Category: Hindu achievements
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Hindu Pilot Recited Hanuman Chalisa During Cockpit Attack
Friday 2nd October: Captain Smit Machchhar, the Flydubai pilot credited with saving the 174 people on board flight FZ1073, has revealed what carried him through the attack: the Hanuman Chalisa.Speaking to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi by video call from his hospital bed, Captain Machchhar described being stabbed in the cockpit on the Dubai to…
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Hindu Pilot Saves 174 Lives after Cockpit Stabbing
Wednesday 30th September: An Indian captain is being praised around the world after being stabbed in the cockpit of a passenger jet and still helping to bring it to safety.Captain Smit Machchhar was in command of Flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, when a violent altercation broke out…
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Somnath at 75: The new temple a symbol of Hindu Civilisational reawakening
The story of Somnath enters the 20th century with writings and campaign of Indian independence activist and politician, K. M. Munshi, who in 1922 visited Prabhas and envisioned the revival of the temple. In August 1947 when India gained her freedom, the fate of Somnath was perilous due to its location in the princely state…
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Dhruv Patel appointed High Sheriff of Greater London
On 30 April 2026, Dhruv Patel CBE was appointed High Sheriff of Greater London. An unpaid role representing law and order on behalf of the Crown for a year, the High Sheriff role serves the judiciary, police, courts and the wider criminal justice system. Visiting courts, prisons, emergency services and community organisations across London, Dhruv…
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Kheer Bhawani Temple California: Milestone in Preserving Kashmir’s Hindu traditions
The Bhumi Puja (ground breaking ritual) for Mata Kheer Bhawani Temple and Cultural Centre [@kheerbhawaniusa] was performed on 25th April 2026 at a 7.5 hectare site in Livermore, California, USA. The USA now boasts over 1,000 Hindu temples (and counting). This new temple stands out as exceptional and significant in the history of global Hindu Dharma…
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Karishma Vijay wins 2026 BBC Apprentice
29 year old British Hindu entrepreneur from Ashford, Karishma Vijay has won the BBC’s Apprentice 2026. During the final episode aired on 16th April, Alan Sugar announced his £250,000 investment for Karishma’s skincare business; Kishkin.skin @kishkin.skin, which she developed after discovering a solution for her acne. Part of Karishma’s motivation to enter the show was…
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Hindus: most environmentally conscious of Britain’s faith groups
A report by Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL) concluded that Hindus in the UK are most likely to engage in environmentally friendly behaviour than other religious groups. The report was based on a survey of Britain’s three largest religious communities; Christians, Muslims, and Hindus – Britain’s three largest religious communities, questioned…
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Indonesian Hindus welcome Murugan to Java
Java, Indonesia: Mahakumbhabhishekam rituals took place to inaugurate Jakarta’s Murugan Temple, (Shri Sanathana Dharma Aalayam) @jktmurugantemple this February. At 400 square meters, this is Indonesia’s first temple dedicated to Murugan. Built with a towering 40-meter high Rajagopuram (entrance tower), it is now Indonesia’s largest temple built in the Dravida style of architecture (native to Southern Bharat). Home…
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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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10-year-old Krish Arora beats Einstein in IQ test
Krish Arora; a 10-year-old British Hindu from Hounslow, has scored the maximum possible IQ of 162, placing him in the top 1% of the population and surpassing the estimated IQs of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking (160). From a young age, Krish was well ahead of his peers. He was reading fluently by age 4…