After more than 18 hours of debate, the food cooked for approximately 7,000 devotees at Puri's Jagannath Temple was thrown away on Friday. A number of priests had insisted the prasadam (food blessed by the Deity) be discarded because it had been defiled by the entry...

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), which manages India's richest temple at Tirumala, Thursday sponsored marriages of over 5,000 couples. TTD organized...

India has an estimated five million ancient manuscripts, most of which lie unknown and neglected. The National Mission for Manuscripts, set up by the Ministry of Culture has been...

The largest single gathering of people on Earth may hold the key to living together in harmony, researchers from St. Andrews and Dundee believe. Psychologists from the two universities have been studying the 30 million-strong crowd at the Kumbh Mela, in...

A nearly 500-year-old Deity of Lord Krishna worth nearly Rs two-and-a-half crore in the international market was today recovered from two persons in Jama Masjid, claim police. The Deity weighs around 1,250 gm and is about 10 inches in height. It is said to date back to the Mughal era. Its cost in the international market is over Rs.20 million, said a police official.

Knitwear capital Tirupur is literally carving a niche for itself in stone. It is now a familiar name in many countries for the export of stone murtis of gods and goddesses from the Hindu pantheon to temples abroad. With demand coming in from all over the world, Tirupur has enough reasons to smile as most of the gods and goddesses...

Security was increased on Saturday at the 18th century Jagannath temple at Keradagarh after a court banned the entry of devotees following a public suit seeking protection for Dalits who planned to enter the shrine defying an ancient ban.

At next year's Oscars, India risks being severely embarrassed by a controversial film depicting the harsh treatment suffered by the country's Hindu widows. Already the bete noir of various Hindu political groups, Canada-based director Deepa Mehta had to abandon the filming of Water in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in 2000 after angry mobs wrecked the set by the River Ganges and destroyed the equipment.

In 1831, or 175 years ago, London's Cambridge University started teaching Sanskrit at Oxford. Now the university has made an administrative decision to refrain from offering the ancient language as part of its Oriental undergraduate program. Dr. John Smith, who has taught Sanskrit for 22 years at Cambridge, expresses his perspective on the decision, "There are some subjects simply worth doing...

The Hindu American Foundation is making the public recognition of the Diwali festival a major focus of their work this year. HAF has worked with U.S. Congressmen to author House Resolution 548, a Bill recognizing Diwali. As a result of HAF's Third Annual Government Outreach and Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., the Foundation educated Congressmen and their staff about Diwali and increased recognition of Hinduism in general.

Scientists are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript. The project led by P.R. Mukund and Roger Easton, professors at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), will digitally preserve the original Hindu writings known as the Sarvamoola granthas attributed to scholar Shri Madhvacharya (1238-1317). The collection of 36 works contains commentaries written in Sanskrit on sacred Hindu scriptures and conveys the scholar's Dvaita philosophy of the meaning of life and the role of God.

With hundreds of millions of followers, and texts dating back thousands of years, Hinduism is one of the world's largest and most well-established religions. However, estimates put the number of Hindus in America at only about one to two million, making them a small minority in a predominantly Judeo-Christian country with nearly 300 million people.

Dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, Europe's largest Hindu temple opened in London Wednesday with week-long consecration ceremonies. Fifteen priests from India performed the rituals culminating in the installation of the 3.6 meter statue of Lord Krishna.

The Hindu Sangam is coordinating six events throughout the United States during the month of September to promote the Sanatana Dharma among Hindus and non-Hindus alike.

The first Kumbha Mela in the USA is being organized on September 10, 2006 at Bren Center, University of California Irvine, to usher in peace by infusing collective positivity. In India for thousands of years, millions of yogis, masters and saints have come together every 12 years at auspicious planetary convergences, to bring healing energy to the planet, and share information about spiritual practices.

The "Centro Cultural y Templo Hindu" in Punta Arenas, Chile, is located at 53.10 degrees south of the Equator. It is a building of 800 sq meters financed by the Sindhi community. When inaugurated in 2002 it displaced the Wellington, New Zealand, Kurinji Kumaran temple (at 41.17 S) as being the southernmost Hindu temple in the world!

The Malaysian Hindu Sangam (MHS) has come up with a set of guidelines to save Hindu temples from demolition in the country. The move comes after civic authorities demolished 12 temples in Klang Valley in western Malaysia during the past few months to make way for development.

MHS president A. Vaithilingam told the Star newspaper that a five-member special committee has been formed to address the relocation and demolition of Hindu temples in Kuala Lumpur.

At least three groups overseas have attempted to convey their concern to the Malaysian government about the spate of Hindu temple demolitions of late. The Agni Foundation, representing the Dutch Hindu Community, held a meeting on May 19 with Malaysia's Ambassador to Holland Noor Farida Ariffin to discuss the issue. In a report made available to Malaysiakini, the foundation said that Noor Farida dismissed claims that the Malaysian government ignored the sensitivities of the Hindu community by demolishing the Sri Kaliamman temple in Kuala Lumpur on April 20.