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6 days, 21 hours ago

Tamil Nadu HR&CE Dept issues summons to Hindu priests of prominent temples for 'review meeting'

Op India

The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department stirred the hornet’s nest after it issued summons to Pujaris and archakas for a ‘review meeting’ on Saturday. What does HR&CE to do with the Pujaris/archakas?” It must be mentioned that the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department cannot legally force Hindu priests of prominent temples to be present …

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2 months ago

Waqf Land Issue: Karnataka Committee Seeks Resolution for Farmers, Temples, and Mutts

Deccan Chronicle

HUBBALI: The Waqf Fact-Finding Committee led by Chitradurga MP and former Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol met with the Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf Bill Jagdambika Pal and submitted a report highlighting alleged Waqf encroachments on agricultural lands and properties belonging to farmers, mutts, and temples. The Karjol-led fact-finding committee has prepared the report based on …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Inside California’s brutal underground market for puppies: Neglected dogs, deceived owners, big profits

LA Times

Blaring music drowned out the barking, but there was no masking the neglect inside the sweltering Riverside County garage. “Might be a puppy mill.” Several years before Lemon died, complaints from buyers with sick dogs led investigators with the L.A. County district attorney’s office to serve a search warrant at Matthews’ Norco home. The website for Bay Area Corgis in …

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5 months ago

Bihar govt mandates registration of temples and mutts, to submit immovable asset details online

India TV News

Patna: The Bihar government has mandated that all District Magistrates ensure the registration of unregistered temples, mutts, and trusts in their areas. Speaking on the matter, Bihar Law Minister Nitin Nabin on Thursday said, "All district magistrates have been directed to ensure that unregistered temples, mutts, and trusts are registered on a priority basis." "The state government will take stringent …

Bihar Temples State Registered District Mutts Unregistered

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Guru Purnima: Devotees flock temples, mutts in Ayodhya to seek blessings

Hindustan Times

LUCKNOW: A large number of devotees gathered in Ayodhya on Sunday for Guru Purnima to seek blessings from saints and take a holy dip in the Saryu. The Ayodhya administration made elaborate arrangements throughout the city as devotees flocked to prominent temples and mutts to seek blessings from priests. The Mani Ram Das Chhavni, one of the most influential mutts …

Ayodhya Devotees Shravan Saryu

6 months ago

Watch: Caste-based mutts and their influence on Karnataka politics

The Hindu

Whether it is running educational and medical institutions, engaging in charity and development works or endorsing candidates and lobbying for ministerial berths, mathas or mutts are institutions peculiar to the state of Karnataka. Today, these spiritual and religious institutions can even make or break a candidate’s electoral fortunes. Successive governments have also supported the mathas, whether by association of high-profile …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Jana Sena says YSRC exploiting mutts in Tirumala

Deccan Chronicle

TIRUPATI: Jana Sena has levelled serious allegations of corruption and malpractices against the various mutts in Tirumala, claiming they are exploiting devotees in collusion with YSRC leaders and certain employees of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Kiran Rayal, Jana Sena's Tirupati in-charge, alleged that 32 religious institutions, including the Sarada Peetham are involved in this …

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8 months ago

Probe ordered into misuse of funds in SJM mutt’s statue

Hindustan Times

An investigation has been ordered into the alleged misuse of funds amounting to ₹35 crore allocated by the state government for the construction of 375-feet Basaveshwara statue in Chitradurga, an official familiar with the matter said. The official said that deputy commissioner T Venskatesh has ordered details on the matter from technical experts, urging for accurate assessments to ascertain the …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Seer accuses Joshi of using ‘death of Lingayat’ for election

The Hindu

Fakira Dingaleshwar Swami of Shirahatti Fakkireshwar Mutt, who withdrew his nomination from Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency, on Saturday, accused Union Minister and BJP candidate Pralhad Joshi of misusing the ‘death of Neha Hiremath, a Lingayat’ for the election. Addressing presspersons in Hubballi on Saturday, Dingaleshwar Swami clarified that he was not supporting any political party but was against Mr. Joshi …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Pralhad Joshi marginalised prominent Lingayat leaders within the BJP’: Dingaleshwar seer

