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Rajan Zed to Deliver Inaugural Address at Sacramento `Hindu Sangam`

Hinduism is the oldest and third-largest religion in the world.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Various Hindu organizations are joining hands to showcase rich Hindu philosophy, heritage, traditions, way of life and culture in California’s capital Sacramento (USA) on Saturday, September 15.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, will deliver the inaugural address at this day-long event, titled “Hindu Sangam”.

`Shock and Awww!`

The wounds of Sri Lanka's war are not healed.

(CHENNAI, Outlook India ) - How do you efface memories of the fact that at least 40,000 civilians (Tamils) were killed in the final phase of a genocidal war in Sri Lanka, the majority of them by the Sri Lankan army’s shelling of hospitals and “safe zones”?

How do you move on when 3,000,000 Sri Lankan Tamils were internally displaced—and continue to be treated as suspects by a chauvinist Sinhala regime?

Victory for Human Rights: India and Pakistan Ease Visa Restrictions

The new agreement will replace the old and tardy visa regime that was signed in 1974.

(SALEM) - Just two days ago, Salem-News.com's William Nicholas Gomes wrote, INDIA/PAKISTAN: Remove the Abnormal Visa Restrictions to Ensure Right to Travel and Trade; calling attention to the difficult time people of Indian and Pakistani descent had with regard to visiting their home countries.

This weekend it was announced that this long hoped-for political change would indeed take place...

Kudankulam: Sri Lankans Should Learn to Run and Swim

A nuclear radiation disaster affecting the entire Island could happen after Kudankulam is commissioned.

(COLOMBO The Island) - The potential mind boggling Fukushima, Chernobyl type disaster, from India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant, has begun to count down.

Currently nuclear fuel (supplied by US & France) is being fed in to the plant, built by the Russians, at the southern tip of India, just 220 KM from Kalpitiya.

INDIA/PAKISTAN: Remove the Abnormal Visa Restrictions to Ensure Right to Travel and Trade

William Gomes contacts top officials in two Asian countries over visas and trade

(SALEM) - There are many basic Human Rights, like the Right of Return, that are denied people every day, particularly those who were born in India and Pakistan.

In his appeal to the Prime Ministers of both countries, our Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes these political leaders that citizens demand the right to visit their families across the border in 'the other country'

The Dialectics of a Genocide (Graphic Photos of war crimes!)

“When I first escaped, I decided to stop writing. I did not want to ever write again” - Lokeesan, TamilNet

(CHENNAI, India) - By the end of the Fourth Eelam War in May 2009, the genocidal massacre claimed between 40,000 and 100,000 civilian lives and marked the decimation of the Tamil Tigers.

In June, I interviewed TamilNet.com’s chief correspondent who stayed in Mullivaaikkal until just before the end of the war.

Saudi Star-Gazers Accused of Bungling Ramadan Dates

Some astronomers in the Gulf suggested that the object the Saudis claim they saw in the sky on Monday night was in fact Saturn.

(AUCKLAND, NZ Herald) - When is a moon not a moon?

That is the question vexing Islamic astronomers after accusations that Saudi Arabia had jumped the gun in declaring the festival of Eid al-Fitr because they mistook Saturn for the Moon.

India: Immediately order Reduction of Water Level in Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar Dams

Indians are fighting for their rights and their lives are in the need of the government's intervention and support.

(SALEM) - There are big questions over water levela at the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams in India's Narmada Valley.

Witnesses there say the waters were illegally raised and this flooded homes and valuable agricultural land that people used to make a living and generate valuable food products.

Tamil Nadu Government Ordered to Release 7 Tamil Refugees from Chenkalpattu Detention Center

Many Sri Lankan Tamil refugees languish in Indian detention camps.

(CHENNAI, India LankaSriNews) - Government officials in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have been ordered to release seven Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who are detained at the Chenkalpattu special detention center.

Family members of the refugees, along with political parties and supporters, expressed happiness and relief.

UNHRC: India Votes in Favor of Resolution Against Sri Lanka

The vote was in line with India’s stand to advance the achievement of a future for the Tamil community in Sri Lank

(NEW DELHI IBNS) - India has votes in favour of the resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), said Preneet Kaur, Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday.