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…
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…
Religion News Service PORTLAND, OREGON, August 9, 2007: If you wanted to be crass about it, you might explain River View Cemetery’s dilemma this way: People just aren’t dying to get in there anymore. They’re still dying, of course. But more and more, particularly on the West Coast, consumers are choosing cremation over burial. That slow, steady change in the…
www.time.com UNITED STATES, August 7, 2007: The claim always seemed too good to be true: park your infant in front of a video and, in no time, he or she will be talking and getting smarter than the neighbor’s kid. In the latest study on the effects of popular videos such as the “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby” series, researchers…
www.hinduonnet.com TIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, August 5, 2007: A record 50 million people are expected to visit the Sabarimala temple during the three-month pilgrimage season starting in mid-November, Kerala’s Devaswom Minister G. Sudhakaran said. Addressing a meeting of heads of departments to discuss arrangements for the pilgrimage Sudhakaran said detailed plans should be worked out well in advance for its smooth conduct.…