GO TO SOURCE UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, April 5, 2001: Before, no father wanted to marry his daughter to a boy in water-starved Raj Samadhiyala. Motivated by various non-governmental groups, however, Raj Samadhiyala and like villagers throughout India are now producing an undreamt-of bounty by “water harvesting.” The construction of thousands of earthen check dams, the recharging of tanks (reservoirs) and…
GO TO SOURCE MOSCOW, RUSSIA, April 9, 2001: Russia is perhaps the only European country where the Valmiki Ramayana, the story of Lord Rama written by the Hindu sage Valmiki, has sold tens of thousands of copies in Russian. More than a thousand people offered prayers and tributes to the Hindu God Ram in the first ever Ramnavami celebrations, at…
GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, April 3, 2001: Bangalore could very well be called the City of Temples with at least four to five temples on every other road. Many of these houses of worship have been built on government land. With no apparent patrons or upkeep, many have fallen into disrepair. Chief Minister S.M. Krishna has warned the populace…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 06, 2001: After 100 years of the renovation of the Sun Temple of Konark, near Orissa capital Bhubaneswar, the state’s tourism department and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) are jointly planning year-long activities to boost tourist traffic to the state. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said due to financial constraints, tourism potential of…
GO TO SOURCE MIAMI, FLORIDA, April 3, 2001: After a boycott by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals three months ago, Burger King has been convinced to adopt more stringent humane guidelines for their suppliers in the treatment of animals. One such goal that the new company guidelines will enforce is that animals are stunned before they are…
GO TO SOURCE KANSAS, USA, April 8, 2001: When Kansas school officials restored the theory of evolution to statewide education standards a few weeks ago, biologists might have wanted to declare victory over creationism — the belief of some Christians that the world was created by God 4,000 years ago in one week. Instead, some evolutionists say that the issue…
GO TO SOURCE HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 2, 2001: The Hindu saints of the holy city are up in arms against VHP leader Ashok Singhal’s. They complained about the VHP leader’s comment that the saints had an “irreverent attitude” towards the Ganga on the Tehri dam issue. Having failed to take the saints along with him to Tehri on March 30…
Source: Pradip Jain ONTARIO, CANADA, April 6, 2001: Vegetarian Chaula Tolia, an intern dietician student at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, became the founder-manager of the Vegetarian Cafe at the University of Toronto in 1999-2000, a non-profit, student run food service at the International Students Centre. With a menu offering low-cost, healthy vegan lunches and snacks, and items…
GO TO SOURCE BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 29, 2000: Religious conversions and re-conversions have caused numerous clashes between Hindus and those converted to Christianity in this state, leading to a gruesome murder in 1999, when Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons were burned to death. According to this dated report just brought to the attention of HPI, some…
Source: Rediff on Net KERALA, INDIA, April 5, 2001: On the eve of the assembly elections in Kerala where Christians constitute nearly 21 percent of the state’s 30 million population, the first political demand from a religious community came from the Catholic church, when senior priests from the archdiocese of Thrissur met Congress leaders A K Antony and K Karunakaran…