Author: Erin Sherbert

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/16154644.htm

Bay Area residents crowded the Shiva-Vishnu Temple in Livermore on Saturday for the Geeta Jayanti, a celebration of the Bhagawad Geeta, the most well-known and respected texts of Hinduism.

It was Shri Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnu and a great warrior, who gave the holy sermon of the book, which was written...

Source: Hinduism Today/Times of India

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/hpi/2006/12/1.shtml#2

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1, 2006: A 100-year-old Hindu temple in Southern Malaysia, the Sri Muthu Mariamman temple at Skudia in Johor, has been demolished following a court order. The deities will move to a new site provided by the authorities. The temple was situated at the Uniroyal Linden Estate, a rubber plantation that was home to around 1,000 families. UTM, a public university with its main...

Source: Local London

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/education/display.var.1053560.0.hindu_school_opens_register.php

THE Krishna-Avanti Primary, which could be the UK's first state-funded Hindu school, has launched a "register of interest" for parents of prospective pupils.

The charity behind the school, the I-Foundation, which works to further Verdic culture and philosophy, hopes to find a site for it in...

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: AP

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/205/story_20547_1.html

Mumbai, India, Nov 30 - Low-caste groups protesting the desecration of their leader's statue burned train cars, buses and clashed with police in western India on Thursday, in violence that left at least two people dead and 40 injured, police said.

Authorities imposed curfews in three districts of western Maharashtra state Thursday, police said,...

Source: Hindu Press International

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/hpi/2006/11/29.shtml#4

VALENCIA, SPAIN: An intimate merging of Indian music, incense and reverence. That was how the first Hindu Temple in Valencia, located in the central Plaza del Patriarca, was inaugurated on November 23rd. The director, Swami Omkarananda, stated that this place has been created with "sharing" as the goal.

After more than twenty years of teaching yoga classes, studying and traveling...

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/media_press_release_kazakhstan_demolition.htm

WASHINGTON D.C. (Nov. 27, 2006) – The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) strongly condemned the destruction of five homes and a temple belonging to members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) by Kazakh government authorities. On November 21, 2006, sixty policemen assembled at the ashram in Karasai...

Source: Reuters India

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Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UK_slams_Kazakh_Hindus_harassment/articleshow/520439.cms

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has raised the issue of alleged harassment of Kazakh Hindus with the Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev at a meeting in London.

The Hindu Forum of Britain alleged on Wednesday that 60 riot police and bulldozers assembled inside a Hindu temple in Kazakhstan and...

Source: The News

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=32834

President General Pervez Musharraf visited various areas of the city and commended the development work by the Sindh government.

He was accompanied by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal. Taking round of the city Monday evening, the president appreciated efforts of the Sindh government for the uplift work done at Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim and Kothari Parade. He appreciated...

Author: Lisa Fernandez

Source: Mercury News, the

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/11/24/fremont-retains-face-of-transition/

She's the first Indo-American elected to a city council in the Bay Area, and among only a handful of...

Author: Panagiota Papakos

Source: University of Florida News

http://news.ufl.edu/2006/11/21/center-brings-hindu-traditions-to-uf-classrooms/

At the University of Florida, the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions is working to change the way people view the third-largest religion in the world.

“People aren’t really clear about what the word Hindu means,” said Vasudha Narayanan, director of...

Author: GRANT PECK

Source: The Times-Picayune

Wire Service: AP

Source: Gulf Times

Author: Mary Tan

Source: wcco.com

http://wcco.com/local/local_story_320195110.html

Sen. Satveer Chaudhary, a practicing Hindu, was re-elected in District 50 last week on the Democratic ticket, netting 63 percent of the vote. But rather than placing a call to concede the race, his Republican opponent Rae Hart Anderson instead offered him an e-mail concession that he said read like an attempt to convert his religious beliefs.

"To get a sermon is...