Source ENGLAND, May 11 , 2015 ( by Kounteya Sinha, Time of India): During one of his campaigning trips, Cameron, who has travelled to India thrice after taking over office in 2010, promised to visit the Akshardham temple in Delhi if he returns to 10 Downing Street as prime minister for the second term. […]

Source UNITED STATES, May 14, 2015 (NBC News): The share of Americans who do not identify with a religion has grown dramatically and now surpasses every affiliation except evangelical Protestants, according to a survey released Tuesday. The Pew Research Center found that 22.8 percent of Americans were religiously unaffiliated last year — up from […]

Source UNITED KINGDOM, April 14, 2015 (Daily Mail): Will Germans be the eventual custodians of Sanskrit, its rich heritage and culture? If the demand for Sanskrit and Indology courses in Germany is any indication, that’s what the future looks like. Unable to cope with the flood of applications from around the world, the South […]

Source CANADA, May 25, 2015 (Huffington Post): Whenever I tell my friends that I’ve thought about getting married to a guy that my parents will pick for me, I always get the same response. “Wait a minute, an arranged marriage!?” “But why? Aren’t you worried!?” Like any other woman, when I was younger I […]

Source KATHMANDU, TIBET, June 2, 2015 (by Shirish B Pradhan, Outlook India News): About 25,000 foreign tourists, mostly Indians, planning to visit Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet through Nepal have been forced to change their plans as China has shut down all border points in the region after the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal. Nepal’s […]

Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 5, 2015 (Indian Express): The government appears determined to ensure that its showpiece event in New Delhi this month — to mark the inaugural International Day of Yoga — makes it to the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest such session at a single venue. And so, […]

Source UNITED STATES, April 24, 2015 (Focus News): American Vivek Murthy took the oath as US’s youngest surgeon-general on the Bhagavad Gita. He also invoked the Indian roots of his success in the United States. “By any reasonable measure, I shouldn’t be standing here. My father is the son of a farmer in rural […]

Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, April 28, 2015 (Press Trust of India): The famous 5th-century Pashupatinath Temple here has survived the massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake that flattened several World Heritages like iconic Dharhara tower and Darbar Square in Nepal. “The Pashupatinath Temple is safe, we have checked the shrine many times and it has developed no […]

Source UNITED STATES, April 2, 22015 (Pew Forum): The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size of youth populations among the world’s major religions, as well as by people switching faiths. Over the next four decades, Christians will remain the largest religious group, […]

Source LOS ANGELES. USA, April 4, 2015 (Agence France-Presse): A California court said Friday that yoga classes taught at an elementary school do not violate students’ right to religious freedom, after parents complained Hindu and Buddhist doctrines were being promoted. The parents of two students at an Encinitas district school near San Diego said […]