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🔴 RELIGIOUS CRIMES, BIG STORIES, ROWS
🔷 ISKCON NEPAL CHILD ABUSE Child abuse allegations shake ISKCON’s Kathmandu centre
2 children from same family reportedly abused at ISKCON Bhaktivedanta Gurukul in Kathmandu. The girl, now 13, says a male student named Ishwor Shrestha allegedly touched her inappropriately in the kitchen, forcibly kissed in hall & raped her on the rooftop.
Her younger brother who was 5 years old at the time alleges that the then-principal, Suraj Krishna Shrestha, beat him, poked him with sharp pins and threatened further punishment if he told his parents. The Himalayan Times reports additional allegations in the complaint: that he was forced into painful positions, hung upside down while pins were used on his legs and feet, pressed against iron railings, frightened with an aggressive bull, forced to do heavy cleaning work, and severely restricted in what he was given to eat as punishment.
Another article on this case: Case filed against 8 ISKCON members over schoolgirl’s death
🔷 CHAR DHAM DEATHS Five-year-old dies in rockfall on Kedarnath route; around 1,000 pilgrims rescued
🔷 BADRINATH LANDSLIDE Landslide blocks Badrinath highway; Kedarnath yatra halted as heavy rain batters Uttarakhand
🔷 SABARIMALA AUCTION BIDS LEAKED Probe into Sabarimala shops tender process leak
Shops have to bid in an auction to be allowed at Sabarimala during pilgrimage season. The auction bids were leaked!
🔷 ACTOR COMPLAINS, TEMPLE MUSIC Actor Allu Sirish seeks police action over temple music till 3 am Another article
He says a Hanuman temple in Hyderabad plays loud music till 3am.
🔷 DALIT ROAD DEMAND – ROW 40-year-old demand for road to Scheduled Caste village causes communal rift in Nilgiris
Dalits who live atop a rough hill in Nilgiris, TN have been demanding a road down the hill to make travel easier. Temple Committee is objecting saying the road would have to pass the Sri Mahalingaswami Temple and that the sanctity of the temple would be affected. The Dalits are claiming caste discrimination.
🔷 CONGRESS RAM CAMPAIGN Cong to launch campaign against Ram temple fund theft in October
🔷 BABRI BHAKTS ‘Beware of Babri bhakts’: UP CM Yogi warns ‘Bajrangis’ against attempts to defame Ram Mandir movement
Seems to me the temple employees already defamed the Ram Mandir movement.
🔷 PILGRIM FAMILY DEATH Car hits Activa, throws it off road:Husband, wife and son killed; devotees returning from Salangpur temple hit Bhalodi family near dairy
🔷 PRIEST ASSAULTED OVER MUSIC Priest assaulted over loud music, two arrested Another article
🔴 TEMPLE NEWS, NON-CRIMES
🔷 KASHMIR TEMPLES BILL
PNBMT reiterates demand for Temples, Shrines Bill
🔷 KALI CANOPY SHED Rs 1.5 cr canopy shed planned at Chatra’s Maa Bhadrakali Temple
1.5 crore will certainly buy alot of shade!
🔷 TIRUPATI TOURISM Tirupati To Be Developed As Model Tourism Destination: JC
🔴 FESTIVALS
🔷 JAGANNATH PURI STYLE PANDAL Puri Jagannath Temple-style pandal to be Durga Puja attraction in Guwahati’s Adabari
🔷 TRIBAL FESTIVAL Mini Medaram Jatara scheduled for February 2027 in Telangana
🔴 PILGRIMAGES
🔷 ODISHA VS ANDHRA PRADESH NSSO Survey Unravels Odisha Tourism Paradox: Inside Why State Lags Behind Andhra Pradesh
🔴 OVERSEAS HINDU NEWS
🇺🇲 TEXAS HINDUTVA
RSS-Inspired Groups Mapped In North Texas
🇺🇲 TEXAS HANUMAN STATUE ROW 90-Foot Hanuman Statue In Texas Sparks Row After YouTuber Says, “When We Win, We Are Tearing This Down”
🔴 MISC: RELIGIOUS
🔷 HANUMAN ANSH MOVIE Hanuman Ansh Box Office Collection Day 52: Neem Karoli Baba Film Crosses 400 Crore Mark
🔷 GANESH FLORAL WASTE Where do all the flowers go after Ganesh immersion? Hyderabad turns them into something new
🔷 DEVOTEE RESCUED Devotee gets left behind on temple trek in Melmudi forest, rescued
🔷 TEMPLE SINGERS Tamil Nadu temples are losing their singers. With them goes a 1,500-year-old sacred tradition
🔴 MISC: NON-RELIGIOUS
🔷 HINDU JEWELER DEAD Bangladesh: Hindu jeweller found dead in plastic drum; Weapon injuries indicate murder as violence on minorities spike.
🔷 SOLAR POWERED VILLAGE Modhera marks 1,000 years from temple legacy to India’s first 24×7 solar village
🔴 OTHER RELIGIONS
🔷 VANDE MATARAM MANDATORY BJP govt makes ‘Vande Mataram’ mandatory in West Bengal madrasas: Suvendu
🔷 SAHARANPUR MOSQUE DEMOLISHED Eviction is not demolition: What law actually says about Saharanpur Mosque
“A century-old mosque inside a government compound in western Uttar Pradesh was reduced to rubble within hours of a court dismissing an appeal against it. The case is not unusual. That is the problem.”
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