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• Hindus welcome Georgia baseball team adopting yoga

  Hindus have welcomed Georgia Bulldogs baseball team of University of Georgia in Athens for reportedly incorporating yoga as a part of training. It helps the team in mobility, stretching, health, f




• Lauding Cullman Schools on introducing yoga, Hindus urge yoga in all Alabama schools

  Hindus have commended Cullman City Schools (CCS) in Alabama for reportedly introducing yoga, calling it a step in the positive direction. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in




• Hindus welcome launch of “meditation rooms” in University of Minnesota

  Hindus are commending University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC) for launching two meditation rooms on the campus for prayer, meditation, calming, spiritual-exercise, contemplation, concentration and




• Brussels Airport rejects “Hindu Prayer Room” idea

  Brussels Airport, despite its ?Customer-focus? strategy, seems to have rejected the Hindus? request of a designated ?Hindu Prayer Room?. Responding to distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed?s ema




• Hilltop Murugan Hindu Temple opens in Malaysian island

  A new Arulmigu Balathandayuthabani Devasthanam in Batu Kawan (Penang, Malaysia), situated amidst lush greenery on a hill and adjoining a lotus pond, will be reportedly consecrated on February 19.




• Meditation Room opening at University of Nevada

  ?Meditation and Reflection Room? in the upcoming $44 million William N. Pennington Student Achievement Center at University of Nevada-Reno (UNR), currently being given finishing touches, would open on




• Majestic Nageswari Amman Hindu Temple with 924 snake-carvings opens in Malaysia

  Om Sri Maha Athi Nageswari Amman Temple is reportedly launched in the new township of Puchong Gateway (Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia), after about four years of work. Dedicated to snake goddess Nage




• Designated “Hindu Prayer Room” sought at University of Iowa

  Hindus are urging for a permanent and exclusive Prayer Room at University of Iowa (UI), a top public research university in Iowa City founded in 1847. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a




• Hindus welcome Ferris University goal of designated prayer spaces by 2021

  Hindus have welcomed inclusion of ?Designate spaces for individuals to pray, contemplate, meditate? as a ?goal? by Ferris State University (FSU) in its ?Diversity and Inclusion Plan, 2016-2021?. D




• University of Iowa Museum has “murtis” of Hindu gods

  University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) has ?murtis? of Hindu gods. A ?murti?, per Oxford Dictionary of Hinduism, is ?image, icon, or concrete form of a deity; i.e. its manifestation, or incarnati




• Hindu chariot procession in Lagos in August

  Ratha Yatra (Hindu Festival of Chariots) will be the central spectacle of international Festival of India planned to be held in Lagos (Nigeria) on August 13, reports suggest. It is like getting a




• Upset Hindus urge New Orleans Mayor not to grant permits to Mardi Gras parades showing Hindu gods

  Hindus are urging City of New Orleans Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu, City Council and Chief Administrative Officer Andy Kopplin not to grant permits to parades related to Mardi Gras in 2017 and beyond, w




• New Muscat Airport to have 24 prayer rooms—Hindus seek one

  The new Muscat International Airport (MIA), currently under development in Oman, will reportedly have 24 prayer rooms for men and women. Hindus are urging Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC),




• Hindus happiest group in United Kingdom

  Hindus are the happiest among all the religious communities/groups of United Kingdom (UK), according to a dataset of Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK?s National Statistical Institute. This




• World’s largest folk art museum to showcase Hindu Lord Brahma Shrine

  Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA) will showcase Lord Brahma (Erawan) Shrine in its upcoming ?Sacred Realm? exhibition, which runs from February 28 through March 19. On




• Hindus upset at parading of Hindu gods at Mardi Gras related New Orleans event

  Hindus are upset over reported parading of Hindu deities at a Lundi Gras parade associated with Mardi Gras celebrations on February eight evening in uptown New Orleans, calling it highly inappropriate




• Duke University opens two interfaith prayer rooms

  Two new interfaith prayer rooms were reportedly launched in prestigious Duke University (DU) in Durham (North Carolina) last week. One ?Interfaith Prayer Room?, also known as The Mosaic, opened in



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  Nevada’s Sparks City Council starts day with ancient Hindu mantras

  Sparks City Council in Nevada (USA), incorporated in 1905, started its meeting on February eight with ancient Gayatri Mantra, considered the most sacred mantra of Hinduism. Distinguished Hindu sta




• Europe’s “largest Hindu temple” plans to expand

  Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple of UK in Tividale village (England), claimed to be the ?largest Hindu temple of its kind in Europe?, is planning to expand. In an application to Sandwell Metropol




• Hindu Community Centre planned in Preston England

  A Hindu Community Centre has been planned in the city of Preston in England. According to reports, land has been purchased for it and plans have been filed with the Preston City Council. To be dev



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