beta.ph.news.yahoo.com PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, June 5, 2008: The United States will donate nearly US$1 million for conservation of the centuries-old Bakheng temple, a famous cultural icon in Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex, the embassy said in a statement Wednesday. It said the US$978,705 will be given to the nonprofit World Monuments Fund, a New York-based archaeological group that has been doing…
www.cnn.com LONDON, ENGLAND, June 1, 2008: Jyoti is the Hindi word for light. It’s something Pranav Mehta has never had to live without. And he is lucky. Near where he lives in Gujarat, one of the most prosperous states in India, thousands of rural villages lack electricity or struggle with an intermittent supply at best. “Rural India is suffering a…
www.hinduismtoday.com If our country is to produce robust, intellectual, and long-lived children who believe in God, we must, in my humble opinion, learn ways to control our sense organs. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, from his book, Yoga Mala
www.thaindian.com LAHORE, PAKISTAN May 26: Most students in Pakistan are surprisingly keen to learn about Hinduism, despite the hostility that has prevailed between their country and India in the previous sixty years. According to Dr. Maureen Korp, an art critic and a religious studies scholar based in Canada who received her doctorate from the University of Ottawa, the students in…
www.ifiw.org USA, May 31, 2008: The Ramayan Podcast is an episodic reading in English of Sri Ramacharitramanas (The Lake of Exploits of Shri Ram), written by Saint Tulsidasji. The episodes are approximately 30 minutes long and are posted several times a month. Episode 19 is currently in production, and all episodes are available for free. The Ramayan Podcast can be…
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www.hinduvoice.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, June 1, 2008: The Hindu Voice’s May newsletter is now available online. This month’s edition has informative and provocative pieces that are generating a good deal of online discussion. Several timely and important pieces include a story on Dilip Lakhani, recently appointed the first Hindu tutor at Eton College, Tibet’s recent human rights struggles with the Chinese…
indiapost.com NEW YORK, May 31, 2008: The Staten Island Hindu temple celebrated the Prana Pratistha, a ceremony during which the consecration of the Hindu deities Sri Shiva and Parvati, Sri Karthikeya, Durga Mata, Lakshmi Mata, Saraswati Mata, Sri Radha Krishna and Sri Hanumanji at the temple in a three-day ceremony, from May 23 to 25. This marks the third stage…
howrah.org LUCKNOW, INDIA, May 22, 2008: Sadhus, saints and religious leaders in Varanasi will embark on a new mission from next week. These religious leaders will perform shramdan (voluntary labour) to clean up the Ganga river in the holy city. Led by Swami Avimukteshwaranand, a representative of Shankaracharya of Jyotis and Sharda-Dwarka Peeth Swami and Swarupanand Saraswati, they will start…
www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, May 20, 2008: When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong. Instead, the research finds, the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a…