GO TO SOURCE BHILWARA, INDIA, August,1, 2001: The tension that was brewing in the Rajasthan town of Asind after a group of Gujjars allegedly razed an ancient mosque and installed a Hindu icon at the site, was defused after a marathon five-hour discussion between leaders of the Hindu and Muslim communities, where authorities managed to persuade the former to remove…
GO TO SOURCE TRIPURA, INDIA, August 2, 2001: Tribal Hindus in Tripura have formed vigilante groups to thwart attempts by separatist militants to convert people to Christianity at gunpoint, community leaders said on Thursday. “It is a very serious threat to Hinduism with armed militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura forcibly converting tribal villagers to Christianity,” said…
GO TO SOURCE TAIWAN, August 2, 2001: Researchers in Taiwan found that the smoke produced by burning incense is laden with cancer-causing chemicals. Levels of one chemical believed to cause lung cancer were 40 times higher in a badly ventilated temple in Taiwan than in houses where people smoke tobacco. Incense burning also creates more pollution than road traffic at…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, August 2, 2001: Researchers say the world’s population could stop growing sooner than expected. They suggest it could peak within the next 70 years, and then decline. By the end of the century, they believe, the number of people alive could be 8.4 billion — about one billion fewer than the United Nations has predicted.…
GO TO SOURCE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, August 1, 2001: In an interview with J.V. Lakshmana Rao of the India Tribune, Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami, an eminent Sanskrit scholar, of Jeeyar Educational Trust and Vedic University, located in Sitanagaram in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, said the “Aryan invasion is a cock and bull story. It is the creation of Western invaders.…
Source: Punjab Kesari (Hindi) NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 1, 2001: The discourses of Swami Agnivesh, organizer of the World Arya Mahasammelan, will be telecast on ETC channel everyday morning between 7:00 and 7:30. Influenced by the revolutionary thought process of Swami Dayananda, for the last 35 years Swami Agnivesh has struggled for the emancipation of bonded laborers. He has addressed…
Source: The Hindu JAIPUR, INDIA, July 30, 2001: A decrepit mosque built by a battalion of the Moghul army in the 16th century near Asind town in Bhilwara district of south Rajasthan was demolished by a mob and a temple built in its place on July 27, sending shock waves across the state and leading to tension between Hindus and…
GO TO SOURCE KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, July 29, 2001: The Malaysia Hindu Sangam will organize The Millennium Symposium on the Future of Hinduism on Aug 12 in what the organizers describe as “a clarion call to take action to save our culture and religious heritage.” “From the sociological point of view, we are losing our culture and religious heritage at…
GO TO SOURCE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, July 21, 2001: Archbishop Edward Gilbert, head of the Catholic Church in Trinidad and Tobago, recently observed that only 30 per cent of the students at Presentation College, Chaguanas are Roman Catholics. He also expressed his intention to give special attention to Roman Catholic education in Catholic schools. Although Presentation College, Chaguanas, is a…