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Tamil Culture and Heritage Month – North Carolina,Governor Declared

Governor Roy Cooper of the State of North Carolina in the United States of America has issued a proclamation proclaiming “January 2019 as ‘TAMIL LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL MONTH’ in North Carolina and commending its observance to all citizens”.  It should be mentioned that unlike in India, the Governors in USA who have executive authority ...

On Feb 2nd Jacksonville Tamil Sangam celebrates Inbam Pongum Pongal Thiruvizha

Jacksonville Tamil Sangam celebrated 'Namma Ooru Pongal' on Jan 12th with great gaiety and video(short) is provided below: https://youtu.be/uIFkSXXu-tI For our 'Namma Ooru Pongal' we had cooked on real Pot and had pongal games(Uri Adi) for adults and children. ON 2ND FEBRUARY

Texas faces the highest number of maternal deaths in the US

Caring for our mothers: A gathering of Faith, Family and Medicine attracted faith based institutions in the city of San Antonio, sister city of Chennai India. On September 20, 2018 the public health committee of the Faith based initiative of the city chaired by Dr. Rajam Ramamurthy ( Professor Emeritus. Deaprtment of ...

Swamy Vivekananda's statue unveiled in Chicago

Today 11th September the day Swami Vivekananda did that famous Hindu religious speech. During the World Hindu Congress 2018 session in Chicago, his statue was unvailed to mark this occasion. Same day is declared as Swami Vivekananda Day in the State of Illinois by the Governor to commemorate Swami Vivekananda’s 125th anniversary of his ...

Ground zero area dictates what?

No one would have forgot the two tall world center towers of New York coming down in few hours due to master minded terrorist attacks. It is 17 years already.People throng at the ground zero area in this week to still remember that disastrous day.  Without considering the cold weather and rain throughout the day we could see thousands of ...

21 year old Indian Student wins the Prestigious Thiel Fellowship for 2018

Aparna Krishnan, a student hailing from Chennai, is among 20 people chosen worldwide by the Thiel Foundation (USA) for the prestigious 2018 Thiel Fellowship.  The Fellowship program, which was launched in 2011, encourages very talented young people to pursue big ideas and start companies from early age.The Thiel Foundation is a private ...

Toronto School Board declares “Hindu Heritage Month”

 Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in Canada has resolved that month of November each year be declared as Hindu Heritage Month. TDSB Trustees, in their April 18 meeting, passed a motion which included: Hindu Heritage Month is an opportunity to celebrate and educate all our students and school communities about this ancient and ...

PSG 1986 Alumni mini meet in San Francisco USA

Some of the PSG 1986 Batch students met to celebrate the New Year on 30th December in SeaSpace Resort near Silicon Valley, San Francisco USA. Everyone was happy to meet each other to greet 2018.  It was a full day outing with 10km hiking on the seashore with nice lunch, evening snack and dinner. The family of the alumini students also joined ...

BKM Tamil School Students Tour to Kannappan Arts Museum

Bharathi Kalai Manram is successfully running Tamil Schools in 6 different locations across Houston, Texas, USA. Students from 4 – 13 years old are in this school to learn speaking and writing tamil language. For the very first time in BKM history, as requested by the President Thiruvengadam Arumugam, Pearland School Coordinator Thangaraj ...

A Hindu Temple has opened in Abilene (Texas).

 Recently launched Abilene Hindu Temple (AHT), also known as Vishveshwara Swamy Temple, was reportedly built according to ancient Hindu scriptures and architecture. Main objective of AHT is “to propagate Hindu religion and to perform Hindu rituals”. “Devotees must be on strict vegetarian on visit”, its website states. AHT opens ...