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MOSCOW, 20 DEC: India has urgently taken up with Russian authorities the row over a demand in that country for banning Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, which a group linked to the Christian Orthodox Church has described as "extremist".

“The matter has been taken up by the Indian Embassy in Moscow with the Russian government at senior official level, seeking its favourable and positive intervention in the matter,” Indian Ambassador to Russia Mr Ajai Malhotra said, as a court in T

As many as 500 inmates of the Coimbatore Central Prison were presented with copies of the Bhagavad Gita with the help of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Copies of the books were handed over by District Collector M. Karunagaran at a function held at the prison premises on Saturday.

Superintendent of Central Prison A. Murugesan said that not all prisoners are hardcore criminals who have taken to crime as their career. Majority of them were victim of circumstances who end u

CHANDIGARH: As the Bhagawad Gita awaits trial by a Russian court on charges of religious extremism, followers of the holy scripture are busy gaining support online against the imposition of a ban. Over 29,000 people across the globe have signed the online petition with Mumbai, recording the highest number of signatures so far. It has recorded almost 2,800 signatures, followed by Pune and Moscow with over 1,370 and 900 signatures respectively. Chandigarh, too, has recorded 127 signatures.

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Moscow:  The Indian government had been alerted to the move by a Russian court to ban the Bhagvad Gita, but it reportedly did not intervene, claims press agency IANS. The controversy provoked a strong response again in Parliament today, with the BJP slamming the government for not being proactive enough.

ISKCON devotees in Russia have a copy of a letter that they sent in November to the Prime Minister's Office.  The letter was addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Principal Secretary Pul

India is learnt to have taken up with Moscow the issue of a possible court ban on Bhagwad Gita.

Alleging that the text was spreading “social discord” and was “extremist”, prosecutors have sought a ban on the Russian translation of the book by founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The case was filed in the Tomsk district court in Russia in June this year.

The Russian authorities, it is learnt, have assured that the country believes i

1. namaskritya pravakshyami, dev-devam jagad-gurum namnam-ashtottara-shatam, caitanyasya mahatmanah

→ Oh great soul! After offering obeisances unto the lord of lord, Who is the spiritual master of the entire universe, I will now narrate 108 holy names of Lord Caitanya:

2. Vishvambharo jita-krodho, maya-manusha-vigrahah Amyai mayinam shreshto, varo-desho dvijottamah

→ Gauranga sustains the universe, is victorious over the influence of mundane anger, and He assumes the illusory form of a human. He is

The Russian devotees recently released a petition:

"Bhagavad-gita As It Is, one of the most respected holy scriptures of the world today, is under the threat of being banned in Russia.

The court proceedings will resume in Siberian city Tomsk, Russia, on Monday 19th. The persecutors in Tomsk suggest that the widely distributed book translated and commented upon by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada should be included in the Justice Ministry's list of banned extremist literature.

Bhagavad-gita As It

Name: ISKCON Detroit Devasadan Mandir (Temple of the Gods).
Address: 383 Lennox Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 4215.
Phone: 313-824-6000 / 313-331-6740
Website: www.detroitiskconlive.com
Presiding Deities: Sri-Sri Radha-Kunja-Bihari, Sri-Sri Gaura-Nitai, Sri-Sri Jagannath-Baladeva-Subhadra, Sri Nathji, and Sri Bala Gopala.
President: Braja Kumar Dasa
Opened in: Summer 1983.

Temple Style: Historic art-deco mansion built in the early 1920s by the flamboyant auto industry millionaire and Cadillac President La

ISKCON acquires historic bank building in the centre of Leicester

ISKCON has finally acquired the HSBC bank building on Granby Street, a Grade II listed building built in 1875 by the famous architect Goddard. Recently this stunning building was identified by English Heritage as at 'risk' of ruination.

The devotees lost their original place of worship last September, when the temple suffered a gas explosion. All of the 50 devotees within the building managed to escape the multiple blasts, uninjured