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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As you pull into the driveway of the Sri Lakshmi Hindu Temple in the Boston suburb of Ashland, Sanskrit chants reverberate from a building across the way where free classes are being held. From seven-year-olds to 70-year-olds, people in Boston, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities over the U.S. are attending [...]

BUENOS AIRES: If you’re ever in Buenos Aires don’t forget to visit Groove, a trendy nightclub that should pleasantly surprise any Indian. Because at Groove you won’t hear salsa or reggaton music, like you do at most such places, but instead soulful Sanskrit melodies that rent the air. “I had the most unusual nightclub experience [...]

The Indus River in Karakoram Range near Skardu, Pakistan, remains a lifeline even in the modern day Climate change led to the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization more than 4,000 years ago, archaeologists believe. The Indus civilization was the largest – but least known – of the first great urban cultures that also included [...]

Dhaka, May 27 — BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury himself shot Nutan Chandra Singha dead in one of the operations he organised during the 1971 Liberation War to torture Hindus and drive them out of the country, a witness told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday. ICT-1, formed to try crimes against humanity committed during [...]