To liberate ancient religious places such as Kashi, Mathura, etc., the Central Government should withdraw the ‘Places of Worship (special provisions) Act 1991′, this demand was made…
Brijesh Sati, spokesperson of Devbhoomi Teerthpurohit Char Dham Mahapanchayat, a body representing the priests, commenting on the issue said, “We are planning to hold protest of sitting half-naked by the priests in all 4 temples of Char Dham which includes Gangotri, Yamunotri and Badrinath.
he Shri Jagannath Sena and Shrikshetra Suraksha Vahini have called for a ‘Puri Bandh’ in protest of the Supreme Court’s decision to deny permission to Deity Jagannath’s Rath-Yatra this year due to the corona crisis.
An ancient Shiva Temple discovered on the 16th June, near Perumallapadu village, on the banks of Penna river. A structure of the temple was noticed while excavating sand from the river.
In a shocking incident, the Kattuppasathy Madasamy Temple in Sammenkulam village here was destroyed by the local Police, following a complaint by the radical Islamists in the area.
The Police and District administration bulldozed the Kattuppasathy Madasamy temple in Sammenkulam village ignoring the protests of Hindus without following due process of law on the complaint lodged by the Muslims that the temple affects the privacy of their women folk bathing.
A Hindu body, Vishwa Bhadra Pujari Purohit Mahasangh’ has moved the Supreme Court challenging a provision of a 1991 law that provides for maintaining “religious character” of holy structures as it existed on 15th August 1947, in a bid to open the litigation route to reclaim disputed religious sites other than the Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, that looks after the administration of Mata Vaishno Devi Temple in Jammu, had arranged Eid celebrations for 500 quarantined Muslims. All their expenses on food and lodging were borne by the Shrine Board.
Prithviraj Chavan had demanded all the gold belonging to Hindu temples as a gold loan at a low-interest rate. Dr. Kulpati Tiwari, a former Mahant of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, has imposed a life-long ban on the entry of Chavan and his family to the temple.
The letter mentions that the take-over of temples by the Government is against the Constitution, as well as, the ideology of pro-Hindutva BJP.