Tweet Bhagyanagar, Hyderabad – An indefinite curfew was today imposed in the sensitive Madannapet and Saidabad areas of the walled city. A Hanuman temple at Kurmaguda, (in Saidabad) was found desecrated on the Sunday morning which was followed by incidents of stabbing and heavy stone-pelting, hence curfew has been imposed, police said. A day after [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) Kashmir Hindu Foundation, Inc., USA members are deeply distressed to hear news reports that a sacred Hindu temple ‘Shri Vaital Bairav Astapan’ at Motiyaar in Rainawari, Srinagar-Kashmir has been completely desecrated,  including the sanctorum and the sacred old Mulberry Tree. This has sent a wave of strong resentment among the Kashmir Hindu devotees [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) A Hindu temple named as “Sankat Mochan Hanuman Mandir” has been planned for Old Bridge Township in New Jersey (USA). This 20,000 square feet temple in an 18.5 acres lot will be replica of a famous temple of the same name in Varanasi (India) and required official approvals/permits have reportedly been obtained and [...]

Tweet Voting is on for the 2012 Time magazine Top 100 list. Time’s 100 list consists of leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes you think are the most influential people in the world. Several Indians are among the contenders in this list. They include IAC leader Anna Hazare, touted as the Future PM of India by [...]

Tweet In Pattani’s Thung Yang Daeng district, two Thai Buddhists were recently killed. Police have revealed that the foremost suspects are two muslim militants from the area. Suan Chansri and Somnuak Somdang were traveling in a pick up truck through the village of Ban Khao Din when a number of culprits ran out of a [...]

Tweet Saskatoon, Canada (CHAKRA) – A Hindu Temple in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada) is launching a $1-million expansion project. With construction starting in May next, it envisages an increase of about 2,500 square feet area each at main and basement levels, doubling the current seating capacity of the Temple. A Temple Expansion Committee chaired by Veena [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) BBC News website posted a short video on March 29 under its “week’s weird videos” in “Newsbeat’s odd box” showing youth playing Holi in Utah (USA) and titled the segment as “Filthy festival”. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that terming the “festival of color” celebrated by [...]

Tweet “Be different or be digested; be confident of who you are; be strong not apologetic. In interfaith dialogue replace the term ‘tolerate’ with ‘mutual respect’ for each other.” These were some of the thoughts expressed by Dr Rajiv Malhotra to a keen audience while promoting his latest book, “Being Different: An Indian Challenge to [...]

Tweet “Alinah Khan”, a sixteen-year-old girl, now living in the town of Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab is still adapting to her mother calling her by her new name. Before marriage she was known as Radha and still calls herself that when outside of her home the rare few times when she is allowed to [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) Hindus have offered heartfelt condolences on the death of Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Shenouda III on March 17 in Cairo (Egypt). Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that they were saddened by the passing of His Holiness Pope Shenouda, 88, 117th Pope of [...]