ia.rediff.com LUCKNOW, INDIA, August 26, 2006: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday ordered a blanket ban on the subsidy given by the central and state governments to Haj pilgrims. The order came on a petition moved 11 years ago by advocate Hari Shankar Jain on behalf of Vishwa Hindu Parisad activist B.N. Shukla. While announcing their…
HPI NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 25, 2006: Two beautifully sculpted three-meter statues of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo now reside in the Indian Parliament, donated by Dr. L. M. Singhvi, a former member of the Lok and Rajya Sabhas. The sculpture of Aurobindo was done by a team from Bengal in Pondicherry led by Lalit Verma. The statue of Swami…
www.iht.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 24, 2006: Puneet Sabhlok, 23 years old and a novice restaurateur, says he wanted a catchy cafe name to sell his $3 to $4 plates of crostini tonno, pear and ricotta salad and pannacotta. So he went with “Hitler’s Cross.” He put a swastika in the logo. “Hitler is a catchy name. Everyone knows Hitler,” he…
www.yogaindailylifeus.org VIENNA, AUSTRIA, August 25, 2006: H. H. Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, author of the worldwide renowned scientific system “Yoga in Daily Life”, is visiting the USA from Aug. 31 to Sept. 11, 2006 as a part of his World Peace Tour. His Holiness Swamiji will give public talks, lecture & meditation workshops and satsang in Atlanta, New York and…
www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHII, INDIA, August 24, 2006: Thousands of people tonight thronged temples across Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana and Punjab to watch Deities of Goddess Durga and God Siva drinking milk offered to them by devotees. In a rerun of similar incidents claimed to have taken place across the country in 1995, a large number of people queued up outside…
sify.com LONDON, ENGLAND, August 25, 2006: Dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, Europe’s largest Hindu temple opened in London Wednesday with week-long consecration ceremonies. Fifteen priests from India performed the rituals culminating in the installation of the 3.6 meter statue of Lord Krishna. The temple is located in the west central English town of Tividale, near Birmingham and is based on the…
www.timesonline.co.uk NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 25, 2006: During the annual Ganesha Chaturthi festival, celebrated across India this Sunday, thousands of statues – some measuring 25ft (7.6m) – are immersed in the sea, lakes and rivers after daily prayers at temples and colorful processions through the streets. Environmentalists say that the plaster of Paris which in recent years has replaced the…
us.rediff.com PONDICHERRY, INDIA, August 24, 2006: In a response to the avalanche of mail from his earlier article entitled “10 Things I Hate About India,” Claude Arpi writes why he loves India and chose to settle there 32 years ago. The mountains, quality of being of her people, their legendary hospitality and their grace are but four of the ten…
www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 24, 2006: Any business traveler who has logged on to a wireless network at the airport (to read HPI, for example), printed a document at a hotel business center or checked e-mail messages at a public terminal has probably wondered, at least fleetingly, “Is this safe?” “If you go into the average hotel and…
www.punjabkesari.com MUMBAI, INDIA, August 23, 2006: Mumbai, on high alert after the July 11 train bombings, is now preparing for its biggest festivities, the 10-day long Ganesha festival. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai Police and the Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal Coordination Committee (SGMCC) have come together to put into place a special security package for the tens of thousands of…