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…
Source: www.hafsite.org CHICAGO, U.S.A. November 19, 2009: The Hindu American Foundation has challenged the interpretation of the ancient Hindu epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, by Professor Wendy Doniger, Professor of Religion at the University of Chicago, in her most recent book called ‘The Hindu: An Alternative History’. As an academic and apparent non-believer, Professor Doniger, according to the foundation has…
Source: www.thejakartapost.com YOGYAKAKARTA, INDONESIA, December 24, 2009: The Yogyakarta Prehistoric Legacy Conservation Center has found a Ganesha statue and Siva linga-yoni structures at the site of a newly discovered structure believed to be part of an ancient temple. Head of the center’s protection working group Indung Panca Putra said the findings led the excavation team to conclude that the site,…
Source: www.guardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 22, 2009: In a personal piece that might voice the silent inner struggle of many, Neel Mukherjee expresses his inner doubts about eating meat, and a few enlightening milestones of his inquiry into the matter. Having grown up in India in a family who could not afford to buy meat very often, meat eating was…
Source: pib.nic.in INDIA, January 6, 2010: A Japanese delegation led by Mr. Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications today met Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah. The meeting discussed various aspects of cooperation between the two countries in the field of renewable energy. The two sides decided to jointly develop one city in India…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The Eternal Religion, the religion of the rishis, has been in existence from time immemorial and will exist eternally. There exists in this Sanatana Dharma all forms of worship–worship of God with form and worship of the impersonal Deity as well. It contains all paths–the path of knowledge, the path of devotion and so on. Other forms of…
Source: www.sindhtoday.net JAKARTA, INDONESIA, January 7, 2010: Archaeologists have found a statue of Nandi, the sacred bull that carried the Hindu God Shiva, among the ruins of what is believed to be an ancient temple at an excavation site in Yogyakarta in Indonesia. Previous discoveries at the site, which is located on the Indonesian Islamic University campus, include a statue…