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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The learned have prescribed penance for the murderer of a pious man, a drunkard, a thief or for one who has violated a solemn vow. But there is no pardon for the ungrateful.    The Panchatantra

Source: www.hinduonnet.com DINDIGUL, INDIA, June 22, 2009: A glass bead-making unit and an Iron Age graveyard, both about 2,500 years old, have been unearthed during the ongoing excavation in and around Porunthal, an archaeology expert said. The excavation made at Paasi Medu (bead mound) venue, a site spread over 13.5 acres on the ancient East-West Trade route linking Tamil Nadu…

Source: internationalreporter.com NEW ZEALAND, June 22, 2009: Indian students might prefer New Zealand for higher studies and immigration after they were being targeted in Australia. Though New Zealand is close to Australia, there is marked difference in the country’s attitude towards multi-ethnic society and tolerant towards Asian race. New Zealand has a society more favorable to Indian Hindus,according to New…

Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, June 22, 2009: In Hereford, Texas, the Panda Energy Company, which has a series of successful plants across the United States, wanted to use the town’s plentiful supply of manure–courtesy of the hundreds of thousands of cattle that use its massive feed yards–to power the process of extracting ethanol from corn. Hereford’s feed yards would lose…

Source: www.hinduonnet.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, June 23, 2009: Namrata Randhawa Haley, the daughter of a Punjabi Sikh immigrant, has announced her candidacy for Republican Party nomination for the Governor of South Carolina, which will go to poll next year. Nikki, 37, as she is popularly known, is presently a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. In 2004, Nikki…

Source: The test of a man is how much he can bear and how much he can share and how soon he confesses a mistake and makes amends for it.    Dada J.P. Vaswani

Source: news.bbc.co.uk [HPI note: According to the Indian police, Maoists were the perpetrators of the murder of Swami Laxshmananda in late 2008, causing months of civil unrest.] DELHI, INDIA, June 23, 2009: The Indian government has banned the Maoist Communist Party of India as a terrorist group, giving security forces enhanced powers of arrest. Earlier, five states across east and…

Source: www.hindu.com MADURAI, INDIA, June 15, 2009: A recent study by Evidence, a Madurai-based non-governmental organization, found varied examples of discrimination against Dalits still occurring in many of the temples of South India. Discriminatory issues involved such matters as entry into the temple or into the public worship area, the serving of annadhanam, avoidance of Dalit areas by the temple…

Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Lord Siva, the bestower of happiness, gave the art of yoga. As Nataraja, King of dancers, He gave dance.    BKS Iyengar

Source: www.livemint.com BANGALORE/MUMBAI/HYDERABAD, INDIA, June 18, 2009: In a country proud to be secular, there is increasing debate about government subsidization of religious pilgrimages. Karnataka’s Bharatiya Janata Party government proposes to set aside US$210,000 to subsidize pilgrimages for Hindus. In Andhra Pradesh, the Congress party-led government is subsidizing the cost of travel for Christians visiting Jerusalem. Last year the Union…