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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicVishwa Hindu Parishad

Topic: Vishwa Hindu Parishad

Amid coronavirus scare, Yogi govt cancels Ram Navami festival in Ayodhya

The VHP has asked devotees to celebrate at home by hoisting saffron flag atop houses & by chanting 13-letter vijay maha mantra to inspire others.

Gujarat 2002 was independent India’s first full-blooded pogrom. Delhi 1984 was a semi-pogrom

Hindu-Muslim riots are not uncommon in India, but Gujarat violence plumbed new depths of horror and was undoubtedly a pogrom, wrote Ashtutosh Varshney.

With Rahul Gandhi ‘hybrid’ remark, BJP’s Anant Hegde continues to play chief rabble rouser

The union minister, who said the BJP will remove secular from the Constitution, is unabashedly Islamophobic and appears to have no qualms in exhibiting it.

Kashmiri youth booked for derogatory Facebook post on Pulwama attack

The youth allegedly shared some images after the attack and captioned it 'The real surgical attack' on his FB page.

Sabarimala row: Bandh in Kerala after the arrest of senior Sangh Parivar leader

The temple had opened Friday amid a tense standoff involving social activist Trupti Desai in Kochi and a move by its administrator to seek time from the Supreme Court to implement its verdict.

BJP govt in Himachal wants to rename Shimla to Shyamala

State health minister Vipin Singh Parmar says there isn’t any harm in going back to historic names ‘if the people want it’.

You like a Muslim more, cop asks as woman is slapped for having Muslim lover

Three police personnel seen abusing and slapping woman suspended after video of incident becomes public.

VHP passes resolution to build Ram temple, to move top court for daily hearings in case

Decisions were taken in the first general meeting of the Hindutva outfit after the change of its leadership early this year.

Taliban is a ‘political pressure group’ and India’s neighbours don’t have militants: CIA

In Pakistan, much to the surprise of many, only one entity makes the cut as a political pressure group — the Pakistan Ulema Council, whose chief had reportedly encouraged suicide attacks in 2013.

We don’t have any problem with Pravin Togadia, says VHP’s new working president

Togadia resigned from the organisation last week after his nominee for the post of international president lost in an election held after five decades.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.