Scientific Experiment Breaks Speed of Light

www.telegraph.co.uk GERMANY, August 16, 2007: A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter…

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US Federal Prisons Set Out to Limit Religious Books in Prison Libraries

www.msnbc.msn.com USA, August 13, 2007: (HPI note: Is any reader aware of what Hindu books are being left or removed in these prisons?) Moshe Milstein, a religious Jew who is incarcerated at the federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., wants his Maimonides back. Officials at the Otisville prison recently removed hundreds of books from the chapel library there–including, Milstein charges in…

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The Top Ten Myths of Divorce

marriage.rutgers.edu NEW JERSEY, USA, August 16, 2007: HPI Note: Following is taken from the Rutgers University website for the National Marriage Project. It is a discussion by David Popenoe of the most common misinformation about divorce in the United States. 1: Because people learn from their bad experiences, second marriages tend to be more successful than first marriages. Although many…

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First All-Dalit Trust to Run Bihar Temple

timesofindia.indiatimes.com PATNA, INDIA, August 12, 2007: Affairs of the 300-year-old Khaki Baba Ram Janki Thakurbari at Hilsa will now be managed by an all-Dalit trust. Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts administrator Kishore Kunal said it would be the country’s first all-Dalit trust for a temple. Kunal, who has launched a campaign to appoint Dalit priests in important temples with…

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Hindu Priest of Reunion Island Interviewed

www.temoignages.re REUNION, FRANCE, April 14, 2007: (HPI note: Reunion is a overseas department [province or state] of France that is located off Africa in the Indian Ocean and near the country of Mauritius. It has a significant Hindu population. The interview was one by P. David, in collaboration with Kanal Indian Ocean, KOI FM Radio in Reunion. It was published…

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Bangladesh Authorities Demolish a Hindu Temple and Suppress Minorities’ Human Rights

www.hinducounciluk.org LONDON, ENGLAND, August 14, 2007: (Note: The following is a press release from the UK Hindu Council.) On February 13, 2007, without any legal authority, the local military administration proceeded to demolish the Sree Sree Bhabani Hindu Temple at Bhabhanipur sherpur in the district of Bogra. This demolition was even carried out against the judicial ruling given on 13…

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Hindu Temple Executives National Meeting Concluded in New Jersey

vijaynarang1@gmail.com EDISON, NEW JERSEY, August 14, 2007: Hindu Temple Executives, representing 97 temples and Hindu Organizations from more than 25 states of US and Canada and Caribbean, converged in Edison, New Jersey, to attend the second Hindu Temple Executives Conference (HMEC), from August 10, 2007, through August 12, 2007. They traveled from as far as British Columbia in Canada, Hawaii,…

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US Congressman Objects to Hindu Senate Prayer

idahopress.com WASHINGTON, D.C., August 10, 2007: Idaho U.S. Congressional Representative Bill Sali has questioned a Hindu prayer that was offered to open the U.S. Senate last month. Sali is quoted on OneNewsNow.com that when a Hindu prayer is offered, “that’s a different god” and that it “creates problems for the longevity of this country.” Sali was not commenting on what…

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India: Partitioned Over Lunch

news.bbc.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, August 13, 2007: Memoirs of a British civil servant never published until now show how much the partition of India was decided by just two men. In a quiet village in the northern English county of Yorkshire, Robert Beaumont rifles through his father’s archives. The various and somewhat tatty pieces of paper he unearths are no ordinary…

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