The Iskcon temple's spokesperson said that they have just three weeks left, after which the existing facility will be demolished. ...
08:16 PM, Dec 24, 2012
Karachi: At the time of religious intolerance, shlokas from Bhagavad Gita were reverberated at a school in Karachi during a quiz competition to test the knowledge of the Hindu boys and girls about their religion, leaving the minority community having something to celebrate about. For months now the Hindu community in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has been complaining of bias and injustice over the issues of kidnappings and forced conversions...
10:52 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Moscow: A Russian court on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking a ban on a translated version of the Bhagwad Gita for being "extremist", bringing cheers to followers across the world. "The court in the Siberian city of Tomsk has dismissed the plea," Sadhu Priya Das of Moscow ISKCON said soon after the verdict was announced. State prosecutors in the Siberian city of Tomsk had filed an appeal against a lower...
09:50 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Putting to test India's diplomatic skills to find an amicable solution to a Russian state prosecutors' bid to get Hindus' holy text Bhagavad Gita banned, a court in the Siberian city of Tomsk Tuesday resumed hearing in the case ahead of the final verdict on Wednesday. This has resulted in anxiety gripping 50,000 Hindus in Russia, as they feel there was a state-sponsored effort to proscribe "Bhagavad Gita...
04:07 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Moscow/New Delhi: Hindus in Russia are bracing for a fresh court battle against attempts in the Siberian city of Tomsk to get their sacred 'Bhagavad Gita' branded as "extremist literature" and banned, after the state prosecutors filed an appeal against an earlier judgment in December last year throwing out their case. The state prosecutors have already filed their appeal in the Russian court, which has set March 6 as the...
03:31 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Ahmedabad: Leading Economist Lord Meghnad Desai on Friday questioned the principles and beliefs of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Speaking at an event in Ahmedabad, he said he was puzzled over why the apostle of ahimsa defended Adolf Hitler and endorsed the Bhagvad Gita, a text that Lord Desai believes condones violence. Desai was speaking on 'Gandhiji's views on violence', as a part of the 12th Prof Ramlal...
08:25 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Moscow/New Delhi: A Russian court on Wednesday rejected a petition, described by India as "patently absurd", which had sought a ban on a translated version of the Bhagvad Gita, bringing cheers to followers here as well as those across the world. The court's decision not to ban the sacred book brought to an end a keenly contested six-month old case that had caused anger among believers around the world and...
05:03 PM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday conveyed to Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin the country's concern over the 'sensitive' issue of a Siberain court hearing a petition seeking a ban on Bhagavad Gita. Ahead of the court hearing on Wednesday, Krishna called Kadakin and told him that the Russian Government should provide all possible help to resolve the issue. Taking up the issue, which has created a uproar...
01:34 PM, Dec 27, 2011
The BJP demanded that the government should announce Bhagvad Gita the national book. ...
11:57 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts whether the Bhagavad Gita should be India's national book?
01:03 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Moscow: India has strongly taken up the demand for banning Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita, which a group linked to the Christian Orthodox Church has described as 'extremist', with the Russian authorities, Indian Ambassador to Russia Ajai Malhotra said. "The matter has been taken up by the Indian Embassy in Moscow with the Russian Government at senior official level, seeking its favourable and positive intervention in the matter," Ambassador Malhotra...
08:47 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: In a last ditch effort to save the Bhagavad Gita from a ban, aghast Hindus in Russia appealed to a Siberian court to seek the views of the nation's human rights panel on the religious text and preachings, before pronouncing its verdict. Following their last-minute plea, represented by their advocate Mikhail Fralov, the court in Tomsk city in Siberia has given the human rights panel 24 hours to...
07:20 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Moscow: In the wake of an uproar over a move to ban the Bhagavad Gita in Siberia, Russia on Monday night expressed sadness over the development, saying it is "inadmissible" that a holy scripture is taken to court. "It is strange that such events are unfolding in the beautiful university city in Siberia, as Tomsk which is famous for its secularism and religious tolerance," Alexander M Kadakin, Russian Ambassador in...
12:32 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Moscow: Bhagavad Gita, one of the holiest Hindu scriptures, is facing a legal ban and the prospect of being branded as "an extremist" literature across Russia. A court in Siberia's Tomsk city is set to deliver its final verdict on Monday in a case filed by state prosecutors. The final pronouncement in the case will come two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his December 15 to 17...
06:22 PM, Dec 17, 2011
A sketch in the Bible shows Joseph in a turban and Mary in a sari. ...
12:13 AM, Aug 10, 2008
