🔴 RELIGIOUS CRIMES, BIG STORIES, ROWS
🔷 Golden Temple receives third bomb threat in 3 days
The Golden Temple has been threatened 3 times with a total of 5 emails!
🔷 Calls for SIT formation intensify in Karnataka temple town mass burials case
An SIT is a special investigatory team. A Dalit worker at the Manjunatha Temple in Dharamshala, Karnataka alleges that between 1995 to 2014 he was forced under threats to dispose of HUNDREDS of bodies, many of women, showing signs of sex abuse. A mother who’s daughter disappeared around that time in Dharamshala wants investigators to look into it. Read that article HERE and HERE
🔷 Over 50 Devotees Fall Ill After Consuming ‘Prasad’ at Karnataka Chikka Tirupati Temple
🔷 478 held by She Teams for sexual harassment during Bonalu and Moharram
🔷 Congress Leader’s ‘Take Away Your Temples’ Remark Sparks Controversy; BJP Hits Back Sharply
🔷 Maharashtra to enact anti-conversion law in December, will be stricter than other States: Minister
“Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand have their own anti-conversion law”
🔷 Eggs hurled at Rath Yatra devotees in Toronto: Viral video
🔷 ‘Goddess’ Warns Of Pandemic And Death In Telanga’s Bonalu Ritual Revelation
“As tradition goes, the goddess speaks through a woman in a trance.”
🔷 Shiv Sena seeks thorough probe, strict action in beef smuggling cases
🔷 Cow vigilante, Bittu Bajrangi placed under house arrest ahead of Nuh yatra
🔷 Jalabhishek Yatra held peacefully in Nuh amid internet ban, security measures
“A small Muslim shrine in Nuh’s Tauru was partially vandalised on Sunday night ahead of the Jalabhishek Yatra.”
The Jalabhishek Yatra in Nuh, Haryana is like a Kanwar Yatra where holy water takes b to Shiva temples. History of communal tensions with this yatra.
🔷 Violence in the name of cows: The ‘animal welfare’ groups that beat up truck drivers in India
🔷 Man held for vandalising Lord Shiva idol in Meerut, UP temple
🔷 Social Worker Falls Into 6-Ft Deep Pit During Temple Shramdaan Photo Op In MP’s Seoni
🔷 Thief caught sleeping inside Kali temple he robbed, arrested by police in Jharkhand
🔷 Political row over entry fee on Shiva devotees at Dalma Temple Jamshedpur
An ex Dalit sanitation worker at the Manjunatha Temple in Karnataka says he was forced to bury hundreds of bodies, many of them women over 20 years.
🔷 Rath Yatra Stampede Inquiry: 40 Officials Testify Before Development Commissioner in Puri
🔷 Tension at Alwal temple as Congress, BRS leaders clash during Bonalu event
🔷 Years After Oil Hunters Came And Left, Himachal’s Syathi Sinks; 61 Villagers Move Into Temple
🔷 Tripura: Bajrang Dal activists burn CPI (M) leader’s effigy for derogatory remarks on Lord Hanuman
“On July 13, Dutta, CITU state general secretary, while addressing a programme of the Left-affiliated Tripura Motor Sramik Union (TMSU) at Muktadhara, said auto drivers have been forced to put up a portrait of ‘shanda marka’ (muscleman) Hanuman in front of their three-wheelers to avoid harassment.”
🔷 Karnataka government takes over Bengaluru Hanuman temple after donation theft allegations
🔷 Karnataka HC refuses to stay govt takeover of Gali Anjaneya Temple amid graft allegations
🔷 Kerala HC displeased over Adgp (police) Ajithkumar travelling in tractor to Sabarimala shrine
🔷 Former state swimming champion rescues drowning man from temple pond in Kerala
🔴 TEMPLE NEWS, NON-CRIMES
🔷 6 Indian Temples Where Meat, Fish, and Alcohol are Served as Prasad
Thiruparankundram Subramaniya Swamy Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu is one of the 6 abodes of Murugan
🔷 Sawan or Ashada Masam? The Curious Case of India’s South-North Calendar Split
🔷 Senior police officer reviews security at Ram temple in Jammu
🔷 Gujarat – AMTS launches special bus service for religious pilgrimage during Shravan
🔷 Akkanna Madanna Temple Gears up for Bonalu
🔷 Boarding houses to be built for Karnataka devotees going to Sri Raghavendra Swamy temple
🔷 Couples break up if they visit this temple: Here’s why it’s still worth your time
🔷 A centuries-old ‘solar energy’ ritual gets glorious revival at Kerala’s Padmanabhaswamy Temple
“Lit lamps take centre stage, as receivers of the solar energy, which is then channelised through the rituals.”
🔷 Aanayootu and Gajapooja at Vadakkumnathan temple
🔴 FESTIVALS
🔷 All in Place for Anivara Asthanam at Tirumala
Anivara Asthanam is an accounting festival at the Venkateswara temple in Tirupati, AP. The chief officers of the TTD present their accounting books from the previous year to the murti, Venkateswara. After it starts a new accounting year. Festival is preceded by cleaning. The cleaning is called Koil Alwar Thirumanjanam
🔷 Unfazed by rain, devotees throng temples on first Monday of Sawan
🔷 Kanwar Yatra 2025: Police Deploy over 5,000 Personnel, Drones Across Delhi for Security
🔷 Sambhal temple `water anointing` after about 46 years
🔷 Uttar Pradesh: Thousands throng Lucknow Shiva temples on first Sawan Monday
🔷 2L devotees throng Baidyanath Dham on first Somvari
🔷 Sawan Somwar: Devotees flock to Ujjain for ’84 Mahadev Yatra’
🔴 PILGRIMAGES
🔷 Vigilant Hospitality: Ensuring Safety and Serenity at Amarnath Yatra
🔴 CELEBS & POLITICIANS AT TEMPLES
🔷 Speakers of Himachal, Odisha, Sikkim and Rajasthan offer prayers at Ujjain’ Mahakaal temple
🔷 Ankit Raizada visits Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Mahakaleshwar Temple to seek blessings
🔴 LISTS
🔷 9 Living Temples Where You Can Still Feel God
🔷 Believe It Or Not! Men Are Prohibited From Entering These 7 Temples In India –
🔴 OVERSEAS HINDU NEWS
🔷 Woman Recounts ‘Creepy’ Behaviour By Fellow Indians In Singapore: ‘No Means No’
🔴 MISC: NON-RELIGION
🔷 Radhika Yadav case: Singer Inamul Haq rejects Hindu-Muslim spin, says no ‘love jihad’ angle
🔷 Man wanting a son throws 7-yr-old daughter into canal
“the trio had been living off-grid in near-total isolation. No WiFi, no fridge, no AC, just waterfalls, wild woods, and a Rudra idol for company.”
🔴 OTHER RELIGIONS
🔷 Woman Accused Of Seducing, Blackmailing Buddhist Monks For Millions; Arrested
“At least 9 abbots and senior monks have been disrobed and cast out of monkhood for their involvement, amid allegations that they violated the strict celibacy rule for Thai monks.
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