Source INDORE, INDIA, July 31, 2013 (Times of India): Yoga education will be made compulsory in schools of the state from class 1 to V. Addressing a meeting of Madhya Pradesh Yoga Parishad, Chief Minister directed to prepare course for practical and theory for Yoga education. Chouhan said that yoga education should be imparted from childhood so that its foundation…
Source DEHRADUN, INDIA, August 2, 2013 (The Hindu): “Prayers in the Kedarnath temple will start from September 11,” said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna here on Friday. Ganesh Godiyal, president of the Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee, said, “A meeting will be held between August 25 and 30 to review the situation of the Kedarnath Valley and a final decision will be…
Source Do everything with full attention. Nothing should be done without reverence, for everything is really done unto God. You should not worship God carelessly. It is not that God will punish you, but that you will destroy your own fine sense of values. Don’t trample on greatness in any form. One should have reverence for whatever one does, even…
Source PUNE, INDIA, July 29, 2013 (Times of India): A city-based social enterprise that produces eco-friendly figures of Ganesh Deities is wrapping up its first batch for shipping overseas. The Deities are made of papier-mache. Starting out with a mere 60 clay Deities, the enterprise has now grown to 3,500 Deities this year. “For years, we received requests from devotees…
Source If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Source UNITED STATES, May 11, 2009 (Gori Girl): Want to settle the debate on how much interracial marriage there is in the US? I know I’m tired of hearing the occasional uninformed comment on how South Asians just don’t marry people outside their ethnicity, and isn’t it downright odd that my supposedly proud-of-his-Indian-heritage husband would do so? Well, the statistics…
Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, August 1,2013 (Malay Mail Oline): The UN’s cultural body has voiced alarm at the building of a giant crematorium within a fabled temple complex in Nepal, worried it will become an eyesore at one of the world’s holiest Hindu sites. Pashupatinath, a temple complex which sprawls over a 2.6 square-kilometer area near Kathmandu on the banks of…
Source KANNUR, KERALA, INDIA, July 29, 2013 (The Hindu): Even as crores of rupees is being set aside for renovation of temples, many temples in Malabar (northern Kerala State) are facing the threat of closure thanks to the non-availability of employees. Many temple employees are shying away from their conventional profession for want of adequate remuneration and delay in payments.…
Source KOZHIKODE, INDIA, July 29, 2013 (The Hindu): Temples under the Malabar Devaswom Board and various other private trusts in north Kerala will benefit from a total government aid of US$1.3 million to undertake renovation. The distribution of funds, through the offices of five Devaswom Assistant Commissioners, which was formally inaugurated by M.K. Raghavan, MP, here on Sunday, will be…
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