Bamulahija Live: Rahul was pushed into local train

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  • राहुल गाँधी की मुंबई यात्रा की सफलता से कांग्रेसी उत्साहित हैं राहुल भी बेहद खुश हैं की शिवसैनिको की धमकियों के बावजूद वे चकमा देकर मुंबई दौरा पूरा करके लौटे. लेकिन अन्दर की बात कुछ और ही निकली है. सूत्रों की मानें तो राहुल का लोकल ट्रेन में बैठने का कोई प्रोग्राम नहीं था. वे बस स्टेशन पर लोगों से मिलकर वापस जाना चाहते थे, लेकिन इधर राहुल का आना हुआ और उधर ट्रेन का भीड़ भाड़ और धक्का मुक्की में राहुल जबरन ट्रेन में धकेल दिए गए. वैसे बेहतर टी आर पी मिलने और अच्छी खबर बन जाने से कांग्रेस और राहुल खुश है लेकिन फिर भी जांच एजेंसियां पता लगाने की कोशिश में लगी है कि आखिर राहुल को धक्का किसने दिया था ?

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Cartoon, Hindi Cartoon, Indian Cartoon, Cartoon on Indian Politcs: BAMULAHIJA

• Cartoon, Hindi Cartoon, Indian Cartoon, Cartoon on Indian Politcs: BAMULAHIJA

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Tirupati replica in Kurukshetra

• Tirupati replica in Kurukshetra

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  • With 20 million visitors per year, it is regarded as the most visited shrine in the world. Now to cope with the huge pilgrim rush, the Tirumala temple authorities of Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, will set up a new shrine at Kurukshetra in Haryana. This will be the first full-fledged temple of Lord Venkateshwara outside Andhta by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD).

     

    A meeting took place between Adikeshavulu Naidu, TTD chairman, and Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Delhi on Thursday. The Haryana government has agreed to give five acres of land free of cost to TTD at Kurukshetra.

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Sindhis start move to stop conversions - dnaindia.com

• Sindhis start move to stop conversions - dnaindia.com

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  • A number of influential Sindhi personalities have come forward to restrain the ongoing trend of conversion among fellow community members in Ulhasnagar. They have decided to start a shuddhikaran (purification) movement for those who have stopped following traditions of Hinduism.
  • “We are going to launch a shuddhikaran movement soon for those who have changed their faith,” said Pradeep Bhavanani, president of Bharatiya Sindhi Samaj, the largest non-religious organisation of the community in India.

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Pakistan snub raises fears of IPL terrorism - Cricket, Sport - The Independent

• Pakistan snub raises fears of IPL terrorism - Cricket, Sport - The Independent

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  • By Mihir Bose
  

  • The Indian cricket authorities are extremely worried that there could be a terrorist strike from a Pakistani-based al-Qa'ida group against the Indian Premier League. The third edition of this immensely successful Twenty20 tournament starts in India in two weeks' time, on 12 March.

    The Indians feel that the threat could be defused if Pakistani players were to take part in this tournament. At present Pakistani players are excluded from this year's IPL, including five Pakistani players, Kamran Akmal, Misbah ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul and Sohail Tanvir, who had IPL contracts.

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End product of a culture of violence

• End product of a culture of violence

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  • Balbir K Punj
  • The treatment meted out to the Pandits in Kashmir Valley and the total silence on it among the Muslim leadership has not enabled the Muslim community to convince their Hindu neighbours that true secularism is inherent in the Islamic political doctrine. It is not the condemnation alone of the beheading of the Sikhs in Pakistan that international public opinion is looking forward to as an isolated event. It is the total disavowal of the culture of sanctifying use of barbaric violence for supporting and propagating religion that the civilised world would like to see emerging in the Muslim world.

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On Faith Panelists Blog: Why no Hindu or Buddhist representation? - Aseem Shukla

• On Faith Panelists Blog: Why no Hindu or Buddhist representation? - Aseem Shukla

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  • co-founder, Hindu American Foundation

    Aseem Shukla

    Associate Professor in urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota medical school. Co-founder and board member of Hindu

  • The U.S. has an Ambassador to the Vatican and Israel, and perhaps, soon, the Muslim world. So we reward those that profess a state religion, persecute infidels in their midsts and laugh off secularism as an irrelevant relic, and we relegate the 1.5 billion adherents of pluralistic, non-proselytizing Dharma religions to no voice at all? Can we reconcile this appeasement to the Muslim world while we deny the agency of religious ambassadorship to India and Thailand, that despite their respective Hindu and Buddhist majorities, maintain democratic and secular governance?

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Mukherjee invokes rain god for economic growth | CalcuttaTube

• Mukherjee invokes rain god for economic growth | CalcuttaTube

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  • Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday invoked the Hindu rain god Lord Indra for a good monsoon that, he said, would help maintain the growth trajectory of the Indian economy.

    Mukherjee’s invocation at the very start of his 2010-11 budget speech in parliament underlined the importance of the monsoon for agriculture in India, an activity that provides livelihood to over 60 percent of the population.

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Panther's Party moves apex court to bring back Husain | TopNews

• Panther's Party moves apex court to bring back Husain | TopNews

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  • A Jammu and Kashmir politician has moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the central government to scrap various criminal cases filed against noted painter M. F. Husain for allegedly making obscene paintings of Hindu gods and goddesses.

