Hindu News

It is midnight on August 15, 1947. India declares its independence from Great Britain, and Pakistan is born.

Tulare City Council in California in the US, incorporated in 1888, will start its day with Hindu invocation on July two, containing verses from world's oldest existing scripture.

Seeing American entertainer Britney Spears' keen interest in yoga for staying in shape, Hindus have urged her to explore the rich philosophical thought of Hinduism, which introduced and nourished yoga.

There have been worrying signs of breakdown in ethnic relations in Pakistan including accounts of ethnic Hazaras taking up arms and forming their own militia after bombings in Quetta, and Christian protesters clashing with police in Lahore in response to anti-Christian mob violence earlier this year.

May 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party plans to organize religious events seeking divine intervention to save the country from the current government.

New Delhi, May 13 : Hindus and Jains across India on Monday are celebrating 'Akshaya Tritiya', which is considered auspicious to start a new venture.

Amid blowing of conch shells and chanting of Sanskrit mantras, the Samajwadi Party on Sunday appealed to Brahmins to make party president Mulayam Singh Yadav prime minister in 2014.

The temple complex dates back to the 1st century BC. What makes it unique is that it has five caves that were built at the base of a 150 meter high rock during the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa periods .

Does doing yoga make one a Hindu? This question has come up often in recent years.

We start out with Adi Parashakti the 'source' so to say of all the other goddesses in the Hindu pantheon.

New Delhi, May 11 - A month after gold slumped to its lowest in over 15 months, jewellers are expecting a rise of 15 to 30 percent in sales during the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya May 13 - given the plethora of offers to woo customers.

Kolkata, May 10 : The over 200-year-old Kalighat Kali temple, one of the city's landmarks visited by tens of thousands of devotees and tourists every day, is set for a makeover, thanks to the intervention of the judiciary.

Toni Hagen, the Swiss explorer who introduced our country to the western world in the early 1950s through his seminal book "Nepal" writes, "When I visited the sanctuary of Swayambhunath at Kathmandu back in early fifties, I was surprised to find, besides the effigies of Hindu divinities and Buddha, that of Christ and Gandhi too.

Banaras Hindu University will have an SC/ST cell in every department and a permanent set-up will be institutionalised to deal with problems faced by members of the community.

In this Indian heritage month of May, we pause to celebrate the arrival of the first contingent of Indian immigrant labour on May 30, 1845.

A case has been registered in a local court against Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for allegedly "denigrating" a Hindu god and "hurting" the religious sentiments of the Hindus.

In Hinduism, a human life is considered a great blessing. Only through human life, with the help of one's free will, can one choose to do good karma and attain the ultimate goal of human life, moksha and be united with the Divine.

London, May 8 : India tops the list of countries in the world with the most first-day deaths at 309,300 annually, according to "State of the World's Mothers 2013" report released on May 7 by London headquartered Save the Children International.

Several newly-minted MPs and assemblymen in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur share initiatives and programmes that they have in mind for constituents.

The three very important words in Hinduism are interrelated: Brahmin, Brahma and Brahman.