2,20,000 illegal Indian settlers in US

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Washington: An estimated 2,20,000 Indians have made the United States their home illegally with a whopping 81 percent increase in their number in last seven years, according to latest official figures.

The dramatic growth in the number of Indians has come about even as immigration from Mexico continues to dominate the unauthorised population growth, according to the Department of Homeland Security's latest statistics on 'illegal immigrants'.

The estimated population of Indians living illegally in the United States was 220,000 in 2007 compared to 120,000 in the year 2000, thus recording one of the highest percentage increases. An estimated 11.8 million unauthorised immigrants were living in America in January 2007 compared to 8.5 million in 2000. The unauthorised population increased by 3.3 million between 2000 and 2007 while the annual average increase during this period was 470,000.

Nearly 4.2 million (35 percent) of the total 11.8 million unauthorised residents in 2007 had entered in 2000 or later. An estimated 7.0 million (59 percent) were from Mexico.

California remained the leading state of residence for the illegal population in 2007 with 2.8 million, followed by Texas with 1.7 million and then Florida with nearly one million. California's share of the national total declined from 30 percent in 2000 to 24 percent in 2007 as the greatest percentage increases of unauthorised resident population occurred in Georgia (120 percent), Arizona (62 percent) and Texas (57 percent). (IANS)

Durga Puja in New York USA, RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKANANDA CENTER OF NEW YORK

RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKANANDA
CENTER OF NEW YORK
17-19 East 94th Street New York, NY 10128
SRI SRI DURGA PUJA SPECIAL SERVICE

The worship of the Divine Mother Sri Durga
will be celebrated at the Center with a special service on
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2008 at 11:00 AM

SWAMI YUKTATMANANDA

will conduct the service and speak on

“God as Mother”

As a part of the service there will be the singing of
special hymns and devotional songs by the choir.

You and your friends are cordially invited to attend this special service.

Swami Yuktatmananda conducts services on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. A brief description of the services are as follows:

Sunday Services
On Sunday mornings at 11:00 A.M., Swami Yuktatmananda conducts the service and lectures on spiritual topics of practical importance. Some of these topics are: The Ways of Human Mind, Spiritual Transformation, The Message of Self-Knowledge, Vedanta and the Contemporary Religious Ferment, The True Spiritual Awakening, Guidelines for Mature Living, Action and Meditation, Harmony of Religions, The Problem of Suffering, Christ and His Message, Buddha and His Way, and others. To learn more about this month's activities and services, please click here.

Weekday Classes
On Tuesday evenings at 8:00 P.M., Swami Yuktatmananda conducts a class on The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, and on Friday evenings at 8:00 P.M., a class on the scriptures of Vedanta: The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, The Crest Jewel of Discrimination, The Works of Swami Vivekananda, The Teachings of the Direct Disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, Narada Bhakti Sutras, Uddhava Gita: The Last Message of Sri Krishna, and others.

Special Services
The Center holds special services each year on the occasions of Sri Ramakrishna's Birthday, Holy Mother's Birthday, Swami Vivekananda's Birthday, Buddha's Birthday, Sri Sri Durga Puja, Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter. As part of these special services, the Choir of the Center performs traditional hymns and songs, both Western and Eastern. All the services and classes of the Center are free and open to the public.

Special Lectures and Seminars
Swami Yuktatmananda arranges special lectures and seminars at the Center for groups of students from colleges, universities, and other organizations who wish to visit the Center and learn more about its teachings. On special occasions, Swamis from other centers, spiritual leaders of different faiths, community leaders, and academicians are invited by Swami Yuktatmananda to speak at the Center.


Library & Bookstall
The Center maintains a Library and a Bookstall for the benefit of the members and the public. The Library is regularly used by members and friends of the Center, and contains a large number of books and periodicals on Vedanta and other philosophical and religious systems of the world. The Bookstall provides a valuable resource for Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature, and books on Vedanta and other religious traditions. In addition, photographs and incense may be purchased here.

