Indian court asks lions, named for a Hindu goddess and a Muslim emperor, be renamed ‘to avoid controversy’
Sita and Akbar were shipped to Siliguri zoo in West Bengal this month as part of an animal exchange programme from a neighbouring state.
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Sita and Akbar were shipped to Siliguri zoo in West Bengal this month as part of an animal exchange programme from a neighbouring state.
To supporters of these Hindu groups, however, the court petition filed by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is justified – as Indian authorities have for years placated the country’s Muslim community over incidents of alleged blasphemy.
NEW DELHI — A Hindu group in India has gone to court over the naming of a lioness in a zoo after the Hindu deity Sita, calling it blasphemous and an assault on the community's religious beliefs.
An Indian Hindu nationalist organisation has launched a court petition to stop two lions named after the Hindu deity Sita and a 16th-century Muslim emperor from sharing a zoo enclosure.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Middle East’s first traditional stone-built Hindu temple on Wednesday, internationalising both his re-election campaign and his effort to push secular India into a Hindu state.
ABU MUREIKHA, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pink sandstone spires soar above what was once a patch of desert between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, ornately decorated with deities and the pious in the first stone-constructed Hindu temple in the Middle East.
For five days, Sameer Tabreez, 23, has driven daily from New Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area to South Delhi’s Mehrauli, hoping to see if Delhi police have removed the barricades around the 600-year-old Akhoondji mosque that was demolished by authorities last month.