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Bengal's Feline Couple Akbar & Sita Get New Names, VHP Claims Moral Victory
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Bengal's Feline Couple Akbar & Sita Get New Names, VHP Claims Moral Victory

News 18  

What’s in a name? Ask Bengal’s feline couple Akbar and Sita who will now be known as Suraj and Tanaya. The lion and lioness, who were brought from Tripura to the Bengal Safari Park in Siliguri on February 12 last year, have been at the centre of a controversy since the VHP filed a case with the Calcutta High Court, …

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Why call lions Akbar, Sita? Court questions choice of big cat names
10 months ago

Why call lions Akbar, Sita? Court questions choice of big cat names

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: The curious case of a lion named Akbar, a lioness called Sita, and petitioners upset at such nomenclature for reasons related to faith took an interesting turn on Thursday with Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta high court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench saying his conscience doesn’t support such naming even as the state government told him that zoo authorities were …

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'Why Create Controversy Naming Lion & Lioness After Sita & Akbar?': Calcutta High Court Suggests State To Change Animals' Names
10 months ago

'Why Create Controversy Naming Lion & Lioness After Sita & Akbar?': Calcutta High Court Suggests State To Change Animals' Names

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday, directed for the reclassification of a plea moved by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad as a public interest litigation, and for it to be placed before the regular bench having determination over PILs.The Court also orally called on the State to consider renaming the lioness called 'Sita' who was a worshipped goddess among Hindus, to …

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’We worship lions’: Calcutta HC remarks on lioness being named ‘Sita’
10 months ago

’We worship lions’: Calcutta HC remarks on lioness being named ‘Sita’

Live Mint  

The Calcutta High Court on February 21 directed the West Bengal government to obtain details while hearing a plea by the Vishva Hindu Parishad against the naming of a lioness at Siliguri's Safari Park as 'Sita', reported LiveLaw. Earlier, Vishva Hindu Parishad or World Hindu Council moved the court seeking an order to change the name of the lioness. The …

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VHP moves Calcutta HC over lioness named ‘Sita’ at Siliguri zoo
10 months ago

VHP moves Calcutta HC over lioness named ‘Sita’ at Siliguri zoo

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: The Bengal unit of Vishwa Hindu Parishad has moved the Calcutta high court over the naming of a lioness after the Hindu Goddess ‘Sita’ paired with a male lion named after the Mughal emperor ‘Akbar’. The five-year-old Asiatic lioness was brought to the Siliguri zoo from Tripura’s Sepahijala Zoological Park The wild cats were recently brought to the North …

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VHP moves Calcutta HC after forest officials named lioness 'Sita' and keep it with lion 'Akbar'
10 months ago

VHP moves Calcutta HC after forest officials named lioness 'Sita' and keep it with lion 'Akbar'

Op India  

On Thursday, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad filed a plea before the Calcutta High Court after the West Bengal forest department named a lioness ‘Sita’ and kept it in the same enclosure as a lion named after Mughal tyrant ‘Akbar’. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad said that the decision by the West Bengal forest officials amounted to a direct assault on the …

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VHP approaches Calcutta HC as lions Sita and Akbar share enclosure in Siliguri
10 months ago

VHP approaches Calcutta HC as lions Sita and Akbar share enclosure in Siliguri

Live Mint  

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has moved the Calcutta High Court over recent accommodation choices made by the Siliguri Safari Park. Lions Sita and Akbar were brought from the Sepahijala Zoological Park in Tripura earlier this week and are currently housed in the same enclosure. A Statesman report quoting forest officials adds that the duo already know each other well and …

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Lioness 'Sita' housed with lion 'Akbar' at Bengal safari, Hindu outfit goes to court
10 months, 1 week ago

Lioness 'Sita' housed with lion 'Akbar' at Bengal safari, Hindu outfit goes to court

India Today  

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has moved the Calcutta High Court challenging the West Bengal forest department's move to allegedly keep a lion named 'Akbar' alongside a lioness named 'Sita' in the same enclosure at Siliguri's Safari Park, LiveLaw reported. The Bengal wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad approached the Calcutta High Court's circuit bench in Jalpaiguri on February 16. The …

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VHP to recite ‘Ram Nam’ outside police stations in Mangaluru on February 19
10 months, 1 week ago

VHP to recite ‘Ram Nam’ outside police stations in Mangaluru on February 19

The Hindu  

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad said here on Thursday, February 15, that its activists will sit on dharna outside Mangaluru South Police Station and other police stations in the city and recite ‘Ram Nam’ on Monday, February 19. It is to protest against Mangaluru South Police registering what the VHP called a ‘false case’ against D. Vedavyas Kamath and Y, Bharath …

