Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, May 29, 2010: With salt under attack for its ill effects on the nation’s health, the food giant Cargill kicked off a campaign last November to spread its own message. “Salt is a pretty amazing compound,” Alton Brown gushes about it. But by all appearances, this is a moment of reckoning for salt. High blood pressure…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com As your mind releases its desires and cravings, it releases the hold that it has on you. You dive deeper, fearlessly into this blazing avalanche of light, losing your consciousness. And as you come back into the mind, you see the mind for what it is, and you are free. You find that you are no longer attached…
Source: expressbuzz.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, May 23, 2010: Jyotsna Padmanabhan, a 12-year-old girl, is all set to script history by being the first female in Kerala to conduct a Deity installation in accordance with tantric rituals. The girl’s entry into the sanctum sanctorum of the Paikunikavu Sri Krishna Temple at Kattoor near Irinjalakuda on Sunday to conduct the prathishta of…
Source: blog.baliwww.com BALI, INDONESIA, May 22, 2010: Balinese Hindus will celebrate a religious day known as Kuningan on Saturday May 22, 2010. This ceremonial occasion falls exactly 10 days after the Galungan rituals and is a time to commemorate ancestral spirits as they return to heaven after dwelling on earth for an extended period. Worshipers express their gratitude through prayer…
Source: Religion News Services WASHINGTON, DC, USA: The U.S. Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of an Arizona program that provides state tax breaks for donations to private school scholarship programs. As part of the 13-year-old tax-tuition program, taxpayers receive a dollar-for-dollar reduction in state income taxes for their donations to not-for-profit school-tuition organizations. Last year, 91.5 percent of the…
Source: beta.thehindu.com INDIA, May 2010: Eating ginger can help ease muscle pain caused by heavy exercise, says a latest research. Ginger root has been used as a household remedy for centuries for a variety of ailments, such as cough and colds and upset stomach, but now the study has revealed that ginger is particularly good for staving off muscle pain.…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Dharma is the only solution for all the ills the society is facing today. H.H. Swami Jayendra Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Kanchi Peetam, calling on families– during his 64th birthday–to adopt the morals and culture of India in daily life.
Source: blog.baliwww.com BALI, INDONESIA, May 22, 2010: Balinese Hindu’s will celebrate a religious day known as Kuningan on Saturday May 22, 2010. This ceremonial occasion falls exactly 10 days after the Galungan rituals and is a time to commemorate ancestral spirits as they return to heaven after dwelling on earth for an extended period. Worshipers express their gratitude through prayer…
Source: HPI PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, May 25, 2010 (By Paras Ramoutar): Trinidad and Tobago has elected its first female Prime Minister in the person of Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar following elections held on Monday. She is a devout Hindu, and her People’s Partnership won 29 out of the 41 parliamentary seats. Persad-Bissessar is expected to swear in as Prime Minister…
Source: news.oneindia.in SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, May 16, 2010: A number of Kashmir Pandits offered rituals at the historic Vicharnag temple, when it reopened after a 20 year hiatus. Located in the district’s Soura city, once famous for being center of discourse and learning for Muslims and Hindus, the Vicharnag temple had closed in the 1990 when the Kashmiri Pandits migrated from…