Month: May 2015

“‘The media creates a false impression on church attacks. Only four churches were attacked in Delhi. During the same period, 458 temples and 25 masjids were also targets. You cover half the truth and show the other half, it becomes a lie that amounts to cheating the country,’ Dr Krishna Gopal said at a function to honour journalists.” – Jatin Gandhi

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh leader Krishna Gopal said on Saturday that reporting only attacks on churches in Delhi is a “half-truth” and amounts to lying and cheating the country.

According to him, it also puts national prestige and honour in jeopardy.

This is the first RSS reaction since the U.S. commission on inter-religious freedom released its report last week placing India amid more than 30 countries that meet a “systematic, ongoing, and egregious” standard for failing to protect religious freedoms.

Mr. Gopal is a sahsarkaryavah — the number three position in…

7 years old Hindu girl child student sexually violated by Muslim school van puller as alleged.

HENB | Usthi -WB | May 10, 2015:: In a very shocking development, a case of alleged sexual violation on a 7 years old girl child has been surfaced on Wednesday (May 6, 2015) in Bamna village under Usthi Police Station jurisdiction in the district of South 24 Parganas of West Bengal.

The victim Bishakha (name changed) Banik, the daughter of a Hindu farmer Prabhakar Banik was afraid to attend her school named “Saptagram Kishalaya Mission” a primary and upper primary school under Allah Amin Mission, for a couple of days with severe irritation. While the matter was noticed by the victim’s mother, it was revealed that Habibur Rahaman Laskar alias Habib Laskar (38 yrs), the school van puller of “Saptagram Kishalaya Mission”, had been in practice of series of sexual violation with the little girl at the…

12 Hindu root pilgrim centers to get a new makeover

HENB  | New Delhi | May 11, 2015::  Twelve ancient cities with pilgrimage connections have been identified by the Union Ministry of Tourism for development under the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spirituality Augmentation Drive (PRASAD), according to a source availed here on Monday.

The cities are Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh), Gaya (Bihar), Dwarka (Gujarat), Amritsar (Punjab), Pushkar-Ajmer (Rajasthan), Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu), Vellankani (Tamil Nadu), Puri (Odisha), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Mathura (Uttar Pradesh), Kedarnath (Uttarakhand) and Kamakhya (Assam).

Mission directorate

To implement the PRASAD scheme, a mission directorate has been set up in the Ministry of Tourism. A budget provision of Rs. 15.60 crore has been made for development of basic facilities at the Vishnupad temple at Gaya in Bihar.

Under this scheme, the first instalment of Rs. 85.78 lakh has been released.

The development of the cities will be dovetailed with the Heritage City…

Haryana sweet water pools fire up Saraswati revival

Sukhbir Siwach | TNN |  Mugalwali (Yamunanagar) | May 10, 2015 :: A dozen-odd pools of sweet water emerging on a dry riverbed in a village in Haryana have got India’s top scientists excited about the possibility of taking the Saraswati river out of the realm of myth and make it a reality. While ONGC will soon start drilling in six different locations in the state, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has collected samples of the water from Mugalwali village.

Of the six locations ONGC identified, three are in Yamunanagar and one each in Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Fatehabad. This is the first time that they have identified drilling locations in Haryana. They had found a massive water source in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district in a similar exercise in 2006.

Also, a team of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Thursday collected samples from Mugalwali. “We…