GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 7, 2002: World Bank Vice-President, Gobind T. Nankani, during a recent visit to monitor World Bank-aided poverty reduction projects, praised India for its efforts in poverty reduction. However, he felt the country had to do more toward more effective program implementation. The two striking features of the poverty reduction programs in India today,…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 1, 2002: Established in August, 2001, the National Commission for Cattle has recently submitted a 1,500-page report to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee advocating that cow slaughter be put to a stop in India. Presently, beef forms part of many peoples’ diet and is a lucrative export product along with cow leather. Statistically,…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 11, 2002: Naag Panchami, a festival for the worship of snakes, is gradually becoming the cause of their death. Snakes are often captured in suffocating bags, kept in tiny dark boxes, and given no food or water so that they can drink the milk offered on the holy day which falls this year…
GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, August 8, 2002: When the State Department issued a travel advisory on May 31 warning Americans to leave India because the war prospects had risen to “serious levels,” global firms like Nortel Networks, Reebok, Sony, American Express, HSBC and GE Capital, who had moved their back rooms to Bangalore went nuts, according to this opinion…
A HREF=”http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/Mei/22.5/leisure1.htm”GO TO SOURCE/A/P P BANGALORE, INDIA, May 22, 2002: While HPI usually abstains from reporting on its own Kauai home, others are doing so at an unusual pace these days. This report is just one of several recent ones. It states that more than 80 sculptors in India have given up smoking, drinking and eating meat while they carve…
GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, D.C., August 8, 2002: Possibly more than two million Hindus in America, from India, Africa, Caribbean, Fiji and native-born, now celebrate Deepavali (Diwali), the festival of lights, each year at the end of October or the beginning of November. Backed by these numbers from a 2000 census, Gary Ackerman, top Democrat on the House International Relations…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, August 7, 2002: The Prime Minister’s dream project of building a golden quadruple around Lucknow received a set back on Tuesday when 400-plus schoolchildren stood in the way of bulldozers, all set to raze three acres of green belt to ground near Gomtinagar railway station. The schoolchildren fought a battle of wits all day with…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, August 11, 2002: Bestowing high recognition on Indian music, Trinity College, London has tied up with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan to provide a degree course in Indian music. The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Dartington College of Music have also shown interest in collaborating with the music Department of the Bhavan and Pandit Ravi Shankar has…
A HREF=”http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=18605523″GO TO SOURCE/A/P P PATNA, INDIA, August 10, 2002: Want money? Praying for health? Having trouble in your marital life? Driven by anxieties and apprehensions of modern lifestyle, Patnaites are now trying to find one-stop solutions to their problems in ancient practices of Vastu Shastra and Feng Shui. Feng Shui, a Chinese set of principles of spatial arrangement and…
Source: Hindu Press International KAUAI, HAWAII, August 10, 2002: An important TV documentary on the Iraivan Temple carving site in Bangalore is to be shown in India, and we urge you to watch, and to tell others as well. Called “India’s Gift to the West,” the massive all-stone granite temple is being carved in Bangalore and shipped to Hawaii where…