Mineola Union Free School District (MUFSD) in New York state has announced that no home work or examinations will be given on the day of Hindu festival of Diwali, the most popular of their festivals. MUFSD Superintendent Dr. Michael P. Nagler, in an email today to...
Sense, England’s national charity that supports people who are deafblind, has launched free accessible yoga sessions for people with sight and hearing impairments in Peterborough, a cathedral city in eastern England. These gentle and friendly sessions have been made...
An 8-week chair yoga program was associated with reduction in pain, pain interference, and fatigue, and improvement in gait speed; concluded a study recently published in the online Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Sixty-six community-dwelling older adults...
Zimbabwe Hindus are planning extensive events to celebrate 25th anniversary of Shree Omkar Mandir in Ridgeview area of Harare on April 15-16 next. These celebrations, being organized by The Hindoo Society Harare (HSH), a registered welfare organization whose history...
Upset Hindus are urging Eureka (California) based award-winning Lost Coast Brewery to not use Hindu deity Lord Ganesha’s image on its Indica IPA beer bottles, calling it highly inappropriate. Label of its “hoppy and full-bodied” Indica India Pale Ale (ABV 6.50%),...
Amazon.com, said to be world’s largest online retailer, has seemingly removed skateboards carrying images of Hindu deity Lord Ganesha from its website after Hindus protested. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who spearheaded the protest, in a statement in Nevada (USA)...
Hindus are urging renowned Merrimack College in North Andover (Massachusetts) to add “Hindu” to its Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations Center to be inclusive for its Hindu students and the community. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that...
Hindus are disappointed with world’s largest online retailer Amazon.com for continuing to carry skateboards, bed covers, duvet covers and bedspreads; showing images of Hindu deity Lord Ganesha; which they called highly inappropriate and urged their withdrawal...
Hindus have commended Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin (Ireland) and its Kilcullen Parish for hosting yoga classes in Kilcullen Parish Centre. These vinyasa flow yoga classes, suitable for all levels and everyone, will help participants strengthen, stretch, tone...
Upset Hindus are urging New Braunfels (Texas) based New Braunfels Brewing Company (NBBC) to withdraw three beers named after Hindu deity Lord Shiva, calling these highly inappropriate. These are: “Shiva’s Tears”, “Shiva’s Wrath” and “Cosmic Dancer”. Hindu...
