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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 [...]

WASHINGTON: US Congressman Joseph Crowley has nominated India’s Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for the Nobel Peace Prize saying that the godman had helped bring peace to thousands of people through his Art of Living Foundation. “I had the opportunity to meet him last Congress when I was co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and [...]

“Sanjay’s Super Team,” an animated short featuring Hinduism and directed by Sanjay Patel, received a nomination for animated short film at the Oscars earlier this week, earning a share in the spotlight at the year’s biggest award show. The crowd at San Diego Comic-Con fell hard for Pixar’s upcoming short “Sanjay’s Super Team,” one of [...]

A French museum has returned the head of a 7th Century Hindu statue to Cambodia 130 years after it was taken. The statue, a representation of the Hindu gods Vishna and Shiva, had its head taken in French colonial times. It was returned by the Guimet Museum in Paris at Cambodia’s request and reattached to [...]