timesofindia.indiatimes.com PATNA, INDIA, August 12, 2007: Affairs of the 300-year-old Khaki Baba Ram Janki Thakurbari at Hilsa will now be managed by an all-Dalit trust. Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts administrator Kishore Kunal said it would be the country’s first all-Dalit trust for a temple. Kunal, who has launched a campaign to appoint Dalit priests in important temples with…
www.temoignages.re REUNION, FRANCE, April 14, 2007: (HPI note: Reunion is a overseas department [province or state] of France that is located off Africa in the Indian Ocean and near the country of Mauritius. It has a significant Hindu population. The interview was one by P. David, in collaboration with Kanal Indian Ocean, KOI FM Radio in Reunion. It was published…
www.hinducounciluk.org LONDON, ENGLAND, August 14, 2007: (Note: The following is a press release from the UK Hindu Council.) On February 13, 2007, without any legal authority, the local military administration proceeded to demolish the Sree Sree Bhabani Hindu Temple at Bhabhanipur sherpur in the district of Bogra. This demolition was even carried out against the judicial ruling given on 13…
vijaynarang1@gmail.com EDISON, NEW JERSEY, August 14, 2007: Hindu Temple Executives, representing 97 temples and Hindu Organizations from more than 25 states of US and Canada and Caribbean, converged in Edison, New Jersey, to attend the second Hindu Temple Executives Conference (HMEC), from August 10, 2007, through August 12, 2007. They traveled from as far as British Columbia in Canada, Hawaii,…
idahopress.com WASHINGTON, D.C., August 10, 2007: Idaho U.S. Congressional Representative Bill Sali has questioned a Hindu prayer that was offered to open the U.S. Senate last month. Sali is quoted on OneNewsNow.com that when a Hindu prayer is offered, “that’s a different god” and that it “creates problems for the longevity of this country.” Sali was not commenting on what…
news.bbc.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, August 13, 2007: Memoirs of a British civil servant never published until now show how much the partition of India was decided by just two men. In a quiet village in the northern English county of Yorkshire, Robert Beaumont rifles through his father’s archives. The various and somewhat tatty pieces of paper he unearths are no ordinary…
www.pib.nic.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 13, 2007: National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has directed to the State Governments to take effective steps to check incidents of corporal punishment in school. Expressing concern over recent incidents of violence in schools, the Chairman of the Commission, Smt. Shantha Sinha, in a letter to the chief Secretary of State Government/UT has…
www.indianexpress.com DELHI, INDIA, August 9, 2007: Dr. Karan Singh, son of the late Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir, has had a long career in academics and politics. He has been associated with the Congress since 1967, when he became a minister in then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s cabinet. A scholar on Hinduism and the founder of the Virat Hindu Sammelan,…
www.hindusangam.org.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, August 8, 2007: An ecumenical council bringing together Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and Taoists recently met with the Parliamentary Select Committee that represented the political parties in Malaysia to express their concerns over freedom of religion in Malaysia. The Council believes the “fundamental reason for our harmonious co-existence has been the mutual respect we display for…
www.hindu.com BEIJING, CHINA, August 9, 2007: After Bollywood films, classical Indian dance has caught the imagination of the Chinese, with a young woman actively promoting Bharatnatyam among her compatriots, especially the children. For 33-year-old Jin Shan Shan, a Jawaharlal Nehru University alumnus, it has always been a passion to become an exponent of Bharatnatyam, and she has established a school…