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Bihar Police cancels leaves of officials ahead of Hindu outfits' yatra
1 year, 2 months ago

Bihar Police cancels leaves of officials ahead of Hindu outfits' yatra

India Today  

The Bihar Police on Tuesday cancelled all leaves of its officials between September 28 and October 8, in view of a rally by Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad in various districts of the state to spread awareness about various issues related to Hindu society and culture. The rally - named "Shaurya Jagran Yatra" - will begin on September 28 …

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Uttar Pradesh: VHP leader shot in Moradabad, admitted to hospital; accused still at large
1 year, 10 months ago

Uttar Pradesh: VHP leader shot in Moradabad, admitted to hospital; accused still at large

India TV News  

Uttar Pradesh: In a shocking incident, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader was shot on the Delhi-Lucknow National Highway in the Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. According to police officials, the victim has been identified as Santosh Pandit, who was shot in front of HDFC Bank in the Majhola police station area on Saturday evening. VHP leader's condition is stable "A …

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Rajdeep Sardesai glorifies Iqbal: Read murky antecedents of the Islamic bigot
2 years ago

Rajdeep Sardesai glorifies Iqbal: Read murky antecedents of the Islamic bigot

Op India  

On Friday, the Uttar Pradesh Police booked a government school principal and a teacher for making the students recite a Mulsim prayer by Allama Muhammad Iqbal during the morning assembly. Muhammad Iqbal wrote Tarana-e-Milli in 1910 to contradict his own words written in ‘Sare Jaha se Accha’ However, the ‘journalist’ who always seems to shield the so-called secular and ‘liberal’ …

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Telangana: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind organises get-together event for 'non-Muslim' girls, VHP opposes
2 years, 1 month ago

Telangana: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind organises get-together event for 'non-Muslim' girls, VHP opposes

Op India  

On Sunday, an Islamist outfit named Jamaat-e-Islami Hind organised a grand event inviting all the non-Muslim girls and women in the Karimnagar area of Telangana. pic.twitter.com/qUrtMDFdQQ — Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ October 30, 2022 The Vishwa Hindu Parishad took cognizance of the incident and requested the Karimnagar Police to take appropriate action against the Islamist organization. They also …

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Congress encouraged illegal Muslim migration in Uttarakhand: Swami Darshan Bharati
2 years, 6 months ago

Congress encouraged illegal Muslim migration in Uttarakhand: Swami Darshan Bharati

Op India  

On May 22, 2022, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the state has been carrying out an extensive identification drive to expel illegal Rohingyas migrants from the state. Bengali colonies have mushroomed in various parts of Uttarakhand, Congress helped them with documentation, says Swami Darshan Bharati “There were roughly 6000 Muslim votes in the first assembly in Vikasnagar, …

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VHP asks K\'taka government to discontinue ‘Salam Mangalarati\' ritual at Kollur temple
2 years, 8 months ago

VHP asks K\'taka government to discontinue ‘Salam Mangalarati\' ritual at Kollur temple

Deccan Chronicle  

Udupi: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has asked the state government to discontinue the ritual named ‘Salam Mangalarati,’ at Kollur Sri Mookambika Temple. Salam Mangalarati is a ritual at Kollur Temple said to be performed in reverence to Tipu Sultan, to commemorate his visit to the temple. This respect is said to have continued in the form of ‘Salam Mangalarati.’ While …

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Rise in attacks on Christians a worry in MP
3 years ago

Rise in attacks on Christians a worry in MP

Hindustan Times  

St Joseph Parish, Ganj Basoda, in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district, organized its first holy communion, a religious ceremony, for eight Christian catholic children at a local Church on October 31. On December 6, more than 200 people reached the school shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Dharma ki raksha kaun karega hum karenge hum karenge’ and started vandalizing,” said school principal …

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Bajrang Dal Members Dance With Swords in Karnataka, Police to Take Action
3 years, 2 months ago

Bajrang Dal Members Dance With Swords in Karnataka, Police to Take Action

The Quint  

Police booked the organisers under the Karnataka Epidemics Act and sections of the IPC for violating COVID-19 protocols, reported Times of India. The Udupi police are also reportedly looking into allegations of trishuls being distributed by Bajrang Dal and VHP members on Ayudha Pooja on Thursday, 14 October, to fight ‘love jihad’. Home Minister Araga Jnanendra reportedly defended the Trishul …

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