No river on our planet probably evokes the range of powerful religious as well as filial emotions in a whole population that the Ganga does. No river is probably more polluted and desecrated. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged during the elections to clean the Ganga, it was metaphorical and literal – the promise of [...]
June 6, 2014
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Dharmic Ecology
In Delhi , Surendranagar BJP MP Devjibhai Fatehpura donned a Gujarati attire and performed a traditional dance in front of the media before entering the Lok Sabha. [...]
June 5, 2014
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HHR Videos
For the last seven years, Zarinah Abdul Majid had been making frequent trips to the Shariah Court and the National Registration Department (NRD) hoping to remove the word “Islam” from her identity card, as she is not a practising Muslim. She said she spent thousands of ringgit hiring lawyers to help but it was all [...]
June 5, 2014
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Archives, Malaysia
Sanskrit was the new cool on social media on Wednesday after three cabinet ministers were seen taking oath as members of Parliament in the ancient language. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan took oath in Sanskrit as members of the 16th Lok Sabha. But were they [...]
June 5, 2014
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Archives, India
Kashmiri Pandits on Wednesday staged a protest at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk and threatened to launch fast-unto-death sit-ins if the Kashmir Temples and Shrines Bill was not passed in the J&K Assembly. The Bill is pending for the past five years. Apart from the Temples and Shrines Bill, Kashmiri Pandits asked the state government to investigate [...]
June 5, 2014
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Archives, India
Cambodia has welcomed home three ancient Hindu statues, which were stolen from a temple decades ago. Authorities said the statues were looted from the Koh Ker temple in Siem Reap province, which also houses Angkor Wat, during the civil war. The statues which were returned from the United States, depict mythological figures Duryodhana, Balarama and [...]
The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) has denied raiding or disrupting a wedding ceremony at a Hindu temple in Petaling Jaya on suspicion that the bride was a Muslim. Jais deputy director-general Ahmad Zaki Arshad said they were only investigating complaints from the public and took a statement from the bride to ascertain her religious [...]
June 3, 2014
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Malaysia
WASHINGTON: Close on the heels of the spectacular BJP win in the general election, Hindu-American activists in the United States have for the first time, under the banner of a political action committee, publicly endorsed a slate of congressional candidates in the 2014 US primaries. Leading the list of candidates winning support from the Hindu [...]
Smriti Irani (née Malhotra, born 23 March 1976) is an Indian politician and former model, television actress and producer. She represents the Bharatiya Janata Party and is the incumbent Minister of Human Resource Development of Government of India [...]
June 1, 2014
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World Focus
For Prime Minister Narendra Modi rehabilitation of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) was not just an empty poll promise made in the heat of elections. Less than a week into office, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), under the guidance of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), has initiated an ambitious project to rehabilitate people who [...]