Hindustan Times

Dingaleshwar seer, one of the most influential Lingayat pontiffs in the northern range of the state, is gearing up to challenge Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pralhad Joshi from the Dharwad-Hubballi Lok Sabha constituency in the upcoming elections scheduled for May 7. Here are the excerpts: Dingaleshwar seer has challenged BJP leader Pralhad Joshi from the Dharwad-Hubballi Lok Sabha constituency in …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Pralhad Joshi visits Lingayat mutts to get support of seers

Hindustan Times

With the confirmation of Dingaleshwar, an influential Lingayat seer, contesting against him, Union minister and Hubballi-Dharwad BJP candidate Pralhad Joshi has stared visiting Lingayat mutts and Hindu temples, aiming to garner support from Lingayat seers and dissuade them from siding with his opponent, according to people familiar with the matter Amid resistance from over 200 seers supporting Dingaleshwar, Joshi sought …

Community Support Lingayat Bjp Joshi Mutt Dingaleshwar

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Controversy over overseas travel echoes again during fourth Paryaya of Puthige Mutt senior seer Sugunendra Tirtha

The Hindu

Differences of Udupi Ashta Mutt seers with the senior seer of Puthige Mutt Sugunendra Tirtha over his ‘Sagarollanghana’ continued during the seer’s fourth Paryaya on January 18, with the swamijis of seven other mutts staying away from attending the customary Paryaya Darbar in the morning. The outgoing Paryaya seer Vidyasagara Tirtha of Krishnapura Mutt did not hand over to him …

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1 year, 2 months ago

HC grants conditional bail to Muruga mutt’s chief pontiff in Pocso case

Hindustan Times

The Karnataka high court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to the former chief pontiff of Chitradurga Muruga Mutt, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, in connection with the alleged sexual harassment of a minor girl. Muruga mutt’s chief pontiff Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru gets conditional bail in Pocso case. As per the order, the chief pontiff cannot be released from jail, though he was …

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1 year, 6 months ago

18 Saivite, non-Brahmin Mutts remain the citadels of Tamil language and culture

The Hindu

A sanniyasi, wearing a headband and neck-piece of rudraksha and boarding a special flight, presents an unusual sight. Recently, when Sri Ambalavana Desikar, the head of the Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam, along with a group of sanniyasis, all from Tamil Nadu, blessed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was prostrating before a Sengol presented by the Adheenam, to be placed in the new …

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1 year, 6 months ago

U.P. CM visits mutts, meets seers in Ayodhya

Hindustan Times

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited prominent seers at their mutts to inquire about their health and discuss progress of Ram temple on the last day of his two-day visit to Ayodhya on Thursday. UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath during his meeting with Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra Trust chairman Mahant Nritya Gopal Das in Ayodhya on June 14. …

Ayodhya Ram Ram Temple Nritya Gopal Das

1 year, 7 months ago

The BJP outreach to Saivites

The Hindu

On the surface, the presence of heads of Saivite mutts from Tamil Nadu at the inauguration of the new Parliament building may offer a likeness to August 14, 1947, when the representative of Thiruvaduthurai Adheenam presented a Sengol to Jawaharlal Nehru. But the unprecedented royal reception accorded to the heads of the Saivite mutts clearly indicates that the BJP has …

Tamil Nadu Tamil Bjp Nadu Dmk Movement Mutts

1 year, 8 months ago

Prominent mutt’s poll sway under lens as key seer face rape charges

Hindustan Times

Bengaluru Political leaders started to visit mutts to seek blessings ahead of Karnataka elections. In Chitradurga in central Karnataka, the sexual assault allegations against prominent Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru have, however, cast a looming shadow over the political influence of the Murugha mutt. After the arrest of Shivamurthy Sharanaru, Davangere-based Virakta Mutt seer Basavaprabhu was appointed the in-charge pontiff …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘No Lingayat mutts existed before emergence of Basaveshwara’

The Hindu

Rashtriya Lingayat Mahasabha general secretary S.M. Delivering the inaugural speech at two-day Rashtriya Lingayat Maha Adhiveshana at Basavakalyan in Bidar district, Mr. Jamdar coming down heavily of the present situation of Lingayat Mutts. Mr. Jamdar said that the very purpose of organising Lingayat Maha Adhiveshana is to draw the attention of all political parties to the long-pending demand of recognition …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Karnataka Budget Unveiled with Rs 1,000 Cr for Mutts & Temples, Fee Benefit in Govt Colleges

