External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday urged the Centre to declare Bhagwad Gita as national holy book.Swaraj was attending the celebrations marking 5,151 years of the Bhagwad Gita in Delhi. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and several others were also present during the celebrations.Swaraj added that she participated in the event not as [...]
December 7, 2014
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The Hindu Human Rights Group in conjunction with the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) invites you to the book launch of The Education System in Pakistan: Discrimination and the Targeting of the ‘Other’ Speakers include the following book contributors: Peter Tatchell (Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation) Desmond Fernandes (Genocide Scholar) Faiz Baluch (International Voice [...]
VARANASI: Mohammad Hashim Ansari, the litigant in Babri Masjid case, who doesn’t want to pursue the matter any further and wants ‘Ram Lalla’ to be free, gets support of Muslim women of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi. Supporting Hashim Ansari’s stand, these women associated with Muslim Mahila Foundation and Bharatiya Awam Party sent a petition [...]
December 6, 2014
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The Hindu girl was raped by three Pakistani men and threatened with death if she did not tell the court she had converted to Islam, but she stuck to her gun. “I am not Muslim. I am a Hindu. I want to go back with my parents,” teenager Marvi Kohli, who was kidnapped from Samaro [...]
December 5, 2014
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Archives, Pakistan
What can meditation do to help a war-torn nation heal? This is a question spiritual teacher Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been asking for decades and one that has be a primary concern of his since war broke out in Iraq in 2003. Shankar’s spiritual community, The Art of Living Foundation, first started doing work [...]
December 4, 2014
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Archives, World Focus
Recently during the celebration of Diwali, the festival of lights, provided the ideal opportunity to launch the Armed Forces Hindu Network. The Launch of the Armed Forces Hindu network was marked with a Diwali celebration Serving personnel, Lord Astor and other invited guests gathered in MOD’s Whitehall headquarters for the Armed Forces Diwali Celebration. According [...]
November 28, 2014
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HHR join London protest to highlight persecution of minorities in Pakistan [...]
NEW DELHI: With the objective of bringing together Hindus at a time “when the community is beset by very serious challenges and is standing at a critical crossroad”, a three-day conference will kick off on Friday with the blessings of the Sangh Parivar. Called World Hindu Congress (WHC), the event will have RSS chief Mohan [...]
November 22, 2014
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The event aims to build on the similarities amongst all faiths today, and work together to encourage empowerment in today’s society. The afternoon will feature leading professionals, along with well-known theatre actors all with the common aim of developing ones self through stories from different faiths. Date and time: Sunday 23rd November 2014 2.00pm – [...]
Vrindavan: President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said as India makes a “transformative change” from being a developing to a developed nation, it must reconnect to its spiritual past. Speaking at the Chandrodaya temple being established by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) here, Mukherjee said India was one of the oldest and culturally rich [...]
November 16, 2014
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