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A holy man uttering a special chant succeeded today in calming a group of snarling tigers that had chased five men up a tree, leaving them trapped there for nearly five days.As the holy man uttered his mantra – a mind-calming chant that originates in ancient India – the tigers turned tail and slipped back [...]

This is the richest and most powerful nation on earth, arguably the most successful society ever. Yet as Panorama revealed children go to school, hungry as their parents are forced to rely on free food handouts or eat rats. People live in drains literally beneath the glitzy glamour of Las Vegas . An operation for [...]

A county judge in San Diego CA has ruled that yoga is not always religious (Washington Post, 2 July 2013). Parents in a San Diego school district had complained that yoga is intrinsically intertwined with the Hindu religion and that its practice in a public school setting violates the constitutional separation of church and state. [...]

Hemant Bhadury (left) and Dr. Jayant Kumar Bhadury (far right) are yoga masters who travel to Israel annually to bring comfort to about 120 residents of a sheltered home for Holocaust survivors. They appear in a picture with their family, including father Shri Shri Brama Kopal Bhadury (seated, center) and Jayant’s wife Vatsala (seated, right) [...]

Many people have heard about the Kama sutra, but generally the ideas that circulate are rather distorted, vague and confused by ignorance and prejudice. [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Four young American women turn up at a Hindu temple confused with questions about Hinduism but end up even more confused by the looks of it. But the video should be watched because this is very typical with 99 percent of Hindus especially running temples when they try to explain hinduism to non Hindus when [...]