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Hinduism Headlines

Hindu prayers at Nevada University
IndiaEduNews.net - New Delhi,India
New York: Readings and prayers from Hindu scriptures will be part of the second annual Interfaith Baccalaureate service of the University of Nevada in May. ...
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India: Hindu extremists continue violent attacks on Christians
Inspire Magazine - Worthing,West Sussex,UK
A mob of extremists from the Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the World Hindu Council, have beaten two Christians who were distributing tracts at the Kandivli ...
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Liz Hurley, Arun Nayar fly to Jodhpur for Hindu wedding
Zee News - Noida,India
Jodhpur, March 07: British model Elizabeth Hurley and new husband Arun Nayar flew to this city of maharajahs on Wednesday for Hindu wedding ceremonies ...
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Govt denies Hindu families fleeing from J&K
Hindu - Chennai,India
New Delhi, March 7 (PTI): Government today denied that minority Hindu families of Jammu and Kashmir are being forced to flee from the state. ...
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Hindu constructing mosque: BJP activists, residents smell rat
GreaterKashmir.com (press release) - Srinigar,India
Jammu, Mar 7: The residents of Tumaal Jattan in Talab Tillo Bohri led by some BJP activists demonstrated against the construction of a mosque by a Hindu. ...
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UP: BJP gears up to play Hindu card
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
These parties are not talking about benefiting Muslims, it is about being anti-Hindu. This will become a key issue in the Uttar Pradesh polls,” Malhotra ...
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Hindu prayers at Nevada varsity
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
Readings and prayers from Hindu scriptures will be part of the second annual Interfaith Baccalaureate service of the University of Nevada in May. ...
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Revived Hindu Club hopes to reach out to the community
Justice (subscription) - Waltham,MA,USA
The Hindu Club, which had not been active recently, was renamed Namaskar, which is an Indian greeting, by new club leadership. Co-presidents Kamolika Roy ...
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Jewish Purim and Hindu Holi
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
Is it just a coincidence that the Hindu Holi and Jewish Purim festivals fell at the same time on March 4 this year? Both celebrate the victory of good over ...
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It's Liz Hurley, Hindu style
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
BRITISH rule in India was not kind. We put down the Indian Mutiny of 1857 with unnecessary brutality. We imprisoned Gandhi. The final partition of the ...
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India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution
Compass Direct News - Santa Ana,CA,USA
Maharashtra, March 6 (Compass Direct News) – A mob of Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal on March 3 beat two Christians who were distributing tracts at ...
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Here comes the bride - all ready for a five-day Hindu wedding ceremony
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The pair headed into the city in a chauffeur-driven silver Bentley to begin preparations for their Hindu ceremony, which can last for up to three weeks. ...
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'Killing of stray dogs against Hindu tenets'
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore,India
Pointing out that dog is man's best friend, whose protection is advocated in Hindu religion also, Karlekar referred to an incident in Kolkota where a dog ...
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Hindu student faces religious trials solo
ASU The Appalachian Online - Boone,NC,USA
Lavani was born in the United States, but her parents grew up in India and were matched by an arranged marriage, a popular Hindu tradition. ...
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The Climate of the Karakoram and Hindu Kush Mountains of India
CO2 Science Magazine - Tempe,AZ,USA
Temperature data from seven sites scattered throughout the Karakoram and Hindu Kush Mountains of the Upper Indus Basin (a 200-km x 300-km area) of India ...
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Hindu Brides Unhappy
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
If a female is found in a Hindu womb, she is likely to be murdered in the mother’s body, per Julia Duin of The Washington Times. Hindu women are expected to ...
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Activists protest in Nepal's capital demanding reinstatement of ...
International Herald Tribune - France
KATMANDU, Nepal: Hindu ascetics and activists protested in the Nepalese capital on Sunday to urge the government to reinstate Hinduism as the state religion ...
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Hindu sect set to clear Lilburn land
Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA
LAWRENCEVILLE — A Hindu sect whose first attempt to build a temple near Lilburn was deemed too ornate for neighbors can begin clearing the land for a temple ...
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Colorful Hindu festival draws crowd
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
The bland industrial neighborhood east of Highway 101 in Sunnyvale was brightened Saturday as more than 200 Indo-Americans celebrated Holi, the Hindu spring ...
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Hindu community celebrated Holi with zeal
Pakistan Link - Inglewood,CA,USA
KARACHI: Pakistan's Hindu community like other parts of the world celebrated their festival Holi with great fervour and zeal. ...
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The Hindu Images
Hindu Business Line - India
1. Name the first EPL side to sign a deal to show archive footage and daily news on YouTube. 2. What is the most famous product of Grisoft, a privately held ...
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'Anti-Hindu' book stirs passion in SA
Times of India - New Delhi,India
DURBAN: Hindu groups in South Africa on Sunday protested against the distribution of an "anti-Hindu" book by a man who recently accused Mahatma Gandhi of ...
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Hindu readings at Interfaith Baccalaureate Service in USA
PunjabNewsline.com - Mohali-Chandigarh,Punjab,India
According to Rajan Zed, Director of Interfaith Relations of Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada and one of the coordinators for this Service, to mirror the ...
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Hindu river offerings cause ripples
Mississauga News - Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
The ritual, a symbolic cleansing of the body, is being quietly practised within a GTA Hindu community of 200000, as of the 2001 census, that is growing ...
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UK: Muslims accused of blackmail to make Sikh and Hindu girls convert
Judeoscope.ca - Québec,Canada
