Four-Day Global Convention On Ayurveda

www.ddinews.gov.in COIMBATORE, INDIA, July 24, 2008: The four-day global convention on Ayurveda, beginning at Coimbatore on 21st August, will evolve strategies for integrating ayurveda in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and prepare a mission document for globalization of the ancient science. Efforts were on to formulate guidelines to offer ayurvedic treatment in its purest form and come out with…

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Cancer Researchers Call for Ethnicity to be Taken into Account

www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, ENGLAND, July 24, 2008: Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person’s ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in Friday’s Lancet by researchers from Imperial College London. Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their…

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Daily Inspiration

www.hinduismtoday.com Let your mind cognize itself by turning itself back on itself. Become consciously conscious. All you have to do is to watch your mind think.    Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)

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New Hindu Dean of Religious Life at USC

www.usc.edu LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, July 28, 2008: Religious leader and scholar Varun Soni has been named dean of religious life at USC (University of Southern California), marking the first appointment of a member of the Hindu faith as primary spiritual leader of an American university. Soni, whose appointment is effective July 1, is a lawyer and religious scholar. He previously…

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Chilkur Balaji Temple Devotees Worship For Visas

www.newindpress.com HYDERABAD, INDIA, July 28, 2008: The official residence of the “Visa God”, Chilkur Balaji, is in the little village of Chilkur — tucked away in the southwest corner of Hyderabad and flanked by Osmansagar and a national forest, Mrugavani. “You need to complete 11 pradakshinas with folded hands and nothing but the Lord in your heart. At the end,…

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Sikh Teenager Wins Religious Bangle Case

news.aol.co.uk USA, July 29, 2008: A Sikh teenager excluded from school for breaking a “no jewellery” rule by refusing to remove a wrist bangle which is central to her faith was a victim of unlawful discrimination, a judge ruled. As a result of the judgment in the High Court, Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, will be returning to Aberdare Girls’ School in…

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Upcoming Divya Tour 2008 of H.H. Swami Adhyatmananda to UK, USA Canada

p class=”source”a HREF=”http://www.divyajivan.org/divya_tour2006/index.htm”www.divyajivan.org/a/p p class=”summary”AHMEDABAD, INDIA, July 28, 2008: The Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabad is pleased to bring you the news of Pujya Swami Adhyatmanandaji’s “Divya Tour 2008 ” to UK, USA Canada (July 29, 2008 – November 21, 2008). There are Yoga, Pranayam and Meditation sessions in the morning and Spiritual discourses in the evening. br /br /Swamiji’s USA tour…

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Proposed Excavations May Rewrite NE History

www.thecheers.org INDIA, July 25, 2008: Is Guwahati the site where the ancient kingdom of Kamrupa existed? This and many more questions, which are still mired in controversy, could be answered more vividly when the archeologists excavate the entire Bhaitbari-Tikrikilla area in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district. Wadagokgre is the site of an ancient civilization; believe to be cast out of…

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