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🔴 RELIGIOUS CRIMES, BIG STORIES, ROWS
🔷 LESBIAN TEMPLE MARRIAGE Two women claim temple marriage in Gurugram, seek protection from families
The two women are Hindu and Muslim.
🔷 AP COMMUNAL TENSIONS Communal tensions in Kadapa over ‘Tipu Sultan’ or ‘Hanuman Circle’ name row
🔷 BANGLADESH PERSECUTION Calcutta HC Declines To Quash Proceedings Against Bangladeshi Hindu Woman, Says Religious Persecution Plea Must Be Established By Evidence
🔷 FAKE ROOM BOOKINGS Fraudsters Dupe Delhi Devotees Visiting Srisailam
🔷 ROYAL FAMILY & SABARIMALA Royal family seeks action on Sabarimala issues from new Kerala government
“The Pandalam royal family has called on the incoming Kerala government to take early action on Sabarimala-related issues, including withdrawing cases filed against devotees, filing a fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court, and ordering a stronger probe into the alleged loss of temple gold.
🔴 TEMPLE NEWS, NON-CRIMES
🔷 VILLAGE TEMPLE DRAMA Madras HC Permits Village Temple Drama In Tamil Nadu’s Sivagangai District, Says Divisions Among People Are Natural
🔷 SOMNATH SPIRE ABHISHEK Somnath temple to see first-ever spire kumbhabhishek led by PM Modi
🔷 JAGANNATH TREASURY Puri Jagannath temple’s ‘Ratna Bhandar’ inventory work to resume on May 11
🔷 SOMNATH CELEBRATIONS Somnath, Eternal Flame of Hindus in India, Celebrating 75 Years of Cultural Continuity: A Report
🔷 GANGAMMA TEMPLE TTD presents ‘Saarey’ to Gangamma temple amid religious fervour
🔷 FESTIVAL DISRUPTION – Tamil Nadu: Chithirai Festival is civilizational heritage, not political stage; Madras HC warns against disruption
🔴 FESTIVALS
🔷 TELEGU HANUMAN JAYANTI Kondagattu temple gears up for Pedda Hanuman Jayanthi celebrations
🔷 TELEGU HANUMAN ON 5/12 Telugu Hanuman Jayanti 2026: Know Date, Rituals, Significance And Celebrations In South India
🔷 JAGANNATH CHARIOTS The Chariots Of Lord Jagannath Ready! Chaka-Akha Dera Rituals Start In Sri Khetra
🔴 CELEBS & POLITICIANS AT TEMPLES
🔷 GAUTAM GAMBHIR Gautam Gambhir seeks blessings at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine with family
🔷 ELECTION COMMISSIONER Gyanesh Kumar Offers Prayers at Tirumala and Tiruchanur Temples
🔷 KARNATAKA DEPUTY CM Karnataka Dy CM Shivakumar visits Thirunallar temple, urges secular unity
🔷 AP EDUCATION MINISTER Lokesh prays at Kanaka Durga temple
🔴 OVERSEAS HINDU NEWS
🇺🇲 HINDUS & CONVERSION Religion and the Right to Be Left Alone
This article is popping up on Hindu social media. Very controversial. It’s behind a paywall. In a nutshell, it’s about the Western world upholding the right of Abrahamic religions to proselytize but ignoring religions that don’t want to be proselytized to – like Hindus. Controversial because in America there’s freedom of speech. People can legally approach you to talk about religion.
🇺🇲 HARVARD HINDU TRAINING? Harvard Divinity School Announces Plans for Hindu and Muslim Ministry Initiatives
🇺🇲 INDIANS MOCKED Texas woman running for Governor mocks Indians, says her new name is Pria
🇺🇲 VIVEK RAMASWAMY TAM-BRAHM How Vivek Ramaswamy Steers His Hindu-American-Tamil-Brahmin-Heritage Through the Cultural Landscape
🇺🇲 HINDUS DIVIDED Political divide amongst Hindu Americans
🇺🇲 BAPS AT WHITE HOUSE Hindu prayer for peace, unity offered at White House event
A Hindu prayer was offered by a BAPS participant at the White House’s National Day Of Prayer.
🇺🇲 RSS SANCTIONS US calls for sanctions on right-wing Indian paramilitary organisation
🇺🇲 HINDU STUDENTS ‘Demystifying Hinduism’: Hindu Students Host a Landmark Conference at Rutgers University
🇰🇭 CAMBODIA’S ANGKOR WAT – Cambodia completes restoration of millennium-old Angkor temple
🔴 MISC: RELIGIOUS
🔷 HINDUISM WITHOUT CASTE Imagining Hinduism without caste
“For centuries, what we now call Hinduism was never a single religion. It was a civilisation organised through caste. Each caste had its own gods, rituals, food rules, taboos, and ideas of the sacred. Diversity was not accidental; it was structural. To imagine a caste-free Hinduism is therefore to imagine uniformity. Who defines it then? The “pure” vegetarian Brahmin? Or an angry Dalit leader? Or maybe a rich Baniya who funds political parties? Or a guru who ignores ground reality and gets foreigners to suddenly turn into Brahmins?”
🔷 ISRAELI BRAHMIN Israeli bodybuilder trained at ISKCON gurukula gains attention for Hindu devotion
🔴 MISC: NON-RELIGIOUS
🔷 TEMPLE MUTTON – Temple mutton to kakori kebab, UP food diversity isn’t a govt file
🔷 BENGAL WIN FOR HINDUTVA? Mamata Banerjee’s fall: A win for Hindutva?
🔷 ABANDONED BABY SUCCESSFUL Abandoned as an infant, Chennai girl scores 428 in Class 12 exams
🔴 OTHER RELIGIONS
🔷 VIOLENCE AGAINST MUSLIMS 34 incidents of violence, mosque attacks and demolitions in West Bengal after BJP win
🔷 BUDDHIST MOLESTER Top Sri Lankan monk arrested for alleged sexual abuse of minor girl
🔷 CHRISTIANS PERSECUTED Christians decry persecution in India’s heartland
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