www.ndtv.com JAMMU, INDIA, June 18, 2006: Bad weather has forced organizers to stall the Amarnath yatra (pilgrimage), and many say, with time running out and low budgets, they may just have to give the visit to the Amarnath shrine a miss. It’s taken Narain Singh and Baya Lal, the two best of friends, two-and-a-half months to walk to Jammu from…
epaper.hindustantimes.com DELHI, INDIA, June 18, 2006: Contrary to the Pakistan government’s claim that the only Hindu temple in Lahore is safe, the country’s Minorities Welfare Council has said the Krishna temple has been demolished and got a stay from the High Court on the construction of a commercial building at the site. In a petition to the HC the council…
www.hinduamericanfoundation.org WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 15, 2006) – The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) bemoaned the destruction of the last Hindu temple in Lahore, Pakistan. At the time of the partition of India in 1947 Lahore was known as one of the centers of culture and cosmopolitanism. Soon thereafter its great artists, musicians, and its Hindu and Sikh populations either moved voluntarily…
www.uniindia.com SRINIGAR, INDIA, June 16, 2006: (HPI note: There is also a report in the Times of India that the ice Siva Lingam which normally forms naturally each year in the cave at this pilgrimage destination has failed to form this year. Apparently this fact has been withheld from pilgrims who are only now becoming aware of it.) Heavy rains…
www.uniindia.com CHANDIGARH, INDIA, June 13, 2006: Arya Samaj leader and former MP Swami Indervesh died in Rohtak district town of Haryana last night. He was 76. Swami Indervesh, who has remained associated with Arya Sabha, Haryana, and Sarvadeshik Arya Yuvak Parishad, breathed his last in the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Research (PGIMR). Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has expressed…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 18, 2006: Saturn will hug Mars on Sunday night in a celestial embrace astronomers term conjunction. While skywatchers prepare for a visual feast, astrologers are calling it a disastrous encounter. Soothsayers have warned that the conjunction is bound to upset the usual order of things. For instance, Brazil, scheduled to play against Australia in a…
www.sun-sentinel.com UNITED STATES, June 14, 2006: (HPI note: A report from India on June 16 states that several doctors were arrested for sex selection procedures, which is a crime in India. It is a crime in India is to selectively abort a child after determining its gender through ultrasound scans. The process described below involves making a determination at the…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHANDIGARH, INDIA, June 17, 2006: For the Indian states which have been able to control sex-determination tests through ultrasound, a new US-patented gender testing kit — available over the Internet — which enables sex-determination as early as five weeks after conception will spell more troubles. The kit costs US$275 and involves sending a blood sample to a US laboratory…
www.dailypioneer.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, June 8, 2006: The controversy over the use of a genetically modified seed called BT cotton has escalated. Agriculture ministers from seven states that grow cotton met in Hyderabad to discuss the use of the seed. Andhra Pradesh has been negotiating with Monsanto, the company importing the seed into India, to reduce the price of the Bt…
www.zeenews.com CHENNAI, INDIA, June 10, 2006: the Tamil Nadu government today set up a seven-member committee, headed by retired judge of the Madras High Court Justice A. K. Rajan, to design the curriculum for training and prescribe guidelines to implement its decision to appoint persons from any caste as temple priests. The committee, which would prescribe age and educational qualification…