Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore led close to 40,000 devotees and four ministers at a 164-year-old Hindu Temple’s reconsecration ceremony yesterday. The Temple was undergoing SGD 4.5 million restoration work. The water used in the holy ceremony was ought from nine holy rivers in India and brought to Singapore. Prime Minister was effusive […]
Sexual harassment even when you are in a modest garment like burka? Yes. Pakistani actor Armeena Khan has explained how she was sexually abused in a burka joining the #MeToo campaign that has erupted ever since singer Ali Zafar was accused by Meesha Shafi of sexual harassment. Meesha had hoped that her disclosure would help […]
On June 19, both Pennsylvania State Senate and House of Representatives in Harrisburg will start their respective sessions with Hindu prayers, containing verses from world’s oldest existing scripture. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocations from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the Senate and House. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English […]
It has been more than seven years after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis but the world has not forgotten the disaster that had everyone worried. Even now, when we speak of Fukushima, we remember it with pain. From Iran with love: Farsi Panchtantra and Mahabharat So when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hosted a summit […]
Mayor Glenn Dewhurst of the City of Gosnells recently “joined children at the City’s Leisure World for a Junior Yoga session, saying it was important for people of all ages to find ways to manage stress and yoga was a great option, particularly for kids”, according to a Media Release of the City. Yoga is […]
On the festive occasion of Baisakhi, the Afghan Hindu community also had another reason to rejoice; they now have their own Temple, the first of its kind in Maryland, United States. For the total 300 Afghan Hindus and Sikhs, this was a reason to rejoice. The Temple name is AsaMai Hindu Temple and its opening […]
Malaysian Sikhs celebrated Baisakhi with P Kamalanathan who happens to be the Deputy Minister of Education in the country. After having a quiet get together the Minister informed that he went to Gurdwara in Kalumpang for the Baisakhi celebration. He also thanked his friends who invited him to the holy place and his friends from […]
Myanmarese Hindus continue to face more hardships. Radio Free Asia has reported that now more than “60 houses in a predominantly Hindu village in the Maungdaw district of Myanmar’s Rakhine state were gutted by fire on Thursday” This is being called an act of negligence. Radio Free Asia has quoted a Hindu social worker named Ni […]
Yoga/mindfulness activities may facilitate stress management among elementary school students and may be added as a complement to social and emotional learning activities, according to a Tulane University study. Published April 10 in Psychology Research and Behavior Management Journal, the school-based study “Effect of mindfulness and yoga on quality of life for elementary school students […]
On Saturday, 7th April 2018, family in Bali, Indonesia undertook the Sudiwadani ritual in Bali and became Hindus. Hinduism is a minority religion in Muslim-majority Indonesia. The Sudiwadani ritual is a ritual for the non-Hindus to either join or return to the Hindu fold. Indonesia: Why did the Princess of Java become a Hindu? The […]
