Source GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, July 6, 2012 (nst.com): The Arulmigu Bala Thandayuthapani temple, touted to be the largest Lord Murugan temple of its kind outside of India, opened to some 300,000 people at its maha kumbabhishegam (grand consecration) ceremony held over three days at the temple in Jalan Kebun Bunga here, recently. Devotees braved the scorching heat and marched up…
Source We who have come from the East here have been told day after day in a patronizing way that we ought to accept Christianity because Christian nations are the most prosperous. We look about us and see England as the most prosperous nation in the world, with her foot on the neck of 250 million Asiatics. We look back…
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…