PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, March 18, 2011: Police stepped up their search Thursday for four masked robbers who bound and gagged a security guard at a Hindu temple and then made off with three safes containing $10,000 to $15,000 in cash and jewelry. ‘We’re all shaken by what has happened here,’ said Dr. Nagu B. Krishnappa, chair of the temple’s board of…
UNITED STATES, March 2011: When Hindu students at MIT want to hold a religious gathering, they have to plan ahead. They must book a room somewhere on campus and move their Deities there. Sometimes, no rooms are available and they have to pray in a dorm. Even when a classroom is available, students say MIT regulations prevent them from doing…
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child, the whole world is your own. Sri Sarada Devi (1853-1920) wife of Sri Ramakrishna. Source: Hindu Press International – Hindu Students Lack Prayer Space on MIT Campus – Blogs\News – Hinduism Today Magazine
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…
March 4, 2011 (by Anuradha Dutt for the Daily Pioneer): After being carved out of the Indian sub-continent, Pakistan is just 63-years old. Its raison d’etre is to act as an Islamic counter-force to a predominantly Hindu India, which encompasses all variations of religious beliefs, including the Islamic, within a secular framework. Religious freedom is the fulcrum of our secular…
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 no standing to challenge it. Justice Elena Kagan, in her first dissent, said the majority had laid waste to the doctrine of “taxpayer standing,” which allows suits…
KARACHI, PAKISTAN, March 18, 2011 (thenews.com): As many as 29 Hindu temples had been taken over by illegal occupants, Humaira Alwani told the Sindh Assembly on Thursday. “It’s a blatant violation of the Constitution,” she said. “They include Dayal Mandir in Palangparo , Shiv Mandir in Barani Goth, “Khooni Talla” (bloody pool, because crocodiles use to live there), Chaweree and…
PANAJI, GOA, March 29 (iNews): A tax imposed by the colonial Portuguese regime on Goa’s Hindu temples and which continued to be exacted even 50 years after the state’s liberation, will soon be scrapped. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Tuesday assured the state assembly that the ‘Derram’, a tax imposed by the Portuguese in 1880, would be revoked. ‘This tax is…
NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 1, 2011: India, it seems, had found the final solution to red tape. The Indian government is about to release a permit required to allow citizens to get permits. ‘The main problem that causes so much delay in our government’s services is that anyone can get a permit now. We have, to this end, instituted the…
MUMBAI, INDIA, April 1, 2011: Modeled after the laws that allow for the takeover of Hindu temples in some states of India, bringing in crores of rupees, the government now plans a tax based on the chakras. The fees would be calculated according to their spinning speed, bureaucrats said. The question of how to gauge the chakras’ development and tax…