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1 Feb, 2016
HinduPost is a digital media outlet that provides the true perspective on issues concerning Hindu society. It was launched on 14 January, 2016 on the occassion of Makar Sankranti, and this is the first newsletter containing all articles published in the last 2 weeks. Henceforth, we will be sharing a weekly newsletters with all our subscribers, who can also choose to subscribe for email notifications whenever a new article is posted.
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Three convicts in the 2013 Kamduni gang-rape and brutal murder of 20-year-old college student Shipra Ghosh were on Saturday sentenced to death by a Kolkata city court, while three others got life imprisonment.
Additional Sessions Judge Sanchita Sarkar handed out a death sentence to ruling TMC party workers Ansar Ali, Saiful Ali and Aminul Ali, while Emanul Islam, Aminur Islam and Bhola Naskar were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of Shipra Ghosh on June 7, 2013.
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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In a shocking development, MLAs of Congress, BSP and RLD were seen holding banners demanding “Kamlesh Tiwari Ko Phansi Do” (Hang Kamlesh Tiwari) during protests against the Governor’s speech in the UP Assmebly.
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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A minor girl, 15 year old Twinkle Shaw, was raped, murdered and her body found dumped in a coal pit in Jamuria, Asansol, Bardhaman district of West Bengal on 26 January. The accused Mohammed Aftab Alam has been arrested by police after local people complained of police inaction.
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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In yet another instance of the Pakistani State approved persecution of Hindus in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Sindh High Court (Sindh is one of the 4 provinces or states of Pakistan, and home to majority of the Hindu population still surviving in Pakistan) allowed 15 year old ‘Shabana’, who was converted to Islam from Hindu Dharma and then ‘married’ to a Muslim man Ali Gul, to live with her ‘husband’.
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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What is the ‘controversy’ at Shani Shingnapur temple ?
This ‘controversy’ is related to the Shani mandir in Shani Shingnapur village, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra. This Hindu temple is dedicated to Shani (the devata or diety associated with the planet Saturn) who is said to be Swayambhu that is self emerged from earth in form of a black stone at this place. The temple authorities do not allow either men or women to climb the 9 steps to the Shani(idol). Everyone (man or woman) is allowed to enter the temple.
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal has issued an appeal to Muslims in Assam to “unite against Hindus”. The ruling Congress party has on the surface issued a ‘condemnation’ of this divisive rhetoric, but there are hectic behind the scene parleys to patch up some kind of arrangement between Congress and AIUDF for the upcoming Assam …
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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Recently, while surfing channels, I came across a news report on CNN (US) about ‘Super Brain’ Yoga, a simple 5 minute exercise that offers benefits not just for young students, but also adults seeking brain wellness into their senior years and patients with Down Syndrome, Alzheimers, or other development challenges and cognitive delays seeking cures. Here’s a short video on …
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Author: Guest Author
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The Tamil Nadu “Thowheed Jamaath” (TNTJ) plans to hold a ‘Shirk Abolition’ conference on 31 January in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. In Islamic parlance, Shirk is the prohibited practise of worshipping idols or photos of Gods, Earth (Bhoomidevi), Sun, Moon, Cows, Nature – all of which form part of Hindu Dharma.
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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After a CPI-M leader was made an accused in the murder of an RSS functionary in Kerala, Rural Development Minister Birender Singh today questioned the silence of the ‘Intolerance Brigade’ (Congress and other Opposition parties, actors, directors, writers and poets who alleged that there is ‘Rising Intolerance’ in Bharat over the last 18 months and even returned their awards in ‘protest’) on this development. “Learned that …
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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In yet another blast at a bomb making unit located within a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader’s house, 2 men, Hafizul and Tarik Hussain, brothers of Jabir Hussain, TMC leader of Panchla gram panchayat in Khairasol police station area, were killed while making bombs that went off accidentally. The blast took place in the leader’s house at Ahmedpur village, Birbhum district about 180 from Kolkata. The impact …
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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Some sensational revelations are emerging in the Telugu media over the tragic incident of Rohith Vemula’s death, which are being largely ignored by our national media in its desperation to paint this incident as a death caused by caste discrimination. These revelations have also brought into question the role of student groups like SFI (Communist Party of India’s student body), …
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Author: Guest Author
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The history of the Chalukyas of Gujarat has never suffered from want of historians since Hemachandra wrote his Dvyāśrayakāvya. His lead in this field of literature was followed by many writers such as, Someśvara, Somaprabha, Chandraprabha or Prabhachandra, Balāchandra, Udayaprabha, Merutunga, Jayasimha Suri and others. Many of these authors really wrote the biography of Kumarapala or of Vastupala and Tejahpala, but …
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Author: Parin Shah
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There is a new awakening that is challenging the ongoing westernization of the discourse about Bharat. An important new book “The Battle for Sanskrit”(www.thebattleforsanskrit.com) seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and Samskriti
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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On the somber occasion of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus day, rather than empathize with the victims of religious cleansing and introspect on the way he abdicated his responsibility at a time of crisis, ex-CM of Jammu & Kashmir Dr. Farooq Abdullah chose to taunt Kashmiri Pandits.
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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In a shocking incident in Pune, 17-year-old rag-picker, Sawan Rathod, was set on fire by Ibrahim Shaikh, Imran Tamboli and Zuber Tamboli in broad daylight last Wednesday, 13 January. Sawan, who belonged to the Banjara community (a nomadic community classified as backward in many states), sustained 75 per cent burns in the gruesome crime. He succumbed to his injuries on …
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Author: Guest Author
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The recent tragic suicide of a young research scholar, Rohith Vemula, at University of Hyderabad (UoH) has shown the depths to which Marxist groups, ‘secular’ parties and our national media have sunk in their pursuit of manufacturing fault lines in Hindu society, playing identity politics and chasing TRPs. What Happened to Rohith Vemula? Rohith was one of five students of …
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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January 19, 1990- a day chiseled in their collective memories – is the day of exodus of the Kashmiri Pandit community. The name of ‘Kashmir’ valley is derived from the name of Rishi Kashyapa, the progenitor of all those living in Bharatvarsha. Kashmiris have played an integral role in Hindu civilization – Kalhana authored ‘Rajatarangini’, the first written history of Kashmir and contemporary …
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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Muslim extremist mobs are now functioning with complete impunity in West Bengal. They fear no one, not the police, nor BSF, and definitely not the State of Bharat. Today, the West Bengal police is heavily demoralized due to the repeated assaults and humiliation meted out to them by Islamist mobs, who have the full backing of the ruling TMC party. …
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Author: HinduPost Staff
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