Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Luminosa Award for Unity, an honor presented annually since 1998 by the Focolare Movement Mariapolis Luminosa of North America. The Focolare movement pays tribute through this award to Butalia’s decades of work in interreligious dialogue and peacemaking, as we...
A name may have more to it than Shakespeare might have thought when he asked “what's in a name?â€. Researchers have now found that people with a conventional name, especially those in the minority community, may live a year longer than those with modern names....
Over 100 Hindu Americans converged on Sacramento yesterday to voice their concerns about the California Department of Education Instructional Quality Commission’s (IQC) plans to accept problematic edits made by a small group of South Asian studies faculty. These proposed edits would have largely removed re...
Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) elected a new international executive council at a warmly contested election, conducted electronically for the first time, where 208 of the 223 international delegates from 21 countries cast votes, electing Mr. Niraj Baxi of Silicon Valley (USA) as its President. Other elected officers are: Mr. ...
Republican and Democratic presidential frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton hold leads in nationwide polls amid an escalating feud between the brash billionaire and rival Ted Cruz over their wives....
Leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee were secretly pushing President Barack Obama to allow the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out target killings against Islamic State (IS) leaders, local media reported Thursday....
In conjunction with International Women's Day, BAPS hosted its 10th annual Women's Conference at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Bartlett, Illinois on March 12th, ...
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton suggested a Donald Trump presidency would be 'Christmas for the Kremlin' only to have her billionaire rival hit back branding her incompetent....
Prabhjeet (Prab) Gill of the Progressive Conservative Party has won the bye-election to the Calgary-Greenway constituency in Alberta....
Hindu American community groups, parents, and children plan to gather at the California Department of Education (CDE) in Sacramento tomorrow to seek equality and dignity for Hinduism and India in California’s history-social science textbooks. ...