Source: Principal Held for School Corporal Punishment Case KOLKATA, INDIA, October 5, 2010: In the first arrests of its kind in the country, police in Kolkata on Monday picked up the principal of the city’s famous 175-year-old La Martiniere for Boys School and three other teachers and booked them for handing out corporal punishment to a student, who later committed…
Principal Held for School Corporal Punishment Case
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6686422.cms?prtpage=1#ixzz11Vztyn4o KOLKATA, INDIA, October 5, 2010: In the first arrests of its kind in the country, police in Kolkata on Monday picked up the principal of the city’s famous 175-year-old La Martiniere for Boys School and three other teachers and booked them for handing out corporal punishment to a student, who later committed suicide. Sunirmal Chakravarthy and the three…
Navaratri Celebrated All Over the World
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com USA, October 9, 2010: Navaratri, a festival dedicating nine nights of ardent devotion to the Goddess, is being celebrated since the new moon of October 5. Millions of Hindu women consider Navaratri the year’s central festival, the one they most deeply connect to. These nine days dedicated to Shakti, the Goddess, provide an opportunity to seek blessings and…
Durga Puja in Bangladesh
Source: www.bdnews24.com DHAKA, BANGLADESH, September 24, 2010: Durga Puja (a version of Navaratri) in Bangladesh will be observed from October 13 to October 17 at some 27,000 pavilions or Mandapams around the country, with 180 in the city, the festival organizers have said. Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad said the Puja festivities will take place in 1,000 pavilions more than the…
Recession Over, But Few Takers For Durga Statues Abroad
Source: sify.com KOLKATA, INDIA, September 27, 2010: The recession may have ebbed, but artisans of the potters’ colony Kumartuli here say export orders for statues for next month’s Durga Puja festival have picked up only marginally compared to last year. Kumartuli is a traditional potters’ quarter in northern Kolkata. The artisans here not only supply clay statues of Hindu Gods…
Caste Discrimination–U.K. Dalits Win The Argument, Nearly
Source: www.thehindu.com UNITED KINGDOM, September 4, 2010: There’s a palpable mood of optimism among Britain’s 2,00,000-strong Dalit community as it waits for the Government to take a decision on its long-standing campaign for caste discrimination to be recognized as racism. Barring a last-minute change, Britain could soon become the first European, indeed Western, country to declare caste prejudice unlawful under…
Chinese iPhones Show Arunachal As A Part Of China
Source: www.techtree.com INDIA, September 30, 2010: Barely a week after the launch of the iPhone 4 in China, the country biggest mobile carrier China Unicom has revealed that it managed to sell 100,000 units of the device so far. However, what is more interesting is the map application that the Chinese iPhone comes with. Screenshots from the Maps application used…
Daily Inspiration
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Youth is not a time of life–it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions. It is freshness of the deep springs of life. Nobody grows old by merely living a…
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Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference 2010
Source: mandirsangam.vhp-america.org HOUSTON, TX, USA, October 8, 2010 (from the press release): The 5th Annual Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference will be held on October 22-24, 2010, at the Sheraton Hotel in Houston, Texas. It continues the tradition of the previous four successful conferences gathering many of America’s Hindu leaders. The Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference (HMEC) is an annual initiative seeking…