Applauding Church of England for women priests, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has urged it to go forward with ordaining women bishops. General Synod (parliament) of the Church is meeting in York (founded by the Romans in 71 CE) in United Kingdom from July nine to 13 and women bishops’ legislation is one of the major [...]
Perturbed Hindus have asked for the immediate withdrawal of skateboards and pet/dog clothing carrying images of Hindu deities sold by a Redwood City (California, USA) based firm Zazzle, calling it inappropriate. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Hindu deities were meant to be worshipped in temples or home [...]
The prostitutes in Bangladeshi brothels are often underage and unpaid – and now, many of them are hooked on steroids that are damaging to their health. I’m walking along a brightly painted corridor when a couple of young girls catch first my eye, and then my arm. They smile at me, and giggle; they look [...]
The city of Barcelona plans to ban the wearing of Muslim veils in all public buildings. The left-liberal daily El Periódico de Catalunya criticises the decision: “The mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu, once again took the citizens by surprise with his announcement that the city council will ban by mayoral decree the use of the [...]
Twenty years ago, from June 13 to June 15, 1990, the peaceful anti-communist protest against Romania’s first freely elected government was brutally crushed by miners. Six people died and more than 700 were injured. The daily România Liberă recalls the event: “At University Square – the reverential site of the revolution – we had a [...]
The health authorities in the British county of Kent have tested a dietary programme in which financial rewards were used to induce overweight people to slim down – with scant results. The daily The Observer complains that public bribery is being used in a growing number of social domains: “If only overweight patients could be [...]
In spring of this year Austria’s Catholic Church set up a commission to investigate abuse in the Church. Until now 193 people have reported cases of abuse to the commission headed by the conservative ÖVP politician Waltraud Klasnic. The daily Der Kurier writes that while the victims are not in it for the money, the [...]
On Monday the Bulgarian state ombudsman Ginyo Ganev admitted that he was sold three apartments at the luxury resort of Sveti Vlas well below their market value in recognition of his work. Similar cases of such real estate deals involving judges and MPs had previously come to light. Edvin Sugarev criticises Ganev in his blog [...]
The British are worried about aggressive urban foxes in urban areas after a fox broke into a house in London and bit two small children. A growing number of foxes live in big European cities, where they are losing their instinctive fear. A man-made problem, writes naturalist Terry Nutkins in the left-liberal daily The Guardian: “This [...]
On 1 January 2011 tougher anti-smoking legislation banning smoking areas in bars and restaurants will take effect in Spain. Smokers will be forced to retire to the privacy of their own homes, writes the liberal daily La Vanguardia: “But now we must leave our health in the hands of the new world order. No one [...]
