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Sabarimala – Record earnings despite attempt to thwart the pilgrimage

Sabarimala: Despite repeated attempts by vested interests to thwart Sabarimala pilgrimage, The aggregate revenue earnings in the ongoing mandalam-makaravilakku season at Sabarimala rose to Rs 114.66 crore breaking the previous…

‘Truths’ under Mullaperiyar dam

If you notice the main players in the Mullaperiyar game viz. Maani, Joseph, Sohan Roy, Manorama and of course the Church, the plot is very clear. Considering the present status…

KHNA Invites Scholarship Applications

An American scholarship instituted by Kerala Hindus of North America invites applications from the students of Kerala, who seeks admissions for professional courses like Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology and Dentistry. They…

Hindu Parliament – Updates

HINDU PARLIAMENT KOLLAM DISTRICT MEET  Kollam District meeting of Hindu Parliament was held at District Co-operative bank auditorium on 17.12.2011. As has been reported in HK on earlier occasions from…

Vote and Share

Vote and Share

Visit http://specials.msn.co.in/sp11/yearendspecial/home.aspx?cid=4&pid=10# and cast your vote.…

VHP International Meet Updates

VHP International Meet Updates

For Updates and images visit http://www.facebook.com/groups/216938078381955/…

Dam row turning Tamils, Keralites into foes

Tamils have staked claim for Kerala’s Idukki district. They attack Keralites in Tamil Nadu and even inside Kerala. Tamils settled in Kerala are fleeing, apprehensive of attacks. The border is…

Don’t call it Love Jihad … They won’t like it

These two cases are reported on the same day 15 Dec 2011 in a inside page column of  Malayalam daily – Mathrubhumi Thenipalam: Police arrested Three Jihadis – Dulshad(28), Nadirsha…

Varsity cancels VS son’s PhD registration

In a setback to Kerala’s octogenarian Marxist and Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan, engaged in a crusade against corruption and nepotism, the syndicate of the Kerala University on Tuesday decided to…

Misinformation Campaign against Amritha Hospital

There is a concerted effort by a section of Minority controlled internet media and social networks like facebook to spread misinformation campaign against Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences. (http://www.marunadanmalayalee.com/mminnerpage.aspx?newsid=63634#.TuJDP2a9JuA.facebook)According to…

Tributes to our bold sisters Remya and Vineetha

Tributes to our bold sisters Remya and Vineetha

                      NEDUMBASSERY: The mortal remains of two Malayali nurses P K Vineetha, 23, and Remya Rajappan,24, who died in the…

Yatheemkhana Prinicipal’s Sexual abuse came to light

Palakkad: Police registered case against the Principal of an Yatheemkhana (Orphanage/PoorHome) , in connection with sexual abuse of it’s girl inmates. Usman Saghafi , The prinicipal of Markaz ul Rahma…

Mananchery Tense – SDPI terrorist attack and RSS retaliation

Mananchery: Popular front terrorists are unleashing violence against Hindus in the area and heavy retaliation by RSS  is also being reported from Mananchery in Allapuzha. Clashes broke out after the…

Case against 8 CPM men for stabbing RSS worker

IRITTY (Kannur): The police filed cases against eight CPM workers in connection with the attack on an RSS worker near the Thillankerry Panchayat Office. RSS worker Anoop, 26, was stabbed…

Give Fool-Proof Security to Ayyappa devotees from Tamilnadu: Kummanam

Attacks on Sabarimala pilgrim vehicles flayed http://expressbuzz.com/states/kerala/attacks-on-sabarimala-pilgrim-vehicles-flayed/340993.html SABRIMALAI:  Sabarimala Ayyappa Seva Samajam national general secretary  Kummanam Rajasekharan has condemned the attacks on Sabarimala pilgrim vehicles at Vandenmedu in the name…

Mullaperiyar: Sabarimala pilgrim faces terrible experience

SABRIMALAI:  For Srinivasan,  the 30-year old pilgrim from Villupuram in Tamil Nadu,  the incident at Vandenmedu in Idukki district on Monday night,  was a nightmare. Talking to the Express,  Srinivasan…

