Source: Morning India Business News NEW DELHI, INDIA, Aug. 31, 2001: The Indian government said today it has not approved the commercial release of genetically engineered seeds in the country. All genetically modified seeds require authorization under the Environment Protection Act 1989 before they can be introduced into the Indian environment, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers S B…
GO TO SOURCE UNITED KINGDOM, Aug. 31, 2001: Britain has been targeted by determined foreigners with shocking intentions. They want to convert the British, who embraced Christianity 1,500 years ago, to Christianity. These 21st-century evangelists aren’t called reverse-missionaries, but that is what they are. Solomon Joseph, a Christian priest from south India, has been working in Bradford for the past…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, Sept. 1, 2001: A 12th-century stone inscription recovered from the debris of the disputed structure at Ayodhya could hold the key to the resolution of the temple-mosque imbroglio. The 20-line inscription comprising 30 verses in Sanskrit was found embedded in the lower portion of a wall of the structure that was demolished on December…
Source: Anil Mahabir, Trinidad NEW YORK, NEW YORK, September 5, 2001: Ismail Merchant’s latest film, THE MYSTIC MASSEUR, based on one of VS Naipaul’s novels, is scheduled to be released next week in cinemas in New York. Shot in Naipaul’s birthplace, Trinidad, and set among the Indo-Trinidadian community, the film traces the story of rural born Ganesh Ramsumair- from writer,…
GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA, August 31, 2001: Ganapati was again being crafted in plaster of paris this year, despite the efforts of NGOs and the police to encourage the return to traditional clay. As a result, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is readying its hammers and crowbars to break the Ganesha idols to pieces as plaster of paris creates…
GO TO SOURCE BERLIN, GERMANY, September 1, 2001: Famed British physicist Stephen Hawking says if humans hope to compete with the rising tide of artificial intelligence, they’ll have to improve through genetic engineering. Hawking said science could increase the complexity of DNA and “improve” human beings. He conceded that it would be a long process, “but we should follow this…
GO TO SOURCE DODA, KASHMIR, INDIA: Violence unleashed by militants in the mountainous Doda district has claimed the lives of over 300 Hindus during the last seven years, defense sources said. Most of these massacres were the handiwork of Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), who wanted to create terror among minorities and force their migration, sector commander of Kishtwar brigade,…
Source: Aaj Tak Hindi Channel Telecast BHOPAL, INDIA, August 29, 2001: The Director General of Police, Madhya Pradesh, Sri S.C. Tripathi, has issued an order to have all the pictures of Gods and Goddesses removed from the police stations of Bhopal. In an interview given to Aaj Tak Channel, Tripathi said that some of the heads of police stations had…
GO TO SOURCE ODHPUR, INDIA: In a mass marriage ceremony, about 80 children of Dewasi community, some of them sleeping in the lap of their parents, tied the nuptial knot at Bali village of Pali district in Jodhpur division on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturdashi, reports said on Sunday. Though the marriages have taken place in violation of the Sarda…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, August 27, 2001: Campaigners against religious “cults” across western Europe are trying to persuade the British government to follow the French and legislate against movements such as Sai Baba and the Moonies. There is growing British press interest in the man they describe as “Indian mystic and miracle worker” to the rich, famous and titled…