www.mumbaimirror.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 2008: Prof. K. Ramasubramanian of IIT-Bombay has recently released a two-volume translation of the Ganita-Yukti-Bhasa by Jyesthdeva pointing to the fact that some subsets of calculus existed in Indian manuscripts almost two centuries before Isaac Newton published his work. And that an Indian mathematician and astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji spoke, in parts, about a planetary model, credited…
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www.hinduonnet.com JAMMU, INDIA, August 7, 2008: (PTI): A record number of 4.3 million pilgrims from across the country have visited the Mata Vaishnovdevi cave shrine since January this year, officials said here on Wednesday. While only 4 million devotees had visited the shrine during the corresponding period last year, registering an increase of 300.000 pilgrims, they said. During the month…
www.hinduismtoday.com GERMANY, August 2, 2008: (Religion Watch Newsletter) Although the trend is not yet as developed as it has become in the US or UK, Hindu temples in Germany tend increasingly to play a role beyond providing rituals, especially in educating Hindu children born in the West and conveying to them Hindu traditions, writes German scholar Carina Back (Hanover University)…
www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, August 5, 2008: At the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in San Francisco late last month, Dr. Herz and other researchers discussed the many ways our sense of smell stands alone. On the one hand, said Jay A. Gottfried of Northwestern University, olfaction is our slow sense, for it depends on messages carried not…
www.hinduismtoday.com Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. Swedish proverb
pib.nic.in SINGAPORE, August 3, 2008: A mini version of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) will be held in Singapore, October 10 – 11, 2008. “PBD Singapore” is the second such convention of Indian Diaspora to be held outside India. The theme for the event is “Towards a Dynamic Diaspora”. The first Mini-PBD was organized in New York in September last…
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www.telegraphindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2008: The extract of a herb used for centuries in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine can reduce symptoms of osteoarthritis, the most common inflammatory joint disease, a group of Indian and American scientists has claimed. A clinical trial conducted by Siba Raychaudhuri from the University of California, Davis, and her co-workers in India has shown…
www.democraticunderground.com PREAH VIHEAR, CAMBODIA, August 3, 2008: Buddhist monks and government officials held a peace vigil Friday at an ancient temple near disputed border land, lighting incense and praying in the shadow of armed troops from Cambodia and Thailand. Mist hovered over the mountaintop Preah Vihear temple as some 1,000 people prayed for an end to the tense standoff that…