GO TO SOURCE DHAKA, PAKISTAN, October 17, 2001: Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh has said that personnel of the Bangladesh Rifles will be deployed if necessary to ensure that the Hindu community’s biggest festival, Durga Puja, which begins next week, passes off peacefully. Khaleda’s instruction came in the wake of the reported vandalism of Durga Puja venues and attacks…
GO TO SOURCE DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 15, 2001: The new Home Minister of Bangladesh, Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, has dismissed as “exaggerated” reports of attacks on religious minorities after the general election two weeks ago, saying he had personally visited some of the areas from where such reports had come, but found them baseless. Mr. Chowdhury called the news conference to…
GO TO SOURCE HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 7, 2001: In collaboration with the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, two temples’ managing committees have agreed to relocate their place of worship. Seetharama Anjaneya Temple at Tolichoki and a temple on the banks of the Musi River have been moved. When places of worship start to interrupt the flow of traffic, which also meant…
Source: Religion News Service USA, October 17, 2001: In October 1978, James Jones got a phone call informing him that his 22-year-old son had been killed in a car accident. “I knew at the time that a phone call was just not the way to deal with a death notification,” said Jones, 65, now sheriff of Shelby County, Alabama. It…
Source: www.indiannewslink.co.nz NEW ZEALAND, October 17, 2001: Indiana Publications Limited, publishers of the “Indian Newslink,” seek articles on a contribution basis for their 32-page Divali supplement. The deadline is Monday 22nd October.
Source: Hinduism Today PARMATH NIKETAN, RISHIKESH, INDIA, October 17, 2001: (Note: this longer-than-normal article for HPI is one of the best messages we have received from Hindu religious leaders on the events of September 11. It may be freely reprinted.) September 11 was a tragic day of unprecedented proportion. Never before in the history of the world had one group…
GO TO SOURCE DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 13, 2001: Various newspaper reports continue to be sent to HPI regarding post-election violence against Hindus in Bangladesh. According to these reports, at least 30 people were killed and more than 1,000 others injured in the recent spate of terrorism following the electoral victory of the BNP-led four-party alliance. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s repeated…
Source: India Today’s Aajtak Hindi TV channel JAMMU, INDIA, October 14, 2001: Jammu Correspondent of Aajtak Channel interviewed Jyoti Gupta, secretary of Dry Fruit Traders Association of Jammu who said that due to non-arrival of dry fruit items from Afghanistan after the war has begun there is acute shortage of many dryfruit items. The devotees visiting Vaishno Devi Shrine are…
GO TO SOURCE October 14, 2001: The full calendar of Krishna’s festivals culminating in the joyful riot of color that is Holi, are mirrored in this book, available from “source” above. The stories of Krishna are well known, but they are not retold here, neither is the book a scholastic commentary. Celebrating Krishna is thus a different story told at…
Source: Press Release HARROW, ENGLAND, October 14, 2001: Jai Prakash Lakhani of the Vivekananda Centre, UK, reports on the Vivekanananda Festival held at Harrow Civic Centre yesterday, “We had quite a few politicians present, including the local Member of Parliament and the local Member of the European parliament as well as many local councillors and the Mayors of Harrow and…