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At a time when Pakistan is plagued by terrorism, its official academia has been unable to stop the inclusion of hate material targeting Hindus, Christians and Sikhs and fanning sectarian hatred in school curriculum. [...]

For eight years, a few mathematics and Sanskrit scholars of the Calcutta University have been working on a mammoth project. They have been trying to establish a tall claim that at least 5,000 basic and advanced modern mathematical concepts have their roots in Sanskrit and most of these have Vedic antecedents. [...]

Hindu families from Pakistan have strongly opposed the revival of cricket series between the two nations as they had to face harassment and humiliation if India won the game. [...]

A day after the Pakistani parliamentarians downplayed the Hindu migration issue, another Hindu family coming from across the border narrated the same tale of deprivation and persecution. Accompanied by his wife and four children, Roop Mehra arrived at the Attari railway station on Thursday. “Hindus in Pakistan are in a lot of trouble. The problem [...]

Amid fear of attacks, people continued to rush to 303 relief camps in Chirang and Kokrajhar districts. People also rushed out of Bodoland Territorial Council for safety. SIB reiterates its commitment to provide relief to people in distress through this appeal. [...]

Dr J .Robert Oppenheimer is famous for being the 'father the atomic bomb'which unleashed hitherto unimagined nightmares on humanity. in literally a flash the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated. the human casualties were even more poignant. Oppenheimer will therefore always be associated with weapons of mass destruction which if used would incinerate all [...]

When the financial bull market began in 1982, investment capital became more important than labor. Investment capital places a premium on higher education, on conceptual & mathematical skills. These skills are far more easily transmitted to children by college-educated parents. In other words, a "Brahminification" of America began to occur. [...]

“Time to promote Sanskrit language among the masses and let the knowledge contained in scriptures go global,” says Narendra Modi [...]

In a matter of a few 100 years, between the accounts of traveller Alberuni and Mirza Haider, Kashmir became a changed land Reacting to a recent dress code diktat issued by the Jamaat-e-Islami in Kashmir, BJP leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley called for the Jamaat to be [...]

CHENNAI: A curious coincidence led 62-year-old V Ravi to read about the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute attached to the Madras Sanskrit College in Mylapore which is languishing for want of funds at a time when he had just begun learning Sanskrit. An email thread, circulated on the subject, had made its way to the mailing [...]