was no clue about missing Jain Sadhvi Ojaswinibai Maha Satiji till Tuesday evening. The Sadhvi, who belongs to Dariyapuri Aath Koti Jain Sangh, had hinted to her family members about the torture from the president of the Jain Sangh, Pramukh Shah.However, Shah has denied the allegations and said he has proofs to show that all allegations are fake.Kiran Pandya, the brother of Sadhvi Ojaswinibai Maha...
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Raipur, Nov 9 : Renowned Jain Sadhvi Nipunasri died at the famous Rushavdev Jain Temple here this morning. She was 77.Temple sources said, Sadhvi Nipunasri was ailing for the past one month due to old age. She breathed her last at 0655 hrs.Born on August 28, 1932 in Gujarat's Padra taluka, Nipunasri embraced Jainism in 1955 at Dhuliya in Maharashtra and propapated the Jain religion and the doctrine...
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history textbook must have told you about the 1893 Parliament of World Religions held in Chicago, famously attended by Swami Vivekanand. What you are probably unaware of is the presence of another Indian at the international event.The man was Virchand Raghavji Gandhi, an erudite Jain scholar who was the first to introduce Jain philosophy to the western world. On Sunday, nearly 108 years after his death,...
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Empathy, altruism and religion go hand-in-hand. Members of the city-based Sambhavnath Jain temple at Two Town amply demonstrated it on Sunday by opening the doors of their temple wide open for distribution of succour to the flood-hit victims.The Jain mandir at Governorpet turned into a destination for 250-odd families residing in three villages bordering Guntur district, which were marooned in floodwaters....
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a judgment that might come as a dampener to green activists, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea to ban idol immersions in rivers, lakes and other water bodies."Restrictions would militate against the fundamental right of a section of citizens to profess and practice the religion of their choice," a bench comprising chief justice KG Balakrishnan and justice JM Panchal observed.The petitioner,...
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Anoop Mandal, which openly says it is "against the doing of the Jain community", is organising a conference at Zundal; the news has infuriated Jains, who blame the mandal for the recent attacks on their monks. The Jain community has demanded that the state government stop the mandal from holding the conference, proposed to be held from November 17 to 19.For its part, the mandal has said that there...
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influential Jain community in Gujarat has decided to call upon Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and seek his intervention about what they call a "conspiracy" to eliminate Jain monks.
In the last four days, seven prominent male and female Jain monks were killed in different accidents and the Jain community says these road accidents were well-organised conspiracies. Three other...
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