India, A Bountiful Market for Cigarette Companies

www.washingtonpost.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 24, 2008: Lounging in a smoke-filled cafe, Purvi Ahuja, 20, and her hip friends like their text messages to be fast, their cappuccinos to be milky and their cigarettes to be plentiful. “I know it’s so bad. My skin is even gross, my lips are black because of it,” sighed Ahuja, her ashtray filled with…

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Daily Inspiration

www.hinduismtoday.com “Lead me in the center of thy silence to fill my heart with songs.” Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) celebrated Bengali writer who won the Nobel Prize Literature in 1913.   

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Native Village Welcomes Mauritius Prime Minister

www.ndtv.com BIHAR, INDIA, February 20, 2008: Mauritius PM Navinchandra Ramgoolam arrived on Tuesday at his ancestral village in Bihar’s Bhojpur district. Ramgoolam delivered a brief speech and expressed his gratitude to the waiting crowd, where he laid foundation stones of many development projects. On Monday, the Mauritius PM had announced $250,000 for the development of roads and a hospital there.…

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The Oldest Functional Hindu Temple In the World?

www.sarvesamachar.com BIHAR, INDIA, January 23, 2008: The Ma Mundeshwari Temple in Kaimur District, Bihar, has been reported as having been built in 108 CE. Since then rituals and worship have been taking place at the temple without a break, possibly making it the oldest functional temple in the world. It is situated atop the Kaimur Hill and built in an…

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Low Calorie Indian Cookbook For Health Conscious Britons

www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, UK, February 21, 2008: Health-conscious Britons can now dig into rich and spicy curries without guilt as a cookbook of Indian cuisine featuring low calorie recipes is being distributed free to doctor’s clinics. Written by Sudhesh Kumar, a professor of Medicine at the Warwick University, the curries are low on salt and oil and retain their flavor with…

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Daily Inspiration

www.hinduismtoday O God of mercy who performs the dance of illimitable happiness in the hall of inconceivable intelligence! The Rig and the other Vedas are thundering forth in words, announcing to us that all are thy slaves, all things belong to thee, all actions are thine, that thou pervades everywhere, that this is thy nature. Such is the teaching of…

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The Oldest Functional Hindu Temple In the World?

www.sarvesamachar.com BIHAR, INDIA, January 23, 2008: The Ma Mundeshwari Temple in Kaimur District, Bihar, has been reported as having been built in 108 CE. Since then rituals and worship have been taking place at the temple without a break, possibly making it the oldest functional temple in the world. It is situated atop the Kaimur Hill and built in an…

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Tamil Brahmi Script Found in Egypt

www.ifpindia.org QUSEIR-AL-QADIM, EGYPT, February 20, 2008: A broken storage jar with inscriptions in an ancient form of Tamil script, dated to the first century BCE., has been excavated in Egypt. Dr. Roberta Tomber, a pottery specialist at the British Museum, London, identified the fragmentary vessel as a storage jar made in India. Iravatham Mahadevan, a specialist in Tamil epigraphy, has…

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www.hinduismtoday No fruit is too heavy for the tender vine. Similarly, a mother will always find some means to support her child.    Tamil Proverb

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Native Village Welcome Mauritius Prime Minister

www.ndtv.com BIHAR, INDIA, February 20, 2008: Mauritius PM Navinchandra Ramgoolam arrived on Tuesday at his ancestral village in Bihar’s Bhojpur district. Ramgoolam delivered a brief speech and expressed his gratitude to the waiting crowd, where he laid foundation stones of many development projects. On Monday, the Mauritius PM had announced US$250,000 for the development of roads and a hospital there.…

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