Shree KanthKoop Pashan Poojan.

On Thursday, 16th December 2010, Param Poojya Sadguru Shree Aniruddha Bapu, Nandai & Suchitdada performed the First Poojan of 'Shree Kanthakoop Paashan' at Shree Harigurugram.

You can see the video clip of this poojan on below link. www.manasamarthyadata.com/vgallery.php

Every devotee can perform this Poojan at their home. The booking for Poojan can be done at 5th Floor, Happy Home and respective Upasna Centers. Booking starts from 17th December 2010.

Poojan Starts from 23rd December 2010 to 30th April 2010.

North Korea Warns Again of Nuclear War.

collaboration against the regime in Pyongyang could lead to nuclear conflict, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Dec. 10).
In typically bombastic rhetoric, Pyongyang's state-controlled Rodong Sinmun newspaper characterized the trilateral cooperation as "nothing but treachery escalating the tension between the North and the South and brining the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean Peninsula."
Washington, Seoul and Tokyo have increased their cooperation on the North Korean nuclear impasse amid a series of provocations by the Stalinist state this year. Pyongyang's actions include the shelling last month of an inhabited South Korean island and the calculated unveiling of an advanced uranium enrichment facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex.
The three nations have pledged not to resume paralyzed six-nation talks aimed at North Korean denuclearization until Pyongyang has taken demonstrable steps toward nuclear disarmament. They have also rejected a Chinese proposal to participate in emergency talks intended to ease escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea today began five days of artillery drills at 27 locations. Seoul has responded to the attack on Yeonpyeong Island by conducting joint sea maneuvers with the U.S. and Japanese militaries and amending its defense policy to allow for a robust punitive response to any future North Korean assaults.
A South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff official said this week's maneuvers would not take place close to a contested maritime boundary line near the shelled island (Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Dec. 13).
North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chin traveled to Russia on Saturday, one day after he reaffirmed his government's nuclear buildup as a necessary deterrent to the South Korean-U.S. military alliance, Agence France-Presse reported.
Russia, while condemning Pyongyang's assault of Yeonpyeong Island, has said it would participate in crisis six-party talks sought by Beijing.
"We need to think about creating conditions to restart talks between the six parties," Moscow's No. 2 nuclear envoy, Grigory Logvinov, said to Interfax on Friday.
Pak said his government remains willing take part in negotiations.
"Even in the atmosphere of the escalated situation, we have expressed support of resuming the six-party negotiation process," Pak said.
China's top foreign policy official, Dai Bingguo, met with reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il last week; the two men were said to have reached a "consensus" on the Korean Peninsula crisis. Beijing has updated Seoul on Dai's talk with Kim, a South Korean official said to the Yonhap News Agency.
"I can't speak in detail, but regarding North Korea's position, it appears that there is little difference in the position that it has been sticking to," the unidentified source said.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg is set to travel to China this week with a delegation of senior officials intent on pressuring Beijing to take stronger action on North Korea.
The South Korean Foreign Ministry announced that its senior representative to the six-party talks, Wi Sung-lac, would travel to Russia for discussions with Moscow's envoy to the talks, Alexei Borodavkin, on the attack on Yeonpyeong Island and North Korea's uranium enrichment progress.
North Korea has declared its new uranium plant is intended to prepare material for use in a yet-unfinished light-water reactor. This assertion is doubted in Washington. Uranium enrichment can produce fissile material for a warhead as well as fuel for power generation.
In Beijing, Japanese nuclear envoy Akitaka Saiki met with his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, on Saturday, Kyodo News reported. Wu reaffirmed his government's view that crisis six-party talks would lower inter-Korean tensions (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Dec. 11).
Saiki told journalists that Wu gave him a "detailed" update on Dai's meeting with the North Korean leader, though he would not provide specifics about the meeting or what kind of "important consensus" was reached, Kyodo reported.
Saiki reiterated the stance of Japan, South Korea and the United States that Pyongyang has to pursue "responsible action based on the rules of the international community" before six-nation negotiations can resume. He also called for China to take a harsher stance on North Korea, saying "Japan is not interested in talks for the sake of talks" (Kyodo News/Mainichi Daily News, Dec. 12).
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi yesterday said his government would "continue to make patient efforts to persuade the parties to engage in consultations," Reuters reported.
"While the talks have yet to be resumed, we think it is the proper time for emergency consultations between the heads of the delegations of the six parties,"Yang told the Xinhua News Agency (Ben Blanchard, Reuters, Dec. 12).

