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“Time to promote Sanskrit language among the masses and let the knowledge contained in scriptures go global,” says Narendra Modi [...]

Dr David Frawley’s: lecture on ‘Pluralism Within Hinduism' The 10th Rev. Dr. Stanley Samartha Memorial Lecture by the Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue (BIRD) Bangalore [...]

In a matter of a few 100 years, between the accounts of traveller Alberuni and Mirza Haider, Kashmir became a changed land Reacting to a recent dress code diktat issued by the Jamaat-e-Islami in Kashmir, BJP leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley called for the Jamaat to be [...]

CHENNAI: A curious coincidence led 62-year-old V Ravi to read about the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute attached to the Madras Sanskrit College in Mylapore which is languishing for want of funds at a time when he had just begun learning Sanskrit. An email thread, circulated on the subject, had made its way to the mailing [...]

Lucerne, June 14 (IBNS) City of Lucerne in Switzerland has reportedly agreed to allow Hindus to perform rituals related to dispersing cremated remains on the Reuss River bank. According to reports, an environmental study has confirmed that these rites would not cause environmental harm. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) on [...]

Once, there lived a pious Brahmin in a small village, by the name of Mitra Sharma. He used to perform religious rituals. On one occasion, he was rewarded with a goat for his services by a wealthy man. The Brahmin was happy to get a goat as the reward. He happily slung the goat over [...]

Spiritual Guru Shri Shri Ravi Shankar urged the devotees to maintain calm and not protest against the reduction in the Amarnath Yatra duration. In a press release issued on 4 June, the spiritual guru said, “I would like to clarify to the Shiva Bhaktas who are eager to go to the Sri Amarnath Yatra that [...]

KwaZulu-Natal police are awaiting feedback from the national office whether religious wristbands will be allowed in their dress code. This follows complaints from 24 police officers who were told by Pinetown station commander Brigadier Owen Zama to remove red strings, a Hindu symbol of protection, from their wrists. Zama told Hindu officers last month that [...]

Hindus have welcomed the reported unanimous approval of about $18.5 million Hindu temple and high-tech community complex by Northampton (East Midlands, United Kingdom) Borough Council’s planning committee on May 29. Called “Northampton Kutumbh Centre” (wider family), besides a spectacular Hindu temple, it also reportedly plans to include state-of-the-art and eco-friendly sports, recreation and leisure, education, [...]

Even in the dog days of summer, the quiet paddy fields that mark the border between India and Bangladesh look as supple and green as the soft stems of herbs grown in a window box. But the daytime tranquillity belies a stark reality. This delta region of the Ganges river is a place of often [...]