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Sree Ramanavami Rath Yatra 2009

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Since the last 19yrs Sree Ramadasa Mission Universal Society has been annual conducting the glorious Sree Ramanavami Rath Yatra lasting for 25 days, starting from Kollur Mookambika Devi temple covering Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and ending in Thiruvananthapuram followed by with 12 days long Hindu Mahasammelan. The Rathyatra was started by Param Poojya Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathy Maharaj.

This year we wish to start the Sree Ramanavami Rathtyatra in the Holy land of Maharashtra starting on 21st MARCH from Kollur Mookambika Devi temple and covering following places:

Places

22nd - Panvel, Kalamboli, Cbd-Belapur.
23rd - Nerul, Vashi, Koparkhairane, Airoli, etc.
24th - Thane, Mulund, Bhandup, Kanjur marg, etc.
25th - Powai, Ghatkopar, Chembur, Sion, Matunga, Dharavi, Vadala, Dadar, Prabhdevi, etc.
26th - Mahim, Bandra, Santa cruz, Andheri, Goregaon, Malad, Kandivali,
Borivali.
27th - Dahisar, Meera road, Bhayander, Nalasopara, Vasai.
28th - Viraar, Ganeshpuri, Vajreshwari, Bhiwandi, Kalyan.
29th - Dombivali
30th - Ulhasnagar
31st - Ambernath
1st APRIL - Karjat to Badalapur.
2nd - Titwala to Ambeshiv
3rd - Ramagiri followed by Sree Ramanavami Sammelan.

The Rathyatra will be lead by His Holiness Swami Krishnananda Saraswati, disciple of Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathy and Mathadipathi Sree Ramadasa Ashram,Ramagiri. We are in need of your cooperation for the successful conduct of the Rathyatra . May one and all receive the blessings of Sree Rama.

Mumbai rathyatra committee chairman,
Suman Pandit Nathu.
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PUNE: A partial solar eclipse due to occur today, will begin at 10.30 am IST and end at 4.30 pm IST. The eclipse will be seen in the country’s southern and eastern belt.

According to Arvind Paranjpye, scientific officer, Public Outreach Programme, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), “The eclipse will be partial from the southern and eastern stations of India. It is an annular eclipse and India will not witness the complete eclipse. The shadow will not pass over Pune, so we will miss it.”

The next solar eclipse will be the century’s longest duration total solar eclipse, which will occur on July 22, 2009. The path of the totality of the eclipse will pass through India. TOI

Pune, October 12

Over four lakh Brahmins from all over India are expected to congregate at Buhgaon near Pune on January 24 and 25, 2009 for the 5th Bahubhasik Brahman Maha Adhiveshan 2009.

“In the past 65 years, Brahmins did not unite as a cohesive force. So the political class neglected our demands”, said Moreshwar Ghaisas Guruji, chairman of the event. In the past, four adhiveshans had been held at Jalna, Aurangabad, Parbhani and Beed.

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Mumbai: Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) Tuesday filed the charge sheet in the Sep 29, 2008 Malegaon blast case before the Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court Judge Y.D. Shinde here.

The ATS lodged the charge sheet running into more than 4,250 pages and the accused face charges under various sections of the stringent MCOCA and the Arms and Explosives Act.

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A Ganesh idol, rising to 54 feet, resting on a 18 feet high platform, has been installed along the Pune-Mumbai highway on a hillock at Somatne village near Talegaon. Made in reinforced concrete with copper coating, the dream project of Basant Kumar Birla and Sarala Birla was inaugurated on Saturday.

Mumbai: Eyewitness accounts of some survivors from Hotel Trident and the discovery of a sophisticated video camera from a room in Hotel Taj have raised questions over whether the carnage unleashed by terrorists on November 26, 2008 was recorded.

It is feared that some people sympathetic to the terrorists' cause may have prepared live videos of the attack at the hotels.

At least two survivors of the Trident attack who feigned death to save themselves have told a foreign publication that they saw two people focusing high beam torches on the bodies while a third shot the crime scene.

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SAO PAULO: The roof of a Brazilian church caved in shortly after a religious service, killing seven people and injuring dozens more.About 60 people were inside when the roof fell to the floor yesterday, Reborn in Christ church spokeswoman Marli Goncalves said.

Sao Paulo state Gov. Jose Serra, who visited the site, said the toll was seven dead and 57 people injured. He did not elaborate on their condition.
Goncalves said earlier that at least six people were severely hurt, while local media reported eight people in serious condition.Police and rescuers picked through a latticework of bent steel splayed across the floor of the evangelical church, housed in a former movie theater. Police helicopters carried the injured to hospitals.

