Source: www.nytimes.com BANGKOK, THAILAND, January 11, 2010: An uproar among Muslims in Malaysia over the use of the word Allah by Christians spread over the weekend with the firebombing and vandalizing of several churches, increasing tensions at a time of political turbulence. The attacks, unlike anything Malaysia has experienced before, have shaken the country, where many Muslims are angry over…
Source: pib.nic.in ORISSA, INDIA, January 12, 2009: The conservation experts and scientists of the Archaeological Survey of India along with the concerned officers of the State Government of Orissa have finished conducted a detailed survey of the Sun Temple, Konark and found that no cracks are developing in the monument. The monument is structurally sound, well conserved and preserved.
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, U.S., January 6, 2010: If the word “dal” conjures up images of a simple dish of well-flavored lentils, the kind of thing you might see at an Indian lunch buffet, that’s not inaccurate. But it is incomplete, because dal is a generic term for bean dishes, and for the beans and lentils used to make them.…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached! Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
Source: The influence, of course, of Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa on Swami Vivekananda can not be exaggerated. It was he who realized Vivekananda’s potential, bestowing spiritual powers upon him so that he may spread his realizations world-wide and guide other disciples.Swami Vivekananda travelled all over India, and saw the true condition of people’s suffering under British rule. Vivekananda’s eloquent speeches, including…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Give me a few men and women who are pure and selfless, and I shall shake the world. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902).
Source: beta.thehindu.com INDIA, January 10, 2010: The first solar eclipse of the year will occur on January 15th and will be visible partially in major parts of India. People in South India will be the first to see the eclipse as its path traverses across the country before entering Bangladesh and Myanmar. Ajay Talwar of the Amateur Astronomers Association told…
Source: beta.thehindu.com INDIA, January 10, 2010: The first solar eclipse of the year will occur on January 15th and will be visible partially in major parts of India. People in South India will be the first to see the eclipse as its path traverses across the country before entering Bangladesh and Myanmar. Ajay Talwar of the Amateur Astronomers Association told…
Source: www.telegraphindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 6, 2010: The Vivekananda Centre plans to invoke Swami Vivekananda’s teachings of social and cultural harmony in an effort to encourage students to help protect monuments. Swamiji’s birthday, January 12, will be celebrated as Heritage Day in educational institutions to attract students to conservation, human resource development ministry sources said. Last week, the University…
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 4, 2010: Nearly 25,000 British doctors of Indian origin are set to return to India within two to four years and some of them are “most likely to join the seven AIIMS-like institutions” proposed to be set up by the central government. “There are around 15,000 young Indian-origin doctors undergoing training in different parts…