Statement from DFL Chairman Ken Martin (Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Aug 2016
(Source. Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) ... 'The motion to create this task force, introduced by Veda Kanitz, Chair of the DFL Environmental Caucus, also directed the body to postpone the vote on platform resolution #54 until the December State Central Committee meeting ... DFL News, Environmental Issues, Iron Range / Northern Minnesota Area News, Labor & Business Affairs....

Intolerance for the wretched

Edit Deccan Chronicle 08 Aug 2016
The incidents in Gujarat’s Una and similar atrocities against dalits have sharply brought into focus the BJP-RSS’ divisive worldview and exposed its narrow bigoted version of “Hindutva” ... “... The famous Purusha Sukta in the 10th Mandala of the Rig Veda implies the unity of the creator with its creation, thus sowing the seeds of Monoism, that was later expanded in the Upanishads ... It involves social justice ... ....

Inside Cary Grant’s secret life with men

Edit New York Post 08 Aug 2016
Ninety years ago, future screen legend Cary Grant shared a Greenwich Village love nest with an Australian man who went on to win three Oscars. Cary GrantPhoto. Bettmann Archive. That’s the provocative claim in “Women He’s Undressed,’’ a new documentary about celebrated costume designer Orry-Kelly (released Aug ... Orry-Kelly and Marilyn MonroePhoto ... There was never really anything to hide.’’ Orry-Kelly with Veda Ann BorgPhoto ... lot ... ....

His Vedic RAM is a world beater

Edit The Times of India 07 Aug 2016
JAIPUR ... In the process, he has beaten a US citizen who has held the record for 10 years ... An average student throughout his life, Sharma's life transformed after his father insisted that he study Rig Veda and Yajur Veda ... The Vedas taught Sharma to recall information by memorizing them as pictures ... RELATED....

Oram move to get back India's first hand-written paper from London

Edit The Times of India 07 Aug 2016
BHUBANESWAR. If Union tribal affairs minister Jual Oram's words bear fruit, India, perhaps, after the fabled Kohinoor may stake claim to all that remains of the country's first hand-written newspaper, Kujibara Patra, currently kept in museums in London ... "I will write to our high commissioner there to pursue the matter," he had announced ... Rev ... He studied the Vedas and related subjects at the village school ... Rev ... RELATED. From around the web....

Vedic competition held in Chennai

Edit The Times of India 06 Aug 2016
Totally 414 students studying Vedas and 26 students studying Shastras participated in the competition. The competitions were held on Rik, Shukla Yajur, Krishna Yajur and Sama Vedas. The syllabi of these Vedas were divided into 16 sections and prizes were distributed to winners in each section....

Vedic completion held in Chennai

Edit The Times of India 05 Aug 2016
Totally 414 students studying Vedas and 26 students studying Shastras participated in the competition. The competitions were held on Rik, Shukla Yajur, Krishna Yajur and Sama Vedas. The syllabi of these Vedas were divided into 16 sections and prizes were distributed to winners in each section....

Zee TV to launch weekend thriller fiction show 'Brahmarakshas - Jaag Utha Shaitaan' from 6th August (Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Aug 2016
(Source. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited). Zee TV to launch weekend thriller fiction show 'Brahmarakshas - Jaag Utha Shaitaan' from 6th August Ever met a bride who doesn't wear red sindoor, red chooda or paayal? Chances are she'd be from a village called Kamalpura where terror strikes when a bride decks up in her finery ... Akash Chawla, Zee TV & Zee Studios Business Head ... The existence of demons is well documented in our vedas....

Credibility of Electoral and Separatist Politics in Jammu and Kashmir

Edit CounterPunch 05 Aug 2016
The insurgency in Kashmir, India and Pakistan’s ideological differences, and their political intransigence could result in the eruption of a future crisis ... efforts to radically redefine Indian and Pakistani societies in the light of ritualistic Hinduism and Islam, respectively ... “India itself was the original home of the Aryans. The Aryans were an indigenous race and the creators of the Vedas” (Friese 2002) ... 164–77) ... 15) ... 233) ... 199) ... ....

Rio 2016: Can Jamaica's Yohan Blake Outrun His Friend, Usain Bolt?

Edit Yahoo Daily News 03 Aug 2016
Close. The night before the men’s 100-meter final at the 2012 London Olympics, 22-year-old Yohan Blake could not sleep. The following day’s race would be the most important of his life. The young Jamaican was about to compete in his first Olympic final ... The starting gun fired ... The U.S ... Blake was born on December 26, 1989, the sixth of Shirley and Veda Blake’s seven children, in the city of Montego Bay on the northwest coast of the island....

Event planned at Pushkar

Edit The Hindu 01 Aug 2016
A team of Vedic pandits travelled to the wooded place, hence the name, in Uttar Pradesh and chanted the Vedas. According to purana, it was there that sage Vyasa segregated the Vedas into four categories and none had attempted to organise a rendition in that place ... “The only way to counter the waves of negative energy is to create positive vibrations, and what better method than chant the Vedas,” he exclaims....

How Velachery came to be

Edit The Hindu 01 Aug 2016
The past. Velachery was a planned nagaram a thousand years ago, says Pradeep Chakravarthy of mysticalpalmyra.com. The Cholas started laying out villages methodically ... Before the boom. In 2000, Veda and Ramu moved to Velachery from Adyar for “clean air and quiet surroundings”, much to the shock of their friends ... Buses too ... “We had piped water and well-made drains, better than those in many areas,” recalls Veda ... ....

'Raavan's character intrigued me'

Edit Deccan Herald 01 Aug 2016
After last performing on stage over three decades ago, actor Puneet Issar is all set to make a comeback in theatre writer and director Atul Satya Koushik’s Raavan Ki Ramayan ... After that I got busy with films, other projects, the regular rigmarole and lost connect. Doing theatre is a big challenge, and I thought I could take it up now.” ... But, he was also intelligent and had read all the Vedas ... ....
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