Goncalves said the church, which can hold 2,000 worshippers and is usually crowded on Sundays, was relatively empty at the time of the collapse because it happened between two services.As many as 1,000 people would likely have been inside just minutes before or after, she said.

Reborn in Christ church leaders Estevam Hernandes Filho and Sonia Haddad Moraes Hernandes pleaded guilty in 2007 to smuggling more than USD 56, 00 into the US hidden in their luggage. The church on Sao Paulo's south side is where football star Kaka was married in 2005. AP

NEW DELHI: The recently-revamped Criminal Procedure Code, which divests police of arrest powers in cases where maximum sentence is upto seven years, become law with President Pratibha Patil finally giving her assent last week.

The presidential assent, which came nearly three weeks after the bill was sent to her after getting it passed from Parliament, has now paved the way for the government to notify it.

Once the law, CrPC (Amendment) Act 2008, becomes effective, the police, instead of arresting the accused, will be obliged to issue him/her a "notice of appearance" for any offence punishable with imprisonment up to seven years. The person can be arrested only if he/she does not appear before the police in response to the notice.

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NEW DELHI: India on Sunday considered handing over a second dossier of evidence on the Mumbai attacks to Pakistan, hours after Islamabad gave in to international pressure and said action would be taken against all those involved in the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan went so far as to welcome Indian authorities to help with its probe, having admitted that India had provided evidence of involvement of Pakistani elements in the terror attacks.

"All the culprits (involved in 26/11) must be apprehended. Who will support such acts," interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said in Lahore. On Saturday, Malik had backtracked on the veracity of Indian evidence—after various Pakistani leaders had summarily dismissed the Indian dossier as just information, Malik said it contained enough proof to start a probe.

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Hyderabad: Investigators digging deep into the Satyam Computer Services scam are veering round to the view that funds were siphoned off --- it is not a case of there being no money.
Disgraced Satyam Computer Services chairman B Ramalinga Raju would have the world believe there were no funds and the management had fudged balancesheets to show non-existent cash.

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Sabarimala, Jan 14: The Lord Ayyappa temple was packed to its capacity by devotees who came to witness the sacred Makar Jyothi at Sabarimala on Monday.

The ‘Thiruvabharanam’ procession, carrying the sacred golden jewels in three boxes were adorned on Lord Ayyappa before the ‘Deeparadhana’ (pooja), reached the Sannidhanam (sanctum sanctorum) this afternoon. The jewels, comprising a diamond crown, golden bracelets, necklaces and a sword, were received by the temple priests amid echoes of Sarana ghosham.

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January 10, 2009 (Washington, D.C.)-- Historian Michael Wood's visually stunning documentary on India's history, "The Story of India," currently appearing on public television, is reigniting a bitter debate over the origins of Indian civilization. The Hindu American Foundation, a prominent Hindu advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., recorded a deluge of phone calls criticizing Wood's presentation of the Aryan Migration Theory (AMT).

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KATHMANDU: Nepal's ruling Maoists have accused foreign powers, including India and the US, of "interfering" in the internal affairs of the Himalayan nation.

In a political document yet to be made public, they also claimed the US was "encircling" China through India and suggested that Nepal should adopt a policy of equi-distance with New Delhi and Beijing taking into consideration the geopolitical situation, The Kathmandu Post reported.

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MUMBAI: Seven Indians who were onboard a hijacked Hong Kong-registered ship MV Delight were safe after Somalian pirates released the vessel, the Directorate General of Shipping said.
The pirates released the vessel and 25 crew members onboard on Friday night, it said in a statement.

MV Delight, chartered by Iran, was hijacked from the Gulf of Aden on November 18. Other than the seven Indians, the crew included two Pakistanis, seven Filipinos, seven Iranians and two Ghanians.
The ship was carrying 38,000 tonnes of wheat. The pirates seized the Delight on its way to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

Last year alone, pirates operating off the Somali coast had carried out more than 130 attacks in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, turning the region into the world's most dangerous waters. PTI

Patna: A French man is pedalling a rickshaw in Bihar these days to understand the real problems of rickshaw pullers in India.

John Lui, in his early 40s, says: "I am trying to discover the real life of a rickshaw puller."

Wearing a colourful dress, Lui, a technical designer, pedalled a newly decorated cycle rickshaw for over three hours in Sasaram town of western Bihar, 148 km from state capital Patna.

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