Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 3, 2012 (Hindustan Times): The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Jammu and Kashmir government two weeks’ time to decide what measures it will adopt to make the annual Amarnath Yatra safe. A bench of justice BS Chauhan and justice Swatanter Kumar asked the state government to take a decision on the various recommendations made…
Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 4, 2012 (Associated Press): [HPI Note: This is an update on the same attack which appeared in yesterday’s HPI, raising the number of temples torched to 10 from 2–other reports are as high as 24.] Amnesty International has urged Bangladesh to take action against those who attacked Buddhist temples and homes over a picture of a…
Source The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and…
Source NEW YORK, USA, October 2, 2012 (by Mark Bittman, food critic at the New York Times): A widely publicized study recently done at Stanford misleadingly suggested that there is no “strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventional foods.” In fact, the Stanford study — actually a meta-study, an analysis of more than 200 existing studies…
Source BHOPAL, INDIA, September 21, 2012 (InfoLanka): Under the historic initiative to promote world peace and harmony of Madhya Pradesh government, the foundation stone of a Buddhist and Indic Studies University was laid at Sanchi today. The foundation laying ceremony of the first-ever university for studies in Buddhism and Indian knowledge was held in the presence of Sri Lankan President…
Source CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, September 30, 2012 (UPI): Mobs of Muslims in Bangladesh attacked and damaged two Hindu and two Buddhist temples Saturday night into Sunday, police said. Extra manpower was called in to break up the mob of several hundred people in and around the city of Chittagong. The rampage began Saturday when Muslims said they had found a Buddhist…
Source In this brief video, Julia Roberts affirms that Hinduism has been part of her life for a very long time; she did not suddenly decide she was a Hindu after making a recent film.
Source Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climes and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I am at it, I…
Source GUJARAT, INDIA, September 30, 2012 (Daily Mail): Gujarat’s Somnath Temple is set to receive a grand gift, of a size more often associated with the Tirumala Temple in Tirupati. Two diamond merchants, who have chosen to remain anonymous, have pledged a gold-plated Gauripeeth (the rounded elevated area around the Shivalingam) for Lord Somnath. P.K. Lahiri, secretary of the Somnath…
Source TORONTO, ONTARIO, September 30, 2012 (Marketwire): The Board of Directors at the Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization were awarded the Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service today for their role in creating a monument for fallen soldiers. The memorial, called Monument to the Fallen, was built by the Indo-Canadian community to offer respect and gratitude to the Canadian Forces.…