PTI New Delhi: Government today said that Sikh militant groups especially those based abroad are trying to revive militancy in Punjab and a close watch is being maintained on their activities. “Available reports suggest that Sikh militant groups especially those based abroad continue to persist with their efforts to revive militancy in Punjab,” Minister of state for home Ajay Maken said a written reply to a query in Lok Sabha. As part of steps taken by the government to counter such attempts, he said a close watch is being maintained on the activities of many groups known to have been engaged in trying to foment terrorist activities in Punjab.
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Extremist groups trying to revive militancy in Punjab: Govt
Sanskrit mantras to open Fresno City Council meet in California Oneindia Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages. Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of ..
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Sanskrit mantras to open Fresno City Council meet in California – Oneindia
Good News friends, A festival of Tibetan spirituality, arts and culture – the first of its kind in Thailand – will take place from March 5 to 10 at BACC (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre), Pathumwan. This Festival is called ” FROM THE HIMALAYAS TO THE CHAO PHRAYA: FESTIVAL OF TIBETAN SPIRITUALITY, ARTS & CULTURE “. TIPA (Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts) is going to performing arts in Thailand
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TIPA performing Arts in Bangkok, Thailand
Thousands of women flaunted their cleavage Monday in protest after an Iranian cleric suggested that women who do not dress modestly cause earthquakes.
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Women strut their stuff for Boobquake
Russell Blackford is for it ; Jerry Coyne is against it ; Amanda Marcotte splits the difference . I speak, of course, of today’s baring of chest flesh intended to mock the Iranian cleric who blamed women’s sexuality for earthquakes: The prayer leader, Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi, says women and girls who “don’t dress appropriately” spread “promiscuity in society.” “When promiscuity spreads, earthquakes increase,” he says in a video posted Monday on YouTube, apparently of him leading Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, last week. “There is no way other than taking refuge in religion and adapting ourselves to Islamic behavior,” he adds in the video
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Of Boobs and Quakes
Around 90,000 Sikhs packed Handsworth Park as part of an annual celebration to remember the birth of their faith. The Birmingham event was one of the largest Vaisakhi parties in the world and kicked off at 10am with two huge processions from the temples in Hockley and Smethwick
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90,000 Sikhs celebrate festival in Birmingham
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari says it’s not entirely correct to blame the then Congress government for initiating the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. In an interview to BBC Hindi Service, Gadkari said: “Some people might be involved in those riots but it would not be entirely correct to say that the riots were initiated by the government.
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Congress did not initiate anti-Sikh riots in 1984: Gadkari
VANCOUVER — It’s been a tumultuous and perhaps trying week for Vancouver Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh, who saw his life threatened twice. “As long as I stand for what I stand for, I will be a target,” Dosanjh told the Vancouver Province Friday after RCMP launched an investigation into a posting on a Facebook page calling for the former premier to be shot.
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Dosanjh vows not to let threats change his resolve
Paul Harvey Blogging’s a little light on my end as I limp to the end of the semester, but in the meantime a little weekend roundup for you. First, we have blogged here before about Jared Farmer’s award-winning On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape . The author appears, in interview format, in Religion Dispatches , where he reflects further on his work.
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Weekend Update: Jared Farmer Interview, the Jewish Review of Books, and Empires of Sacrifice
Rev. Daniel Callahan, the Catholic priest at St. Joan of Arc in Toronto, is a serious athlete who participates every year in New York’s Ironman triathlon
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Rev. Daniel Callahan, priest and Ironman competitor