press release HOUSTON, TX, USA, August 12, 2008 (Press release): The group Hindus of Greater Houston will honor Raj Bhavsar during their Janmashtami celebration, on August 30. Raj Bhavsar, a 27-year-old artistic gymnast, earned a bronze medal as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, becoming the third Indian-American ever to medal at the Olympics, after Mohini Bhardwaj and…
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www.hinduvoice.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, AUGUST 10, 2008: The latest The Hindu Voice Newsletter, is once again available online. They report on the recent violence that erupted in Gujarat and Kashmir, the plight of three Hindu Gurkhas who lost their High Court pension case, the Indian embassy in Afghanistan that was recently targeted in a bomb attack, and plans for a gigantic…
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…
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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…