Safety of Ayyappa devotees from Tamilnadu – Responsibility of Hindu organisations in Kerala

Mullaperiyar: There are unconfirmed reports that Tamil pilgrims to Sabarimala are targeted by Mullaperiyar activists in Kerala. All Hindu organisations in Kerala should step up vigil and never let any…

Image of the Day – Vijay Divas

Image of the Day – Vijay Divas

NIA yet to start probe into phone calls from Kerala prisons

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is yet to start its investigation into the issue of prisoners in Kerala jails making phone calls to overseas numbers. What is preventing the agency…

Height of Communist bankruptcy!

Height of Communist bankruptcy!

To contain outflow of comrades to BJP – CPM resort to violence in Kannur

Kannur: There is a concerted attempt from Marxists to create panic and violence in the month of November ato Februvary  – These are the months were they cannot digest their…

Sabarimala needs ‘Crowd Management’ not ‘crowd control’ – Kummanam Rajasekharan

Sabarimala pilgrimage: Hindu Aikya Vedi up in arms against the e-queue booking system http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-29/kochi/30454083_1_sabarimala-pilgrimage-devotees-lord-ayyappa  THRISSUR: The Hindu Aikya Vedi is up in arms against the e-queue booking system for Sabarimala…

Intelligence rpt reveals serious security flaw in Sabarimala

Pathanamthitta (Kerala), Nov 28: With the mountain temple of Sabarimala having to face many terror threats recently, a fresh alert has been sounded by intelligence agencies warning of a security…

Dislike for politicians’ hardtalk among anti-dam agitators

Inhabitants of the downstream areas of the Mullaperiyar reservoir in Kerala’s Idukki district are living in perpetual fear of a possible burst in the 116-year-old in a medium-intensity tremor any…

Heavy rain hits Sabarimala pilgrims

SABARIMALA: Thousands of Sabarimala pilgrims were affected by the rain that lashed the area on Sunday. Though the intensity of the rain was low in the morning, it became  moderate…

Sabarimala: Thanks to Yuvamorcha Protest, High Court bans Toll collection

Kochi: Thanks to protest organised by Hindu organisations under Yuvamorcha, Kerala High Court on Friday prohibited toll collection from Vehicles coming to Sabarimala. The court observed that  that Devaswom Board…

Is Lighting of Lamp, Haram [unethical] to Government of Kerala?

Is Lighting of Lamp, Haram [unethical] to Government of Kerala?

Prof. C. I. Issac Kerala cabinet minister Dr. M. K. Muneer,  in-charge of the portfolio of Social Welfare and Panchyaths, refused to light the lamp [nila vilakku in Malayalam] at…

Lack of facilities affecting Sabarimala pilgrims

SABARIMALA: Lack of facilities on the trekking path between Marakoottam and Saramkuthi is affecting thousands of pilgrims, who have to stand in long queues for five to six hours for…

Prof-attack accused got external help: NIA

The NIA has learned that the Islamists who had cut off the right hand of Prof TJ Joseph of Muvattupuzha in Kerala’s Ernakulam district in a Taliban-style attack on July…

Yuvamorcha demolished Toll booths in Pampa

Pampa :Exploitation of  Sabarimala Pilgrims is a common agenda followed by alternate Government’s which rule the state every 5 year. Hundreds of Yuvamorcha activists under the leadership of it’ sstate…

Read Hindu Viswa – (Nov-Dec)

Hindu Viswa -November December 2011…

No place to sleep at Ayyappa’s abode

By Krishnakumar K.E. – Deccan Chronicle – Sabarimala Thousands of Lord Ayyappa devotees, especially from neighbouring states, are finding it hard to find a cheap accommodation at Sannidhanam after the…

Sabarimala: Heavy traffic upsets e-queue system

Those who are finding it difficult to access the online queue-coupon booking system introduced by the Kerala police for the Sabarimala darshan, should not lose heart. This happens due to…

