www.telegraph.co.uk LONDON, UK, September 22, 2008: In cases of cardiac arrest, where the body is technically dead and doctors restart the heart to bring the patient back to life, some people have reported soaring out of their bodies and looking down on themselves and medical staff. Doctors have decided to study 1,500 heart attack patients to see if people with…
www.hinduismtoday.com Many advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago. Grant Duff, British historian of India
pib.nic.in INDIA, September 25, 2008: The National Medicinal Plants Board of India issued a study of demand and supply of medicinal plants in India showing alarming shortages of some of the plants used by the Ayurvedic industry. The Board has launched a special drive to invite proposals for conservation and cultivation of some of the rare and endangered species that…
www.guardian.co.uk QUITO, ECUADOR, September 24, 2008: The South American republic of Ecuador will vote Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador’s tropical forests, islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to humans. Polls show that 56% are for and only 23% are against. If it passes, nature will no longer be simply property; it…
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www.hinduismtoday.com To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of…
www.HAFsite.org WASHINGTON, DC, USA, September 26, 2008 (Press Release): Hindu American Foundation (HAF) leaders and dozens of supporters descended on Capitol Hill during the Foundation’s fifth annual Government Outreach and Leadership Conference garnering support for their agenda of human rights and religious liberty issues. A dinner reception held within the U.S. Capitol’s rotunda was attended by legislators and national Hindu…
www.dailytimes.com.pk KARACHI, PAKISTAN, September 25, 2008: The Hindus of the city have launched preparations to celebrate the religious festival of Navratri, the first of a series of festivals ahead of Diwali, which will be celebrated on October 28. Navratri will begin on September 28, in which Saraswati and Durga will be worshipped, while a third goddess, Lakshmi, will be worshipped…
www.washingtontimes.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, September 26, 2008: bout 100 people, holding signs protesting Hindu violence in the Indian state of Orissa, demonstrated in front of the White House on Thursday to get the attention of visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Although there was no sign that anyone in Mr. Singh’s motorcade even saw the drenched crowd of Indians and Americans…
www.hinduismtoday.com Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes, India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera’s wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)