🔴 RELIGIOUS CRIMES, BIG STORIES, ROWS
🔷 Missiles, modaks and mindful rituals: Delhi gears up for Ganesh Chaturthi in style
🔷 Flash Floods: 38 dead near Vaishno Devi shrine; yatra suspended after cloudburst
🔷 Three youths from Rajasthan missing after landslide hits Vaishno Devi in Jammu
🔷 Kerala High Court seeks reports on condition of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple idol
“The Kerala High Court recently called for reports on the condition of the Moolavigraham (main idol) of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, while dealing with pleas raising concerns about defects noticed in the idol”
🔷 Drone Scare at Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi Temple Sparks Security Concerns
🔷 Visitor caught with spycam in eyeglasses at Jagannath Puri Another article
🔷 Karnataka Govt invites Muslim writer to inaugurate Dasara festival at Chanmundeshwari temple – row!
🔷 Dasara Row: Politics Surrounding Chamundeshwari Temple Deeply Disturbing, Says Mysuru Royal Family’s Pramoda Devi Wadiyar Another article
🔷 No Durga Puja Breather On Shoot-At-Sight Order In Dhubri, Says Assam CM Himanta
“Guwahati, Aug 26 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himnta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that ”shoot-at-sight orders” at night, enforced since June 13 in Dhubri following communal disturbances in the district, will continue during Durga Puja.”
🔷 Chamundi Hill becomes a slugfest between Deputy CM of Karnataka and Royal Family of Mysuru
🔷 Essential supplies run low in isolated Gangotri since Aug 5 flash flood
🔷 Jammu temple famous for mega-sized idols submerged as Tawi river rises: ‘Natural Ganesh visarjan’
🔷 Year after going missing skeletal remains of Telangana man found near Kedarnath temple
🔷 Temple funds for temples only: Madras high court
🔷 Who Is Jasmin Jaffar? Influencer Facing Flak For Washing Feet In Guruvayur Temple Pond
🔷 Bangladesh orders action on sight for ‘provocative’ activities around Chandranath Hill
🔷 Religious intolerance, Islamist activity surge in Bangladesh
🔷 Man arrested in Surat for using fake Hindu identity to marry Hindu woman
🔷 Sambhal temple-mosque row: Court sets September 25 for hearing
🔷 Skeletal remains near Kedarnath temple may be of Telangana BTech student missing since Aug 2024
🔷 Telangana MLA Raja Singh objects to Ganesh idol resembling CM Revanth Reddy
🔷 Meera Jasmine entered a temple where non-Hindus were not allowed; she did something as atonement
🔷 Kerala’s Guruvayur temple conducts cleansing after non-Hindu vlogger enters pond
🔷 SIT set to expand probe in Dharmasthala mass burial case
Karnataka – Ex Dalit sanitation worker at the Manjunatha Temple in Dharmasthala, Karnataka said over 20 years he was gorced to bury hundreds of bodies – mostly women who were sexually abused. He was later arrested for perjury. Despite that, many people over the years have gone missing from Dharmasthala!