Radical Muslims are being accused of blackmailing young Hindu and Sikh women into changing religion in 'groomed conversions' on campuses. ...
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The Hindu Images
Hindu Business Line - India
There was no abatement in the slide in ACC and it achieved our target of Rs 842. If it does not halt around Rs 840, the C wave will unfold with all its ...
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Hindu Temple to celebrate festival of Holi
Staten Island Advance - Staten Island,NY,USA
Known also as Holika and Holikotsava, it is observed by all Indians and is usually celebrated on the full moon day in early March as per the Hindu lunar ...
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Historic Hindu - Jewish leadership summit in Delhi
News Today - India
The Jewish and Hindu communities are committed to the ancient traditions of Judaism and Hindu Dharma respectively, and have both, in their own ways, ...
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The Hindu Images
Hindu Business Line - India
ONGC made an intra week low of Rs 750, close to our farthest target of Rs 742. The fact that it has managed to close the week above the 200-day moving ...
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Woodbridge pupils celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - New Brunswick,NJ,USA
WOODBRIDGE — Dressed in white T-shirts, children at the Goddard School in Iselin were excited Friday as they celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi, ...
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The Hindu Images
Hindu Business Line - India
What does the Budget proposal to hike dividend distribution tax on liquid/money market mutual funds mean for individual investors? ...
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Hindu Munnani's rath yatra from Sunday
Chennai Online - Chennai,India
Rameswaram, Mar 3: Hindu Munnani leader Ramagopalanwill embark on a state-wide 'Rath Yatra from here tomorrow, praying for world peace and the return of ...
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Demo held for recovery of Hindu girl
The News - International - Pakistan
SUKKUR: Scores of Hindu community members staged a demonstration in front of the press club in Thul in the Jacobabad district on Friday against the ...
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Banaras Hindu University receives letter from LeT
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
Lucknow, March 2: THE Banaras Hindu University administration on Thursday received an anonymous letter threatening to blow up the building. ...
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Bible College attacked by Hindu mob in India
Mission Network NEws (press release) - Grand Rapids,USA
Gospel for Asia leaders in the area report the mob, which was mobilized by a Hindu nationalist group, systematically attacked the approximately 300 students ...
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Hindu Munnani to take out rath yatra
Chennai Online - Chennai,India
Rameswaram, March 2: Hindu Munnani leader Rama Gopalan will embark on a state-wide rath yatra from here tomorrow praying for world peace and return of 'Ram ...
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Nepal king's Hindu followers to start save monarchy campaign
Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
From Monday, a Hindu organisation loyal to King Gyanendra will start sit-in protests in the capital to pressure the government into reviving the clause in ...
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Former Hindu kingdom gets its first bishop after going secular
Peninsula On-line - Qatar
Kathmandu • Twenty-one years ago Amulya Nath Sharma spent Easter in a Kathmandu police station for preaching before a gathering that also included Hindu ...
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Why is the Hindu leadership silent on the crime issue?
Stabroek News - Georgetown,Guyana
The question is around what I view as deafening silence on the part of Hindu leadership in Guyana with regard to the crime situation which negatively ...
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New Yorker Fined for Entering Hindu Shrine in India
1010 Wins - New York,NY,USA
BHUBANESWAR, India (AP) -- A tourist from New York has good reason to feel shortchanged after his visit to a Hindu holy site in eastern India on Friday. ...
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151 Christians return to Hindu fold in Himachal
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore,India
Shimla, March 2 (IANS) As many as 151 Dalits who had once converted to Christianity have returned to the Hindu fold after a religious ritual in a temple ...
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Court remands Harkat men held for Hindu engineer's murder
Hindu - Chennai,India
... town has remanded to custody six activists of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Mujahideen, arrested for the kidnapping and murder of a Hindu engineer. ...
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151 Christians return to Hindu fold in Himachal
Andhra Cafe - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
Shimla, March 1 (IANS) As many as 151 Dalits who had once converted to Christianity have returned to the Hindu fold after a religious ritual in a temple ...
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Sober' thoughts on Samjhauta tragedy
Central Chronicle - Bhopal,India
While the Hindu fundamentalists in India are justly condemned for what they have done and continue to do to bring their community and the country into ...
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Former Hindu kingdom gets its first bishop
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
Now, with the world's only Hindu kingdom becoming a secular state, he will lead Nepal's growing Christian community as the country's first bishop. ...
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Man behind Hindu massacres shot
Kashmir Live - New Delhi,New Delhi,India
JAMMU, FEBRUARY 28 The state police on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a fidayeen attack on the Governor House and MLA hostel in Jammu, following the ...
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UCAN: Bishop says Hindu demand against tribal Christian rights ...
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
JAIPUR, India (UCAN) – A Catholic bishop in northwestern India says a renewed Hindu demand to strip non-Hindu tribal people of their constitutional rights ...
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Books Of Interest
Hindu Dates
2007
12/01
Makar Sankrant / Lohri / Pongal (solar calendar)
6/02
Vasanta Panchami / Saraswati Puja
1/03
Mahashivratri (Great Shiva Night)
5/03
Birthday of Sri Ramakrishna
17/03
Holi (Spring Festival)
3/03
Varsha-Pratipada / Chaitra (year 2059 Vikrami era)
11/04
Rama Navami
1/07
Ratha Yatra (Chariot Journey)
11/08
Raksha Bandhan
20/08
Janamashtami / Krishna Jayanti (Birthday of Krishna)
30/08
Ganesh - Chaturthi
24/9-4/10
Navaratri / Durga Puja / Dusserah
25/10
Divali (Deepavali)
ADDITIONAL JAIN DATES
Mahavira Jayanti (599 BCE)
April 14
Paryushana - Parva/ Samvatsari
August 24 - 25
Divali Night (Lord Mahavira's Nirvana)
October 24
Nirvana Celebration
October 25
New Year - VNS 2530
October 26

 

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