sify.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 4, 2009: Kathmandu: At least 10 people were injured as a scuffle erupted on the premises of Nepal’s hallowed Pashupatinath temple on Sunday. Condemnation mounted at home and abroad over the Maoist government’s interference in religious matters in violation of the constitution. Some Rajbhandaris – Nepalis who have traditionally been assisting priests during worship at the…
www.ptinews.com Prachanda gave this assurance when Indian leader and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav met him here and expressed concern over sacking of the Indian priests. “Prime Minister Prachanda has assured me that his government will honour the verdict of the Supreme Court and allow the Indian Priests to perform their duty,” Mulayam told journalists after the…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, December 31, 2008: Residents of Jalesar, a small Uttar Pradesh town about 350 km from Lucknow, are now nine months into an unbroken year-long recitation of the Hindu epic Ramayana. The verses are chanted outside the Badhkeshwar Mahadev temple and can be heard from loudspeakers in various neighborhoods, including the main bus stop. “We have already…
www.ptinews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 2, 2009: For the first time in the history of Nepal’s revered Pashupatinath temple, devotees were unable to offer worship to the centuries-old deity after a row erupted between the trust that looks after the shrine and the priests, a bad omen according to the locals. The dispute that began last month with the Pashupatinath Area…
news.bbc.co.uk KILINOCHCHI, SRI LANKA, January 2, 2008: Sri Lanka’s military have seized control of the Tamil Tiger rebels’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced. A pro-Tamil website confirmed the news but said the town was mostly empty as the rebel fighters had moved out. The town is of huge symbolic importance to the Tigers, who had…
www.nytimes.com NEW DELHI, January 1, 2008: China and India are in a struggle for a top rung on the ladder of world power, but their approaches to the state and to power could not be more different. Two days after last month’s terrorist attack on Mumbai, I met with a Chinese friend who was visiting India on business. He was…
www.hinduismtoday.com The man who is kind and practices righteousness, who remains passive in the affairs of the world, who considers creatures of the world as his own self, he attains the immortal Being; the true God is ever with him. Saint Kabir (1440-1518)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 30, 2008: The government’s decision to sack South Indian priests from the Pashupatinath Temple in the capital has sparked a row in Nepal, with the main Opposition party accusing the Maoists of hurting “the religious sentiments” of the Hindus in the country. The Nepali Congess, the second largest party in the country, has raised serious objections…
blogs.reuters.com (Reuters Editorial Blog) December 29, 2008: Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book “îhe Clash of Civilizations”†predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at age 81, Harvard University said on Saturday.br /br /In his 1996 “îhe Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,”†which expanded on his 1993 article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Huntington…
www.hinduismtoday.com O Lord of power, if I were the Lord of herds of cattle, then I would have given to those intelligent worshippers plenty, as much as I could. Rig Veda 8.14.2