Mass Ayurveda College Certifications Questioned

Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 25, 2018 (by G.S Mudur, The Telegraph): The Centre’s regulators of traditional medicine have approved over the past four years more than 150 ayurveda and unani medical colleges that lack minimum prescribed standards of infrastructure, faculty or patients, sections of regulators themselves have complained to the government. Members of the Central Council of Indian Medicine…

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Bali to Develop Offshore Airport

Source BALI, INDONESIA, February 22, 2018 (The Jakarta Post): Bali plans to develop an offshore airport in the northern part of the resort island with the name of Bandara International Bali Baru (BIBU) or the New Bali International Airport. Project developer PT BIBU president director I Made Mangku said in Bali on Thursday that the company preferred to develop an…

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Daily Inspiration

Source Acquire the transcendental knowledge from a Self-realized master by humble reverence, by sincere inquiry and by service. The wise ones who have realized the Truth will impart the Knowledge to you.— Bhagavad Gita

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Government Announces Funding of $127,000 for Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple

Source MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, February 16, 2018 (SBS): The Victorian Government on Friday announced it will provide more than US$127,000 to the Hindu Society of Victoria, also known as the Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple, to upgrade its Cultural and Heritage Centre. Minister for Multicultural Affairs Robin Scott and Member for Member for Carrum Sonya Kilkenny joined the Indian community to make…

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Daily Inspiration

Source Do you realize now the sacred significance and the supreme importance of the guru’s role in the evolution of man? It was not without reason that the India of the past carefully tended and kept alive the lamp of guru-tattva. It is therefore not without reason that India, year after year, age after age, commemorates anew this ancient concept…

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IIT Alumnus Sets Up Sanskrit Chair at IIT-Madras for Science and Technology in the Vedas

Source CHENNAI, INDIA, February 9, 2018 (Indian Express): The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) will soon get a Sanskrit Chair, attached to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, to study “India’s legacy of science and technology in the Vedas, with special focus on Sanskrit language”. The Chair has been funded by Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, “spiritual head” of…

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Trinidad Hindus observe Shiva Ratri with reverence and devotion

HPI PORT-OF_SPAIN, TRINIDAD, February 13, 2018 (Paras Ramoutar): Against the deafening songs of calypso, soca, steelpan and mas revelers marking the closing day of the annual Carnival, a pre-Lenten festival, devout Hinduism in this oil-rich economy observed Shivaratri with reverence and devotion in over 400 mandirs and thousands of homes across the country. Twenty-five percent of Trinidad and Tabago’s population…

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First Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to Be Built by BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha

Source ABU DHABI, UAE, February 11, 2018 (Press Release): Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi on Sunday, February 11, 2018, inaugurated the BAPS Hindu Mandir model, and thus officially launched the BAPS Hindu Mandir construction in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Sadguru Pujya Ishwarcharandas Swami performed the foundation stone laying ceremony of the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi to be…

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Daily Inspiration

Source Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with wool to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.— Sri Ramana Maharishi (1879-1950), South Indian mystic

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Cathay Pacific Partners to Bring Yoga to the Sky

Source HONG KONG, February 9, 2018 (Cathay Pacific): Cathay Pacific has partnered with Pure Yoga to launch a new inflight well-being program, Travel Well with Yoga, this month. In harmony with the airline’s Life Well Travelled campaign, the series of videos have been developed by Pure Yoga instructors to help passengers ease into their journeys with yoga and meditation exercises…

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