New Delhi: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has issued a statement denying reports of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi planning to visit Ayodhya. There were reports that Modi was planning to visit Ayodhya this month.
Reports had said that during his Ayodhya visit, Modi was expected to offer prayers at the disputed site. Reportedly, the VHP had also called a meeting of Hindu saints who played active roles in the Ram temple movement in 1990s.
Reports said that Ashok Singhal, Praveen Togadia, Gorakhpur MP Yogi Aditya Nath and yoga guru Ashok Singhal, Praveen Togadia would welcome Modi in Ayodhya.
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12:11 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court was petitioned on Thursday for its nod to summon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi as witnesses in a case filed against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his alleged "Hindu terror" remarks made at Jaipur. The complainant, right to information (RTI) activist Vivek Garg, also sought to call Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and Chandrabhan of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress as...
01:45 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Washington: For the first time, the FBI will start tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs, meeting one of the long-pending demands of these minority communities, who have increasingly been targetted post 9/11 in the United States. After years of pressure from civil rights groups and lawmakers, the FBI Advisory Policy Board on Wednesday recommended tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab Americans. At its meeting, the board...
12:55 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Dr Poonam Sethi, head of the department of Commerce at Delhi University's Hindu College joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the admissions process in DU colleges for Commerce (Hons). Q. Ma'am, what will be the cut-off at Hindu and SRCC? Asked by: Sonal A. The cut offs in Hindu and SRCC are likely to be more than 95 percent. Q. Please tell us about the changes in the structure...
06:28 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Washington: An influential US lawmaker asked the FBI to start tracking and quantifying hate crimes against Hindus, Sikhs and Arab-Americans residing in the country on Friday. "The disturbing pattern of violence and hate against Sikh, Hindu, and Arab-Americans is unacceptable. But, we will only be able to comprehensively address the problem if and when we know the full scope and severity of crimes against these communities," Congressman Joe Crowley said....
01:51 PM, May 31, 2013
India's oldest passenger car, the legendary Ambassador is all set to be launched with BS4 diesel-powered heart in a few weeks and will be sold with a new name. Company officials recently invited taxi association officials from around Kolkata to drive the new Ambassador at Hindustan Motors' Uttarpara plant. HM dealers as also taxi drivers had a feel of the vehicle on HM's purpose-built track. An official from a taxi...
04:34 PM, May 27, 2013
Islamabad: Unidentified armed men gunned down a Hindu man in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police said. No group claimed responsibility for the murder. Madan Lal was standing near his house at Munir Ahmad Khan Road when the gunmen riding a motorcycle shot him and fled. Lal died on the spot. The body was handed over to his family after an autopsy. The motive for the killing could...
10:35 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Friday its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who was scheduled to pronounce his verdict on the petition on Thursday, listed it for Friday, saying he had not prepared the whole order. "I have not prepared...
10:50 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court has deferred for Friday its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who was scheduled to pronounce his verdict on the petition on Thursday, listed it for Friday, saying he has not prepared the whole order. "I have not prepared the whole...
04:10 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to pronounce order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation suit filed against him for his 'hindu terror' remark. The petitioner has alleged that the Home Minister had willfully made the remark to create ill will between communities. The petitioner has also alleged that these statements aimed at polarising votes ahead of the 2014 general...
06:40 AM, May 16, 2013
Washington: A panel in the United States has asked the government to continue its visa ban on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The same report has deemed Pakistan the world's worst violator of religious freedom. The report demanded that Pakistan be designated a country of particular concern. The report has also cited Afghanistan as being very poor for dissenting Sunni Muslims, Shias, Sikhs, Hindus and Christians. It also says that...
12:37 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Anglo-Dutch company Unilever Plc, along with Unilever NV will acquire about 487 million shares, or 22.52 per cent, of India's Hindustan Unilever in a deal valued at about $5.4 billion. The parent company will buy the shares for Rs 600 each, 20.6 per cent premium to the Monday's closing price, the manager to the offer HSBC Securities and Capital Markets informed the stock exchanges on Tuesday. ...
09:27 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: FMCG major Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) on Monday posted 14.65 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 787.20 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2013. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 686.61 crore in the same period of previous fiscal. Net sales of the company rose by 12.48 per cent to Rs 6,367.14 crore for the January-March, 2013 quarter, as against Rs...
02:57 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian authorities have issued an arrest warrant against an ethnic Indian leader, who is contesting general elections in May, for failing to appear in a court hearing a sedition charge against him. Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader P Uthayakumar has been charged under the Sedition Act. He faces three years in jail or a fine if convicted on the charge. Uthayakumar, a candidate for the May 5...
12:50 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Ahmedabad: Amid talk about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's projection as BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Acharya Dharmendra on Sunday said he wanted "a true patriot" to occupy the country's top post after the next elections. "I want to see a true patriot becomes next Prime Minister ...I don't think Modi is a traitor...However, we have to see what happens ahead (aage aage dekhiye hota hai kya),"...
05:20 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that it was the teachings of Hindu seers had kept the country going forward. He was speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of the Sivagiri Mutt's headquarters of the Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham, established by Sree Narayana Guru, who propagated the concept of 'One Caste, One Religion, One God'. Modi arrived at the mutt, 45 km from Thiruvananthapuram, on Wednesday evening....
05:34 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday deferred to May 16 its order on whether to summon Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his 'Hindu terror' remark. Metropolitan magistrate Amitabh Rawat, who had called the complainant to deliver the order after the counsel completed the arguments, postponed the date to May 16 saying the order was not ready. The court...
08:46 PM, Apr 23, 2013
London: India's leading industrialist brothers, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, have been together listed as 20th richest in the world in the Sunday Times Rich List 2013. The brothers, who have separate industrial empire in India, have been clubbed together under the category of Petrochemicals and they are jointly assessed worth 17 billion pounds as against 19 billion pounds in 2012. The Hinduja brothers, Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja, Chairman and Co-Chairman...
12:59 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday ordered issue of a notice to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on a petition seeking a direction to police to probe a complaint against him for allegedly making certain "malicious" remarks at a public meeting here over a decade ago. When the matter came up before Justice N Kirubakaran, the Public Prosecutor took notice on behalf of Chennai Police. "The petitioner...
04:15 AM, Apr 20, 2013
One of the truly enigmatic personalities on the contemporary Indian political canvas, Narendra Damodardas Modi is difficult to ignore. From his humble beginnings as a RSS pracharak to his rise in the Hindutva ranks, and from being Bharatiya Janata Party' master planner to one of the its most popular and controversial state chief ministers, Modi's mantra of change and development is gradually finding many takers. Though he evokes vastly different...
07:21 PM, Apr 15, 2013
