GO TO SOURCE AHMEDABAD, INDIA, March 17, 2002: In a major breakthrough in the Godhra case, police arrested the main accused Haji Bilal Ismail Sujela, a municipal councillor of the Congress party, who had been absconding since the incident which claimed 58 lives on February 27, taking the total number of arrests so far to 28. Bilal was arrested by…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND., March 14, 2002: An Indian botanist with a passion for converting the tough, traditionally useless leaves of the sugar cane plant into fuel has won the world’s largest renewable energy and conservation prize and a cool US$50,000 to fund his work in rural Maharashtra. Within hours of winning the Ashden Awards, Pune-based botanist Dr. A.…
GO TO SOURCE PUERTO RICO, March 17, 2002: Visvanatha Sundararajan, “source” above, sends the following news items from Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean. 1) Swami Yogatmananda, of the Vedanta Society at Providence, Rhode Island, USA, is touring Puerto Rico for three days from March 23 to 26, giving lectures and conducting puja in the center to honor…
GO TO SOURCE PETALING JAYA, MALAYSIA, March 16, 2002: Malaysian Indian Congress president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu yesterday asked temple managements, especially the smaller ones, not to oppose government efforts to relocate temples to alternate sites nearby. He said the MIC was facing difficulty in convincing some of the smaller temples to move. “Being difficult will only make life…
Source: Hindu Press International USA, March 16, 2002: HPI reader Mira Goshal complained to CNN about their “Crossfire” program on the McDonald’s beef- tainted fries issue. She wrote to CNN, “I watch your program almost every night and I enjoy it immensely. In this case, I feel that you hurt my feelings and the religious principles of many of your…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 17, 2002: The New York Times continues with nearly an article every edition on the pedophile scandal within the Catholic Church. Some excerpts from today’s long article. “In a financial settlement reached earlier this year, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland agreed to pay the equivalent of $110 million to compensate thousands…
GO TO SOURCE AYODHYA, INDIA, March 15, 2002: Hindus in India have held a peaceful ceremony in Ayodhya, as a massive security operation largely forestalled a feared eruption in religious violence. The acceptance of the stones by the authorities in Ayodhya today means that the process of establishing the temple here has begun. Up to 3,000 people — the numbers…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 15, 2002: Swami Agnivesh issued the following press release today, “In one of the worst-ever outbreaks of communal violence in the country, hundreds of lives were lost and Muslim houses and business establishments have been totally destroyed. It is not enough to denounce or feel sorry for this communal madness. Our compassion for…
GO TO SOURCE March 3, 2002: A recent article by Martin H. Teicher, in the March, 2002, issue of Scientific American, states that maltreatment at an early age can have enduring negative effects on a child’s brain development and function. Exposure to early stress generates molecular and neurobiological effects that alter neural development in an adaptive way that prepares the…
GO TO SOURCE AYODHYA, INDIA, March 14, 2002: Indian security forces have put on a massive show of strength in Ayodhya as Hindus prepare to hold special prayers at a disputed holy site in defiance of a Supreme Court ban. More than 2,000 police and paramilitary troops marched through the northern town, hours after a senior Hindu leader vowed that…