Source: www.livemint.com HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 19, 2010: [HPI note: This is an article in two parts.] The advertisement, in Sanskrit, was small, tossed to the extreme right of the newspaper page: “Sanskrit-dwitiyarajbhashayuktam deshashya prathamrajyam Uttarakhandam” (Uttarakhand is India’s first state to have Sanskrit as its second official language). The language of ancient Indian religious texts and epics is being revived…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com In the garden of the soul, plant the seed of the Word (Lord’s Name). Water the soil with love and humility and reap the fruits of Divinity. Guru Granth Sahib
Source: www.ddinews.gov.in NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 1, 2010: With an aim to ensure that ayurveda is accessible to the rural community, especially women, efforts are being made to make the discipline a part of primary health centres and create awareness about it. A new program has been created to clear myths and generate suggestions for policy formulations for incorporating ayurveda…
Source: religionclause.blogspot.com NEPAL, April 28, 2010: In Nepal, as law makers approach the May 28 deadline for completing a draft of a new constitution, tensions increase over whether the country will remain a secular state. In 2006, Parliament passed a resolution providing that the country would no longer formally be known as a Hindu nation. Last week, Christians rallied in…
Source: www.newsmaker.com.au MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, April 28, 2010: The first ever Hinduism Summit (Hindu Dharmasabha) in Australia, will be held on the auspicious occasion of Akshay Trutiya, 5112 ( May 16, 2010) at the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple, Camberwell, Melbourne. The Hinduism Summit will be held by the Forum for Hindu Awakening (FHA) and Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), with support from…
Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 25, 2010: As a first step in implementation of the amended Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 2010, the government has come up with draft rules for the proposed National Monument Authority. The proposed body will work towards categorization and classification of monuments protected by the ASI. It would also be the…
Source: www.cnn.com UNITED STATES July 1, 2009: Study shows a whopping two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese, and obesity rates for children are at or above 30 percent in 30 states. The percentage of adults classified as obese went up in 23 states, but Mississippi, with 32.5 percent, stayed atop the latest annual rankings by the Robert Wood…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com A journalist dreamed that he interviewed God and asked Him what surprised Him most about people. God answered, “That they get bored being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then later long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.”
Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, DC, May 3, 2010: On April 18, Washington Post’s blog On Faith posted an opinion piece by Aseem Shukla on yoga’s American popularity and Hindu heritage. On April 23, On Faith panelist Deepak Chopra responded. The impromptu debate has drawn hundreds of comments from readers and generated a great deal of discussion in the wider Hindu community.…
Source: www.dailynews.lk PARIS, FRANCE, April 13, 2010: A new university library called BULAC (Bibliotheque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations) is being started in Paris, in association with INALCO (Institute National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales). It will be the largest and most comprehensive library in France and possibly in Europe for the study of languages, literatures, social sciences and humanities…