News 18

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s please-all, pre-poll budget is targeted at pushing the Hindutva agenda of the BJP by announcing that the state government will build a “majestic” Ram Temple like the one in Ayodhya and reclaim Brand Bangalore. The Bommai government presented a “revenue-surplus” budget with no tax hikes, breaking the trend of revenue-deficit budgets for the past two …

Karnataka Budget Bommai

1 year, 10 months ago

Karnataka Budget: Temples, mutts, cows in focus ahead of assembly election; Congress' flower-protest – India TV

India TV News

Karnataka Budget 2023: With Assembly elections in Karnataka round the corner, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai presented his government's last budget on Friday, in which he tried to target BJP's traditional voters. Bengaluru | Ram Mandir construction will be taken up in Ramanagara, announces Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai during the Budget presentation in State Assembly Ram Mandir construction CM Bommai announced …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Cartoonists honor ‘Peanuts’ creator in Saturday funny pages

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Cartoonists across the nation are celebrating the 100th birthday of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz as only they can — with cartoons. More than 75 syndicated cartoonists have tucked tributes, Easter eggs and references to “Peanuts” in Saturday’s funny papers to honor the creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and company. “It’s a tribute to probably the world’s …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Third case filed against Karnataka mutt’s former pontiff Sharanaru

Hindustan Times

The Chitradurga rural police in Karnataka have registered a first information report against Jagadguru Murugarajendra Vidyapeetha Mutt’s former pontiff Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru and four others for allegedly keeping abandoned children in an orphanage run by the mutt without following due procedures, officials said. The latest case against the seer, under section 33 and 34 of Juvenile Justice Act, was registered …

Karnataka Sexual Assault Juvenile Justice Act Case Fir Registered Complaint

2 years, 3 months ago

Waqf Property Survey: UP Calls it Action on Land Mafias, AIMIM asks Why no Look at Hindu Mutts Then

News 18

With the Uttar Pradesh government planning a survey of Waqf properties in the state, UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya on Wednesday said the move has been taken to act upon complaints of land mafias taking over precious Waqf property, adding that those opposing it are against the welfare of poor Muslims. Government, with good intention, has started its survey; …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Watch | Rape-accused Karnataka seer takes to wheelchair on way to cop’s office

Hindustan Times

Sri Murugha Mutt's Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, a top religious leader of Karnataka's influential Lingayat community and now an accused in a child sexual abuse case, was on Friday taken to the deputy superintendent of police office in Challakere in a wheelchair after his medical examination was conducted at a district hospital in the southern state. In a video shared by …

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Tamil Nadu HR&CE Dept issues summons to Hindu priests of prominent temples for 'review meeting'

Waqf Land Issue: Karnataka Committee Seeks Resolution for Farmers, Temples, and Mutts

Inside California’s brutal underground market for puppies: Neglected dogs, deceived owners, big profits

Bihar govt mandates registration of temples and mutts, to submit immovable asset details online

Guru Purnima: Devotees flock temples, mutts in Ayodhya to seek blessings

Watch: Caste-based mutts and their influence on Karnataka politics

Jana Sena says YSRC exploiting mutts in Tirumala

Probe ordered into misuse of funds in SJM mutt’s statue

Seer accuses Joshi of using ‘death of Lingayat’ for election

‘Pralhad Joshi marginalised prominent Lingayat leaders within the BJP’: Dingaleshwar seer

Pralhad Joshi visits Lingayat mutts to get support of seers

Controversy over overseas travel echoes again during fourth Paryaya of Puthige Mutt senior seer Sugunendra Tirtha

HC grants conditional bail to Muruga mutt’s chief pontiff in Pocso case

18 Saivite, non-Brahmin Mutts remain the citadels of Tamil language and culture

U.P. CM visits mutts, meets seers in Ayodhya

The BJP outreach to Saivites

Prominent mutt’s poll sway under lens as key seer face rape charges

‘No Lingayat mutts existed before emergence of Basaveshwara’

Karnataka Budget Unveiled with Rs 1,000 Cr for Mutts & Temples, Fee Benefit in Govt Colleges

Karnataka Budget: Temples, mutts, cows in focus ahead of assembly election; Congress' flower-protest – India TV

Cartoonists honor ‘Peanuts’ creator in Saturday funny pages

Third case filed against Karnataka mutt’s former pontiff Sharanaru

Waqf Property Survey: UP Calls it Action on Land Mafias, AIMIM asks Why no Look at Hindu Mutts Then

Watch | Rape-accused Karnataka seer takes to wheelchair on way to cop’s office