www.newkerala.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 12, 2006: Two new genetic studies have disputed long-held beliefs that pastoral central Asian people brought agriculture to India and contributed heavily to the genetic make-up of modern Indian populations. The central Asian people who migrated to India included the Aryans who began arriving around 3,500 years ago. The studies by scientists in Calcutta with…
www.hinduamericanfoundation.org SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, January 12, 2006: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has retained the law firm of Olson, Hagel and Fishburn, LLP of Sacramento, California to represent the Foundation in its interactions with the California State Board of Education (SBE). The SBE is currently considering a determination of the California Curriculum Commission that several edits and corrections of textbooks regarding…
www.sunysb.edu STONY BROOK, NEW YORK, January 11, 2006: State University of New York at Stony Brook The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies invites applications for an assistant professor, tenure-track, in Hinduism/Cultural History of India to start Fall 2006. Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D and expert knowledge of Hinduism and the Cultural History of India. A solid grounding…
epaperdaily.timesofindia MUMBAI, INDIA, January 7, 2006: The Siddhivinayak temple in Prabhadevi wants to ban offerings by devotees because the temple management thinks the act of offering prasad and taking it back after Ganapati has blessed it is time-consuming and creates problems in crowd management. The number of devotees coming to Siddhivinayak temple every year has increased to 10 million. If…
www.chennaionline.com KUMBAKONAM, INDIA, January 9, 2006: (HPI note: To put this article in context, realize that the government of Tamil Nadu runs the temples where these priests work.) Temple priests in Tamil Nadu today demanded 50 per cent of the collections through offerings made by devotees and urged the government to fix their share on a monthly basis. The Tamil…
www.breitbart.com INDIA, January8, 2006: Around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys which cuts across all India’s religions, according to a study published online in The Lancet. Researchers based in Canada and India looked through data from a national survey, conducted…
www.devimandir.com TORONTO, CANADA, January 6, 2006: The Devi Mandir here announced their revamped website: “Welcome to the completely redesigned website for the Devi Mandir! With this new design comes a host of new features and content to better serve you, our loyal visitors. Aside from our regular news coming out of the Devi Mandir, we now have a section dedicated…
www.dnaindia.com KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, January 6, 2006: Sikh and Hindu communities here no more have to agonize over finding a place to cremate their dead – a funeral ground vandalized by the Taliban has been restored to them. The Afghan government has given back the possession of the cremation ground in downtown Kabul to the two communities after getting encroachments removed…
news.independent.co.uk LONDON, UK, January 2, 2006: Standing in the courtyard of the Sri Mahalakshmi Hindu temple in east London, a dozen jobless doctors are eating dhal, rice and potatoes off paper plates. Wrapped against the cold, they come here each evening when the temple serves free food. They are among thousands of overseas doctors who have flocked to Britain in…
NDTV CHENNAI, INDIA, January 4, 2006: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s offer of “Annadhanam,” or free meal scheme, has divided the Christian churches in the state. While the Protestants have welcomed the extension of the daily feeding program to seven churches after Hindu temples and dargahs (Sufi saint shrines), the Catholic Bishops Council wants it stopped. They feel that…