news.bbc.co.uk KILINOCHCHI, SRI LANKA, January 6, 2009: Two days after the fall of Kilinochchi, the town that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had used as their de facto capital was firmly under military control. The Peace Secretariat, where the Tigers met visiting diplomats and journalists during the failed 2002 ceasefire, was a shell. The windows and furniture had…
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, January 6, 2008: As biofuel companies search for substitutes to food crops, such as corn and soybeans, to make renewable alternatives to petroleum-based fuels, some are turning to chicken, pork and beef fat to make these “ßreen”†fuels. Hinduism Today is investigating the use these animal fats to produce biodiesel for a coming article in the magazine. Sourced…
www.hinduismtoday.com Whatever defect I have in my sight, in my heart or mind, may God amend! May He, the Protector of the world, bless us! Yajur Veda 36.2
ibnlive.in.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 4, 2009: [HPI Note: This series of articles portrays the dispute at Nepal’s Pashupatinath Temple, where a long-standing tradition of having Indians as the main priests has been forcefully challenged by Nepal’s new Maoist Government. ] Nepal’s Foreign Minister has blamed his Maoist allies for the removal of Indian priests at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu…
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.hinduismtoday.com A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions. Carl Sagan (1934-1996), astrophysicist and author of Cosmos
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…