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to follow a simple Common Yoga             of Jews (compared with 27 per cent of     temple has not been severely
Protocol.                                  all US adults)," it said. "These groups   damaged, it has developed cracks after
                                           also have above-average household         the quake".
Boys 'Hung' for eating in                  incomes. Fully 44 per cent of Jews and
Ramzan                                     36 per cent of Hindus say their annual    Indians bag UK 's biggest
                                           family income exceeds USD 100,000,        overseas-born population
The Islamic State group suspended two      compared with 19 per cent of the
youths after accusing them of eating       public overall," the study said.          Indians have become the UK's biggest
during daylight hours in the Muslim                                                  overseas-born population. Data
fasting month of Ramadan.                  Kathmandu Valley finds                    released by the Office of National
                                           place in UN's 'heritage in                Statistics shows that the number of
"The children have been suspended by       danger' list                              Indians has grown by 50% since 2004,
ropes from a pole since noon, and they                                               with 7.6 lakh of them living in the UK
were still there in the late evening,      The recent devastating earthquake         now.
"They were caught eating." the jihadist    has compelled the famous Kathmandu
police, Observatory chief Rami Abdel       Valley called as a world heritage site    Indians are followed by Poles (6.88
Rahman said.                               by UNESCO to enter the infamous list      lakhs), Pakistanis (5.16 lakhs), Irish
                                           of world heritage in danger .             (3.78 lakhs), Germans (2.97 lakhs) and
A placard attached to them read:                                                     Bangladeshis (2.28 lakhs). The Chinese
"They broke the fast with no religious     The World Heritage Committee will         (1.91 lakh) and Americans (1.97 lakh)
justification".                            met in Bonn (Germany) from June 28        are further down the list.
                                           to July 8 to designate new natural and
Rise in Hindu Population                   man-made wonders as world heritage        Greek bank holiday
in US by 1m                                sites.
                                                                                     Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
The population of Hindus in the US has     The session was chaired by Maria          recently announced a bank holiday and
registered a significant increase of over  Bohmer, minister of state at              capital controls after Greeks responds to
a million in the last seven years, new     Germany's federal foreign office.         his surprise call for referendum on
research study has shown.                  Unesco intends to designate the entire    ballout terms by pulling money out of
                                           valley - which includes seven             banks. Other countries in Europe warned
The number of American Hindus rose         monuments and sites like the Durbar       their citizens to carry sufficient cash with
from 0.4 per cent in 2007 to 0.7 per       Squares, Patan and Bhaktapur, the         them if they were travelling to Greece.
cent of the total US population in 2014,   Buddhist stupas of Swayambhu and
a rise of over a million in real terms,    Bauddhanath and the Hindu temples         In coma for 7 yrs, French
according to a latest Pew research         of Pashupati and Changu Narayan - as      court to let man die
study.                                     heritage in serious danger.
                                                                                     Europe's top human rights court has
Muslims constitute 0.9 per cent of the     Feng Jing, the head of the Asia Pacific   allowed doctors to stop treatment of
total US population, while the             Unit at the World Heritage Centre, said   a French man, Vincent Lambert, left
population of Buddhists remained at        "Out of the seven monument zones in       comatose after a car accident seven
0.7 per cent during this period, the       the valley, three are severely damaged    years ago, a case that has drawn
study said.                                due to the recent earthquake. The         nationwide attention amid debate
                                           UNESCO mission in Nepal has               about end-of-life practices. His kin are
"Seventy-seven per cent of Hindus are      confirmed that though the Pashupati       divided in their opinion. While his wife
college graduates, as are 59 per cent                                                wants life support be stopped, his
                                                                                     parents disagree.

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