CPI-M seeks action against Hindu outfit

September 30th, 2009 KURUKSHETRA - The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindu groups, supported by leaders of other faiths, Wednesday urged the government to declare the cow as a national animal. Members of the groups said they had started a 108-day national campaign that will cover about 20,000 km, starting from this holy Hindu town and culminating at Nagpur in Maharashtra.

July 27th, 2009 Ravikumar Subramaniapillai, a software consultant of North Carolina (USA), has been nominated Vice President of renowned Universal Society of Hinduism. 39-year-old father of one, Ravi has volunteered for various Hindu organizations in India and USA.

July 26th, 2009 BHOPAL - Activists of Hindu radical groups on Sunday protested outside a church against the conversion of a Hindu woman to Christianity in Bhopal city. Protestors demanded a case should be filed into the incident, as it was described to be an attack on the Hindu culture and fraternity.

July 23rd, 2009 Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed was given “Vishwa Hindu Ratna Award” (World Hindu Gem Award) at the American Hindu Dharma Sabha, a national gathering of prominent Hindu leaders and activists, near Washington DC (USA) on July 18. Award citation said, “For Efforts to provide worldwide Hindu identity, enhance understanding about Hinduism and encourage Inter-religious dialogue.” Dr.

May 7th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A court Thursday confirmed a sedition charge against jailed leader of a banned Hindu outfit for writing a letter to Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, blaming British colonialists for the poor condition of Indians, and posting the letter on a web site. P. Uthayakumar, 48, one of the three leaders of the Hindu Rights Action force (Hindraf), failed in his bid to get this charge deleted on a technical ground that the consent signed by the attorney general was invalid, Star Online said.

May 3rd, 2009 PATNA - Tension prevailed in Bihar's Sasaram town after the body of an old Muslim man was dug out from his grave near Sher Shah's tomb and thrown on a pile of garbage, allegedly by activists of a Hindu outfit, police said Sunday. Rohtas district's superintendent of police Vikas Vaibhav told IANS over telephone Sunday morning that there was tension in the town - the headquarters of Rohtas district - and police were keeping a close watch.

March 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Dharma Raksha Manch (DRM), a Hindu group affiliated to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Tuesday said that the Gandhi family has been absolved of all its 'sins' by the alleged anti-Muslim speech given by estranged member Varun Gandhi. Referring to Varun's speech in Pilibhit, DRM co-convener Hans Das said: 'Varun has freed Gandhis from all sins.' 'Though Varun belongs to the same Gandhi family, his outlook is quite different as he always thinks of the welfare of the Hindu community,' Das said at a programme organised here by the organisation.

March 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - As the controversy over Varun Gandhi's alleged anti-Muslim speech rages, the Dharma Raksha Manch (DRM), an off shoot of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Monday come out in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate. 'We hail Varun for raising the flag of Hinduism.

March 22nd, 2009 PANAJI - Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik Saturday said that the government has banned Sri Rama Sene in the state, even as a top official said he was not 'sure about the ban'. Naik said the ban on the Hindu outfit came into force from Saturday.

March 18th, 2009 AGRA - A religious caravan of around 200 Hindu seers on their way to Ayodhya received a warm welcome in Agra on Tuesday. Organised under the aegis of the newly formed 'Hindu Raksha Manch', this procession began its journey from Haridwar.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ministry of women and child development, headed by Renuka Chowdhury, Thursday evening issued a show-cause notice to National Commission for Women (NCW) member Nirmala Venkatesh, who probed the pub attack on women in Mangalore, for her 'unbecoming' action and 'dereliction of duty'. 'Your acts are unbecoming of a member of the National Commission for Women.

January 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hindutva activists' attack on women in a pub in Mangalore in south India last week caught international attention with a leading US paper voicing fears of the rise of a 'Hindu Taliban'. In a front page report, titled 'Fears of a Hindu Taliban', the Los Angeles Times has noted that 'the attack by Hindu extremists who say they are protecting traditional Indian culture shows a disconnect as some classes rapidly Westernize.

January 28th, 2009 MANGALORE - Pramod Muthalik, founder-president of the Hindu radical outfit Sri Rama Sene whose activists assaulted and molested women in a Mangalore pub Saturday, was Thursday sent to jail for a day by a court. Muthalik was brought before the judicial magistrate's court by police who had detained him from Davangere in central Karnataka, where he is facing a case of inciting communal disharmony.

January 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday criticised the Karnataka government for 'not acting firmly' against those who attacked a group of women in a pub in Mangalore last week. 'After the brazen and criminal attack on young women by the Shri Ram Sena in Mangalore, the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) state government has not acted firmly in taking action against this Hindu extremist outfit,' the CPI-M politburo said in a statement here.

January 3rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - A global outfit of Hindus Sunday joined the row over the Maoist government removing the revered Pashupatinath temple's Indian priests, saying the former guerrillas were trying to capture the deity's treasure that is said to contain fabulous jewels and other riches. Bhola Jha, a senior official of the World Hindu Federation, flayed the Maoist government's plan to lead a nationwide foot-march from Monday to defuse the religious row, saying the former guerrilla party was trying to push its own people in the temple.