BISMARCK — North Dakota senators heard a Hindu prayer to open the legislative floor session Monday, April 1. Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism based in Reno, Nev., gave the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. – Some Republican North Dakota House members abstained Tuesday from an opening floor session prayer by a Hindu cleric, marking the second time in recent years some GOP representatives ...

Parliamentarian prattle and stilted deliberations usually mark the language of lawmakers in Olympia. But Friday, ancient Sanskrit mantras filled the chamber when a Hindu prayer was recited for what is ...

CHEYENNE – Rajan Zed approached the podium of the Wyoming Senate on Friday, dressed in a saffron-colored shirt and pants, a yellow shawl draped around his neck and a line of paint streaked across his ...

BOISE (CN) - Three Idaho lawmakers boycotted the state Senate's daily invocation Tuesday because it was given by a Hindu, which one senator called "a false faith with false gods." Steve Vick of Dalton ...

Tens of thousands of Hindu pilgrims descended on the banks of the Ganges river Thursday trusting in faith rather than masks to shield them against the coronavirus pandemic during the giant Kumbh Mela ...

BISMARCK — A handful of North Dakota Republican lawmakers abstained from a Hindu prayer that opened the House's floor session Tuesday, April 2, with one legislator describing his actions as a form of ...