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Malaysia Warns India about Meddling

December 1, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: One News

Wire Service: Reuters

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1469755

Malaysia has told India not to meddle in its internal affairs after New Delhi expressed concerns over the treatment of ethnic Indians in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said the government would deal with citizens according to its own laws and no other country should interfere, the Star...

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Hindu American Foundation Celebrates Landmark Achievements of Leaders

November 30, 2007

Source: Hindu American Foundation

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

Washington D.C (Nov 30th 2007) - The last two weeks were unique for the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), when two of its own received significant national recognition. Ishanaa Rambachan, a member of the HAF Executive Council and student at St. Olaf's College in Minnesota, was a recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship...

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Diwali in Northern Ireland

November 30, 2007

Author: Mukesh Sharma

Source: Hindu Council UK

http://www.hinducounciluk.org/newsite/circulardet.asp?rec=65

ArtsEkta Ltd, Northern Ireland's only Ethnic Arts organisation recently celebrated Diwali in the City of Lisburn.

The event was hugely successful and was attended by members of the local community as well as Indian, Chinese and the Zimbabwean community. A showcase of traditional, classical dance and music was on display as...

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Britain Wants More Muslim, Hindu Spies

November 26, 2007

Author: RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL

Source: The Times of india

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Britain_wants_more_Muslim_Hindu_spies/articleshow/2573382.cms

They are not quite the prototype of Ian Fleming's Martini-drinking, Aston Martin-tooling, macho English playboy secret agent James Bond, but Britain's desperately-seeking, mainly-white foreign and domestic intelligence services have launched an unusual...

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Hindus Get the OK to Build Temple in The Woodlands

November 26, 2007

Author: BARBARA KARKABI

Source: Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/5324487.html

Hindus will break ground in February for the first temple of their faith in Montgomery County.

The Woodlands Design Review Board recently approved designs for the temple, which will be built on 8.3 acres of land at the intersection of Woodlands Parkway and South Forest Gate, about seven miles west of Interstate 45....

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Malaysia Hindu Activists Released

November 26, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7112930.stm

Three Hindu activists, arrested before a rally in Malaysia's capital city and charged with sedition, have been freed.

The charges were dropped as prosecutors could not provide a translation of their allegedly seditious comments.

The men said their release was a "small step" towards justice for the Indian community in Malaysia.

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Hindu Temple Planned for Northeast Ohio

November 22, 2007

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.examiner.com/a-1063237~Hindu_temple_planned_for_northeast_Ohio.html

RICHFIELD, Ohio (Map, News) - Plans are under way for the construction of a Hindu temple in the Akron and Cleveland area.

The zoning commission in the northeast Ohio city of Richfield is reviewing preliminary plans for the Sree Venkateswara (ven-KHAT-is-swar-ah) Temple of Cleveland.

Dr. Ram Bandi, president of the local...

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Awareness Grows: American Hindu Group Promotes More Visibility

November 20, 2007

Author: NIRAJ WARIKOO

Source: Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071120/NEWS05/711200347

In the living room of a Pittsfield Township home, Mihir Meghani explained to several guests why they should support the Hindu American Foundation.

"We need to have a public voice," said Meghani, a Southfield native who is president of the foundation.

By the end of his talk on a recent...

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Prince Charles Pays Tribute to Indian Contribution

November 17, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Hindu

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/001200711172073.htm

Prince Charles has paid handsome tribute to the "remarkable contribution" the Asian, particularly the Indian community, has made to Britain.

Speaking at a special dinner hosted by him and the Duchess of Cornwall for nearly 200 guests at Windsor Castle to celebrate the "splendidly unstoppable" achievements they had made in recent...

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HAF Celebrates Adoption of Diwali Resolution in U.S. Senate

November 15, 2007

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/media_press_release_sen_res_299.htm

WASHINGTON, DC (November 15, 2007). Senate Resolution 299, recognizing the “religious and historical significance of the festival of Diwali,” passed unanimously on November 14, 2007 in the U.S. Senate. Nearly identical to the House Resolution 747 that passed in the full House of Representatives on October 29, 2007, the senate...

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Ceremony Opens Montclair's First Hindu Temple

November 15, 2007

Author: Neil Nisperos

Source: Daily Bulletin

http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_7422735

MONTCLAIR - In a ceremony steeped in symbolic ritual and centuries-old tradition, the first Hindu temple in the city's history opened Friday.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda, a noted Hindu swami, led the ceremony at the 24,000-square-foot Nithyananda Vedic Temple and Vedic Sciences University at 9720 N. Central Ave.

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