Hindu Religious Leader, 7 Others Killed

A Hindu religious leader and seven of his followers were shot and killed in northern India late Friday.

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Reality check: India

India is the biggest democracy in the world, a secular society aspiring to lead South Asia as it flaunts its societal and economic success upon its smaller neighbors.

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Abortion is not a liberal, secular invention; there are examples in Jewish, Muslim, and even Christian theologies—and in Buddhist and Hindu traditions—of instances in which abortion is justified.

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After the Mumbai Blasts, the whole life in India began to revolve around this horrible incident. One can find the after shocks of this quake even after so many months. Certainly it was the worst episode in the Indian history of terrorism.

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Black day was observed in all over the world and occupied Kashmir to protest against landing of Indian troops on Oct. 27, 1947, some six decades back and it converted a beautiful valley of the world into ever bleeding landscape of the region.

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Losing My Religion... And My Keys

Where did that darn religion go? Did it fall between the couch cushions? Did I leave it hanging in the front door? Let's see...

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Considering all the chaos happening in Pakistan, I thought I'd dig into the recent past and see how it was headed. Here's an interview with a Kashmiri militant in 2004 with PBS. Some interesting opinions and comments. How much is truth, how much is fiction...

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In a bizarre incident, a 35-year-old man, Ramveer Singh Baghel, cut his tongue and offered it to appease goddess Amba at a temple in Meghaninagar on Sunday morning.

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A war of words over compensation for rape victims has overshadowed the real issue, of violence against poor women...

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"The severed head of a cow was recently the center of attention in Malaysia as a group of more than 50 Muslim men gathered outside a state mosque and marched to a government office proudly carrying a cow's head as a symbol of protest while chanting the world-famous praise "Allahu …

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A Christian Magazine "Christian in India" from the Portals of "Times Group" (The Largest English Daily in the World)

(A Review on Its Inaugural Issue)

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Eyesores or cynosures, they are for keeps. The saffron robed Muslim leaders are now an inseparable part of the Hindutava campaigner Bharatiya Janata Party.

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"Canings, cows' heads and ethnoreligious apartheid." is how Sadanand Dhume described Malaysia, branded as "Truly Asia".

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KUALA LUMPUR - DOZENS of Malaysian Muslims paraded on Friday with the head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, in a dramatic protest against the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighbourhood.

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Those who argue that all religions are essentially the same reveal the fact that they know little about these very different belief systems.

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The Indian state of Gujarat, which is BJP controlled, now moves to ban the book on Pakistan's founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It was written by Jaswant Singh, India's ex-foreign minister who was now expelled from the BJP political party.

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A blog post by Soutik Biswas the online correspondent for BBC News in India. He weighs in the whole controversy of Jaswant Singh's book on Jinnah. (I believe the post is made before the announcement of the expulsion).

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America is not a Christian nation. We are, it is true, a nation founded by Christians, and according to a 2008 survey, 76 percent of us continue to identify as Christian (still, that's the lowest percentage in American history).

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EIGHT ATTEMPTS were made on Mahatma Gandhi's life before the final one on January 30, 1948 was successful.

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India, a country that has killed close to 600 Indian Christians last summer at the hands of Hindu terror groups, organized a protest rally today in front of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi to protest the murder of 9 Pakistani Christians in Pakistan.

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An Indian court sentenced two men and a woman to death Thursday for their roles in a 2003 terrorist attack in Mumbai that killed 52 people.

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While Pakistan's decision makers squabble over whether to go ahead and implement the 2008 decision of buying German submarines or alter course and seek more French subs instead, India has put its prototype nuclear powered submarine, INS Arihant, into the waters.

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NO ONE knows what the Liberhan Commission report contains, and the prime minister and home minister are far too honourable to allow any leaks. But this has not prevented a spate of rumour and speculation about its contents.

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As a peace-loving individual and follower of Baba Nanak's philosophy, all I can say is that supporting a cause related to Baba Nanak will only pave the way for peace in the sub-continent. Stopping a religious pilgrimage will not enhance national security on either side...

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The Delhi high court's reading down of IPC's Section 377 that de-criminalises same sex relationships has set a cat among the religious pigeons.

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Come June and for the second year running, the Indian Held Kashmir is on the boil; much in the manner of the previous summer when the allocation of hundred acres of pristine Kashmiri land to a Hindu trust to permanently set up facilities for pilgrims undertaking Amar Nath Yatra,  …

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