🔷 Dharmasthala case: SIT books complainant under nine sections of BNS
🔷 SIT vs NIA? Dharmasthala ‘Mass Burials’ Case Turns Into a Political Tug-of-War
🔷 Bulldozers raze illegal non-vegetarian shops near Ujjain’s Mahakal temple
🔷 2 held for temple thefts in Munnar, idol’s gold ornaments recovered
🔷 CBI lodges FIR in jewel theft case linked to custodial death in Sivaganga
This is the case of the TN temple guard beaten to death by cops for allegedly stealing a gold chain from a car that he parked. Two women were going to the Madapuram Kali Temple. B Ajith Kumar, dressed like a temple guard offers to park their car. When they returned, “one Karumari Amman thali’ chain weighing 6 sovereigns, two gold bangles weighing 2.5 sovereigns, and two stone-studded rings weighing 1 sovereign, totalling 9.5 sovereigns of gold jewellery — were missing, the FIR alleged”
🔴 GANESH CHATURTHI 2025
🔷 35,000 Women Devotees Chant Atharvashirsha In Pune Ganapati Temple Another article
🔷 Sambalpur Club Builds Giant 26-Foot Eco-Friendly Ganesh Idol Made of 1,500 Kg Apples
🔷 Mumbai – Ganesh Chaturthi: Massive crowd at Lalbaugcha Raja, devotees say ‘feels like heaven’
🔷 Uttarakhand: Grand procession marks Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Haldwani
🔷 Devotees throng temples to offer prayers on Ganesh Chaturthi in Karnataka
🔷 Lesser-known Ganpati spots in India and beyond
🔷 Devotees throng temples on Ganesh Chaturthi, celebrations sweep across India
🔷 Ganesh Chaturthi celebrated with devotion, fervour across Rajasthan
🔷 Traffic Chaos in Jaipur During Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations
🔷 How to watch Ganesh Chaturthi 2025 Live Streaming
🔷 Tamil Nadu Drenched in Divine Celebration: Vinayaka Chaturthi Festivities
🔷 Devotees from AP & rest of Odisha arrive at Ganjam village for Ganesh puja
🔷 From Maharashtra to Madras: Bappa comes home
🔷 Hyderabad: Balapur Ganesh mandap replicates Swarnagiri temple near Yadadri
🔷 Puducherry Celebrates Vinayaka Chaturthi with Grandeur
🔷 Sri Siddhivinayak idol arrives at Omkara Nagar for Ganeshotsava
🔷 Listen to heartbeat of Kerala’s temple festivals at Shrimant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganapati Trust mandal
🔷 220 Vinayaka idols taken out on procession
🔴 TEMPLE NEWS, NON-CRIMES
🔷 5 visa temples Indians go to when they want visa to U.S., UK or Ca
🔷 Tirumala temple to be closed on Sep 7 due to lunar eclipse
🔷 TTD Shies Away From ‘Dial Your EO’ Programme, Devotees Miss Platform To Raise Issues
“The discontinuation of this programme has left the devotees in the lurch. They no more have a platform to voice their concerns directly to the temple administration.”
🔷 Tirupati Temple Board’s Land Swap Deal Runs Into Trouble
🔷 YSRCP demands removal of B.R. Naidu as TTD Chairman to save Tirumala’s sanctity
🔷 Bangladesh Railway allocates land for two mosques, temple in city
🔷 Girish Murmu among 10 nominated to Puri temple panel
🔷 Kukke Subrahmanya Temple announces changes in sevas and darshan timings on Aug 31 and Sept 7
🔷 Watch: Are the lost temples of Mahabalipuram hidden beneath the waves?
🔷 Court suggests setting up of Devasthanam for TN temples
🔴 FESTIVALS
🔷 Andhamandir Hati Prastab Niti’ observed at Puri Srimandir; all about the age-old ritual
🔷 Ambaji all set to host millions of devotees at Bhadaravi Poonam Fair 2025
🔴 CELEBS & POLITICIANS AT TEMPLES
🔷 Juhi Babbar visits a 500-year-old Ganpati temple on Ganesh Chaturthi
🔷 CP Radhakrishnan offers prayers at Padmavati temple near Tirupati
🔷 Jacqueline Fernandez and Avneet Kaur mobbed by massive crowd as they exit a temple post Ganpati puja
🔷 How Divyaa Agarwal’s Husband Helped Restore Her Faith In God
🔴 LISTS
🔷 Rounding Up 10 Of The Biggest Ganesha Temples Around The World
🔴 OVERSEAS HINDU NEWS
🔷 US to get its first Tamil deity temple, idols sculpted in Mamallapuram
“For the first time ever, Tamil devotees in the United States will have a temple dedicated to Goddess Mariyamman, one of the most revered deities in Tamil Nadu. A couple from Tamil Nadu, settled in Texas, is building a replica of the Samayapuram Mariyamman temple in Trichy.”
🔷 Mauritius Celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi As National Holiday
🔴 MISC: RELIGIOUS
🔷 Between Atheism and Ayyappa: Kerala’s Global Sangamam of Contradictions
🔷 Global Ayyappa Sangamam: Devotion or political masquerade?
🔴 OTHER RELIGIONS
🔷Floods submerge historic Sikh shrine Kartarpur
🔷 First mechanical elephant to be unveiled at thousand pillar Jain temple in Moodbidri on August 29
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