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🔴 RELIGIOUS CRIMES, BIG STORIES, ROWS

🔷 Forced meditation – USA school forced kids to do TM meditation, sued – settled for $2.6 million
TM aka Transcendental Meditation was brought to U.S. by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Chicago schools were making poor, inner city kids meditate to lower stress. Plaintiffs complained about being forced to invoke Hindu gods, say mantras, do pujas that the teachers renamed, “ceremony of gratitude”.

🔷 Woman, 70, electrocuted at Tamil temple festival!
The 70 yo woman died from touching a wired fence. 6 injured at the Mariamman temple in Trichy, TN. Temple previously closed for 10 years due to upper castes not letting Dalits in.

🔷 Buddha Purnima: From India to South Korea, compassion celebrated across globe

🔷 Animal slaughter, meat sales prohibited in Bengaluru on Buddha Purnima

🔷 Senior servitor suspended for misleading statements on Digha Jagannath Temple idols
“senior Puri servitor, Rama Krushna Das Mohapatra suspended for 30 days for allegedly bringing disrepute to the 12th-century Puri Shree Jagannath Temple by making misleading statements regarding the origins of the idols at the new Digha Jagannath Temple.”

🔷 Commandos at this year’s Ratha Yatra in Puri

🔷 Odisha Police Crack Down on Hate Post Against Lord Jagannath

🔷 Hyderabad’s iconic Karachi Bakery vandalised by unknown; founded by Hindu refugees after partition

🔷 Temple board expresses regret after MLA Harish Poonja’s hate speech at Brahmakalashotsava in Tekkaru

🔷 Shirdi Saibaba Temple not to allow bouquets, prasad and garlands a week after receiving bomb threat

🔷 Mumbai: Siddhivinayak Temple in Dadar Prohibits Offering of Coconut, Prasad for Security Reasons Amid India-Pakistan Tension

🔷 Yoga guru, Padma Shri awardee Swami Sivananda dies at 128 in Varanasi

🔷 Satish Mahaldar demands action over illegal sale of temples in Kashmir

🔷 Mahavatar Narasimha Film Director Announces Theatrical Release Date

🔷 Boy, 4, drowns in Durga temple pond
Family attending a wedding at the Sri Durgaparameshwari Temple in Udfupi, Karnataka.

🔷 Gold that went missing from Padmanabhaswamy temple found

🔷 Dalit youth stopped from entering temple in Tumakuru district; administration intervenes
Karnataka

🔷 Richest temple in the world but poor security systems; gold theft because CCTV camera in Padmanabhaswamy temple did not work

🔷 Chitra Pournami: Tamil epic heroine Kannagi’s idol portion missing for 50 years

🔷 TN: Two die during Lord Kallalagar’s Vaigai river entry in Madurai

🔷 Dilip Ghosh’s Temple Visit Sparks BJP Infighting Ahead of 2026 West Bengal Election
BJP politician visited the Digha, Bengal Jagannath Temple in its opening – angering the rest of the BJP who don’t like Bengal CM, Mamata Banerjee who had the Bengal temple built.

🔷 5 traditional kurti styles to imitate Rasha Thadani’s temple visits