source: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article623309.ece INDIA, September 2010: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling said he hopes to make the state a fully organic state. “Though the task ahead is challenging, we are absolutely committed to go totally organic by 2015,” Chamling told Director of FIBL Institute of Organic Research Centre of Switzerland, Urs Niggli. The Chief Minister hoped to receive all the possible…
source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6503627.cms?prtpage=1 MUMBAI, INDIA, September 6, 2010: Record prices have done little to dim the popularity of silver and gold offerings to Ganesha around the Chaturhi festival. Last Friday, a prominent resident of Veera Desai Road chose quiet anonymity even as his spectacular offering of a 35 lb. silver chhatra (umbrella) was unveiled at the Andhericha Raja Ganpati at Azad…
source: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article623309.ece INDIA, September 2010: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling said he hopes to make the state a fully organic state. “Though the task ahead is challenging, we are absolutely committed to go totally organic by 2015,” Chamling told Director of FIBL Institute of Organic Research Centre of Switzerland, Urs Niggli. The Chief Minister hoped to receive all the possible…
source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6503627.cms?prtpage=1 MUMBAI, INDIA, September 6, 2010: Record prices have done little to dim the popularity of silver and gold offerings to Ganesha around the Chaturhi festival. Last Friday, a prominent resident of Veera Desai Road chose quiet anonymity even as his spectacular offering of a 35 lb. silver chhatra (umbrella) was unveiled at the Andhericha Raja Ganpati at Azad…
Source: Daily Times – Amar Guriro KARACHI, September 2, 2010: 250,000 Hindus of Sindh, who left their native villages and towns and shifted to relief camps after the flood, could not celebrate the religious festival of Janmashtami (the birth of Lord Krishna). The celebrations comprising special foods, prayers, visits to temples, religious rituals, recitation of bhajans and fasting, which are…
Source: HPI PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, August 22, 2010: Amid chants of Agni, Varuna, and Rudra, with oblation in sacrificial fire pit at the lawns of beautiful St. Augustine Campus of University of West Indies in Trinidad, were sitting some of the highest academic, scholars, and intellectuals to explore the meanings of these ancient practices and to make sense of them for…
Source: mailto:dclem@hometownlife.com DETROIT, MICHIGAN, September 5, 2010 (by Darrell Clem): Esteemed spiritual leaders from as far away as India joined thousands of metro Detroiters in song, prayer and upbeat ceremonies that ended Sunday as the new Hindu Temple of Canton formally opened amid a three-day celebration of what many lauded as one of the nation’s premier Hindu places of worship.…
Source: sify.com JAMMU/KASHMIR, September 9, 2010: The Vaishno Devi Shrine Board is to provide US$108,000 for the relief of victims of the cloudburst and flash floods in Leh. At least 180 people were killed in the August 6 flash floods and mudslides. The money is being released by the shrine board on the directions of Governor N.N. Vohra, chairman of…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Many advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago. Grant Duff, British historian of India
Source: www.hindustantimes.com [Includes material from this article in The Times of India] NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 31, 2010: Some of Hinduism’s most revered institutions are seeking exemption for traditional Sanskrit schools called Veda Pathshalas from the Right to Education (RTE) Act, arguing that the law could kill the ancient practice of orally rendering texts. On Tuesday, a delegation of representatives…