Source TORONTO, CANADA, May 5, 2011: Canadian Premier Dalton McGuinty was among the guests tonight when three days of celebration began to commemorate the opening of the new Hindu Heritage Centre in Mississauga. The centre, located at 6300 Mississauga Rd. in a 25,000-sq.-ft. complex on 2.4 acres of land, will serve a quarter of a million Hindus living in the…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, May 14, 2011: The Reddy brothers, Karnataka ministers and businessmen, on Saturday offered diamond-studded ornaments and gold-woven clothes to the famous Srikalahasti temple in Andhra Pradesh. Their offerings are estimated to be worth US$ 2.2 to 3.3 million. Revenue Minister Gali Karunakara Reddy made the offerings in the presence of the temple priests and authorities after offering…
Source JAMMU, INDIA, May 10, 2011: The air has been cleared for the annual Amarnath “yatra” (pilgrimage) as the weather has improved in the Kashmir Valley over the past week, enabling the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) to start registration of pilgrims. This year the pilgrimage will be held between June 29 and August 13. The annual summer pilgrimage to…
Source Find God.That is the only purpose in life.”— Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886)
Source MIDDLETOWN, MD, USA, May 20, 2011: Thousands of people around the country have spent the last few days taking to the streets and saying final goodbyes before Saturday, Judgment Day, when they expect to be absorbed into heaven in a process known as The Rapture. Nonbelievers, they hold, will be left behind to perish along with the world over…
Source NEW YORK, May 3, 2011: The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday. Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than…
Source CHENNAI, INDIA, May 9, 2011: Keeping alive the legacy of Swami Chinmayananda’s service to mankind, the Chinmaya Mission of Chennai has established an informative archive comprising an audio-visual exhibit and a rare collection of images on the life and works of Swami Chinmayananda. The project, “Call of the Rishi,” is an initiative by his devotees to express their gratitude…
Source KATMANDU, NEPAL, February 26, 2010: Some people live charmed lives. In 2004, two years after he climbed Mt. Everest for the seventh time, American mountaineering legend Peter Athans took part in a charitable cataract operation project in northern Nepal that changed the lives of nearly 300 beneficiaries. That has led to a discovery that, once fully understood, could throw…
Source The food of the soul is silence. If we don’t practice silence, we are starving ourselves.— Dada J.P. Vaswani, spiritual head of Sadhu Vaswani mission
Source UNITED KINGDOM, May 4, 2011: “Love comes after the marriage,” says Murugavel Janakiraman, the founder and chief executive of one of India’s largest matrimonial website companies, BharatMatrimony. The entrepreneur believes it is a philosophy ingrained in Indian culture and one of the reasons Indians place more importance on matching other “various criteria” before tying the knot – “religion, language……