deployed near the temple. The incident, which marked the end of a tradition continuing for generations in the area, occurred on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
April 1, 2003 |
DHAR: The three-member delegation of BJP MPs, that visited the disputed Bhojshala premises here on Monday claimed that all evidence at the site indicated that it was a temple and charged Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh of "politicising the issue to appease a particular community". Talking to reporters after the visit, the delegation comprising Shivrajsingh Chouhan, S S Ahluwalia and Balbir Punj said "a number of evidences, including a sign of Om Namah Sivay, Om Namah Saraswati Namah inscribed on the stone, and a location of temple main gate in the eastern direction for sunlight, among others, suggested that the Bhojshala is a temple and not a mosque".
June 14, 2012 |
PATNA: The 'bhumi pujan' ceremony of what is billed to be the largest Hindu temple in the world - Virat Angkor Wat Ram Mandir - on the pattern of the famous Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, would be organized at the proposed site at Kathwalia on Chakia-Kesaria main road in East Champaran, 120-km from the state capital, on June 21. The new temple complex would be spread over 110 acres of land. The formal foundation-laying ceremony would be done by the famous story teller of Ramayana, Murari Bapu, on December 28 this year.
July 26, 2001 |
mumbai: the opposition shiv sena-bjp combine created a pandemonium in the state assembly on wednesday, demanding the immediate suspension of a sub-divisional police official for "desecrating a 300-year-old hindu shrine. for over 90 minutes, opposition mlas, led by former chief minister narayan rane and senior bjp leader gopinath munde, grilled deputy chief minister chhagan bhujbal and minister of state for home manikrao thakre on the issue while participating in a discussion on a calling-attention motion.
May 8, 2007 |
NEW YORK: History was made when the Senate of the US state of Nevada opened its session with chanting of Hindu prayers for the first time since it was established in 1864. Director of Interfaith Relations of the Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada Rajan Zed chanted the prayers to open the session on Monday. Wearing saffron robes, 'rudraksh' necklace and traditional sandal paste 'tilak' on the forehead, Zed began with a hymn from the Rig Veda. "I open my prayer with an invocation to the divine, whatever it may be and however we may conceive it". He read the next prayer from Tattiriya Upanishad, composed around 400 BC, reciting again in Sanskrit (Om saha naavavatu, Saha nau bhunaktu, Saha viiryan karavaavahai, Tejasvi naavadhiitamastu, Maa vidvishhaavahai)
December 18, 2011 |
Carl Vadivella Belle, former Australian diplomat - a devotee of Murugan, who is better known as Shiva's son, Kartik - takes the kavadi to the Murugan Temple at Batu Caves in Malaysia. He talks to B Sivakumar When did you first visit a Hindu temple? I was posted in Kuala Lumpur in the '70s. Shortly after my arrival, we were taken to a Murugan temple in Kelang. I was curious about the temple and about Hinduism; I knew very little about the major religions in Malaysia.
August 31, 2003 |
LUCKNOW: The BJP has asked Opposition parties including the Congress to make clear their stand on the Ayodhya issue in the wake of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)'s excavation report on finding the remnants of a 10th century temple from the disputed site in Ayodhya, Union agriculture minister, Rajah Singh said here on Sunday. ASI has found remnants of a 10th century temple at the disputed site, thus proving beyond doubt that the Babri mosque was built after demolishing a Hindu temple, Singh claimed while addressing a meeting of the party's kisan morcha.
January 29, 2007 |
VISAKHAPATNAM: A Muslim priest in a Hindu temple, especially in a small community, does raise many eyebrows. But village folks in Payakaraopeta near Tuni have rallied around Sheikh Mira Saheb. Villagers hardly react when asked how they could have a Muslim pujari in a Durga temple. Visitors from outside do not realise that their pujari is not a Hindu. K Babji, a benefactor of the temple, was happy to clarify the situation. He says, "As far as we are concerned, it is Mira who brought the Mother to us. He has been conducting the worship and the vows with utmost sincerity, staying on the hill sometimes for three months at a stretch.