Source CANADA, July 2, 2012 (CBS News) Disciplining children with physical punishment such as spanking, shoving or slapping may raise their risk for developing mental health problems when they get older, new research suggests. “We should not be using physical punishment on children of any age,” Dr. Tracie O. Afifi, PhD, the new study’s author and assistant professor of community…
Source ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, July 2, 2012 (rediff.com): Sixty-five years after the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the government is about to introduce a marriage registration bill for Hindus, the largest religious minority in Pakistan, whose marriages are not registered officially, leaving the Hindus exposed to malpractices of false conversion and forcible marriage. Although the over 4.5 million Hindus constitute the…
Faced with enormous population pressure, the lush mountains are at risk of a biodiversity crisis. The forests include non-equatorial tropical evergreen forests and are home to at least 325 globally-threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish species, according to Unesco. The mountains are also recognised as one of the world’s eight “hottest hotspots” of biological diversity, and its forests…
Source Are you depressed? Remember, within you is the Power. If you will but release a fraction of it, you can make the impossible possible.— Dada J.P. Vaswani
STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, June 25, 2012: On Sunday, June 24 a first ever “Hindu Women’s Network” Conference was convened at New Dorp High School in Staten Island, with the initiative of Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA). Although open to all women in general, the forum was meant to give voice to Hindu women on contemporary issues faced by…
Source VADODARA, INDIA, June 30, 2012 (Indian Express) With the police ban on the use of plaster of Paris (PoP) in Ganesha Deities, the icon makers in the city have decided to demand half the cost of an icon as advance from pandal organizers so as to reduce their loss in case the icons are not permitted to be installed…
Source PAHALGAM, KASHMIR, INDIA, June 30, 2012 (Jagran Post): Residents of Pahalgam on Saturday observed a shutdown over the alleged high handedness of Central Reserve Police Force personnel, who went on a rampage following an altercation with taxi drivers at Chandanwari camp. All the business establishments in Pahalgam, the base camp for ongoing Amarnath yatra, downed their shutters as soon…
Source JAMMU, INDIA, June 30, 2012 (Hill Post): Over 110,000 pilgrims from across the country have paid their obeisance at the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir, since the pilgrimage began June 25, while 13 pilgrims have died en route, the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) spokesman disclosed today. The spokesman also said that Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra, who…
Source If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?— Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth president of the United States
Source KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, June 29, 2012: The International Muruga Bhakti Conference 2012 is being organized to learn and share facts about the various aspects of Murugan worship and philosophy. It will be held on 9, 10, 11 12 August, 2012 at the University of Malaya, jointly organized by Thirumurugan Thiruvakku Thirupeedam and Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya,…