Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 2009: Climate change is forcing humans and tigers in the Sunderbans delta of eastern India into closer contact – and attacks on people are on the rise. Royal Bengal tigers which roam through the vast mangrove forests at the mouth of the river Ganges are coming into closer contact, and conflict, with humans. Dozens of…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, November 29, 2009: The bronze Nataraja in its famous tandava pose gleams golden as it catches the first rays of the sun. Scientists, walking briskly to their labs through the chilly mist, cast quick glances at the statue, sitting above the tunnel where two proton beams are colliding at the rate of 40 million hits per…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully. The effect of this education on the Hindus is prodigious. No Hindu who has received an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. Lord T. B. Lord Macaulay (1800-1859), British statesman and architect of England’s education policy in India, applauding the destructive success of the government schools for Hindus
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Sugar is sweet at all times, even in the dark. So remains devotion for the devout, in times of comfort or discomfort, praises or insults, darkness or enlightenment. His Divine Holiness Pramukhswami Maharaj, spiritual head of Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha
Source: blogs.abc.net.au MELBOURNE, December 12, 2009 (By Margaret Coffey): At the Parliament of the World’s Religions’s Hindu Convocation, the host of the forthcoming International Yoga Festival, Swami Chidanand Saraswati, urged the taking up of yoga. For the good of our health, Swami Saraswati said. He wasn’t the only one advocating the merits of yoga at the Parliament: so were yoga…
Source: www.expressbuzz.com BANGALORE, INDIA, December 10, 2009: The Tamil Nadu State government has decided to extend the annual remuneration facility for temple priests to 3,600 temples and also increase the remuneration to Rs 6,000 (US$129) per year. A priest’s remuneration until today was between Rs 120 to Rs 600 (US$ 2.52 to 12.84) per year. Home Minister V. S. Acharya…
Source: www.colombopage.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, December 15, 2009: The historic Keerimalai Naguleswaram Kovil at Kankasanthurai in Northern Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula will be open for Hindu devotees from today. Under a directive from the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan authorities have opened the Kovil for all the pilgrims. The Hindu Kovil had been under military occupation since 1990 and the…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 8, 2009: Jagannath Temple will not change its rules for the President. The bodyguards of the nation’s Supreme Commander, Pratibha Patil, will have to leave behind their guns and pistols at the gate and escort her around the 900-year-old shrine on Wednesday. The temple management has given the President’s staff a list of dos and…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, December 2009: The BBC’s Tom Burridge dines out at a Swedish fast-food chain that is trying to discourage people from eating too much meat by publishing the carbon footprint of each item on its menu. The number includes it all ,from the methane produced by the cows, to the machinery used on the farm, through to…
Source: jaibihar.com DEOGHAR/PATNA, INDIA, December 6, 2009: Swami Satyananda Saraswati, the founder of the world famous Bihar School of Yoga (Munger), took Mahasamadhi on Saturday at Rikhia Dham in Deoghar. According to the tradition for Paramahansas, ashodashi puja (sixteen day ritual) will be observed at Rikhiapeeth for Paramahansaji which will culminate in the final puja on December 22. Swami Satyananda…