GO TO SOURCE KOLKATA, INDIA, Thursday, December 5, 2002: Devotees visiting the 150-year-old Dakshineswar Kali Temple near Kolkata (Calcutta) may soon be insured against terrorist attacks. Though properties of temples are often insured against theft, this is the first temple to cover devotees as well under an anti-terrorist insurance umbrella. The temple, draws five thousand devotees daily and at its…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, December 6, 2002: Over 50 akharas (monastic orders) and ashrams in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal will soon prepare themselves for a new role when hundreds of thousands of Naga Sadhus associated with them would take up the security of temples and religious shrines in the country. “The Naga sadhus, numbering over 500,000 in the country,…
Source: News Report HAMM, GERMANY, October 2, 2002: The Ruhr Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is well known for its coal mining and steel tempering. And from now on it will also be associated with Europe’s largest Hindu Temple. Dedicated to Sri Kamakshi Ambal, the temple was officially opened in Hamm-Uentrop, an industrial zone just outside the city, in ceremonies…
GO TO SOURCE MADISON, U.S.A., December 8, 2002: The Governor of Wisconsin has declared the week of December 9 as “Interfaith Awareness Week,” with the main purpose of the celebration to develop awareness and establish mutual understanding and respect among religions. The American Hindu Association, along with six other faith groups, is participating. The inaugurating events will be on Tuesday,…
Source: News Report BANGALORE, INDIA, December 2, 2002: The discovery of long-forgotten underwater settlements off the coast of Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, by American marine archaeologists has pushed the antiquity of civilization in South India back by a few millennia and showed a link with Vedic civilization. This finding was voiced here on Monday by the noted American scholar in the…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 30, 2002: A unique concept has been masterminded by Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, which will manifest at Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2003. Business leaders of the WEF have collaborated with forty spiritual leaders, representing a variety of world religions, to bring spirituality to the forum which, up until 9-11…
Source: Austin American Stateman AUSTIN, U.S.A., November 28, 2002: This year’s 18th Ecumenical Thanksgiving Gathering sponsored by the Austin Area Inter-religious Ministries was held at the Barsana Dham Hindu temple. Attended by over 1,000 leaders from the Catholic, Episcopal, Protestant denominations, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam and Hindu faiths, the gathering demonstrated America’s religious freedom. Respecting Hindu tradition, everybody attending the ceremony…
Source: Times of India BANGALORE, INDIA, December 8, 2002: Women too will henceforth be punished with three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000 if they undergo sex-determination test, if the National Committee on Empowerment of Women have their say. In more than 98 per cent of the cases, pregnant women are forced by their families to terminate or…
GO TO SOURCE KOLKATA, INDIA, December 8, 2002: Since 1995 the first Bengali Internet Daily has been successfully online and published from India. The publishers announce a new publication of a print media Bengali magazine from Kolkata called “Sangbad Bichitra.” Editor Dr. Subhra Bose invites Benaglis or others interested in Bengali news to visit their website to give their views,…
GO TO SOURCE HYDERABAD, INDIA, December 7, 2002: Mahyco-Monsanto’s Bt. (biotechnology) cotton in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh has failed on all three counts of ensuring higher yields, reducing pesticide usage and being economically rewarding for the farmer, according to an independent study commissioned by the Andhra Pradesh Coalition in Defense of Diversity. The study estimated that the farmers growing…