Meherabad: By 4 am, people formed a long line at the tomb shrine atop the Meherabad hill on February 25. And darshan was an orderly affair as usual. Normally, the shrine ‘opens’ at 5.30 am; darshan continues till around 8 pm but for half an hour from 6am when it is time for ‘cleaning’...
Feb 25 is celebrated as the birth day of Avatar Meher Baba. Speaking about the day’s significance, Bhau Kalchuri, Chairman, Avatar Meher Baba Trust, says: Today we are celebrating Beloved Meher Baba’s Birthday. In fact, He is never born, and He never dies. But in order to appear before us, He takes on a...
By Subash Somachandran and Kamal Rasenthiran Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians, who fled the fighting in the final days of the military’s offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), remain in squalid detention camps in northern Sri Lanka. The official total is 106,000, with around 80,000 people still in the Manik...
China's reaction to Dalai Lama- Obama meeting on Feb 18 at the White House is muted and the reasons for this are rooted in the Sino-American economic and financial interdependency, says the analyst
On February 15, the European Union decided to withdraw temporarily the preferential tariff benefits under Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) granted to Sri Lanka on the charge that Colombo had indulged in human rights violations. The ‘suspension’ will come into effect in six months. And it means a loss of $ 150 million annually...
Since his re-election for a second term, President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa is clearly on a ‘purging spree’. All his actions clearly demonstrate his continued ‘dictatorial’ ways of cleansing opponents both in political parties, the media and governmental institutions. The proud Sri Lankan army, which has rooted out the dreaded Liberation Tigers of...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Economic Advisory Council (EAC) headed by noted economist C Rangarajan is optimistic of India galloping to higher growth rates. It pegs this fiscal’ GDP growth rate at 7.2 percent and forecasts an 8.2 for 2010-11 and 9 percent in 2011-12. Its expectations are based on a turnaround in agriculture sector....
Tehran: Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Tehran that A-bombs’ era is over as no one wants to use them. In an interview to Russian NTV network said the Islamic Revolution is first of all a humane revolution and that aspect has influenced the cultural, political and economic aspects (of it). “It is a...
The Yemenese government has started imposing tough new restrictions on arms dealers in local markets, but this is merely pushing the trade underground, say local NGO activists and military officials. according to a report circulated by IRIN fr0m Sanaa. “In the past, various types of small and medium-sized weapons were sold openly in arms...
By Alex Lantier A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted...
