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🔴 RELIGIOUS CRIMES, BIG STORIES, ROWS
🔷 8 TEMPLE EMPLOYEES ARRESTED Eight Tamil Nadu Temple Officials Suspended Over Donation Mishandling
8 suspended for hundi donation theft, including a priest, from Arulmigu Koniamman Temple! The arrested includes a ticket collector, office assistant, cleaning staff & priest!
“According to police and temple officials, the accused covertly segregated an uncounted hundi from the main counting area, moved it to the rear of the temple on a trolley, and extracted approximately Rs 31,000 to divide among themselves.”
🔷 RS 200 CRORE TEMPLE JEWELRY MISSING FOR 40 YEARS! Questions raised over Bet Dwarka temple’s ₹200 crore jewellery:Treasure moved to Ahmedabad 40 years ago; former Mehtaji kept no accounts and trustees offer no clarity
The Dwarkadhish Temple is a Krishna temple. It’s located in Bet Dwarka, Gujarat. RS 200 crore is $20.7 million U.S. dollars.
“The valuables were allegedly taken away by the temple trustees around 40 years ago and have not been returned...The temple trust sent these ornaments from Bet Dwarka to Ahmedabad in the year 1984…there is no information about the current condition of the ornaments.”
🔷 PRIEST STEALS DURGA JEWELRY Sri Durgambika Temple Gold Jewellery Theft: Priest Accused of Stealing, Melting and Selling Ornaments in Davanagere
“the priest misappropriated gold ornaments adorning the idol, as well as jewellery donated by devotees over the years. The ornaments, reportedly worth lakhs of rupees, were allegedly melted into gold bars and sold. News of the alleged theft spread rapidly across the city, prompting thousands of devotees to gather at the temple premises” Karnataka.
🔷 MEAT, FISH & EGGS BANNED Varanasi: Egg, meat, fish sale banned along Kanwar routes
🔷 ANCIENT ARTIFACTS STOLEN Ancient temple artefacts worth Rs 57,000 stolen from Modankapu temple
🔷 BEATEN OVER THEFT Women beaten over ‘theft’ at Himachal temple, video sparks debate Another article
🔷 BADRINATH THEFT, BAIL DENIED Chamoli court rejects bail of prime accused in Badrinath shrine offerings embezzlement case
🔷 PILGRIMS BUS CRASH – 2 dead, 7 injured as Amritsar pilgrim bus crashes near Shah Talai in Himachal
“The bus was carrying 35 devotees on a pilgrimage to the Baba Balak Nath Temple at Deotsidh and Shah Talai when the accident occurred.”
🔷 RAM SIT CHANGED AGAIN! Ram temple donation theft case: UP govt reconstitutes SIT, IG (Lucknow) to head new team
“SIT” is Special Investigative Team. This is the third time they’ve changed the SIT! What was wrong with the other teams that they needed to be changed? New team will be lead by IPS officers. Read that article here
🔷 BABRI MASJID LITIGANT Seers, former Babri litigant welcome new SIT for Ram Temple embezzlement probe
🔷 CASTE CONFLICT Temple festival stopped amid caste conflict in Pudukottai
Dalits and OBC group clashed over worship rights at car festival at Moongil Ayyanar Temple in TN.
🔷 FIRE AT TEMPLE FOOTHILLS Major Fire Ravages Chervugattu Temple Foothills In Telangana; Destroys 17 Shops, Panchayat Office Records
“A massive fire swept through the foothills of the Sri Parvathi Jadala Ramalingeswara Swamy Temple in Chervugattu in Telangana.”
🔷 TEMPLE LAND ENCROACHMENTS Survey finds 12 acres of temple land encroached across 43 temples in Udupi district
🔷 SABARIMALA GOLD THEFT SIT says agreement was backdated to cover secret panel removal
🔷 TEMPLE LAND OR PUBLIC SPACE? Temple ground or Kerala’s most iconic public space? Battle over Thekkinkadu Maidan’s identity
“The Kerala High Court’s ban on political meetings at Thrissur’s Thekkinkadu Maidan has reignited a debate over whether the historic ground should remain a public space or be treated solely as part of the Vadakkumnathan Temple.”