Vivekananda Cottage at Thousand Island Park

The Center also maintains the Vivekananda Cottage, a summer cottage at Thousand Island Park, New York, in which Swami Vivekananda lived and taught for eight weeks in the summer of 1895. The teachings given at Thousand Island Park by Swami Vivekananda form part of the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda and are published by our Center as Inspired Talks.

The Vivekananda Cottage is located about 360 miles from New York City, near the Canadian border on Wellesley Island on the St. Lawrence River. It is generally available during the months of July and August as a place of pilgrimage for devotees who wish to visit. For more information about the Vivekananda Cottage.

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT: http://www.ramakrishna.org/index.htm

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Durga Puja in New York Long Island USA

The New York Sarbojanin Durgapuja Committee thanks you for visiting this website. Check us out from time to time in order to view information and updates on upcoming Pujas.

Currently:

Durga Puja 2007 was held on October 19, 20, & 21. We had a nice function. Kindly visit the Internet Links page to view photos of our ausicious event.

Laxmi Puja will be held this Sunday on Oct. 28th from 12-4pm. Please join us for Puja, Anjali, and festivities.


We are a non-profit organization that represents the Bengali community of Long Island, NY. Created in 1985, our committee has grown from a handful of members to an organization which numbers several hundred and is still growing. We are interested in fresh ideas. If you have any suggestions, please contact one of our elected officers or committee members. Thanks for visiting our site!!!!

Our events feature prominent and talented local artists as well as up-and-coming artists from India. All events are held at the VFW Hall at 68 Lincoln Road, Franklin Square, NY 11010.

Contact Us
New York Sarbojanin Durga Puja Committee, Inc.
E-Mail: NYSDPC@AOL.COM


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Durga Puja in New York America

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Bangladesh Hindu Mandir, Inc.
94-39 44th Avenue Elmhurst, NY 11373

Welcome to BHM web site. The Bangladesh Hindu Mandir is a non-profit Hindu religious organization, actively fulfilling the spiritual, cultural, and social needs of the Hindu community of the tri state are of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. A regular Puja is held on the Saturday and Sunday of every week. The Mandir organizes several cultural functions every year and celebrates major Hindu festivals including Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Saraswati Puja, Kartik Puja, Ganesh Puja, and Janmashtami, and supports other cultural events in the area.

Our Mission

The mission of Bangladesh Hindu Mandir is to perform religious rites, congregate to worship and hold religious and cultural festivals throughout the year. The temple will also hold discussions on Hindu religion and moral philosophy with a view to familiarize our posterity with the teachings and ethical value system of Hinduism.


Postal address:
Bangladesh Hindu Mandir
94-39 44th Avenue
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Telephone:
718-446-6727
E-Mail:hindumandr@aol.com

Established in the summer of 1998 in Elmhurst, Queens. Bangladesh Hindu Mandir is a temple conceived, built and run by the Hindus of Bangladeshi origin living in the tri state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

The 9,000 sq. ft. temple has central heating/air conditioning, central sound system, large dining space and a commercial kitchen. It can be conveniently accessed by major transportations.

This non-for-profit institution is intended to serve the spiritual, religious and cultural needs of our community. It is further intended to provide a forum for free exchange of cultural, educational and religious ideas. We plan to hold and conduct lectures and seminars pertaining to Hindu religion and culture.

The temple observes all major religious festivals in accordance to the sacred Hindu calendar. In addition, every Saturday, devotees gather in large numbers to hear readings from the Holy Gita and participate in chanting, i.e., Namkirtan.

The Mandir is open everyday from 9am - 1pm & 4pm - 8pm. Our Priest is available for all of your religious needs.