WikiLeaks is 21st century’s first cyber war.

WikiLeaks, until recently a little-known website specializing in gathering and publishing on the Internet communications that governments don’t want to be made public, is now front-page news around the globe. Legal and technological machinations surrounding the group’s latest electronic dump of classified diplomatic cables and e-mails, however, threaten to redefine cyber warfare.
This is not the first time WikiLeaks has released confidential information; but it is unquestionably the most intriguing.
WikiLeaks is suspected to have received this most recent information treasure trove from Bradley Manning, a low-level Army intelligence analyst who is in custody, and who presumably will be prosecuted for his massive breach of security. Indicting WikiLeaks founder and chief operative, the itinerant Julian Assange who holds an Australian passport and hides out in internet cafes, will be much more problematic.
Prosecuting Assange directly in the United States will be exceedingly difficult because of the limitations on media prosecutions imposed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. However, it appears that creative and aggressive use of diplomatic pressure by Washington and London has prompted the Swedish government to employ its extradition power to have him detained for the time being in London.
The charges on which Stockholm is basing its extradition request are ones rarely, if ever, used as the basis for such serious action. Assange is charged with having engaged in “unprotected” sexual relations with a woman who “protested” – hardly the stuff of international intrigue or clear violations of major felonies such as was faced recently by filmmaker Roman Polanski when he fought a lengthy and ultimately successful fight against being extradited to the U.S. from Switzerland.
Still, Sweden’s move to have Assange detained in the United Kingdom for now, on whatever charge, provides time for federal prosecutors in Washington, DC to try and fashion a case against him; based not on a questionable sexual act but one based on espionage or other national security law violations. This will be difficult, but the pressure from Congress and the American public to do something will be intense.
Legislative efforts to criminalize the publication of numerous highly embarrassing diplomatic communications that do not appear to contain information directly damaging to our national defense, is a complete non-starter. For one thing, it could not reach Assange because of the Constitution’s clear prohibition on ex post facto laws. New York Rep. Peter King, who will assume the chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee next month, is clamoring for WikiLeaks to be classified as a “terrorist organization.” This too, may make for a good sound bite, but from a legal and constitutional perspective, will amount to little else.
There is reason for defenders of the First Amendment to be concerned, however. Leading the charge is Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT). Since the release of the diplomatic cables, Lieberman has pressured Internet hosting providers to stop doing business with WikiLeaks. He also has suggested that news organizations reporting on the release of the cables may have broken the law. Legally, such a position is weak; but from a practical standpoint, it is extremely problematic. Already, a number of organization through which WikiLeaks raises the money to fund its operations, have succumbed to pressure and stopped doing business with Assange’s organization.
In return, WikiLeaks supporters, many of whom appear to be highly proficient in use of the Internet at all levels, are causing major problems for these companies, such as PayPal, that have moved to cut off WikiLeaks’ access to funds.
Where this game of electronic cat-and-mouse will lead is still unfolding; but what we may be witnessing is the first major cyber war of the 21st Century. Let us hope that the First Amendment, and those other provisions in the Bill of Rights so battered during the prior administration of President George W. Bush, do not sustain further injuries.

Eco-Friendly Ganesh Murti project - Award received from B.M.C.

We are pleased to inform that the ‘Shree Ganesh Gaurav Puraskar’ by Bombay Municipal Corporation for the year 2010, in the category ‘Best Sculptor’, has been awarded to Shree Aniruddha Aadesh Pathak, for its Idol placed with Pragati Mitra Mandal, Mhatrewadi, Borivali(W), which consists of a Certificate, A Memento And Cheque of Rs. 10000.