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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Not yet settled in a permanent home, the soul takes temporary shelter in a body.    Tirukural, Verse 340

Source: news.bbc.co.uk June 24, 2009: If you want to get someone to do something, ask them in their right ear, say scientists. In three differently designed tests, researchers found that requests spoken into to the right ear were more effective than those spoken into the left ear. “These results seem to be consistent with the hypothesized specialization of right and…

Source: www.hinduonnet.com DINDIGUL, TAMIL NADU, 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, Tamil Nadu, 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…

Source: positivediscipline.ning.com USA, June 25, 2009: Jane Nelsen, an expert in education and the author of “Positive Discipline,” is launching in her website a group for Hindu parents seeking advice on how to educate their children. They can share their experiences and ask for expert guidance, connecting with loving parents everywhere. Hinduism Today’s founder, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, years ago started…

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