🔴 TEMPLE NEWS, NON-CRIMES
🔷 PLASTIC BAN, NO WESTERN CLOTHES Mankameshwar temple in UP bans plastic, impose ethnic dress code ahead of Shrawan
Lord Shiva is the God of all ethnicities – not just Indian. Why should every other race have to dress up like an Indian to see God? It’s racist.
🔷 RAJA RAJESHWARI EXPANSION Rs 99 crore more allotted for Sri Raja Rajeshwara Swamy Devasthanam
🔷 ROCK CUT TEMPLE ASI to promote Pallava era rock-cut temple in Mahendravadi near Arakkonam
🔷 900 YO SHIVA SHRINE Tambdi Mahadeva Mandir: Exploring Goa’s nearly 900-year-old Shiva shrine hidden in the Western Ghats
🔷 RAM DARSHAN DURING SHRAVAN Ram Mandir darshan rules may change during Sawan: Pass-only entry likely
🔷 WOMAN TRAPPED, TEMPLE CAVE! Woman rescued after getting trapped in Tiruvannamalai’s Idukku Pillayar temple cave
🔴 FESTIVALS
🔷 SHAKAMBARI FESTIVAL 7/27-29 Durga temple in Vijayawada all set for three-day Shakambari festival
🔷 BONALU PRASHAD Telangana Offers Bangaru Bonam to Kanaka Durga in Vijayawada
Bonalu is a festival dedicated to Kali in Telangana. It started as protection from epidemics. Bangaru Bonam is a type of rice dish.
🔷 JAGANNATH Chariot of Lord Jagannath reaches Haribaldev Jew temple
🔷 JAGANNATH SUNA BESHA – Lakhs of devotees witness Lord Jagannath’s ‘Suna Besha’ in Puri
🔷 1st SHRAVAN MONDAY 8/3 First Sawan Somwar 2026: Time, Puja Vidhi, Rules and Shiv Mantra for Jalabhishek
🔷 SHRAVAN IN JHARKHAND J’khand: AI-based drones, cameras, 11,500 police personnel to be deployed for ‘Shravani’ fairs
🔴 PILGRIMAGES
🔷 CHAR DHAM DECLINE Pilgrim Footfall Declines As Rains, Landslides Disrupt Char Dham Yatra
🔴 CELEBS & POLITICIANS AT TEMPLES
🔷 KARTIK AARYAN Kartik Aaryan prays at Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain
🔴 LISTS
🔷 8 ROCK CUT RELIGIOUS SITES 8 UNESCO-listed rock-cut religious sites you should visit at least once
🔴 OVERSEAS HINDU NEWS
🇫🇯 FIJI HINDU TEMPLE Devotees celebrate 125 years of Ram Leela tradition at historic Baba Ragho Vishnu Kuti Hindu Temple in Fiji
🇧🇩 HINDU TEMPLE DEMOLISHED 500-year-old Hindu temple demolished in Bangladesh ‘on Tarique Rahman’s orders’
“In a post on X, the “Voice of Bangladeshi Hindus” account has claimed that the government had ordered the action against the temple, which allegedly came after West Bengal decided to relocate the Bankra Mosque from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport area to extend the runway after years of negotiations.”
🔴 MISC: RELIGIOUS
🔷 JAGANNATH ANIMATED FILM ‘Mahaprabhu Jagannath’, the first animated feature film from Odisha, is ready for release
🔷 RAM TEMPLE ARCHEOLOGIST Archaeologist recalls Ayodhya findings, threat of suspension
“Recalling the excavation, Muhammed said the disputed structure stood on 12 temple pillars bearing sculptures of Hindu deities, Poorna Kalasha motifs and temple bell carvings.”
🔷 HEALING YOUR PROBLEMS Shravani Mela 2026: Why visiting the Baidyanath Dham in Jharkhand heals all your problems
🔴 MISC: NON-RELIGIOUS
🔷 DEAD IN WELL Boy selected for Air Force found dead in well:Cable found wrapped around his neck; forensic expert suspects murder
🔷 LOTUS FARMING How an Udupi entrepreneur turned his struggling paddy fields into a blooming lotus paradise
🔴 OTHER RELIGIONS
🔷 EATING CHICKEN ON GANGA ‘No law bars eating chicken over Ganga’: SC judge slams arrest of Muslim students over biryani on boat ride
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