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Kolkata: Two decorative brass tridents have been stolen from the ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda. The theft was discovered on Friday morning at the Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street address in north Calcutta.

Ichalkaranji (Maharashtra): A case has been filed against Mr. Ramesh Patange, the Editor of Weekly periodical ‘Vivek’ for publishing an article on riots that took place in Sangli, Miraj and Ichalkaranji during Ganesh Festival.

Miraj (Maharashtra): Manufacturing of toys depicting slaying of Afzal Khan used in the models of forts built during Diwali, is stopped in Miraj due to fear of recently held Miraj Riots.

Sangli (Maharashtra): The permission for broadcasting VCD for canvassing BJP candidate was refused for the reason that there were names of Deities in the VCD which is not allowed under the code of conduct for elections.

A girl from Manerajuri died due to poisoning. The police and the Government, however, paid no attention as the girl was Hindu.

Hindu Goddess Durga is honored during Durgapuja festival as the savior of the world from evil. Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksha (liberation) is its ultimate goal.

Some young people were dressed as Hindu Gods and were playing dandiya. Some workers of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti spoke to those youths and explained to them the spiritual reasons as to why one must not dress up as Hindu Gods.

Thousands of dalits today took out a procession and held 'Ravana Mela' here to protest against the burning of Ravana's effigies on 'Dussehra'.

Villagers in India have accused the Hollywood superstar, Julia Roberts, of interrupting one of their most important religious festivals.

Access to Hindu temple in the India ashram (hermitage) has been denied to area villagers who regularly came there to pray to give way to Oscar winner Julia Roberts’ (Pretty Woman) shooting, according to reports.

Sadhvi Pragya was under treatment in J J Hospital for the last month and a half. Even though she is still not feeling well, she was sent to Jail from Hospital.

The statue of Jijabai, mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was stolen from Pachad village which is at the base of the Raigad.

Elections to four state assemblies are due in the next few weeks and yet an ongoing crisis in the Hindu nationalist family led by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is getting even deeper.

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): Satyanarain Chowdhary supervises his family’s business: running the world-famous cremation ground Manikarnika ghat. The businesslike Chowdhary seems miffed at allegations of extortion at the ghat, where victim’s families have to pay for last rites.

Government will assist the Supreme Court in arriving at a "right decision" on the issue of decriminalising homosexuality and no decision should be expected from the Union Cabinet on the matter, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said.