WHN Global Newsletter – 25 Jan 2015

WORLD HINDU NEWS

“Our son Sukhwant Singh Boni had gone to Dubai in 2009 but landed in jail after he was falsely implicated in a murder case in November 2011. He is being pressurised to convert to Islam and is also being given beef to eat. The jail authorities say if he accepts Islam then his jail term will be reduced,”

Hindus are inheritors of a culture which integrated spirituality and science with great pageantry. Hinduism’s underlying core belief is that there is only God and everything emanates from that One. All forms are an expression of the divine (divya), each representing and showcasing one or many aspects of the divine qualities.

Peshawar: January 19, 2015. (PCP) Patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hindu Council Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani has said that to ensure protection of Minorities, specially Hindu community, Hindu Council would strengthen cooperation with the state institutions.

Hindu society has always aimed at the welfare of the world, and it did not support religious conversions. Because of the fact that there are enemies of Hinduism within Hindu society, the policy of minority appeasement is continuing,’ – Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, R S S

Even as it is 25 years now that the #Hindus were chased out of the Valley of Kashmir by the #Muslims, there is a lot of misconception in people’s mind, both Indian and western, that Kashmir did not always belong to India, or that it is a “disputed area”. This is why FACT (Forum Against Continuing Terrorism) chose to do an exhibition…

As the nation, or what passes for it in this wondrous land with an abysmally poor sense of history, observes the 118th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, perhaps the time has come for one of India’s great leaders to be freed from the confines of political myth-making that has reduced him to calendar lithographs which adorn living rooms in provincial Bengal and the dimly lit offices of the Forward Bloc in Kolkata.

The share of Hindus in India’s population has shown the sharpest dip in a decade since Independence and has dropped below 80 per cent. According to figures of the religion census of 2011, yet to be officially released, Hindus comprised 78.35 per cent of the total population of 121.05 crore

“In developed/developing countries, poverty is rampant. One of its most undesirable side-effects is that parents cannot afford to send their children to school. Uneducated children then grow up to be impoverished adults hence establishing a self-sustaining vicious cycle.

Also present was Malaysia Hindu Sangam president Datuk Mohan Shan and Malaysian Hindu Sangam Sarawak State Council president, Krishnarao Subramaniam. In his speech, Mohan Shan said he was happy to see a large turnout at the event, comprising people from various races, despite the drizzle.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia/BANGKOK – Thailand is to return ancient Khmer artifacts looted from temples during the turmoil of the 1970s, Cambodian officials said Monday. According to the Cambodian Foreign Ministry, dozens of stolen relics were confiscated by Thai authorities in 1999 and Thailand has now agreed to return 16.

President of Patriots Forum, D.C. Nath was superannuated in January, 1995, as the Special Director, Intelligence Bureau, D.C. Nath (IPS-1960) was associated with the International Institute of Security and Safety Management (IISSM), headquartered in New Delhi, for over 14 years, first as the Executive President & CEO and then as the President & Director General, between February, 1997 and March, 2011.