    In his lawsuit filed in the apex court treasury, J&K National Panthers' Party chief Bhim Singh has also sought direction to the government to bring back Husain to the country from Qatar, where he is living in self-exile since 2006.(IANS)

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Holi Festival

• Holi Festival

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OfficialWire: New Film To Analyze Tiger Woods’ Apology

• OfficialWire: New Film To Analyze Tiger Woods’ Apology

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  • by David Cohen
  

  • As the world analyzes Tiger Woods’ apology, the international epic "Karma: The New Revolution” will explain the Buddhist approach to Atonement and Redemption that will play an important role in his comeback. Filmed in over a dozen countries -- from the Louvre Museum in Paris to the Sal forests where the Buddha taught in India -- the film will combine the teachings of the Buddha, Bhagavad-Gita, Upanishads, Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda as well as some of the greatest Western philosophers including Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Bertrand Russell, Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Voltaire, Plato and the like.

    The film’s Presenter and one of the only Buddhist-Brahmins in the West, Acharya Zen elaborates, "One of the most powerful stories of redemption in any religion is the inspirational saga of Angulimala who overcame a life full of depravity to become one of the Buddha’s best-known disciples. In fact his lesson is highlighted in Verse 173 of the Dhammapadas where the Buddha states that ‘a person who makes amends for the wrong he has done can light up the world like the moon merging from the clouds’. This suggests that Tiger Woods has a real opportunity to become an even bigger inspiration by proving that a true role model is not one who never makes mistakes; but one who always makes amends”.

  • “Karma: The New Revolution” will be available on Blue-Ray, DVD and iPhone formats in March and more information and previews are available at www.rightkarma.net.

    Acharya Zen is one of the only Buddhist Brahmins in the world hailing from the same distinguished lineage that authored and maintained most of the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures over the centuries. He is also the prime architect behind the revival of the original Vedantic Buddhism of India and presents its teachings with a Motivational tone for a Western audience. He can be visited at AcharyaZen.com, AcharyaZen.org and VedanticBuddhism.com

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Lonely Lalu, Mulayam remind BJP of pre-Babri good times

• Lonely Lalu, Mulayam remind BJP of pre-Babri good times

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  • J P Yadav
  • In the political wilderness, both Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday made an unusual appeal to the BJP. Had the party not brought down the Babri Masjid, they said, all of them would have still been together. They also urged Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, who is being made the punching bag for rising food prices by ally Congress, to switch over.

     

    Participating in a discussion over price rise in the Lok Sabha, the RJD president accused the Congress of turning “arrogant”, while the SP chief regretted having supported it in power. Both also said that but for the Babri factor, things could have been different between them and the BJP.

     

    “Aapne agar masjid nahi giaraya hota to aaj hum bikharte nahin (Had you not demolished the Babri Masjid, we would not have fragmented),” Lalu said as the BJP members listened quietly.

     

    In fact, he hoped that despite their disunity they could come together to bring down the Congress-led government. “Despite being in different parties, we can coordinate and organise a countrywide bandh... This government will not last its full term,” Lalu said, with BJP members thumping their desks this time.

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Jagran - Yahoo! India - रथ महोत्सव का आयोजन करेंगे मलेशियाई हिंदू

• Jagran - Yahoo! India - Dharm Marg

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  • मलेशिया के वार्षिक मासी मगमथेप्पाथिरूविला[चलायमान रथ] महोत्सव का रविवार को तेलुकबहांगके श्री सिंगामुगाकालीयाम्मनमंदिर में आयोजन होगा। भगवान श्री सिंगामुगाकालीयाम्मनके सम्मान में इस वार्षिक महोत्सव का आयोजन किया जाता है।

    इस महोत्सव का विशेष आकर्षण समुद्र में एक गतिशील नाव पर भगवान श्री सिंगामुगाकालीयाम्मनकी प्रतिमा का अनावरण होगा। मंदिर के सचिव एन. गणेशनने बताया कि इस मंदिर का निर्माण 113वर्ष पहले हुआ था। उन्होंने बताया कि शुरुआती दिनों में मछुआरे देवता की प्रतिमा को नावों पर समुद्र में ले जाते थे।

    गणेशनने कहा कि उनके पास कोई और विकल्प नहीं था, क्योंकि वहां सडकों की सुविधाएं नहीं थीं। मलेशिया में करीब 20लाख भारतीय रहते हैं। इनमें से ज्यादातर तमिल हिंदू हैं जो ब्रिटिश काल के दौरान यहां आकर बस गए थे।

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Jagran - Yahoo! India - पहले मैं आत्मदाह करूंगा फिर समर्थक

• Jagran - Yahoo! India - Dharm Marg

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  • फर्जी शंकराचार्योके मामले में नित नये मोड आ रहे हैं। एक दिन पूर्व अपने समर्थकों द्वारा आत्मदाह का ऐलान करने वाले निर्मल अखाडे के महामंडलेश्वरसंजीव हरि ने बुधवार को गंगा की सौगंध खाकर यह ऐलान दोहराया। साथ ही उन्होंने कहा कि अपने समर्थकों के साथ वे खुद भी आत्मदाह करेंगे। उधर, निर्मल अखाडे की ओर से उन्हें इस तरह की बयानबाजी न करने व पद से हटाने की चेतावनी भी दी गई है।

    पंचकुलासे आए निर्मल अखाडे के महामंडलेश्वरसंजीव हरि ने बुधवार को काली मंदिर के नये घाट पर जाकर गंगा की सौगंध खाई। उन्होंने कहा कि फर्जी शंकराचार्योके खिलाफ चलाये जा रहे अभियान के तहत यदि जगद्गुरु शंकराचार्य स्वरूपानंद सरस्वती अपना शिविर छोडकर जाते हैं तो उनके समर्थक आत्मदाह करेंगे। इसके साथ ही उन्होंने कहा कि यह कोरी धमकी नहीं है, अपने समर्थकों के साथ वे खुद भी आत्मदाह करेंगे। उन्होंने कहा कि मेला प्रशासन को फर्जी शंकराचार्योको बढावा नहीं देना चाहिए।

  • हरिद्वार

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