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Source I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. — John F. Kennedy, (1917-1963) Former US president

Source INDIA, August 19, 2016 (Press Information Bureau): Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti launched various projects worth US$83 Million under Namami Gange program at Ganga Barrage in Kanpur today. This includes $9 million interception and diversion plan of Sisamau drain, $59 million networking schemes and river front development scheme at Bithoor worth…

Source LIBURN, GEORGIA, August 18, 2016 (Atlanta Journal Constitution): Lilburn officials hope to revitalize a commercial area surrounding a Hindu temple that has become one of Gwinnett County’s top tourist destinations. The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir has drawn 1.8 million visitors since it opened in 2007 at the intersection of Lawrenceville Highway and Rockbridge Road. The Lilburn Community Improvement District…

Muscat Shree Ganesh Committee to Celebrate Feast from Sept 5 MUSCAT, OMAN, August 19, 2016 (Daiji World): Muscat Shree Ganesh Festival Committee is all set to organize and celebrate Shree Ganesh festival this year from September 5th to 7th at Muscat Shiva Temple. All arrangements are underway. This will be its 32nd year of celebration. It all started 32 years…

Source Man arrives at immortality by breaking beyond the limitations not only of his physical self, but of his mental and his ordinary psychic nature into the highest plane and supreme ether of the Truth: for there is the foundation of immortality and the native seat of the triple infinite.— Sri Aurobindo (1879-1950)

Source NEW YORK, U.S., August 18, 2016 (RNS by Charles Camosy): It has already been successful in other animals: Physicians have severed the spinal cords of one white mouse and one black mouse, switched their heads and produced living mice. Similar surgeries have been successful with dogs and monkeys. And now there is serious talk of doing a head transplant…

Source KOLKATA, INDIA, August 18, 2016 (The Hindu): Looking remarkably unlined for his claimed 120 years, an Indian monk who says he is the oldest man to have ever lived puts his longevity down to no sex or spices, and daily yoga. Hindu monk Swami Sivananda was born on August 8, 1896, according to his passport. If true, his life…

Source WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2016 (Tribune India): The US has accepted more than 53,000 Hindu refugees since 2005, almost all from Bhutan, the State Department has said. Between 2005 and August this year, as many as 53,662 Hindu refugees — 53,015 from Bhutan — have been accepted into the US. Of the remaining 647, Sri Lanka topped the list…

Source SRINAGAR, INDIA, August 19, 2016 (The Hindu): The 48-day annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas ended on Thursday, coinciding with the festival of Raksha Bandhan, with over 220,000 pilgrims offering prayers to the naturally formed ice-Shivalingam despite the ongoing unrest. This year’s figure is the lowest in the past decade. The holy mace of Lord…

Source LONDON, UK, August 16, 2016 (NDTV): UK Prime Minister Theresa May today expressed her condolences to the British Hindu community over the death of Swaminarayan sect’s spiritual head Pramukh Swami Maharaj. “I would like to pay my condolences to British Hindus, especially the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, on the passing away of Pramukh Swami Maharaj,” May said. “Pramukh Swami Maharaj…