timesofindia.indiatimes.com TIRUPATI, INDIA, August 3, 2008: The hill temple of Lord Venkateswara wore a deserted look on Friday following solar eclipse. Usually on any given day not less than 60,000 pilgrims throng the hill shrine but on Friday owing to the solar eclipse, few turned up. All the 54 compartments in Vaikuntam Queue Complex-I and II, which are generally occupied…
www.sj-r.com/homepage/x1768859726/ceremonies-slated-for-Hindu-temple SPRIENGFIELD, IL, USA, August 3, 2008. The Hindu Temple of Greater Springfield will be inaugurated in four days of ceremonies starting Monday night at the new temple, 1001 W. Walnut St. in Chatham. Gruha Pravesha Muhurtham, the ceremonial entering of the temple for the first time, will begin at 9 p.m. Monday, following a ribbon-cutting by Chatham Mayor Tom…
www.nytimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2008: NEW DELHI Nearly 150 pilgrims, many of them children, were trampled to death at a Hindu temple in northern India on Sunday, after rumors of a landslide set off a stampede, local officials said. Thousands of pilgrims had traveled to Naina Devi, a hilltop temple in the state of Himachal Pradesh, for a…
www.oxfordmail.net OXFORD, ENGLAND, August 3, 2008: Oxford could soon have a Hindu temple to add to its churches, mosques and synagogue. Leaders of Oxfordshire’s 500-strong Hindu community have launched a campaign to construct a US$3.9 million, 12,000 square foot temple in the city as they currently have no base for communal prayer. Temple project initiator Jagruti Bhuva, 44, from Kennington,…
www.thedailystar.net JESSORE, INDIA, July 28, 2008: A almost 400-year-old Shiv temple in Jessore is on the point of. This two-storied temple dates back to 1618 and was commissioned in the reign of Raja Manohar. After the downfall of the Raja in 1705, this grand temple began to fall into ruin due to the lack of maintenance. The temple houses beautiful…
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www.hinduamericanfoundation.org WASHINGTON D.C., July 29, 2008: An ancient Hindu temple located in the mountains on the Cambodia-Thai border is once again at the center of tension between the two neighboring countries.The Preah Vihear Hindu temple complex, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, saw a buildup of 1200-1500 troops (800-1,000 Cambodian and 400-500 Thai) in and around the large temple complex.…
www.ddinews.gov.in COIMBATORE, INDIA, July 24, 2008: The four-day global convention on Ayurveda, beginning at Coimbatore on 21st August, will evolve strategies for integrating ayurveda in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and prepare a mission document for globalization of the ancient science. Efforts were on to formulate guidelines to offer ayurvedic treatment in its purest form and come out with…
www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, ENGLAND, July 24, 2008: Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person’s ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in Friday’s Lancet by researchers from Imperial College London. Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their…