GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 4, 2001 : While the reason behind the tragic shooting of senior members of Nepal’s royal family remains somewhat elusive, some astrological predictions have emerged. D. Raghunandan of the Delhi Science Forum First’s reports show that if the Crown Prince married or had children before he was 35, his father King Birendra would die.…
GO TO SOURCE SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, June 2, 2001: Imagine moving halfway around the world to a country where the culture is much different from your own, and your initial lifeline in this move is a son or daughter whom you may not have seen for several years. With a heartful of mixed feelings, many East Indian seniors are making…
GO TO SOURCE OLDHAM, ENGLAND, May 30, 2001: There is community consensus that the riots began with an argument between two teenage boys — one white, one a Briton of Pakistani origin — but the underlying reasons are more complex. Racism among whites, increasing lawlessness among South Asian youths, and high unemployment in this economically-depressed mill town are some of…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, May 28, 2001: Weekend rioting between whites and Asians in Oldham in the English have exposed volatile tensions in what is outwardly one of Europe’s most stable multi-ethnic cultures. The authorities today blamed members of the white supremacist National Front for the two nights of rioting in which 30 people were injured. Many of the…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, June 2, 2001: A “health garden” which provides herbal cures for a variety of ailments has been developed in the Uttar Pradesh capital by the Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (Cimap), to encourage the commercial cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants. The garden was inaugurated by Uttaranchal Governor Surjit Singh Barnala. “Extracts available…
Source: CNN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, JUNE 1, 2001: Protesting the use of Maori words and Polynesian culture in a new computer game, three New Zealand Maori tribes are considering taking legal action against Danish toy company Lego. New Zealand barrister, Solomon Maui, has asked Lego to suspend sales of the game, saying it infringed the Polynesian people’s intellectual property rights…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, U.S.A., June 2, 2001: A web site run by militant Hindus in Queens and Long Island was recently shut down by its service provider because of complaints that it advocated hatred and violence toward Muslims. But a few days later, the site was back on the Internet. The unlikely rescuers were some radical Jews in…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 2, 2001: A range of tobacco-based products has made India the “number one oral-cancer country,” according to the Indian Society of Tobacco and Health. They also contributed to around 4.5 million cardio-vascular-disease cases and 3.9 million chronic obstructive pulmonary-disease cases. Of the range of cheap tobacco-based products on sale across India “gutkha” is…
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GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 4, 2001: King Dipendra died early Monday of a wound received in the massacre after being in a coma all weekend. Officials clamped a curfew on Kathmandu to quell growing rage over what many in Nepal saw as a failure to explain the massacre that claimed most of the royal family. Pressure grew on…