Tag: Hinduism

India11:20 GMT 01.09.2021Get short URLA group of academicians has announced a three-day online conference, Dismantling Global Hindutva, from 10-12 September. The organisers have said that they want to remain anonymous. The conference is supported by a host of North American Universities.The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), a key religious group ...

Recently an email arrived from the Indian Embassy in the Netherlands, where I live. It announced a venture to promote Sanskrit. That this is necessary does not surprise me. Like Latin, the antecedent of European languages, Sanskrit, the root of Hindi, is in a terminal condition.This makes India’s promotion ...

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), an autonomous organization under the Education Ministry, announced that it has prepared 15 courses on "Indian knowledge tradition." Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal presented the new curricula last week, lauding India as a "knowledge superpower" in topics including Veda (ancient religious text), yoga, science, Sanskrit language, ...

Kathua rape case: Deepika Rajawat's chequered past as the lawyerThe alleged gangrape and murder of the eight-year-old girl, who belonged to nomadic Muslim community, took place in the Kathua district in January. After being missing for a week, her body was found on January 17. A later chargesheet revealed ...

‘I Hope All Uniformed Officers Condemn This Tweet Against Swami Agnivesh’Indeed, after reading Mr Rao’s tweet, nothing can possibly shock us any longer. Swami Agnivesh – and you may have a 100 differences with him – was an ascetic, an Elder, who passed away because of multiple organ failure ...

CLAIMTwitter user Mahtab Raza posted a photo of a minor girl sitting in a bridal outfit with a much older man to claim that the 10-year-old girl was forcefully married to 40-year-old Shivnath Chaturvedi, cousin of her late father Ashok Chaturvedi. “Shame on Hindus. Shame on the pandit who ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a groundbreaking ceremony next month for a Hindu temple on a disputed site in northern India where a 16th-century mosque was torn down by a Hindu mob in 1992, according to the trust overseeing the temple's construction. The ceremony is set for ...