Dr. Hansa Medley wakes up at 3:30 a.m. once a week and walks to the Hare Krishna Temple just around the corner from her small bungalow in northwest Houston.

There she joins her mother, sister and three other devotees to prepare the temple's nine deities for the day. Before the first Arati ceremony at 4:30 a.m., they carefully lay out special outfits for eight statues, choosing coordinating jewelry and face paint.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Firing another salvo against ISKCON monks, nearly hundred priests of Sri Jagannath Temple here sat on a dharna on Thursday demanding a ban on the entry of converted Hindus into the 12th century shrine.

In a memorandum to Sri Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), Sri Jagannath Sevayat Sammilanee (SJSS) said only "Hindus by birth" should be allowed into the temple, one of the four important for Hindus in the country.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

A Rath Yatra in Delhi has its resonance in Puri. The Jagannath Rath Yatra organised by ISKCON in Delhi on Sunday is untimely, say Jagannath devotees.

The Rath Yatra is held in the Hindu month of Asadh, which generally falls in July. And this yatra in December has angered many Hindu organisations and the Puri temple priests.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

A Ratha Yatra (chariot festival) organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) drew hundreds of people in New York.

The festival, the 31st held here on Saturday, is modelled after the Ratha Yatra organised every year in Puri, Orissa, by the famed Jagannath temple there. During the festival, the temple deity is taken out in a procession on a decorated chariot. Worshippers come and pull the chariot to express their devotion.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Compared to the other metros, the last one year has seen a remarkable growth of the spiritual phenomenon in Kolkata.

And if one goes by the figures alone, the city elders and the youth have got hooked to the meditation sessions being conducted free of cost by the International Society for Krishna Conciousness (ISKCON) in various parts of the city.

At present, the ISKCON is conducting meditation sessions in more than 64 centres located in various parts of the city like Behala, Lake Town, Dum Dum, Howrah, Salt Lake, Jadavpur, Minto Park, etc. And the ISKCON authorities said that by the end of this year the number of meditation centres would be increased to 100.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

International Society for Krishna Consciousness(ISKCON) will be conducting the 4th Jagannath Rathayathra in Mangalore on March 23rd.

Addressing newspersons on Wednesday President of ISKCON, Mangalore said that ISKCON yearly holds Jagannath Rath Yathras all over the world in such major cities as Moscow, London, New York, Paris, Los Angels, Rome and in India at Mumbai, Kolkatta, Chennai, New Delhi, Coimbatore, Bangalore etc. The special attraction of this festival is the participation of Safari group of devotees(devotees from 50 different countries who are traveling Indian holy places) who will perform Bhajan, Kirthan during the procession. The will be arriving on 22nd March at Mangalore Railway Station at 10 am, he added.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

The Delhi High Court Monday imposed a fine of Rs.50,000 on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) for copyright violation in staging Ram Leela, the traditional play on the life of Hindu Lord Ram, based on the script of a cultural organisation.

In his decree order, Justice A.K. Sikri held the ISKCON guilty of violating the Copyright Act and asked it to pay Rs.50,000 as compensation within four weeks after it staged Ram Leela based on the script of the capital-based Sriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra.   FULL ARTICLE LINK