Former King Gyanendra donates Rs 100,000 for Mahayagya – My Republica
RATNANAGAR (Chitwan), Feb 20: Former King Gyanendra Shah on Sunday donated Rs 100,000 for the Birat Goraskhya Mahayagya being held in Narayangadh. The former monarch had arrived in Chitwan to celebrate the birthday of his wife, Komal. He donated the amount to the Mahayagya ritual taking place along the banks of the Narayani river. Responding to a journalist’s More...
Fourth master plan of Pashupati area to be formulated – My Republica
KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Fourth master plan is to be introduced to develop Pashupati area as tourism and religious site. At a program organized here on Thursday, it was shared that the fourth master plan is going to be More...
U.C. Riverside Announces New Endowed Chair in Jain Studies
U.C. Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the Department of Religious Studies Feb. 17 announced the establishment of its latest endowed chair, the Shrimad Rajchandra Endowed Chair in More...
Modi’s move to legalise Hindu migrants faces protests – Dhaka Tribune
A move by the Narendra Modi-led BJP government to legalise Hindus and other religious minorities infiltrating India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan has been facing a vehement protest by indigenous people More...
Hindus urge all 21 New Jersey counties to offer free yoga like Union County
Hindus are urging all the 21 counties in New Jersey to offer free yoga classes, on the same pattern as being offered by the Union County. Union County is presenting a free yoga event titled “Empowering Union County More...
Temple bans reporters from 3 TV stations
The embattled Wat Phra Dhammakaya has banned news reporters from three television stations from entering the temple compound, without giving a reason why. The ban was posted on “News Wat Phra Dhammakaya” More...
BoE assures Hindu group on concerns over non-veg notes
London, Feb 19 (PTI) One of the UKs leading umbrella group for Hindus has said the Bank of England has assured them that concerns over the use of animal fat in the new five-pound notes were being treated with “utmost More...
New York’s Half Hollow Hills School District unanimously approves Hindu Diwali holiday
Hindus have welcomed reports of Board of Education of Half Hollow Hills Central School District (HHHCSD) of Huntington and Babylon in New York State unanimously adopting Diwali, most popular of their festival, as More...
1,500 followers break official line into Dhammakaya Temple
Some 1,500 lay followers ignored the ultimatum of the Department of Special Investigation and broke through the barrier of police and DSI officials to rally inside the Dhammakaya Temple Sunday afternoon. Earlier More...
Police hunting for monk increase pressure on Thai temple
Pathum Thani, Feb 19 (AP) Police in Thailand who spent three days in an orderly but unsuccessful search of a vast Buddhist temple for a prominent monk accused of financial wrongdoing kept up the pressure today, More...