www.investors.com USA, May 19, 2006: HPI note: This article appears on the Investor’s Business Daily website. This magazine is almost entirely on investments, but included this editorial article which, in the American political spectrum, would be considered a “right wing Christian” point of view. It is useful to Hindus in the context of the debate over presentation of Hinduism in…
www.washingtonpost.com GOLDFIELD, IOWA, May 21, 2006: The pungent liquid called ethanol, made from corn, has Iowa farmers giddy. Inspired by high oil prices and changing sentiment in Washington, thousands of investors are pouring tens of millions of dollars into new facilities, such as the US$90 million plant here. Ethanol prices are surging across the country as legislators add incentives to…
inwww.rediff.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 23, 2006: Amid increasing fighting in Sri Lanka, the influx of Tamil refugees to India is rising and fears are expressed that the situation may become worse after the European Union bans LTTE. At least 2,000 Tamils have already reached India and several hundred more are believed to be ready to leave Sri Lanka, official…
www.lsst.org TUCSON, ARIZONA, USA: HPI note: Here’s a project that will help you evaluate your place in the universe. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a proposed ground-based 8.4-meter, 10 square-degree-field telescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night. In a relentless campaign of 10 to 15 second exposures, LSST…
www.newkerala.com BANGKOK, THAILAND, May 21, 2006: In a ritual harking back to Thailand’s Hindu roots, a reconstructed Brahman statue was paraded Sunday to the Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok, where hundreds of worshippers were present to welcome the revered Deity. A procession of lion dances and gong-bangers escorted a motorcade transporting the renovated statue from the Fine Arts…
www.hinduvoice.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, May 22, 2006: The on-line magazine, Hindu Voice UK, has posted its May issue. Some excerpts: Hindu in Holland: “After the United Kingdom, the second largest Hindu community of Europe live in the Netherlands. There are between 150,000 – 200,000 Hindus currently living in the Netherlands, the vast majority of who migrated from Surinam – a former…
www.pib.nic.in DELHI, INDIA, May 22, 2006: The Union Health and Family welfare Ministry have notified draft rules to amend the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955 to regulate the sale and import of genetically modified or engineered organisms obtained through modern biotechnology and to ensue mandatory labeling of all such products in order to provide correct information to consumer about…
www.zeenews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 20, 2006: Nepal Parliament’s proclamation declaring the world’s only Hindu Kingdom as a secular state has evoked a mixed response with the majority Hindu groups saying the decision has hurt the community. “The decision of the so-called Parliament has hurt the faith of the 900 million Hindu populace across the globe and brought about possibilities of…
www.gfa.org USA, May 21, 2006: (HPI Note: The following article is from the Christian evangelical organization, Gospel for Asia.) Described by some observers as a “21st century Magna Carta,” the sweeping political changes decreed yesterday by Nepal’s parliament are being met with prayerful caution by Gospel for Asia leaders in the region. “To experience this historic change for this nation…
www.Divinelifesociety.ca CALGARY, CANADA, May 17, 2006: Swami Ramananda Saraswati Spiritual head of the Divine life Society of Canada and the Sivananda Seva Ashrams has just returned from Tamil Nadu. Swamiji has been renovating and updating the medical center in Cherakulam, Tamil Nadu. This center provide medical care for forty smaller villages in and around Cherakulam, Tutocorin, Tamil Nadu. The medical…