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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: Religions

Almost 15% of the global population are Hindus. Pew study puts the count at 1.2 billion

A study by the Pew Research Center analyses religious diversity across 201 countries and territories. Singapore tops the list as the most religiously diverse.

Bulldozer code of criminal procedure & who let the raptors out

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

60-64% Americans still identify as Christian, 70% believe in an afterlife, finds latest Pew survey

While 79% Americans believe in spiritual force beyond natural world, only 33% attend religious services monthly. Daily prayer has dropped since 2007, says Pew study published Wednesday.

Science borrowed salvation from Christianity. Then came new religious movement—Apocalyptic AI

In 'Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S.' Robert M Geraci takes a novel approach to the study of religion and Artificial Intelligence across multiple domains.

How Hinduism incorporated Buddha and then distanced the religion

In ‘Ancient India’, Upinder Singh tells readers to abandon simplistic stereotypes and instead think of ancient India in terms of coexistence of contradictions.

BJP version of Hindutva is rising but there is one aspect where it failed to convince Hindus

Muslims are often criticised for not conveying their nationalism in symbolic terms. Pew findings show this assumption is absolutely incorrect.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.