ST LOUIS: Hindu Temple of St. Louis celebrated Navaratri for ten days beginning Monday Oct 15, culminating on Wednesday Oct 24 with Vijayadashmi.All 10 days the Devi was blessing the devotees in 10 different forms. Durga Jagran was performed on Saturday Oct 20 until midnight. On Vijayadasmi Day, the Devi was blessing as Raja Rajeshwari. Samuhika Kumkum pooja was...
The Nubra Valley, once on the trading route that connected eastern Tibet with Turkistan via the famous Karakoram Pass, is the most recently opened area of Ladakh. Nubra invites you to a trip back in time into a nearly forgotten 'Shangri La'. With breathtaking views and delightfully hospitable inhabitants, it is quite an experience.Ladakh's harsh winter makes this crossing...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) and Business Travel Coalition (BTC) has rejected the claim by IATA that the new "standard" it has developed for retail distribution was the "culmination of 12 months of intense coordination across the value chain with participation from airlines, global distribution systems, the travel agency community including online travel agencies and...
MUMBAI: Despite sluggishness in the real estate sector, top developer body MCHI-Credai expects an increase in demand from buyers during the festive season on the back of new project launches and easing of funding norms by financial institutions."Home buyers have literally been sitting on fence due to various reasons. But now prices have stabilized. With more and more new...
That which projects and sustains the universe also knows how to look after it in the best possible way, without our fussy, well-meaning interference, although we may be duly used. If one has such firm faith and clear awareness, then our ambitions and desires to change the world drop away.More and more, maturely developed people do not lose their...
I see evil not as an intrinsic property of the universe, but rather as a by-product of ignorance - lack of self-knowledge. Evil actions are born of a deep misunderstanding of what one is and what one is not.You can look at ignorance and knowledge as opposites, but I don't think of knowledge as needing ignorance as a required contrasting experience....
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama chose to go full throttle against the Republicans over controversial rape remarks by a GOP candidate, contending that attempts to redefine rape make little sense and a predominantly male political class should not be making decisions for women.
Appealing to his women constituency, Obama said healthcare decisions for women was not something that politicians need...
The average modern adult sees "the red mist" 28 times a month, or 336 times in one year, a latest study has found.
Financial worries and lack of sleep were found to be the main contributors to the feelings of anger, along with hunger, cold callers, rudeness and being lied to.
Researchers studied 2,000 people to discover how tempers impact on our lives,...
With diabetes largely associated with over-consumption of sugar by many Zimbabweans, it is hardly surprising that its link to tuberculosis (TB) is hardly a public health matter. TB kills more than 3,500 people each day worldwide, leading to approximately 1.4 million deaths every year. One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the causative agent of TB, and 8.8 million...
Priyanka Chopra may have gone international as a singer with her new single "In My City", but the actress says she is too shy to sing in Bollywood."I was offered to sing whether it’s by Salim-Suleman or Vishal-Shekhar, but I was too shy for it. I used to try singing on the mike at their insistence but then I...