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Topic: Hindu temples

2 women arrested for stealing idols from temple in Hyderabad

The sisters, main suspect Swarna Latha and Pavani, consulted a ‘baba’ due to a string of deaths in their family and were advised to install and worship idols.

Varanasi’s Great Temple Hunt—Hindu groups are combing gullies, mosques, Muslim homes

Freelance Hindu groups are on a mission to ‘find’ temples in Varanasi. Mosques, Muslim homes, or often tense Hindu-Muslim neighbourhoods are their hunting grounds.

Think tank of retd judges, sants will suggest ways to free temples from govt control & run them, says VHP

Before handing over temples to the Hindu society, VHP functionary Milind Parande calls for removal of 'all non-Hindus employed in temples and endowment departments'.

In Mathura, lawyers & teachers run temples—with stickers on cars. ‘Receivers’ now under scrutiny

Mathura district judge is set to submit report in SC today on temples under receivership model, wherein lawyers, teachers & journalists step in to run temples in cases of dispute.

Fact Check: No idols were found at Sambhal mosque survey. Social media posts are fake

Three idols in the viral social media image were found in Karnataka in February 2024, months before the Sambhal mosque survey was conducted.

Concealment can’t bring closure. Muslims must admit destruction of Hindu temples was wrong

If Muslims considered the destruction of temples bad, there should have been an elaborate and pervasive condemnation of it in their literary and oral traditions.

‘Upsetting for Indians,’ says Australia on Hindu temple vandalism in Canberra

At a press briefing Tuesday, jointly addressed by foreign ministers Jaishankar and Penny Wong, the Indian minister called Sunday’s incident in Brampton ‘deeply concerning’.

Training temple managers, B-school style. Mumbai institutes’ new courses cover finance to soft skills

Courses by Mumbai University & Welingkar Institute aim to improve administration of temples, especially those run by smaller trusts that struggle with crowd control, fund management.

VHP to open centre in Ayodhya to train English-speaking pujaris for Hindu temples abroad

Another centre to open in Faridabad to meet domestic requirements, says VHP president Alok Kumar, adding that aim is to 'explain Hindu scriptures to youth in language they understand'.

SC to hear plea for return of funds ‘involuntarily’ remitted to TN govt body by Hindu temples

TN-based trust argues that while law provides for temples to voluntarily contribute surplus funds to Common Good Fund, this has become mandatory in practice, with predetermined amounts.

On Camera

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Joys of Trumplomacy: India & the world are learning US President’s 99 moods and 1 goal

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.