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Javanese Hindus revive Mahashivaratri at Prambanan Temple
Mahashivaratri (15th February 2026), marked the month-long Prambanan Shiva Festival at the UNESCO heritage site in Yogyakarta, Java (Indonesia). The Prambanan complex is the second largest Hindu temple in South East Asia. Consisting of 240 free-standing temples, the complex is dominated by a central temple of Shiva, with temples of Vishnu and Brahma on either…
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Peterborough: High Court halts sale of Mandir site to Mosque group
In April 2025, Peterborough Council announced it would sell the site of the Bharat Hindu Samaj Mandir. The Mandir team agreed to purchase the site for £1.3 million and commenced fundraising. As the community marked Navaratri in September 2025, the Labour led coalition in charge of Peterborough City Council took a U-turn on its agreement…
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Tamil Nadu: unlawful crackdown on Hindu Devotees at Thiruparankundram
During the festival of Kartikai Deepam, Hindus for centuries have observed a tradition of lighting a sacred lamp at a Deepathon (stone beacon) at the top of the sacred Thiruparankundram Hill (Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India). There are records of this site being a place of Hindu pilgrimage as early as the 2nd-4th century CE. In…
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Bangladesh: Extremists desecrate Durga Puja shrines
Durga Puja, the largest and most popular Hindu festival across Bangladesh began on Sunday, 28th September 2025. The festival is traditionally observed by setting up temporary shrines (pandals), where clay murthies of Durga and other deities, crafted especially for the festival, are installed. In the run-up to the festival, 9 incidents have been reported in which…
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Prana Pratishta rituals take place at Shri Ram’s birthplace
5th June 2025: This morning, the Prana Pratishta rituals took place at the Shri Ram Mandir at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi (birthplace of Rama) in Ayodhya, India. Following the opening of the main shrine on the ground of the temple on 22nd January 2022, construction of the remaining shrines in the temple complex continued. This included…
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Hindu Astronaut ranks amongst most experienced spacewalkers
On 5th June 2024, Sunita Williams and her colleague Barry Wilmore left Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard the Boeing Crew Flight Test; on the spacecraft’s first journey with astronauts. The spacecraft was due to dock at the International Space Station (ISS), that orbits the Earth and return after 9 days. Due to technical issues,…
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Wembley based Vivek Gaurav’s pragmatic environmental activism
29 year old Vivek (instagram: @theplogman) from Pune, India, now based in North London, is an environmental activism who leads the world’s largest community of ‘ploggers’. The concept started in Sweden in 2016, the word Plogging is made up of the Swedish jogga (jogging) and plocka up (a pick-up). Plogging is form of litter picking where people…
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Launch of UK’s first anti-Hindu hate survey
30th March 2025: INSIGHT UK initiated the UK’s first survey on Anti-Hindu Hate Survey. This survey will provide a deeper understanding as to the expereinces of British Hindus experiencing discrimination, hostility, or hate-related incidents due to their religious identity. In contrast to more well-established British frameworks to address discrimination faced by Jewish and Muslim communities,…
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Islamist terrorists carry out targeted murder of Hindu tourists in Jammu & Kashmir
26 civilians, mainly Hindu tourists, have been murdered by Islamist terrorists in Pahalgam (Jammu and Kashmir, India). The attack occurred at 14:30 on 22nd April 2025, in the scenic Baisaran meadow. Eyewitnesses reported how the camouflaged terrorists appeared from the nearby forest, singling out Hindu men by asking whether they could recite Islamic verses, then…
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Krish Raval; British Hindu Leadership Development Champion, appointed Peer
Taking his oath on the Bhagavad Gita, Krish Raval OBE was appointed as Baron Raval, of Hertsmere in the County of Hertfordshire in the house of Lords on 29th January 2025. The Prime Minister nominated Krish for Peerage at the end of 2024 in recognition of his extensive contributions to leadership education and interfaith cohesion,…
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Canadian Hindus feel betrayed by Temple Leader; Mr M Lama
On November 3, 2024, the Canadian National Council of Hindus (CNCH), the Hindu Federation, and several prominent Canadian Hindu leaders issued a directive: no politician can use Canadian Hindu temple platforms for political purposes. This directive was prompted by the recent attacks on the Hindu Sabha Mandir in Brampton by pro-Khalistan groups. The Hindu community…
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Hindu Billionaire criticised for supporting anti-Hindu interim Bangladeshi PM
Vinod Khosla, a Hindu-American billionaire, faced criticism from prominent Hindu activist Mohandas Pai, for his apparent silence on the plight of minority Hindus in Bangladesh. Pai’s criticism was sparked by Khosla’s social media post on 7th August 2024 which celebrated Muhammad Yunus’ appointment as the leader of Bangladesh’s interim government, following the fall of Sheikh…