www.nytimes.com UNITED STATES, June 25, 2006: This month Whole Foods announced that it would no longer sell live lobsters, saying that keeping them in crammed tanks for long periods doesn’t demonstrate a proper concern for animal welfare. The Chicago City Council recently outlawed the sale of foie gras to protest the force-feeding of the ducks and geese that yield it.…
vicharak@gmail.com ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA, June 27, 2006: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad issued the following press release on the First Hindu Mandir Executives Conference: Hindu Mandir (Temple) Executives representing 57 temples from more than 20 states of US, Canada and Caribbean Islands converged in Atlanta to attend the first ever Hindu Mandir Executive conference (HMEC), from June 23 through June 25.…
www.zeenews.com SRINIGAR, INDIA, June 25, 2006: After the furor over alleged tampering of the Shivalingam, the Amarnath head priest has kicked up a row in retrospect regarding the date for commencement of the annual pilgrimage to the cave shrine. Amarnath head priest and custodian of Lord Siva’s holy mace Mahant Deependra Giri says he will visit Varanasi and Hardwar and…
www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, June 26, 2006: The July-August-September edition of Hinduism Today magazine has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. This issue of Hinduism’s flagship spiritual magazine contains great insights into parenting, a million-man Siva festival, detailed counsel on how to run a Hindu temple in the US, plus an update to…
www.crazyhorse.org CUSTER, SOUTH DAKOTA, June 26, 2006: There’s a project akin to the famous Kailasanatha Temple in India being produced here in South Dakota. In 1948, a sculptor named Korczak Ziolkowski began carving a 600-foot high mountain into a statue of the famed Indian warrior Crazy Horse. He was one of the last Sioux tribe leaders, and noted for defeating…
english.aljazeera.net MALAYSIA, June 21, 2006: The destruction of Hindu temples by Malaysian authorities is inflaming religious tensions. Rights groups and politicians say that anger is growing among the county’s minority Hindu community as temples, many of historic value, are bulldozed at the rate of at least one every few weeks to make way for new developments. Hindu groups have appealed…
www.ochs.org.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, June 21, 2006: Oxford University has granted the status of Recognized Independent Centre to the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS) – the world’s leading centre for the study of Hindu traditions. OCHS is the younger of the first two institutions to be granted this status by Oxford University. It comes after just seven years of teaching,…
www.ndtv.com CHENNAI, INDIA, June 22, 2006: (HPI note: There is also a major movement on in the US to similarly eliminate junk food sales in schools.) A survey group will investigate food products available at canteens in private schools across Chennai. The move comes in the wake of a government circular, which says colas, fries, chips and chocolates should be…
www.anoopam-mission.org COPLAY, PENNSYLVANIA, May 14, 2006: Anoopam Mission is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a Shrimad Bhagwat Katha Gnanyagna (“Bhagwat Saptah”) from July 17 to July 23, 2006 at its temple located in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, just north of Allentown. The Bhagwat Saptah will consist of week-long discourses on the Shrimad Bhagwat by Pujyashree Bhupendrabhai Pandya,…
www.ibnlive.com BANGKOK, THAILAND, June 21, 2006: (HPI note: Thailand doesn’t have a team in the World Cup, only Japan and South Korea participated from Asia, and both were eliminated in the first round. India’s hired a new coach, Englishman Bob Houghton, with the hopes of making it to the World Cup in 2010. The Thailand government estimates the country has…