www.newkerala.com SONEPUR, ORISSA, INDIA, April 7, 2006: A total of 913 persons from 150 families were reconverted from Christianity to Hinduism in a religious ceremony at Kandumunda village in Orissa’s Sonepur district, RSS sources said today. Families from 16 villages of Sonepur, Bargarh and Balangir districts were reconverted, Binoy Bhuyan, Pradesh Pramukh of the Dharma Jagaran Samiti, an affiliate of…
www.indiawest.com HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA, April 8, 2006: Captivating the audience with his solo performance using both song and speech, Shekhar Sen was able to portray Swami Vivekananda’s life in a two-hour performance at Chabot Community College. Dressed in simple orange robes and a Rajasthani-style turban characteristic of Swami Vivekananda’s attire, Sen has dedicated his career to play writing, and the article…
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…
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…