nation.ittefaq.com DHAKA, BANGLADESH, September 28, 2005: Elite-force RAB will deploy its total strength alongside other law-enforcers to provide a security blanket for the upcoming Durga Puja, the largest festival of the Hindu community, across the country. Some 8,000 members of the Rapid Action Battalion will be put on guard in some 22,000 Puja Mandaps (prayer podiums) and surrounding areas across…
www.trinidadexpress.com REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 29 September, 2005: For the first time in the history of Hinduism in Trinidad and Tobago the Shrawani Upakarma, a ceremony for the renewal of brahminical vows, was performed in public. For the past 160 years, this ceremony had been done in private. This year, on the day of the celebration of Raksha Bandhan,…
www.nytimes.com BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, September 28, 2005: In Britain’s schools, chocolate and chips will soon be history. The government announced plans Wednesday to ban school cafeterias from serving poor-quality hamburgers and hot dogs, and to outlaw vending machines selling soft drinks, chocolate bars and potato chips to students. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly told the annual conference of the governing Labor Party…
www.tompaine.com USA, September 28, 2005: The Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy is the president of The Interfaith Alliance, the national non-partisan advocacy voice of the interfaith movement. His article raises questions from the Christian community and others in the US regarding accepting government. It reads in part: Compounding the federal government’s stumbling and tragically inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina, now…
www.thehindubusinessline.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, 29 September, 2005: Infrastructure development has opened an unusual avenue for investors looking for long-term returns which could be around major pilgrim centres in the country. The first major pilgrim site slated for such development and environment management would be the Sabrimala Temple of Lord Shree Ayyappan, in Kerala. The total project cost, estimated at US$227…
in.rediff.com AUSTIN, TEXAS, September 29, 2005: Spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation Sri Sri Ravi Shankar visited Hurricane Katrina survivors, volunteers and public officials carrying out relief operation in Texas on September 27. Sri Sri was invited by Austin Mayor Will Wynn to meet with survivors of Hurricane Katrina, where the Art of Living and its…
Hindu University of America FLORIDA, USA, September 29, 2005: Jan Williem V. Van Doorn, student of Hindu University of America, has raised an interesting question in his master thesis titled, Master Painters in the Dutch Golden Age: A Study on Astrological Factors of Creativity and Innovation. Mr. Van Doorn asks, “What is it that the master painters in the Dutch…
www.nynewsday.com NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, September 29, 2005: Despite opposition from the Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City) administration, a City Council committee recently voted unanimously to approve legislation adding Diwali to the list of holidays while the full council will vote later on whether to suspend the parking rules for street cleaning for the popular Hindu holiday. (HPI adds:…
sify.com SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, September 27, 2005: Increasing numbers of Australia’s famously macho men are showing surprising metrosexual tendencies, ditching competitive exercise for the meditative calm of yoga. “We are getting the rugby players, the body builders, the gym junkie guys,” says yoga teacher Duncan Peak, a former parachute officer and first-grade rugby player. “He now comes in here and gets…
earth.google.com USA, September 29, 2005: It’s rare that our high-tech Hinduism Today and HPI offices get bowled over by a new web service. But you have to see Google Earth (“source”) to believe it. It’s rather difficult even to describe what this satellite photo-based digital globe can do. Like to visit Mt. Kailash in the Himalayas? Take your cursor, fly…