Source: www.zeenews.com KOLKATA, INDIA, May 19, 2010: India is seeking UNESCO support for an international campaign to recover its priceless antiquities that were once taken away from the country in foreign invasions. “As efforts so far to reclaim stolen treasures have proved futile, UNESCO support is required for launching an international campaign to achieve the end,” Archaeological Survey of India…
Source: www.zeenews.com KANCHEEPURAM, INDIA, May 22, 2010: Stone inscriptions dating back to the 10th and 11th century AD found recently in a nearby village have thrown light on the way records of properties were maintained during the Chola times. The stones were found last week during digging at the Sirukarumbur hamlet, tucked away from the main road 15 miles from…
Source: www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, May 12, 2010: The only Hindu Temple (a district of South London) is facing demolition as developers plan to move in and replace the holy site with a hotel and student accommodation. The Sivayogam Muthumariyamman Temple may be forced to close after the religious leaders’ bid to buy the building was rejected. Money owed to the…
Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON, May 2010: Jamila Bey and other black atheists, agnostics and secularists are struggling to openly affirm their secular viewpoints in a community that’s historically heralded as one of America’s most religious. At the first African Americans for Humanism conference recently hosted by the non-profit Center for Inquiry, about 50 people gathered to discuss the ins…
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, May 29, 2010: With salt under attack for its ill effects on the nation’s health, the food giant Cargill kicked off a campaign last November to spread its own message. “Salt is a pretty amazing compound,” Alton Brown gushes about it. But by all appearances, this is a moment of reckoning for salt. High blood pressure…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com As your mind releases its desires and cravings, it releases the hold that it has on you. You dive deeper, fearlessly into this blazing avalanche of light, losing your consciousness. And as you come back into the mind, you see the mind for what it is, and you are free. You find that you are no longer attached…
Source: HPI PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, May 25, 2010 (By Paras Ramoutar): Trinidad and Tobago has elected its first female Prime Minister in the person of Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar following elections held on Monday. She is a devout Hindu, and her People’s Partnership won 29 out of the 41 parliamentary seats. Persad-Bissessar is expected to swear in as Prime Minister…
Source: expressbuzz.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, May 23, 2010: Jyotsna Padmanabhan, a 12-year-old girl, is all set to script history by being the first female in Kerala to conduct a Deity installation in accordance with tantric rituals. The girl’s entry into the sanctum sanctorum of the Paikunikavu Sri Krishna Temple at Kattoor near Irinjalakuda on Sunday to conduct the prathishta of…
Source: blog.baliwww.com BALI, INDONESIA, May 22, 2010: Balinese Hindus will celebrate a religious day known as Kuningan on Saturday May 22, 2010. This ceremonial occasion falls exactly 10 days after the Galungan rituals and is a time to commemorate ancestral spirits as they return to heaven after dwelling on earth for an extended period. Worshipers express their gratitude through prayer…
Source: Religion News Services WASHINGTON, DC, USA: The U.S. Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of an Arizona program that provides state tax breaks for donations to private school scholarship programs. As part of the 13-year-old tax-tuition program, taxpayers receive a dollar-for-dollar reduction in state income taxes for their donations to not-for-profit school-tuition organizations. Last year, 91.5 percent of the…