GO TO SOURCE Karunamayi Sri Sri Sri Vijayeswari Devi will be visiting 20 cities across the United States as part of her 2001 World Tour. Evening programs, consisting of Sri Karunamayi’s spiritual discourse, devotional singing, meditation and individual blessings, will be held in each city. In addition, fire ceremonies will be held in certain cities. Please visit “source” for more…
GO TO SOURCE BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN, April 02, 2001: Several truckloads of rubble clearly identified as having come from the ancient giant statues of Buddha blown up by the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan last month, is said to have turned up in Pakistan and is being offered for sale. The reports have led to heavy criticism of the trade from academics…
GO TO SOURCE BALING, MALAYSIA, March 31, 2001: Three men were arrested yesterday in connection with the death of a Hindu priest who was found with severe head injuries at his residence at the Sri Subramaniam temple on Thursday morning. The trio — aged 16, 17 and 21 — were all unemployed. S. Munugesen, 41, an Indian national, was found…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 31, 2001: None of the universities in Delhi seem to be interested in the new Jyotisha or Vedic Astrology course introduced this year. The process of formulation of the new course began in June 2000 and has been on-going. The syllabus has yet to be chalked out. Out of the proposals received, the…
GO TO SOURCE NEPAL, March 27, 2001: Requiring wood for fuel and new land for farmland, the Nepal populace has created a deforestation crisis. Between 1979 and 1994 forest cover decreased by nine per cent and as a result bare hillsides have created landslides and flooding. The report, with the alarming 9% statistic, produced as a joint endeavor by the…
GO TO SOURCE PRIYANKA KHANNA, New Delhi, March 30, 2001: There is little place for the girl child given Indian society’s strongly ingrained preference for sons. The ratio of girls per 1,000 boys in the age group of 0 to 6-year-old has declined from 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001. The shocking studies reported in this article show that…
GO TO SOURCE DARJEELING, INDIA, March 13, 2001: The West Bengal Government has withdrawn orders on furnishing details on conversion following strong exception to it from the State Minorities Commission. The matter was taken up with the authorities after the Darjeeling district intelligence branch issued a circular asking for monthly reports on the number of persons converted to Christianity. This…
GO TO SOURCE ARLINGTON, TEXAS, March 27, 2001: While students with predominantly Christian backgrounds attended the University of Texas-Arlington in the past, there is change. Now there are 1,093 international students, the majority of them Hindus from India. The second largest group with 147, from China, others are from Iran, Japan, Taiwan, Pakistan, South Korea, Nepal and Thailand.
Source: The Hindu BANGALORE, INDIA, MARCH 27, 2001: The Government’s University Grants Commission’s decision to “rejuvenate the science of Vedic Astrology in India” by starting departments of Vedic Astrology in Indian universities has infuriated the scientific community. The guidelines said that it would add to a new dimension for research in the fields of Hindu-Mathematics, Vastushastra, Meteorological Studies, Agricultural Science,…
GO TO SOURCE HAWAII, March 29, 2001: A. S. Maniyam reports today that his website (source above) is expanding to include devotional songs and more material for children. He’s also providing a translation of the complete Thiruppugazh, the famed songs in priase of Lord Murugan.