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 No fruit is too heavy for the tender creeper. Similarly, a mother will always find some means to support her child.— Tamil Proverb
Source [HPI will, in rare occasions, bring you non-religious articles of interest. This is one of them.] UK, May 21, 2011 (BBC): The material graphene was touted as “the next big thing” even before its pioneers were handed the Nobel Prize last year. Many believe it could spell the end for silicon and change the future of computers and other…
Source INDIA, May 5, 2011: While the United States struggles to right itself from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Indian economy steams ahead with an annual growth rate of more than 9 percent. How did India sidestep the financial meltdown as supposedly more sophisticated operators in the U.S. stumbled? Indian leaders have a different business model…
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 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…