Mayo Clinic offering “Yoga to Enhance Your Mood”

Mayo Clinic Health System is offering class on “Yoga to Enhance Your Mood” in Red Wing (Minnesota). This six-week yoga class will include “yoga postures, breathing practices and meditation techniques”. “Research has found that the practice of yoga has a positive...

Upset Hindus urge NYC yoga fashion firm to recall Lord Ganesha pants

Upset Hindus have urged for the immediate withdrawal of yoga pants carrying image of Lord Ganesha sold by a New York City headquartered designer yoga and activewear firm Nóli Yoga Clothing, calling it inappropriate. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada...

Germany’s biggest Hindu Temple completes 13 years

The Hindu Shankarar Sri Kamadchi Ampal Temple in Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) has completed 13 years. Claimed to be the “largest Dravida Hindu Temple built in mainland Europe”, it was inaugurated on July seven, 2002. During its annual festival and chariot...

Cornell exhibiting Vishnu & other Hindu gods

Ivy League Cornell University in Ithaca (New York) is showcasing various Hindu gods and goddesses in it “Gods and Scholars” exhibition, on view till March 7 at its Hirshland Gallery. Various Hindu deities shown in its exhibit “Book of Hindu Deities” (1860-1900)...

“Hindu Prayer Room” sought at Zurich Airport

Hindus are urging for a designated “Hindu Prayer Room” at Zurich Airport, Switzerland’s largest and one of the world’s leading airports. Zurich Airport, which “regularly wins awards for its excellent services”, already has Christian and Muslim chapels and a mortuary....