Source: Press Reports NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 8, 2002: Despite the December 1, 2000, High Court order, corporal punishment appears to be commonplace in Delhi schools. In just the past week, three cases of violence against students were reported. Eleven-year-old Arti fainted after her teacher beat her with a stick for not bringing her English notebook to school. Student of…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, UK, Feb 9, 2002: Ethnic communities have condemned strongly the British Home Secretary after he urged families who arrange marriages to find partners in Britain and not in Asia, triggering a new row over multi-culturalism. Mr David Blunkett was accused of “dangerous interference” in Asian culture when he said parents and men and women taking part…
Source: Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 30, 2002: This article in the Hindustan Times is the latest in a series of reports appearing in Delhi papers regarding corporal punishment in schools. When eight-year old Rachna could not properly read her Hindi lesson, her teacher at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) primary school reprimanded her by repeatingly banging her…
GO TO SOURCE KAUAI, HAWAII, February 14, 2002: An HPI reader asks, “Can you advise on where and how I can purchase fonts of roman characters with diacritical marks for the the transliteration of Sanskrit terms in English texts, to install in my PC (Word 95).” Any HPI readers who know of such fonts may kindly respond to “Source” above…
GO TO SOURCE OSLO, SPAIN, February 7, 2002: With significant reduced brain activity after using a cell phone for only a few minutes, child subjects at the Spanish Neuro Diagnostic Research center in Marbella were compared to adult subjects. Conducted by German investigator Michael Klieeisen, the tests clearly showed that brain activity in large sections of the brain was reduced…
Source: Reuters NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 7, 2002: With his “don’t worry, be happy” slogan and a breathing technique to reduce stress, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravishankar is known as the laughing guru in India. Appealing to India’s Westernized urban elite who have lost contact with their religious roots and priests, Ravishankar’s message has given this group back their sense…
GO TO SOURCE USA, February 9, 2002: About 12 of the nearly 50 Hare Krishna temples in the United States will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this month because of a $400 million lawsuit over child abuse at Hare Krishna boarding schools, a spokesman for the movement said yesterday. The plaintiffs are 91 former students from around the world…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 8, 2002: The $600-million Chinese health care firm Tiangin Tianshi Biological Dev Co Ltd is introducing a range of Chinese herb-based food supplement health products in India. Tianshi’s foray is an outcome of Chinese premier Zhu Rongji’s recent visit to India, promising greater business between the two countries. In the first phase, Tianshi’s…
GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA, February 7, 2002: Primary and Secondary Education Minister H Vishwanath today said the State government had given permission for opening of 300 English medium schools, including 150 schools in Bangalore City alone, in the current academic year. The schools would have classes from standard 5 to 10. Speaking to reporters here, the Minister said the…