Harmonizing ISKCON’s Lines of Authority
April 23, 2013 (VNN) by the ISKCON GBC This paper has been voted on by the GBC and is now an official GBC policy paper. The following offers more about the paper’s purpose and scope. The topic of “Lines of Authority” is a heritage or legacy issue. By “heritage” or “legacy” issues we mean those topics that are of core importance to the More...
Historic Ratha Yatra in Durban
Durban, Australia – April 10, 2013 (VNN) by JANANIVASA The Durban Ratha Yatra festival has evolved into one of the biggest, if not the biggest, of its kind outside of India. In its momentous 25th year More...
Prime Minister accepts meat-free challenge
Australia, April 06, 2013 (VNN) via animalsaustralia.org Imagine: You’re in year 12, and you find out that the Prime Minister is coming to your school. Not only that, you’ll get the chance to speak More...
Festival of Chariots draws 200 000
Durban, April 05, 2013 (VNN) Organisers say the colourful Festival of Chariots on Durban’s North Beach over the long weekend drew around 200 000 people to the promenade this weekend. The annual festival, More...
Courses at Vrindavan Institute For Highter Education
April 02, 2013 (VNN) – By Damodarastaka Das via ISKCON News Click to enlarge The Vrindavan Institute For Highter Education (VIHE) in the 2013-2014 semesters offers Bhakti-shastri in English as well as Hindi More...
Tax dept questions exemption for Govinda restaurants
Mumbai, India – March 31, 2013 (VNN) via Times of India – by Sugata Ghosh Tax dept questions merit in granting exemption to Iskon’s restaurant chain Govinda Is spreading the virtues of vegetarianism More...
Family gets 15-year sentence for converting to Christianity
Egypt, March 18, 2013 (VNN) via Fox News An Egyptian court has sentenced a woman and her seven children to 15 years in prison after she decided to convert to Christianity. Human rights activists are alarmed by More...
Delhi’s Yamuna River to be revived with help from London
By Dean Nelson, New Delhi for telegraph.co.uk While its waters are from pure Himalayan glaciers, by the time it reaches the capital Delhi the Yumana is a ‘dead’ river which passes millions of tons More...
Vedic Temple, world’s largest, may open by 2016
Kolkata, February 17, 2013 (VNN) via The Hindu Alfred Brush Ford, a great-grandson of Ford Motors’ founder Henry Ford is investing $35 million (nearly Rs 189 crore) to spread Vedic Knowledge. A follower of More...
Vrindavan Municipal Board declares Vrindavan as ‘Tirtha-Sthali’
by JAGANNATH PODDAR for Vrindavan Today Vrindavan, 19th January, 2013: After much lobbying and sensitization by Friends of Vrindavan (FoV) and the Braj-Vrindavan Heritage Alliance (BVHA), the Vrindavan Municipal More...
