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HYDERABAD: The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed “fact” that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be [...]

Four bloggers arrested amid crackdown in Bangladesh Bangladeshi bloggers form a human chain to protest the detention of their colleagues. (AFP/Munir uz Zaman) New York : The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the recent arrests of four Bangladeshi bloggers in Dhaka in connection with their Internet posts that police said hurt the religious [...]

Devotees went for a traditional bath to mark the Karthik Purnima religious ceremony celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik Images of the foam-coated river show the extent of the pollution of the Yamuna around New Delhi Indian government has spent nearly £200 million trying to clean up the [...]

WASHINGTON: The White House has wholeheartedly embraced Yoga as a worthy physical activity at a time some schools in America are railing against the ancient Indian practice, saying it promotes Hinduism. The White House announced last week that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will include a ‘yoga garden’ for children and their [...]

Hindu school teacher gives her son an Arabic name to avoid persecution KARACHI: Thirty-two year old school teacher, a Hindu widow Shanti Kumari named her second son Zafar when class fellows and friends of her elder son Prakash Kumar kept asking every time about Hindu gods and goddesses, they saw in Indian films. “I never [...]

2 more temples destroyed in Bangaladesh Mumbai / Kolkata, March 29 : Minority Hindus continue to be at receiving end of Jihadi terror in Bangaladesh with new incidents of attacks appearing every day. Jihadi criminals set fire to a temple in Rangamati and vandalised another in Naogaon early yesterday, The Daily Star reported. Shree Shree [...]

Waythamoorthy Ponnusamy has been on a hunger strike for nearly three weeks demanding equal rights for Hindus and other minorities. He is trying to get the ruling coalition and political Opposition to accept the demands of his Indian rights organisation Hindraf, which aims to improve the rights and living conditions of Malaysian Indians in their [...]

The brutal murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati (1927–2008) was blamed for sparking of a wave of killings where rampaging Hindus massacred innocent Christians in India’s eastern state of Orissa. At least that was the view from reading the western media outlets which rely heavily on extremist and hardcore fundamentalist Christian outfits for their information. [...]

Recently, several University of Pennsylvania professors made accusations in The Daily Pennsylvanian against the Indian politician Narendra Modi as part of a campaign of social pressure that managed to stop his presentation at the Wharton India Economic Forum. The facts I will present here should encourage Hindus and others who have reacted against such tactics [...]

Defying stereotypes, a Muslim boy and girl have bagged all three medals instituted for the BA course in the ancient Indian language by the Gujarat University. Two of the medals for Sanskrit were won by Taiyab Sheikh, a student of Y S Arts and Commerce college in Devgadh Baria in Panchmahals district. The third went [...]