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Bangladeshis living in the UK have strongly protested the attacks on the Hindu minority in the country following the January 5 general election and demanded compensation to restore the livelihood of the affected people. Under the banner of the Campaign for the Protection of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh (CPRMB), they voiced their condemnation through a [...]

PESHAWAR: A missing Hindu female schoolteacher told a local judicial magistrate on Monday after recovery from Bahawalpur that her kidnapper had forced her to marry him after changing her faith and kept her unconscious for most of the time during captivity on refusal. Magistrate Mohammad Fayyaz Khan ordered the local police to conduct medical examination [...]

Hindus are inclined to accept anything that calls itself calls itself religion, particularly if it is also mystical. They would like to believe that all mystical states are valid and that all religions are true. This exposes them to manipulation by groups who use a religious or mystical appearance to promote their own agendas that [...]

In the recent years there has been a rise of  Hindu activism in India and globally as the alternative to the traditional activism of the RSS and the rest of the Sangh Parivar family . Dr Koenraad Elst and Rajesh of HHR discuss this phenomenon. [...]

Faiths which reduce mankind to a flawed species renounce real convictions and the right to choose. Therefore, when Pakistan’s religious minorities believe that the country’s road to democracy has spelt a slow death for them, it is difficult to disagree. It was the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) five-year rule that proved detrimental for the minorities, [...]

Since the attacks of 9/11 we have been told that there is a war on terror. But India was suffering such terrorism long before this yet the rest of the world averted its gaze. In fact it is a sad indictment of the self-appointed leaders of the Free World, Britain and America, that they would [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Since Independence Christian-run schools have been ‘praised’ for providing a very high standard of education( Mental Slavery) in India. This is important in a country that lacks a coherent welfare net and where illiteracy remains a massive hurdle to development and social mobility. Hence the voluntary sector takes up the slack and provides much-needed community [...]