Newark: Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping...
07:01 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: For the second time in a week, the CPI(M) is embroiled in a controversy in Kerala on portrayal of Jesus Christ with a picture resembling the Christ's "Last Supper" now providing the spark. The Congress slammed the CPI(M) on Sunday for the alleged action of its workers in bringing out a political version of the famous 'The Last Supper' painting of Leonardo Da Vinci with US President Barack Obama...
08:48 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Celebrated author Salman Rushdie was forced to stay away from the Jaipur Literature Festival and his live video conference cancelled following protests by the Jaipur-based Milli Council. Several activists of the Milli Council arrived at the venue of the Festival at Diggi Palace demanding that the proposed video address by Rushdie be called off, claiming that it was an insult to the Muslims. Rushdie has faced repeated threats...
10:01 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Amsterdam: The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year. The ban would make the Netherlands, where 1 million out of 17 million people are Muslim, the second European Union country to ban the burqa after France, and would apply to face-covering veils if they were worn in public. "People should be able to...
09:52 AM, Jan 28, 2012
On Swami Vivekananda's 149th birth anniversary, here's the full text of his famous Chicago speech through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago in 1893. 11th September, 1893 Sisters and Brothers of America It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial welcome which you have given us. l thank you in the name of the most ancient...
12:02 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Lucknow: Slamming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on BJP selling religion for votes, the main opposition party on Sunday advised him to restrain from using such a language on a sensitive issue. "What kind of language Rahul Gandhi is using by talking about selling Ram who is our Lord. We all worship him. From this, one understands how much he knows about the heritage, otherwise he would have...
08:09 PM, Jan 08, 2012
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"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing ...
03:17 PM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: Google has received government requests for the removal of 358 items from its services, including YouTube and Orkut, during the January-June period, according to a report by the Internet search giant. As many as 255 item removal requests cited the government criticism as the reason, said the Google Transparency Report. The government had asked Google to remove 236 items from Orkut and 19 items from YouTube for the...
10:18 PM, Dec 07, 2011
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The history of pre-modern South Indian culture has a dynamics based not entirely on 'affairs of kings or splendors of fortune' or just on mechanical ...
02:48 PM, Nov 14, 2011
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'Unity in Diversity' - the term was coined by Jawaharlal Nehru and later used by the eminent historian D D Kosambi to refer to the ...
03:42 PM, Oct 31, 2011
On this episode we discuss Swami Vivekananda's views on religion and their context in the present time. ...
05:27 PM, Oct 01, 2011
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One would think that the focal point of any university and the experience of being at university is the institution's library. Not for students of ...
07:29 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New York: R.I.P. to R.E.M. The alternative rock group that shook up the music world with its experimental, edgy sound and then earned multiplatinum success and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced on its website Wednesday that it has "decided to call it a day as a band". "A wise man once said - `the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time...
11:56 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Chennai: Top southern actress Nayantara has converted from Christianity to Hinduism, say sources close to the Arya Samaj, even as she herself maintains a studied silence on the issue. Nayantara, born and brought up as Diana Mariam Kurian, was a born Christian. She changed her name because of her foray into films. She reportedly converted to Hinduism on Sunday morning at the Arya Samaj Temple in Chennai, the sources said,...
10:26 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Srinagar: The Amarnath yatra was on Sunday suspended from both Baltal and Pahalgam routes following landslides triggered by heavy rains, officials said. "The pilgrims were not allowed from either Pahalgam or Baltal route today due to landslides triggered by rainfall during the night," an official at the yatra control room said. He said the suspension of the yatra left over 60,000 pilgrims stranded at various base camps including Baltal, Sheshnag,...
01:35 PM, Jul 03, 2011
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