Source UNITED STATES, MARCH 13, 2011: If you had to name a most valuable player of December’s climate summit in Cancun, hands down the award would go to Jairam Ramesh, India’s 56-year-old environmental minster. Ramesh proved himself an international power broker, a star among the world’s climate warriors. But then Ramesh returned home. Awaiting him was the pending approval of…
Source RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK, March 21, 2011: Organizers of a Hindu Parade in Richmond Hill say the NYPD confiscated the ceremonial colored powder. Pandit Ramlill, one of the organizers of the Festival of Colors in Queens, said in the 23 years of the parade’s history, he and other organizers have never been so offended. “We exchange colored powder as…
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 GERMANY, April 4, 2011: With a unique approach to the sport, German teenager Regina Mayer taught a cow to leap. When her parents told her she couldn’t get a horse, Regina Mayer refused to give up her dream. Regina Mayer, an enterprising German 15-year-old, grabbed the bull by the horns and spent two years training Luna, the family’s cow,…
By PARAS RAMOUTAR, HPI TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, April 2, 2011 (By Paras Ramoutar): There is an urgent need for capacity building, resource mobilization and institutional strengthening aimed a nation building, according to Ronald Chuckaree, chair of the Youths for Unity, Virtue and Action (YUVA) seminar on Sunday. It was organized by the Hindu Students’ Council of Trinidad and Tobago. Chuckaree…
Source [HPI note: There was a problem with this article yesterday, which caused it to be cut short. It is being re-sent, with the full summary text.] WASHINGTON, DC, USA, April 4, 2010 (The New York Times): The Supreme Court on Monday effectively upheld an Arizona program that aids religious schools, saying in a 5-to-4 decision that the plaintiffs had…
Source MIDLAND, TEXAS, April 5, 2011 (Odessa American): The religions are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old, but the conversation is all new. Three religions will unite in dialogue for the Permian Basin’s first interfaith event Thursday, April 7, at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church. The discussion will feature leaders of the Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, Hindu and Episcopal faiths. The…
Source ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, March 25, 2011 (IBN Live): An octogenarian Hindu spiritual leader, who was kidnapped three months ago, was today freed in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan, police said. Maharaja Luckmi Chand Garji, 82, was kidnapped with four companions on December 21. The kidnappers later released three of Garji’s companions. “The kidnappers have released Garji and he has reached…
Source NEW DELHI, April 2, 2011 (The Washington Post): India’s population has jumped to 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million during 2001-11, according to provisional data of Census 2011 released on Thursday. Though the population is almost equal to the combined population of the U.S., Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan, the past decade (2001-11) witnessed the…
BERKELEY, CA, USA, April 4, 2010 (The New York Times) Over the past 540 million years, life on Earth has passed through five great mass extinctions. In each of those catastrophes, an estimated 75 percent or more of all species disappeared in a few million years or less. For decades, scientists have warned that humans may be ushering in a…