Saturday: 7:00 P.M. - Gita Patt and Kirtan
for more details visit: http://www.bangladeshhindumandir.org

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Civilian Nuclear Deal: A Victim of Oversell

Civilian Nuclear Deal:

A Victim of Oversell Sreeram Sundar Chaulia With scant light at the end of the tunnel for the India-US civilian nuclear deal, it is evident that the agreement is a victim of oversell as a ‘‘historic’’ accord to emancipate India’s economy and international status. The Manmohan Singh government’s claims in favour of the 123 Agreement were so bombastic as to project it as an elixir that could transform India’s destiny. After inflating the benefits of the deal, the Prime Minister is now facing the music.The centrepiece argument made by the Indian government on behalf of the nuclear deal is that it would usher in a bright new era of nuclear power generation and motor India’s economic growth. The factual basis of this assertion is dubious. Nuclear power currently contributes to barely three per cent of India’s overall energy production and is expected to reach nine per cent only by 2016, provided deals with Washington and the rest of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) go through.The accretion to India’s energy security from importing nuclear fuel and technology, taking costs of procurement into consideration, will thus be only marginal. By painting a much rosier picture, the Indian government raised the antlers of its detractors who did everything to prevent the ruling party from getting plaudits for revolutionizing India’s economic development.In competitive electoral politics, no ruling party will obtain cooperation from the opposition for a deal that the former wants to advertise as its unique achievement. This is, in essence, the reason why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opposes the civil nuclear agreement — to obstruct its rival from taking credit. Such thinking is revealed through comments of BJP leaders that they are interested in renegotiating the deal if they come to power.On the question of the deal being an impediment to nuclear weapons testing by India, a concern the BJP shares with some national security elites, the Manmohan Singh government is again guilty of exaggerating the leverage India enjoys. Strategic experts who have pored over the contents of the 123 Agreement and the Hyde Act have drawn valid conclusions that the US is most likely to terminate the agreement if India breaks its moratorium on bomb tests.The Congress party responded with non-transparent assurances that there is no link between capping India’s quest for a credible minimum deterrent and the deal. A more sensible strategy should have been to argue, in private, in a ‘‘so what’’ vein. So what if the US and the NSG turn off their taps for nuclear fuel and technology when India is strategically compelled to conduct more bomb tests?Supposing Chinese and Pakistani nuclear brinkmanship forced India to test more weapons in 2010 or 2013, the ensuing probable loss of civilian nuclear fuel from the US and the NSG would not dent the Indian economy. To reiterate, the addition to India’s energy security from the deal is marginal, not substantial. India’s citizens and industrial entrepreneurs have made enormous sacrifices for the security of the country in the past, and they would certainly not gainsay future nuclear tests by harping on forfeiture of a few thousand megawatts of electricity.Moreover, India’s current nuclear power plants are running at approximately half capacity due to acute shortage of uranium. Whatever fuel and technology India would have received in the short to medium term from the US and the NSG would be utilized to first make the existing nuclear power plants fully operational. There should be no fear of sunk costs in expensive overheads for new nuclear power plants that would have gone down the drain if the US and the NSG withdrew their supplies.A corollary case could have been made that opportunistically receiving nuclear fuel and technology from the US and the NSG for a few years would bring marginal advantages to the country’s indigenous fast breeder reactor programme based on domestically available thorium. Stalwarts of the atomic science establishment, MR Srinivasan and APJ Abdul Kalam, declare that ‘‘an adequate programme of first generation nuclear reactors using natural or enriched uranium is an inescapable technological necessity to launch a substantial programme of thorium utilisation’’.Even a temporary agreement with the US and the NSG could have propelled India’s thorium-based nuclear research forward to a point that withdrawal of nuclear fuel in the future would have minimal impact on the scientific community’s research. Unfortunately, by elevating the economic upside of the deal to sky high proportions, the Manmohan Singh government could not resort to this simple scenario planning.(The writer is a researcher on international affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship in Syracuse, New York) (IANS) Source: sentinel assam editorial

Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra in New York

Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra in New York