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KAUAI, HAWAII, OCTOBER 2, 2021 (HPI): Hinduism Today’s latest issue has gone to press and is now available online free of charge at https://www.hinduismtoday.com/category/magazine/oct-nov-dec-2021/. You can also download our free Hinduism Today app and get the entire magazine in a mobile-friendly format for your device at https://www.bit.ly/HT-APP. Our publisher, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, takes us on an ascent through consciousness, climbing…

BENGALURU, INDIA, September 29, 2021 (The Hindu): The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday rejected a petition against anointment of a minor boy as the 31st seer of Udupi Shiroor Mutt while holding that there is no statutory or constitutional bar on a person aged below 18 being initiated into sanyasa. “The petition has not been able to make out…

UNITED STATES, September 24, 2021 (RNS): When Vineet Chander accepted his job as the Hindu chaplain at Princeton University in 2008, his Hindu community was baffled by his profession. Their puzzlement was understandable: Chander, a former prosecutor, was not just the only full-time Hindu chaplain at any place of higher learning at the time; he was the first Hindu in…

UNITED KINGDOM, September 28, 2021 (Daily News Catch): In a first from the British Royal Mint ingots, a range of bars featuring Goddess Lakshmi to celebrate Diwali went on sale Tuesday. The “Lakshmi” bar, a 20 gram gold bar with the Hindu Goddess of Wealth intricately etched into the precious metal, was designed by Royal Mint designer Emma Noble and…

NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 26, 2021 (Indian Express): As many as 157 artifacts and antiquities were handed over by the United States during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country. The list has a diverse set of items — a 4.9 foot bas-relief panel of Revanta in sandstone made in the 10th century, a 3.4 inch tall bronze Nataraj…

TIRUVANNAMALAI, INDIA, September 26, 2021 (The Hindu): The Tiruvannamalai district administration has extended the strict lockdown in force in the temple town till October 3. Parks, swimming pools and dams in Tiruvannamalai and neighboring Kattam Poondi in the district will be closed during this period, District Collector B. Murugesh said on Saturday. Hotels, bakeries and tea shops can function between…

ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, September 24, 2021 (Hindustan Times): The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which is in charge of managing the Lord Venkateshwara temple at Tirumala in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, has made Covid-19 vaccination certificates or negative RT-PCR test results mandatory for all pilgrims, TTD chairperson Y. V. Subba Reddy has said in a statement. The vaccination certificates will…