www.thejakartapost.com PELABUHAN RATU, INDONESIA, August 6, 2006: Here is a little taste of the Island of Gods. Priests in white, colorful offerings and vigorous dancers created a Balinese ambience on Java’s southern coast last week, as the local Hindu community carried out the Pakelem ceremony at Pelabuhan Ratu. Hundreds of Hindus from Greater Jakarta, West Java, Banten and Bali took…
www.pantagraph.com BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, August 5, 2006: More than 100 Midwest youth are spending time studying Hindu values and practices while canoeing, doing arts and crafts and generally having fun at the Hindu Heritage Camp at Lake Bloomington’s’ East Bay Camp. The Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh, founded in 1925 in India, is the camp’s sponsoring group. In the United States, about 100…
www.thepeninsulaqatar.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, August 6, 2006: Nepal plans to seize lands owned by King Gyanendra and other royal family members and distribute them to the poor as it moves toward treating the monarch like a “normal citizen,” a minister said yesterday. Legislation limiting the amount of property the king can hold will be drafted once an inventory of royal properties…
p class=”source”a HREF=”http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/aug/04jk.htm”in.rediff.com/a/p p class=”summary”KASHMIR, INDIA, August 4, 2006: Following the eruption of violence in 1989, wedding customs here underwent some modification. Processions that were traditionally held at night and the celebratory firecrackers were discontinued because of the military tensions. However, after a 16-year hiatus, the traditional wedding celebrations have returned. Recently, however, the marriage season has just begun, and…
www.ndtv.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, August 3, 2006: Ganesha Chaturthi is around the corner and Hyderabad is flooded with Ganesha icons of all sizes. This year items that go into making the icons have become costly. The 10-foot icon for example will cost US$150.00 which is around 20 percent more than last year. “We would get powder, plaster-of-paris, kerosene for cheap earlier.…
www.sdbatish.com SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, August 4, 2006: It is with great sadness the Batish Family announces the passing of Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish on July 29, 2006, at the age of 91. Hindu funeral rites were held on August 2 in Santa Cruz. S. D. Batish was a stalwart on the Indian music scene since 1936. His songs were broadcast…
epaper.timesofindia.com INDIA, July 30, 2006: The Arya Vaisya Chettiyar Community is fatally allergic to anesthesia. Mysteriously, this condition has been reported in Germany too, setting researchers on a controversial racial trail, reports T.S. Sreenivasa Raghavan. In several hospitals in Tamil Nadu, before administering anesthesia, doctors ask patients for their caste. It has been discovered that members of the Arya Vaisya…
Punjab Kesar NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 4, 2006: A debate arose in Delhi about the proper day to celebrate Janamashtami. The national general secretary of the Sanatan Dharam Sammelan, Shri R.N. Vats announced, “There are no differences with regard to the celebration of Shri Krishna Janamashtami. Some people try to celebrate festivals on different dates without any reason.” Shri Vats…
www.deccan.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, August 1, 2006: With the Andhra Pradesh High Court maintaining a tough position on immersion of icons in Hussainsagar, the Ganesh Utsav Committee has decided to go in for bio-degradable paints for the icons this year. The committee has asked the State government to provide them with a separate place near the NTR Marg and Tank Bund…
www.ndtv.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2006: The Center of Science and Environment on Wednesday claimed that 11 leading soft drink brands have pesticide residue. According to the CSE, soft drinks available in India have a cocktail of three to six pesticides. In a study of 57 random samples of 11 soft drink brands from 25 different manufacturing plants of…