Source UNITED STATES, February 23, 2018 (CNBC): Back in the day, the distinction was simple. Animals are meat, and plants are not. But now, it’s getting a lot more complicated thanks to cultured, or what some might call “fake,” meat. Companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are using science labs and farms, rather than animal meat, to create products…
Source KANCHIPURAM, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, February 28, 2018 (The Hindu): The 69th head of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, passed away on Wednesday morning. He was 83. His end came in a hospital near the mutt in Kancheepuram where he was taken after suffering from breathlessness. Born as Subramaniayam in Irulneeki, a small hamlet near Mannargudi, in Tamil…
Source The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. When egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon you.— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886), guru of Swami Vivekananda
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 25, 2018 (by G.S Mudur, The Telegraph): The Centre’s regulators of traditional medicine have approved over the past four years more than 150 ayurveda and unani medical colleges that lack minimum prescribed standards of infrastructure, faculty or patients, sections of regulators themselves have complained to the government. Members of the Central Council of Indian Medicine…
Source BALI, INDONESIA, February 22, 2018 (The Jakarta Post): Bali plans to develop an offshore airport in the northern part of the resort island with the name of Bandara International Bali Baru (BIBU) or the New Bali International Airport. Project developer PT BIBU president director I Made Mangku said in Bali on Thursday that the company preferred to develop an…
Source Acquire the transcendental knowledge from a Self-realized master by humble reverence, by sincere inquiry and by service. The wise ones who have realized the Truth will impart the Knowledge to you.— Bhagavad Gita
Source MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, February 16, 2018 (SBS): The Victorian Government on Friday announced it will provide more than US$127,000 to the Hindu Society of Victoria, also known as the Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple, to upgrade its Cultural and Heritage Centre. Minister for Multicultural Affairs Robin Scott and Member for Member for Carrum Sonya Kilkenny joined the Indian community to make…
Source Do you realize now the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, February 9, 2018 (Indian Express): The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) will soon get a Sanskrit Chair, attached to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, to study “India’s legacy of science and technology in the Vedas, with special focus on Sanskrit language”. The Chair has been funded by Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, “spiritual head” of…
HPI PORT-OF_SPAIN, TRINIDAD, February 13, 2018 (Paras Ramoutar): Against the deafening songs of calypso, soca, steelpan and mas revelers marking the closing day of the annual Carnival, a pre-Lenten festival, devout Hinduism in this oil-rich economy observed Shivaratri with reverence and devotion in over 400 mandirs and thousands of homes across the country. Twenty-five percent of Trinidad and Tabago’s population…