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Babiya, the divine crocodile, who lived in Kerala’s Ananthpuram lake temple dies, tributes pour in

OpIndia Staff -
Legend says that in 1945, a British officer shot at a crocodile in the temple and within days Babiya appeared in the temple pond. She was completely vegetarian.
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Go drink cow p**s, go eat cow sh*t: New video of attack on Hindu temple in Birmingham emerges

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More videos from the attack on Hindu temple by an Islamist mob in Birmingham have emerged.
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Are Muslims allowed to eat Prasad from Hindu temple and can they eat food cooked by Hindus? Here is what Darul Uloom Deoband says

OpIndia Staff -
Darul Uloom Deoband has a long history of issuing controversial Fatwas. It is the origin of Sunni Deobandi movement.
News Reports

UP: Pieces of meat thrown inside temple compound in Shamli district, police hints at sinister plot to disrupt communal harmony

OpIndia Staff -
A woman who entered the temple on Friday morning to offer prayers found pieces of meat strewn across the compound.
Law

‘Temples cater to larger needs of society’: Supreme Court gives sermons to Hindus, doubts necessity of revisiting 1863 Religious Endowments Act

OpIndia Staff -
SC questioned the need to revise the 1863 Religious Endowments Act, noting that the statute has enabled temples to serve "larger needs of the society."
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“Temples many times cause law and order problems” Madras HC observes while ordering closure of temple in Erode till ‘fit person’ is appointed in...

OpIndia Staff -
A temple in Erode is in legal tangles over worshipping the deity. The court said how it was a paradox that temple which is supposed to bring peace is causing such ego clashes.
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Navsari: VHP objects awarding tender to Mumbai-based Anwar Sheikh at the Somnath Mahadev Temple fair in Bilimora

OpIndia Staff -
Hindu organisation had objected that the Muslim contractor may consume meat or offer namaz on premises of Hindu temple that may hurt the religious sentiments.
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SP leaders, local Muslims, conspired to takeover a Krishna Temple land in Mathura 15 years ago, turned it into graveyard during COVID: Details

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Muslims of Shahpur village manipulated land records to take over Bihari Ji temple, FIR registered against SP leaders, locals of Muslim community
News Reports

Jharkhand: Communal Tensions prevail after miscreants throw meat pieces in Shiv Temple in Lohardaga

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Miscreants in Rampur village in Lohardaga district of Jharkhand hurled meat pieces inside the local Shiv Temple.
Opinions

Madras HC says non-Hindus can enter temples if they have faith in the diety: Why the recent comments in the order are problematic

Nupur J Sharma -
Madras High Court passed an order that could open Pandora's box in response to a PIL about not allowing the entry of non-Hindus during the Kumbabishegam festival of Arulmighu Adikesava Perumal Thirukovil at Thiruvattar
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