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Madan Lal was standing near his house at Munir Ahmad Khan Road when the gunmen riding a motorcycle shot him and fled. Lal died on the spot. Unidentified armed men gunned down a Hindu man in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan today, police said. Madan Lal was standing near his house at Munir Ahmad Khan [...]

India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment anywhere in the country.In a policy statement released Friday, the ministry advised state governments to reject any proposal to establish a dolphinarium “by any person / persons, organizations, government agencies, private or public enterprises that involves import, [...]

The public image of the Brahmins, for instance, is that of an affluent, pampered class. But is it so today? There are 50 Sulabh Shauchalayas (public toilets) in Delhi; all of them are cleaned and looked after by Brahmins (this very welcome public institution was started by a Brahmin). A far cry from the elitist [...]

An institute in Udupi trains purohits and is affiliated to Sanskrit university.This temple town, which has been acknowledged globally as the seat of dvaita philosophy (duality) has begun spreading tenets of Hindu rituals and its performance to the developed world. What was known till recently as ‘old-world knowledge’, has now started being a source of [...]

A Buddhist monk set himself on fire in Sri Lanka to protest the slaughter of cattle for their meat, authorities said Friday. It was the first attempt at self-immolation by a monk in that country. “Policemen near the temple doused the flames and rushed the monk to hospital,” a police spokesman said, according to AFP. [...]

In 1968, only six years after founding the AEPi chapter at his Long Island University campus, Steven Silberfein took one of the thousand names of the Hindu god Vishnu and became Sridhar Silberfein.A year later, the one-time Jewish fraternity brother escorted the Hindu teacher Swami Satchidananda to the stage at Woodstock to deliver an invocation [...]

 Sindh: Two policemen along with two other men allegedly gang raped a married woman after subjecting her to torture, Geo News reported Monday.A 20-year old Hindu woman, resident of Aadhi village in Tharparkar, alleged that two policemen posted at a local check-post barged into her house and gang-raped her along with two other men after [...]

Narasimha Gayathri Mantra Om Narasimhaya Vidmahe Vajra Nakhaya Dheemahe Thanno Narasimha Prachodayath. Om, Let me meditate on the god who is the lion man, Oh, God who has diamond claws, give me higher intellect, And let God Narasimha illuminate my mind. [...]

An explosion ripped through a temple inside the premises of the 26th battalion Assam Rifles in Aizawl early on Thursday morning. The explosion shattered 26 window panes and some window frames, the police said. Police suspected that the explosive used was gelatin and the bundle of gelatin sticks must have been thrown from the main [...]

NEW DELHI: The latest match-fixing scandal is another chapter in the sorry saga of corruption which has embroiled India. In an attempt to bring back core values to society, management schools are now using ancient texts to bring about a slow change in society. And they are reaching out where it matters first and most [...]