inwww.rediff.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, April 9, 2006: Renowned spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living, has expressed his readiness to meet Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran to facilitate the peace process. Sri Sri, whose four-day visit to Sri Lanka ended Sunday, stated this while answering a question at a public event in the northern town…
inwww.rediff.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 8, 2006: The ministry of overseas Indian affairs’ (MOIA) effort to help persons of Indian origin (PIOs) abroad trace their antecedents in the land of their forefathers has started bearing fruit with the roots of eight people being traced in the district of Ballia in Uttar Pradesh. A meeting held here reviewed the progress in…
www.hinduamericanfoundation.org WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 2006: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) Board of Directors retained Ms. Ishani Chowdhury of Washington D.C. as its first full-time Executive Director last week. Leaving her previous employment as a Lead Project Manager at a Washington, D.C. based software firm, Chowdhury takes over most major administrative, public relations and fundraising coordination tasks at HAF. In…
www.deccan.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, April 7, 2006: (HPI note: In past centuries, most Hindu temples and ashrams were provided with land endowments to cover their operating expenses. Many temples and ashrams still retain these lands. However they have had increasing difficulty defending their ownership from squatters and land grabbers or even collecting rents due. The solution explained below — which likely…
www.punjabkesari.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, Six Harkat-Ul-Jehad Al Islami (Huji) militants, including the mastermind behind the Varanasi blasts, had hatched a conspiracy to blow up the two Hanuman temples in the city on Ramnavami, state police’s Special Task Force sources said today. A map of the city had been recovered from the possession of militants, who were arrested yesterday, marking the spots…
www.zeenews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, April 9, 2006: HPI note: This report is a comprehensive analysis by Arunava Biswas of Nepal’s political situation. Following is the introduction: As violence and protests mount against Nepal’s monarchy, the streets of Kathmandu are resounding with a question: Does this Himalayan kingdom need a tyrant king? A commoner in Kathmandu said, “Earlier we had put our…
www.kantipuronline.com BIRGUNJ, April 7 – King Gyanendra has said Hinduism, which dates back to the beginning of civilization itself, embraces the high ideals of tolerance and “Vasudaiva kutumbakam” or universal fraternity, in which ideals lies the strength in the relations amongst various faiths in this Hindu Kingdom. The King made this remark while addressing the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the…
singhuks@hotmail.com MAPLE GROVE, MINNESOTA, USA, April 7, 2006: The following press release was received from Umesh Singh, “source”, of the board of trustees of the Hindu Society of Minnesota. On the night of April 5, 2006, the new temple being constructed in Maple Grove by the Hindu Society of Minnesota was vandalized. Vandals broke in to the 43,000 square feet…
www.cbc.ca CANADA, April 6, 2006: Three men convicted of planning to bomb a Hindu temple in Toronto more than a decade ago were deported on Wednesday. Barry Adams, Amir Mohammed Ahmed and Abdul Baqqer were arrested in 1991 while crossing the border from the United States. They were convicted in 1994 of conspiring to bomb a temple and an East…
tinyurl.com April 7, 2006: An unusual resource is available for download in PDF form at “source.” It is a 188-page catalog of Indus Valley seals and inscriptions, running about forty items per page. In addition to the seals are pottery pieces, index of known signs and various commentaries. The photos of the seals are relatively high resolution. We’re not aware…