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A Congress legislator from Andhra Pradesh has taken his devotion to party president Sonia Gandhi to new heights, or nine feet to be exact. That is the height of Shankar Rao’s ‘Goddess Sonia’ statue, depicting her as ‘Telangana Talli’ (Telangana mother) as a thank-you for the Centre’s decision to create a Telangana state. It will [...]

The Rise of attacks against Hindus and Buddhists by Islamic Fundamentalists in Bangladesh [...]

Study focused on DNA differences across globe with the A111T mutation Those who had mutation also shared traces of an ancestral genetic code This indicates that all instances of mutation originate from same person The mutated segment of DNA was itself created from a combination of two other mutations commonly found in East Asians Light [...]

The party of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of the nation,, now led by his daughter Sheikh Hasina, and its allies won close to 80 per cent of the seats in December 2008. “If one is looking for a single sentence to sum up the significance of the 9th parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, it should [...]

BNP-Jamaat activists vandalised and looted 130 houses and torched 10 others at a Hindu village in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore tonight hours after the end of voting in 10th parliamentary polls. The mayhem started as two men — Biswanath Sarkar and Shyamol Sarkar — of Chapatola Malopara village, went to the Chapatola Aliya Madrasa polling [...]

HUSBAND and wife Katarzyna and Clive Dryden-Chouen have walked free from court after growing vast quantities of cannabis which they claimed they would burn as a spiritual offering to a Hindu god. The couple not only had numerous plants in various states of growth, but kilograms of harvested crop when police raided their Littledean home [...]

Study calls for greater religious tolerance with Hinduism and Buddhism under-represented and funding a major issue Christianity dominates the United Nations and more diversity is needed to increase non-Christian representation in world peacemaking, according to a study. Research undertaken by Prof Jeremy Carrette, with colleagues from the University of Kent’s department of religious studies, has [...]

The government of Pakistan has restored an historic Hindu temple in Punjab province’s Chakwal region. Members of the country’s Hindu minority have thanked authorities for renovating the temple – called Katasraj – saying it is a significant step in reassuring them of their status in a Muslim-majority society. [...]

Australian filmmaker Lisa Sabina Harney (now based in California) recently won the best documentary award at the Delhi International Film Festival for her work, “Satyagraha-Truth Force.” For the first time in her two-decade-long career, American film-maker Lisa Sabina Harney has made a documentary in India, highlighting the ecological degradation of the Ganga caused by rampant [...]

In this video Dr. Kapil Kapoor highlights the importance of Sanskrit in education of India. He claims that how downplaying the importance of Sanskrit has de-intellectualized ‘educated’ Indians. How their vocabulary has been forced into hibernation by the vocabulary of west. He laments that how India has fallen into a receiver-donor relationship with the western [...]