Ahimsa Times 2007 08 SrNo 86

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Publisher: Ahimsa Times

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and bathed with water. The practice stopped after Thevar died in 1963. Now it is lying half-buried in the mound. It is the buried portion which will reveal whether the sculpture is that of Adinatha or Mahavira. The triple umbrella is common to both. Courtesy: Pankaz Hingarh,Mumbai.
JAINS HOLD PROTEST MEETING AGAINST RAJASTHAN GOVERNMENT Bangalore: The Shree Adinath Jain Swetambar Temple Trust, Bangalore, organised a meeting at the Shikshara Sadan here on Sunday in protest against the taking over of the ancient Shree Kesariyaji Temple in Dhuleva Raj village near Udaipur by the Rajasthan Government. According to the trust convener, Devkumar K. Jain, the Supreme Court had declared the temple as a Jain pilgrimage centre and had directed that a committee be formed consisting of members of the community to run the temple. Despite the order, the Rajasthan Government was trying to take over the temple, Mr. Devkumar Jain said. It was the richest Jain pilgrimage centre in the world with 550 acres of land and 40 marble and granite mines on its premises, he said. The meeting decided that the Jains would take out a rally to Jaipur and continue the agitation through non-violence means.
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & EVENTS NEXT JITO FAIR TO BE HELD IN MUMBAI The Jain International Trade organisation (JITO) will be organizing the next trade fair from 3rd January to 6th January, 2008 again at Mumbai Exhibition Center, N.S.E. Ground, Goregaon (East), Mumbai. The convener of the fair Shri Padam Chand Jain from Jaipur informed the press that the sole objective of holding the fair was to strengthen financial, educational and spiritual status of Jain community. The fair will include seminars, group discussions, a trade exhibition of the products manufactured by members of Jain community in India and abroad and a Jain cultural pavilion. It has been planned to put up about 800 stalls at the fair which will go a long way in establishing international contacts Eminent industrialists, scholars specialists, management managers, ministers and parliamentarians will be speaking in different sessions of the seminars.
BABA RAM DEV VISITS JAINA CONVENTION AT NEW JERSEY Internationally acclaimed for popularizing Yoga amongst the masses, Baba Ram Dev was invited to attend the Jaina convention held at New Jersey, USA from 5th to 7th July, 2007. Baba Ram Dev addressed the convention at its main session. He talked at length on the convention theme, "Relevance of Jainism in the present context" and expressed his high degree of regards and appreciation for Jain religion and its guiding principles, particularly, ahimsa, Shri Shri Ravi Shankar was also likewise invited at the convention to deliver his address.
SWAMI RAM DEV ORGAMSES-YOGA CAMPUS IN AFRICA Swami Ram Dev has presently been touring different African countries with a mission to make the world disease-free. His tour covers Kampola (Uganda) from 11th Aug. to 16th Aug 2007, Mombassa (Kenya) from 18th Aug to 23rd Aug 2007, Dar-es-Salam (Tanzania) from 25th Aug to 30th Aug 2007 and Nairobi (Kenya) from 4th September to 9th September 2007
BABA RAMDEV INVITED TO ADDRESS HOUSE OF COMMONS AT LONDON The Yoga guru Baba Ram Dev was invited to meet and address the members of the House of Commons (Parliament) at London at a special session. He talked about the theory and practice of Yoga and gave demonstrations of yoga and Pranayam before the Parliamentarians. The members of House of Commons were highly impressed by the presentation and demonstrations given by Baba Ram Dev.
HONOURS NEWSMAKER: RAJ JAIN
This week Raj Jain, President of Wal-Mart's operations in India, was splashed all over the Indian media as the face of the world's largest retailer. Jain joined the company only last May as the president of emerging markets and has since worked closely with Wal-Mart vice chairman Mike Duke to forge the 50:50 cash-and-carry joint venture with Bharti Enterprises in India. At a time when climbing the ranks without a MBA degree is next to impossible, Jain, 48, has achieved immense success. He has held three very different jobs so far. The first, after concluding his bachelor degree in mechanical
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