multimedia.asiaone.com KARNATAKA, INDIA, January 31, 2009: In India’s southern Karnataka, a monkey prevented the authorities from demolishing a roadside Hanuman temple by attacking any officials who venture near the temple premises. (Click on the link above to see the video). The monkey fiercely defended the temple dedicated to the Hindu monkey God, Hanuman. Locals said the monkey normally is docile,…
www.hinduismtoday.com If we look at the past and we look at the future as both a series of dreams, and the only thing that we are concerned with is our immediate reactions and what we carry with us now, we see that the past is there to test us and the future is there to challenge us. We cannot change…
www.speroforum.com QATAR, January 30, 2009: More and more Nepalese emigrants who have gone to Muslim majority countries to work – for example, on the Arabian Peninsula – are abandoning their Hindu religion and embracing Islam in order to improve their economic and social situation. According to figures from the Nepalese workers’ union, in Qatar alone there have been about 2,000…
By Rajiv Malik, HPI Correspondent, India/South Asia NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 31, 2009: Sri Swami Padmanabhanandaji Maharaj has been appointed as the new General Secretary of The Divine Life Society by the Board of Trustees of The Divine Life Trust Society in their meeting held on the 4th January, 2009. His Holiness Sri Swami Vimalananda, 76, a senior monk of…
www.hinduonnet.com PANAJI, INDIA, January 29, 2009: [HPI Note: This movie has been called a serious contender for this year’s Academy Awards. Set and filmed in India, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a young uneducated man from the Dharavi slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Kaun Banega Crorepati. Its plotline…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 29, 2009: Performing yoga is not un-Islamic– indeed, offering namaz, the Islamic prayer is also a form of the practice yoga, according to Adil Siddiqui, spokesperson of Darul Uloom Deoband, India’s leading Islamic seminary. Dismissing the recent controversy over the issue, Siddiqui said Wednesday that “Yoga is not a problem in Islam, but giving a…
news.bbc.co.uk MONACO, January 30, 2009: The world’s marine ecosystems risk being severely damaged by ocean acidification unless there are dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions, warn scientists. Research shows that pH levels are changing 100 times faster than natural variability, as revealed in a symposium here today. The researchers warn that ocean acidification, which they refer to as “the other CO2…
www.hinduismtoday.com If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you. Ramana Maharshi
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www.ddinews.gov.in NEPAL, January 28, 2009: An armed group, which has stepped up pressure on the government to declare Nepal’s Terai plains a sovereign state, on Tuesday demanded that the country be rechristened as “Union of Himalayan States.” Smyukta Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (SJTMM), which is currently engaged in a dialogue with the Maoist-led government, demanded that Nepal be converted into…