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Chemicals could be used to enhance colour, texture or taste. (Photo: Pixabay)

This Holi, avoid being a victim of food adulteration

While Holi is a time for merriment, we should also be alert about what we eat.

24 Feb 2018 11:45 AM

Specialists recommend increasing community awareness and emphasizing the health risks associated with coloured-powder. (Photo: Pixabay)

Hindu tradition of throwing ‘Holi’ colours may carry health risks

Wear sunglasses, swim goggles and/or a hat with a brim to enjoy yourself without worry!

02 Dec 2017 12:59 PM

Diwali is considered to be a festival of lights, but for decades Indians have associated firecrackers with the festival as well.

The myths behind crackers

With the festival of lights around the corner, we try to decipher if crackers were a part of diwali celebrations in ancient times.

15 Oct 2017 12:18 AM

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government will take cognisance of UGC's suggestion to remove words such as 'Hindu' and 'Muslim' from BHU and AMU. (Photo: PTI | File)

No intention to change names of BHU, AMU, says Prakash Javadekar

'We formed a committee to look into the administrative, academic and research audits of universities,' he said.

09 Oct 2017 7:07 PM

My Hanuman Chalisa by Devdutt Pattanaik Rupa, Rs 295.

Book review: An ode to the Hindu, Buddhist Monkey God

Other religions, mainly Buddhism, constantly weave themselves into the text as Pattanaik makes scholarly points of comparison.

03 Sep 2017 2:42 AM

Kalavati and Miriam after their marriage ceremony, dressed in traditional sarees (Photo: Youtube screengrab Pukaar News/ SWNS)

First interfaith lesbian marriage in UK makes history

Kalavati who is of Hindu descent married Miriam, Jewish, from Texas in a ceremony in Leicester.

17 Aug 2017 12:56 PM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Nepali teenager banished during her period dies of snakebite: charity

The practice of 'chhaupadi' banishes menstruating girls and women to animal sheds for the duration of their period.

11 Jul 2017 12:47 PM

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim man beaten to death over alleged kidnapping of Hindu girl

The victim was dragged to a secluded spot and beaten to death.

02 May 2017 4:57 PM

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik greets his West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee addresses the press at his residence in Bhubaneswar. (Photo: PTI)

Didi’s new avatar

Yogi Adityanath, interestingly, had renamed several localities in Gorakhpur to push forward his Hindu agenda.

24 Apr 2017 1:30 AM

A Civil Servant Returns to His Roots by Suchita Malik is a story of a civil servant in his fifties who decides to abandon his profitable career and return to the soil where he grew up. Subhojit Singh.

Returning to the roots in search of a balanced life

Malik paints the picture of an ideal life in Subhojit’s ancestral village where everyone co-exists in perfect equality.

29 Mar 2017 12:25 AM

Hindus still have the largest educational gender gap of any religious group, said the report titled ‘Religion and Education Around the World Large’ released by Pew Research Center. (Representational Image)

Hindus least educated religious group in world, reveals survey

Hindus still have the lowest level of educational attainment of any major religious group in this study, which is topped by Jews.

15 Dec 2016 9:46 AM

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