www.ochs.org.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, June 21, 2006: Oxford University has granted the status of Recognized Independent Centre to the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS) – the world’s leading centre for the study of Hindu traditions. OCHS is the younger of the first two institutions to be granted this status by Oxford University. It comes after just seven years of teaching,…
www.ndtv.com CHENNAI, INDIA, June 22, 2006: (HPI note: There is also a major movement on in the US to similarly eliminate junk food sales in schools.) A survey group will investigate food products available at canteens in private schools across Chennai. The move comes in the wake of a government circular, which says colas, fries, chips and chocolates should be…
www.anoopam-mission.org COPLAY, PENNSYLVANIA, May 14, 2006: Anoopam Mission is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a Shrimad Bhagwat Katha Gnanyagna (“Bhagwat Saptah”) from July 17 to July 23, 2006 at its temple located in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, just north of Allentown. The Bhagwat Saptah will consist of week-long discourses on the Shrimad Bhagwat by Pujyashree Bhupendrabhai Pandya,…
www.ibnlive.com BANGKOK, THAILAND, June 21, 2006: (HPI note: Thailand doesn’t have a team in the World Cup, only Japan and South Korea participated from Asia, and both were eliminated in the first round. India’s hired a new coach, Englishman Bob Houghton, with the hopes of making it to the World Cup in 2010. The Thailand government estimates the country has…
epaper.timesofindia.com JAMMU, INDIA, June 22, 2006: The Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) that manages the yearly pilgrimage to Lord Siva’s cave shrine may discard its plans to get technical help in managing the survival of Siva Lingam for longer periods. This, according to sources, has become inevitable in the wake of the raging controversy that the Lingam was man made…
www.indiawest.com SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, June 11, 2006: Over 12,000 Indian Americans turned out at the Hindu Temple and Community Center in Sunnyvale June 4 to attend a performance by the legendary Narinder Chanchal. He performed, without pause, for nearly four hours, singing many of his most popular bhajans. The Sunnyvale temple is one of the stops on Chanchal’s world tour, which…
www.detnews.com TROY, MICHIGAN, June 19, 2006: Hindu worshippers took a first step Sunday toward construction of a new US$9 million architecturally authentic temple in Metro Detroit. There were no bulldozers or shovels. Instead, about 700 Hindus gathered at the current Bharatiya Temple to take part in a Bhoomi Puja. It’s a customary ceremony performed to ask Mother Earth for permission…
www.organiser.org TAMIL NADU, INDIA, June 25, 2006: A Hindu temple at Lower Omananallur village in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu was demolished on the night of June 11-12. The police has not apprehended anyone though it seems to know the possible culprits. There had been communal tension in the area for quite some time now. The Uikattu Sudalaikoil (a local…
www.sun2surf.com PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA, June 21, 2006: Which should have jurisdiction to hear the case of former commando M. Moorthy Mohamad Abdullah’s religious conversion and his subsequent burial as a Muslim – the syariah or civil court? This was the primary question the Court of Appeal was interested in during an appeal by Moorthy’s widow S. Kaliammal, against a High Court’s…
www.phillyburbs.com BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY, June 19, 2006: Leaders of the Sri Venkateswara Hindu temple say they don’t think prejudice is the reason the township keeps turning them away, but that it may be ignorance of Hindu culture. Opponents say they fear over development of the temple site and traffic congestion. In its third and latest try to get approval for…