www.dailymail.co.uk UNITED STATES, March 6, 2007: The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production. The laboratory-created rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva. Its U.S. developers say they could be used to treat children with diarrhoea, a major killer in the Third World. The rice is…
www.chron.com RICHMOND, HOUSTON, March 6, 2007: Swati Verma looked like she was the loser of a paint ball competition on Sunday afternoon. Orange and purple powders were splattered all over the 16-year-old Memorial High School student’s clothes. Red and yellow coated her hair and inside her ears. She wasn’t on the wrong end of a paint fight, but celebrating Holi,…
Anantha Krishnan, Hinduism Today correspondent, Chennai CHENNAI, INDIA, March 7, 2007: The spacious hall is packed to the brim, in fact overflows, and the singer on stage casting a spell on the audience with his high-pitched voice that stirs responses rarely seen in a concert hall. Yes, it is December in Chennai, the southern-most city in India, when the strains…
www.hindustantimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, March 3, 2007: In one of world’s biggest devotional congregations of women, thousands performed the Pongal ritual at the famous Attukal Devi temple in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. The entire city became a virtual sea of women when, cutting across caste, class and even religious barriers, women converged to cook the prasadam of rice and jaggery in fresh…
President@svtsydney.org SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, March 6, 2007: Sri Venkateshwara Temple, Helensburgh, south of Sydney, Australia, will be celebrating Sri Rama Navami on Sunday, April 1, 2007 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm as a major festival including Hindus of all origins or nationalities. Sydney has a broad populations of Hindus from India, Fiji, South Africa, Bali (Indonesia), Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nepal,…
www.parmarth.com RISHIKESH, INDIA, March 6, 2007: The annual International Yoga Festival, organized jointly by the Uttrakhand Tourism and Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, is taking place from March 1- 7, and was officially inaugurated in a beautiful ceremony performed the hands of the Honorable Governor of Uttrakhand, H.E. Shri Sudarshan Agarwal. This years’ festival includes almost 350 delegates from 38…
sify.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 24, 2007: A packet of samosas she carried with her to space having already made news, astronaut Sunita Williams on Saturday said she would like to have more Indian food aboard the International Space Station. Interacting with students of a Delhi school in a “tele-bridge talk,” Sunita, who is half-Indian, said she was having Indian…
www.timesofindia.com PURI, INDIA, March 3, 2007: After more than 18 hours of debate, the food cooked for approximately 7,000 devotees at Puri’s Jagannath Temple was thrown away on Friday. A number of priests had insisted the prasadam (food blessed by the Deity) be discarded because it had been defiled by the entry of an American non-Hindu into the temple. The…
www.hindustantimes.com INDIA, February 16, 2007: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar addresses the plight of the Dalits in India. Some of the highlights expressed by Ravi Shankar are, “Dalits allowed inside temples in Bhilwara and Jagannath Temple in Orissa is a welcome development. Places of worship should be open to all communities and religions. Moving away from Hinduism and converting to other…
www.zeenews.com LONDON, ENGLAND, February 19, 2007: A survey conducted by BBC World Service where approximately 1,000 people in 27 countries were asked three questions about the world they live in produced optimistic results. The news release explains, “Most of the people surveyed in 27 countries do not accept that the world is locked in a ‘clash of civilizations’ that will…