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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Women devotees planning a darshan of a sant or mahant in Ayodhya better ensure they have male company. Otherwise, they’ll be met with a no-show. Many sadhus, saints have decided not to meet women alone.

The government won’t back the idea of a statue of V D Savarkar in Marseilles, France, even as the BJP pitches for a memorial to mark 100 years of the Hindutva icon’s escape from a British ship near the French port.

Chennai: Swami Nithyananda Paramahamsar, whose alleged sexual acts were shown in a private Tamil TV channel, claimed that he was innocent and blamed an ashram inmate for the episode.

Mumbai– The Central Government has avoided to make a direct reference of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of Hindvi Swaraj and inspiration to all Hindus, on its website www.india.gov.in

Mumbai: This is one event which even the most astute astrologer could not have predicted. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Bombay high court against astrologers, practitioners of vastu, numerology, gemology and faith healers.

About 200 Hindu pilgrims cancelled a proposed visit to a temple in Pakistan on Saturday after they were asked by the authorities to go to the trouble-torn country at their own risk.

China's official media is promoting what it describes as the first pop singer who sings in Sanskrit. She is one of the singers being considered to sign at the inauguration of the World Expo in Shanghai.

Seven ‘stamps’ issued by a private company in the United States depicting Hindu gods and goddesses as well as the Sai Baba has stoked a controversy with claims and counter claims regarding whether they actually are postage stamps.

Mumbai: The principal of a Mumbai convent school allegedly chopped off a student's small pigtail on Tuesday, prompting the police to file an FIR against him.

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): The Indian community in Malaysia could fade away in time with most families preferring to have fewer children.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Around 20 million devotees are expected during the more than month-long Magh Mela that begins Dec 31 in Allahabad, but civic amenities to handle such a massive crowd, including hospitals, are not ready yet, officials have admitted.

Hindus are protesting against the Fox News channel for remarks that river Ganges (whom Hindus consider holy) “sounds like a disease”.

Nagpur (Maharashtra): Mr. Diwakar Raote, Shiv Sena MLA asked, "Miraj Riots are started due to hoisting of Pakistan's flag on Police vehicle. Even then, Police instead of taking action on accused Muslims, they filed false cases against Hindus. Is Afzal Khan the father of the Maharashtra Government ?"

The lawyer of Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has claimed that the Anti-Terrorist Squad had detained and interrogated her illegally last year, as a woman cannot be summoned to a police station for mere questioning.

Mumbai: The Congress-front Government has claimed that the tomb of anti-Hindu Afzal Khan at the base of Pratapgad is a holy monument who was slain by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.