World Focus

Three ISIS terrorists have been arrested in Malaysia for allegedly plotting attacks on a famous Hindu temple in Batu Caves, entertainment outlets and police stations across the country on the eve of Malaysia's Independence Day. [...]

September 4, 2016 is the day when Mother Teresa, recipient of Nobel Peace prize of 1979, will be canonized by Roman Catholic Church in Vatican city to finally declare her a saint and make her sainthood universal. This event of declaration of sainthood raises many critical questions about her deeds and legacy which juxtaposes her mainstream image [...]

The chair of the Republican party of Hawaii is urging fellow party members to disavow his own congressional candidate in the 2nd District after the GOP candidate attacked Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) for her religion and faith. GOP candidate Angela Kaaihue issued a press release last week saying that Gabbard and former Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa [...]

NEW DELHI: In what could turn out to be the rekindling of half-century-old embers, a Delhi-based cow protection group is planning a massive memorial day for those killed in police firing in a 1966 agitation in Delhi. On November 7, 1966, thousands of people led by naked Naga sadhus and other Hindu religious leaders had [...]

Tulsi Gabbard, the first ever Hindu elected to the US House of Representatives, has asked a Californian educational board to give Hinduism its due place in school text books and not to describe it inaccurately as ‘religions of ancient India’. California State Board of Education is in final stages of revising and updating the K-12 [...]

Washington: California Lt Gov and a group of 40 top academicians have sought “accurate and fair” representation of Hinduism in school text books in the US state, which is currently in the process of revising. “I strongly encourage you to consider the perspective of young Indian-American and Hindu-American students and whether the proposed framework accurately [...]

From its independence in 1947 it was predicted by many in the west that India would collapse. The pro-Pakistan policies of UK, France, USA and many others as well as the sympathy shown by them to secessionist movements, most notably in Punjab, Kashmir and Nagaland, the belief that India is heading to civil war due [...]

NEW DELHI: India is readying to grant citizenship to Hindus and Sikhs who have sought refuge in the country from religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan. The home ministry plans to seek cabinet approval ahead of the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament, which starts on July 18, to its proposal to empower district magistrates [...]

 A 70-year-old Hindu priest was found murdered in western Bangladesh n Monday, with his head nearly severed from his body, in the latest in a series of attacks on minorities by suspected Islamists. Farmers discovered the body of Ananda Gopal Ganguly near his home in the village of Noldanga in Jhenidah district after he had [...]

Amazon irked social media users in India after it was revealed that it was stocking doormats and other bric-a-brac liveried with sacred figures of the Hindu faith. The online retailer was faced with a supposed boycott by irked Hindus demonstrably rocked by the decision to stock goods profiting from the likeness of Hindu figures. A [...]