GO TO SOURCE JAMMU, INDIA, November 27, 2002: The Raghunath Temple, which had been closed after the latest terrorist attack, as been reopened to devotees following a purification ceremony. The ceremony started at 10 a.m. and continued until 2:30 p.m. Renowned pandits of Jammu, Bihari Lal, Mool Raj Shastri, Surinder Shastri and Kewal Krishan Shastri, performed the ceremony. A portion…
GO TO SOURCE JAMMU, INDIA, November 26, 2002: An already suffering tourism industry in Jammu and Kashmir has been dealt a blow by Sunday’s temple attack that left 13 people dead. In the winter capital, Jammu, frightened tourists scrambled for tickets at the city’s railway station. Many of them had come to offer prayers at the Vaishno Devi shrine, and…
GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, November 26, 2002: Armed police have been deployed at all major temples in Tamil Nadu in the wake of last Sunday’s terrorist attack in the Raghunath Temple in Jammu. Armed guards frisked devotees entering the Lord Kapaleewswar temple and the Lord Parthasarathy temple, among others, in Chennai. Security was also tightened at temples and major…
Source: NDTV.com JAMMU, INDIA, November 26, 2002: Having survived two attacks this year, the 200-year-old Raghunath Temple stands out as an example of resilience in the heart of Jammu. Though the temple itself will be reopened to the public tomorrow, the situation in the city is still unstable. A curfew imposed in Jammu in the aftermath of the attack has…
Source: New Straits Times Berhad KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 19, 2002: Some of the world’s leading thinkers on globalization, philosophers and interfaith communicators came together at a conference in Genting Highlands, November 25 to 27. Participants in the three-day meeting, entitled “The Challenge of Globalization: Towards a Shared Universal Spiritual and Moral Ethic,” included former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, Indian…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 24, 2002: Temples in the New Delhi area have been put on high alert after terrorists stormed into the Raghunath Temple in Jammu on Sunday evening. Security at all religious places and important government installations across the nation has been stepped up and is especially tight around 50 or so major temples in…
GO TO SOURCE ATTAPADI, INDIA, November 22, 2002: Mudda Moopan doesn’t know how old he is — not that he cares. What he does know is that he has married 23 times, fathered too many children to remember, has had the distinction of meeting both the first President of India and the latest, and that he still feels young. Mudda…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 20, 2002: The results of a survey on the prevalence of the dowry system, conducted by the All-India Democratic Women’s Association, was presented on September 1 and 2 at a two-day national workshop. Previously the dowry system was only thought to be a problem in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, but…
GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA, November 24, 2002: The Editors Guild sent a team on a fact-finding mission on the riots in Gujarat and the role of the media. The team consisted of B. G. Verghese (a columnist), Dileep Padgaonkar (Executive Managing Editor, The Times of India) and Aakar Patel (Editor, Mid-Day, Mumbai), all respected members of the English language…
GO TO SOURCE KATMANDU, NEPAL, November 26, 2002: The violent Maoist insurgency in Nepal has killed thousands of people, devastated the economy and is now threatening the Himalayan Kingdom’s precious forests, officials say. Guards cannot protect forests from illegal cutting of trees because they are worried about attacks by Maoist rebels, and the government is unable to dedicate enough funds…