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www.hafsite.org WASHINGTON, DC, USA, November 12, 2011 (HAF): The Hindu American Foundation is now accepting applications for its Hindu American Congressional Internship, a unique opportunity for selected applicants to spend eight weeks interning on Capitol Hill between late May and mid-July 2012. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents, at least 18 years old, and enrolled in good standing…

Source INDIA, November 7, 2011 (The Hindu): Dublin-Vatican relations are at an all-time low. Ireland’s decision to close its embassy in the Vatican for “economic reasons” has both stunned and infuriated the Holy See, especially since other closures — now that Catholic Ireland has shown the way — are likely to follow. The Irish decision has brought relations between Dublin…

Source KERALA, INDIA, October 17, 2011: A church of the Syro-Malabar denomination in Kerala’s Wayanad district has offered 10,000 rupees ($200) for a couple’s fifth child. The move comes after a 12 member panel for the Commission of Rights and Welfare of Women and Children submitted a report to the government last month recommending harsh punishments, such as three months…

www.nhsf.org.uk/arisearjuna UNITED KINGDOM, October 2011 (by Kajal Valani Sheth): Awake, arise and uphold Dharma. This is effectively the message Shri Krishna gave to Arjuna on the Kurukshetra battlefield, and this is the message the National Hindu Students Forum (UK) – NHSF – are looking to give students and the wider Hindu Samaj of the UK. The National event will be…

Source TAIPEI, TAIWAN, October 5, 2011 (press release): The first English translation of the alchemical Matrikabheda Tantra is now available–in eBook format. Mike Magee, the translator, has spent several decades exploring ancient Hindu sacred texts. “This tantra has evidently some connection with the Rasesvaras, or Natha Siddhas. Aside from the frequent alchemical references, and the salutation of Siva as Natha,…

Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, November 2, 2011 (by K. Venugopal): The wealth found in the cellars of the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple was not accumulated through oppressive taxes or through looting during wars, claims a new book released this week. Instead, as much as 95 per cent of the wealth comprised of regular donations made by various branches of the Travancore…

Source To the growing soul, to the spirit within us, may not difficulties, obstacles, attacks be a means of growth, added strength, enlarged experience, training for spiritual victory? The arrangement of things may be that, and not a mere question of the pounds, shillings and pence of a distribution of rewards and retributory misfortunes!— Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950), Indian philosopher…

Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, October, 27, 2011: Earlier this year, billionaire-philanthropists, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, arrived in India to try to convince India’s wealthiest that they could, and should, do more. India is now home to 57 billionaires, according to Forbes, and a multiplying number of millionaires. However, India’s super-rich has been relatively slow to give. Bain & Co.’s…

Source INDIA, Ocotber 29, 2011 (by Rajeshree Sisodia): This is a story of one of the world’s largest agricultural biotechnology companies – the United States-based Monsanto – and its run in with farmers in south India, following murky allegations of its attempts to “steal” nine indigenous brinjal (also known as eggplant or aubergine) varieties and genetically modify them. The allegation…