Attack on Sabarimala pilgrims; Hindus demolished the Hotel

On 18 November, 2 pilgrims from Tamil Nadu were attacked at a wayside shop in T.B. Junction near Punalur when they questioned about the exorbitant prices the shop owner has…

Sabarimala : Kerala Police have launched an innovative e-queue system

The Kerala Police have launched an innovative e-queue system for reducing the waiting time for pilgrims to have Darshan at the temple. A pilgrim who registers through website qcoupon.keralapolice.gov.in/home.php need…

Sabarimala shrine opens for annual pilgrimage

The Lord Ayyappa shrine at Sabarimala, Kerala’s famous mountainous Hindu pilgrim centre, opened on Wednesday evening for the annual Mandalam-Makaravilakku pilgrimage amidst tight security measures adopted in the context of…

Taliban strikes again in Kerala, This time as ‘Moral Police’

Terror role in murder by ‘moral police’ suspected VR Jayaraj | Kochi-Daily Pioneer The Taliban-model murder of Shahid alias Bava (26) of Kodiyathur in Kerala’s Kozhikode district by a gang…

Hindus owe a lot to Narayana Guru : Kanchi Seer

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kanchi Kamakodi Peethom seer Jayendra Saraswathi said that the Hindu community in the state owed a lot to social reformer Sree Narayana Guru. He was speaking after inaugurating the…

Cleaning at Sabarimala by Mata Amritanandamayi devotees

Devotees of Mata Amritanandamayi recently undertook a massive cleaning programme from River Pampa to Sannidhanam, to clear the debris and waste lying uncleared for the last over a year (since…

Charly Thomas gets death sentence in Soumya murder case

Charly Thomas gets death sentence in Soumya murder case

THRISSUR: The Fast Track Court judge K N Raveendra Babu today awarded death sentence for Charly Thomas, the main accused in the Soumya murder case. The judge also slapped a…

Kerala Hindus in between ‘devil’ minorities and ‘deep sea’ CPM

Emboldened by Muslim League in power jehadi forces active in Kerala? By S Chandrasekhar – Organiser But for the 72-68  slender majority between Congress Muslim League led UDF and CPM…

Vicharavedi Monthly Lecture Series on Language and Culture

Vicharavedi Monthly Lecture Series on Language and Culture

Sri Sri Ravishankar begins his yatra in UP today

Amidst charges that Sri Sri Ravishankar is the part of a larger plan by Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) to target the Congress, the spiritual guru would launch a yatra from…

Phone calls from prisons: Kerala for NIA probe

The Kerala Government has written a letter to the Union Home Department seeking an NIA probe into the issue of prisoners in the State’s jails making phone calls to overseas…

Kerala Left’s ire over Dalit-baiting ‘hypocritical’

Kerala’s CPI(M)-led Opposition LDF is presently on an agitation against the alleged insult hurled out at its leader AK Balan, a Dalit, by the Chief Whip of the Congress-led UDF…

National Security threat at Dubai firm-run Kochi port

Lack of proper Customs-check facility at eight-month-old International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) at Vallarpadam, Kochi, built and operated by Dubai Ports World (DP World), is posing threats to national security…

The Hindus of Kerala Are the Rightful Owners of the Wealth of Sri Padnabha Swami Temple

Prof. C. I. Issac When the underground vaults of the Sree Padnabha Swami Temple of Trivandrum were opened, the world was astounded. The value of the invaluable treasures found in…

No tax or loot wealth in Padmanabha temple cellars, claims book

The wealth found in the cellars of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple was not accumulated through oppressive taxes or through looting during wars, claims a new book which will be…

SC moved to bring back ‘Rajiv money’

An advocate on Monday filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking direction to UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to authorise him to bring back 8.06…

Jailed UDF leader Balakrishna Pillai to be released in the name of Amnesty!

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Making a mockery of Law of Land, Jailed UDF leader and former minister R. Balakrishna will be released Tuesday as part of an Amnesty Scheme of Kerala Government. The…