{"id":6988,"date":"2017-07-05T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T10:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=6988"},"modified":"2017-07-05T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T10:36:15","slug":"hindu-press-international-jul-05-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/hindu-press-international\/hindu-press-international-jul-05-2017","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Press International – Jul 05, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Devotees Relieved as Temple Services, Rituals Spared of GST<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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CHENNAI, INDIA, June 28, 2017 (Times of India): HPI NOTE: Further articles which we will run shortly describe the complex interaction of temple activities with the new Goods and Services Tax.<\/p>\n

Devotees, who want to fulfil vows in various temples in Tamil Nadu besides sevas, special poojas and taking part in the ritual of pulling gold and silver chariots, will be spared of GST (Goods and Services Tax). This will continue even after GST is introduced on July 1. But, devotees who use lodgings offered by the state-run Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments department in temple towns whose tariff is above 1,000 per day will have to pay more.<\/p>\n

”Some sections in GST Act exempt temples from paying tax. This includes sevas and darshans in temples in places like Palani, Tiruchendur and Rameswaram. All prasadams, including the Palani panchamirtham, are also exempted under GST,” chartered accountant G Sekar told TOI. Meanwhile, the HR&CE department, which is managing 38,000 temples in Tamil Nadu, has asked the state government to waive GST on temples. ”We have given a list based on the services in various temples in the state for which there should not be any tax. As of now, there is no tax or service charge on these services provided in temple. We want the situation to prevail after July 1,” said a senior HR&CE official.<\/p>\n

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The Problems of Genetics and the Aryan issue<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"CHENNAI, INDIA, June 29, 2017 (The Hindu, by Michel Danino): Tony Joseph’s article (”How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate, June 16) on how recent genetic studies of Indian populations might be ”settling the Aryan migration debate” attempts to summarise polemical as well as technical aspects of the contribution of genetics to the debate in question. I will focus here mostly on methodological issues to argue that the conclusions of two recent studies Mr. Joseph’s article heavily leans on are much shakier than conveyed. (Those are ”A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent”, published earlier this year in BMC Evolutionary Biology, which I will refer to as ”Silva et al.” after its first author, and ”Reconstructing Indian population history” by David Reich and four co-authors, published in Nature in 2009, henceforth ”Reich et al.”)<\/p>\n

To begin with, most studies of population genetics suffer from shortcomings and flaws, some of which are currently unavoidable, while others are the result of subjective, personal choices. The larger public interested in the field of population genetics should be all the more aware of this problematics as genetic studies come to us in a scientific garb; in actual fact, they are scientific only in part; there is still much room for human prejudice and error.<\/p>\n

Rest of this long article at ”source” above follwed by a response from Tony Joseph.<\/p>\n

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Daily Inspiration<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"It is fitting to describe the Self as awareness dissolving into itself, as when you come out of it, there is no experience to remember, only a new perspective, a total perspective from which you then view the mind.
\n— Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami,<\/b>\u00a0publisher of Hinduism Today<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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