www.dailyindia.com TIRUPATI, INDIA, July 19, 2006: After allegations were made that employees at Lord Venkateswara temple may be assisting Christians in their evangelical activities within the temple compound, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam which manages the temple ordered all 10,000 employees to start wearing the Tilak on their forehead. Even though the TTD conducted an investigation into the allegations and found…
www.usatoday.com ALBANY, NEW YORK, July 21, 2006: Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian — each faith has its holy days and schools across the country are asking how to respect them all. Consider the University at Albany, New York, which canceled classes on major Muslim holidays. The faculty wanted the move out of concern for Muslim students after the…
www.organiser.org TIRUPATI, INDIA, July 17, 2006: The controversial government order issued by the Andrha Pradesh State Government reportedly restricting the jurisdiction of the Tirumala Temple (TTD) to only 4 square miles around the shrine snowballed into such a major controversy that the sadhus and saints, and a number of pro-active Hindu organizations on Saturday converged in Tirupati to demand the…
www.gorkhapatra.org.np KATHMANDU, NEPAL, July 11, 2006: Guru Purnima, traditionally known as the day when a devotee honors their spiritual guru, takes on a different flavor in Kathmandu by honoring teachers. “Every year Guru Purnima (Teachers Day) is celebrated on the full moon day in the third week of Asad, the day when Lord Gautam Buddha imparted his sermons to his…
www.organiser.org CHENNAI, INDIA, June 26, 2006: In an event organized by Swami Dayanand Saraswathiji for the media, Swami recognized the problems that the media has in covering items pertinent to the Hindu dharma, tradition and culture. He also asked them to report the news in such a way that they are champions for the Hindu Dharma. Swami specifically addressed the…
www.chinmayabakersfield.org BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, July 9, 2006: The Chinmaya Mission Worldwide celebrated another milestone on July 9, 2006 with the opening of Chinmaya Mission Bakersfield. It now has 243 mission centers around the globe. The mission activities were originally started in India in 1951 by Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda. After attaining his Mahasamadhi in 1993, the mission has been carried forward by…
www.rudrakshya.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, JULY 21, 2006: Rudraksya, a superb Odissi dance troupe with nine dancers and five musicians, is presently on tour through 26 cities in North America. As a part of their West Coast appearances, they performed for the Asian Tsunami and Earthquake Benefit event for over two and a half hours in Eugene, Oregon. The audience was…
www.kintera.org WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2006: Weinstein, 51, was once a White House lawyer who defended the Reagan administration during the Iran-contra investigation. Three generations of his family — his father, himself, both of his sons and a daughter-in-law — have gone to U.S. military academies. Now he’s declaring war against what, for him, is an improbable enemy: the defense…
www.yogaindailylifeus.org WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22, 2006: His holiness Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda (known simply as Swamiji), a world-renowned spiritual leader and Mahamanadaleshwar of the Maha Nirvani Akhara, India; humanitarian, author, and founder of Yoga in Daily Life — the system, will bring his special insights, teachings, principles, and practices to the Washington, D.C., area September 9-10. A special evening program and…
inwww.rediff.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 16, 2006: A recently launched web portal by a group of young people in the US directs you to a video of a “Sholay” (a Bollywood blockbuster) skit and the “Aati Kya Khandala” Hindi film song–both in Sanskrit–that they performed at an Indian event in the US. This is one of the many new methods…