www.ddinews.gov.in MAJULI ISLAND, ASSAM, INDIA, December 6, 2007: Undeterred by last year’s failure, India trying again to get UNESCO to name the picturesque Majuli island in Assam a World Heritage Site. The island is an important seat of Vaishnava culture. The Culture Ministry is tying all the loose ends to avoid the repetition of the petition’s rejection in 2006. The…
www.thetimes.co.za NUSA DUA, INDONESIA, December 5, 2007: Hindu priests on the island of Bali, where the world’s nations are gathered to come up with an answer for global warming, think they have one solution — a day of silence. The proposal harks back to a traditional Balinese festival when everything is switched off and shut down for 24 hours, to…
www.unitedsikhs.org QUEENS, NEW YORK, December 4, 2007: Last week, a meeting convened by the New York City Assemblyman for the Sikh community has decided to provide prayer facilities for Sikhs at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York. Airport officials agreed that there was a need for a prayer room for Sikh travelers. The participation of Sikhs at the…
www.yoga-in-daily-life.org PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, December 4, 2007: The 5th International Youth Conference, organized by the International Youth Union of Yoga in Daily Life, has held in Prague this year. The creator of the event, H. H. Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranandaji, author of “Yoga in Daily Life”, and a group of 40 delegates were received in the City hall on November…
www.dailyherald.com CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, December 2, 2007: The Chinmaya Mission Chicago unveiled its newest center, Yamunotri, this weekend. Located on seven acres at 30877 N. Fairfield Road in unincorporated Lake County. Yamunotri is a spiritual organization dedicated to bringing maximum happiness to maximum people for the maximum time, said Yamunotri member Deepak Mansukhani. The new religious school and shrine, which is…
thechronicleherald.ca LONDON, ENGLAND, December 2, 2007: Women can give their children a lifelong taste for healthy foods simply by eating them during pregnancy or while breastfeeding, researchers have found. “Flavors from the mother’s diet are transmitted through amniotic fluid and mother’s milk. A baby learns to like a food’s taste when the mother eats that food on a regular basis,”…
www.hindustantimes.com LONDON, ENGLAND December 2, 2007: Cutting across party lines, British MPs have urged the government to take up the plight of Hindus in Malaysia with the Malaysian government and prevail upon Kuala Lumpur not to demolish temples. In an Early Day Motion moved by Stephen Pound, Chairman of the Labour Friends of India and supported by 19 other MPs,…
www.vivekananda.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, December 3, 2007: Vivekananda Centre London announces that a series of 30 talks by founder Jay Lakhani will be broadcast every Sunday morning at 10 am on Aastha Freeview on Sky channel starting from December 9. The same show can be seen on cable in the US at 10:00 am on the east coast and 7 am…
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, December 3, 2007: As Hinduism Today works to expand its video presence on YouTube, we have discovered that the username “hinduismtoday” has been taken. He or she joined with that username on September 24, 2007, last logged in two months ago, has no videos uploaded, has not watched any videos with the account, is 27 years old…
www.gulf-times.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, December 4, 2007: A senior minister in predominantly Muslim Malaysia yesterday denounced the destruction of Hindu temples one week after thousands of ethnic Indians held a rally protesting alleged discrimination. Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, an official in the prime minister’s office, described action by local authorities in recent years to demolish temples–sometimes while people were worshipping–as…