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NEW DELHI—A Hindu man was hacked to death in central Bangladesh on Saturday, police said, following a spate of similar attacks in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation. Authorities are investigating whether the killing of Nikhil Joarder was connected to a 2012 complaint against him for alleged comments he made against Prophet Muhammad, said Aslam Khan, [...]

What next that even Hinduism is not part of Hinduism ? New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said yoga cannot be identified with any religion and people who think so lack integrity, coordination and balance. The Minister said yoga has a universal appeal and more than 170 countries, including 66 Muslim nations, [...]

Back in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India condemned animal rights activist who have sought to protect cows from the butcher’s knife:   “I feel really angry at the way some people have opened shops in the name of cow protection. I have seen that some people commit anti-social activities through the night, but act as cow [...]

Breathe in, breathe out. “We need to direct our attention inward and connect to the breath,” yoga instructor Rachel Brathen writes in her New York Times best-selling book about the practice. “Focusing on our breath keeps us present, calms the mind, and allows us to develop the awareness of the body we need to practice [...]

New Delhi: Security agencies have killed three out of 10 suspected Pakistani terrorists who had entered India via Gujarat to carry out terror attacks during Maha Shivaratri festivities, a report said on Tuesday. Officials tracked down all the 10 suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists. While three terrorists have been neutralised, a massive search operation is on [...]

Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu has offered a strong defense of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s mega-festival that opens tomorrow in Delhi amid environmental concerns. “Anything that is Hindu, India, Bharatiya, you object,” Mr Naidu said in response to the opposition Congress which says the government has abdicated its environmental responsibility by sanctioning the banks of the [...]

The BBC anti-Hindu propaganda machine has once again come into full swing, with a piece from 2 March 2016 that claims to be from popular blogger Nooshin Soluch:   In this we are fed the dangerous idea that India’s ‘Hindu’ nationalists are going to rewrite history. Of course this comes hot on the heels of [...]

Days after a group of academicians started a petition asking for the removal of historian Sheldon Pollock from the post of chief editor at the Murty Classical Library, Rohan Murty, the son of Infosys founder Narayana Murthy, has given a scathing response to silence detractors. “It is quite rich to sit in the peanut gallery, [...]

Practices like yoga, meditation and prayer can help curb the need for general healthcare services by almost 50 percent according to researchers.  A study done by Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)’s Institute for Technology Assessment and the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) reveals that evoking the relaxation response or a physiologic state of deep rest, helps alleviate stress and anxiety, [...]

NEW DELHI: The Centre is reviving a somewhat tenuous romance with the Roma people as the forgotten children of this country. In February, the ICCR in collaboration with an NGO, Indian Council for International Cooperation, will organise the fourth Roma conference here to encourage academic research into the origins of this largely European nomadic community [...]