Tension is brewing in Kathmandu. This time, it’s in the temple. One of the holiest Hindu temples, Pashupatinath, is tensed after the Maoist government appointed two Nepali priests to replace the four South Indian priests or Bhattas, who only have the authority to touch the four-faced deity of Shiva. It is centuries-old tradition that priests […]
Death by Delay
The news that Justice Mohapatra probing the Kandmahal disturbances in Orissa has said up front that his enquiry would take a year or more even before he has started on the job is disturbing. Of course it is the norm in India for justice to crawl at the pace of a snail and for verdicts […]
Google gadgets going to insecure by Hackers
It’s not that Google is designing insecure programs. Oversharing is the biggest problem with the web,which often means underestimating security risks.Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz,but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers. So this issue is that users […]
Obama pledges ‘unshakeable commitment’ to Israel’s security, but who will guarantee Palestineâ
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ended his trip to Israel on Thursday morning with a surprise visit to occupied al-Qud’s (Jerusalem’s) Western Wall, before heading for Berlin. On Wednesday, Obama pledged his “unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security,” after a day of meetings with the Zionist State’s most senior leaders. But who will guarantee Palestine’s […]
Patience Proves Useful
The world is so busy.People living in the world are so crazy and are always running after something, in search of something.Tension, tension and tension is everywhere and of course it is the order of the day. On the one hand being busy and mad after something, it is an irony that people are also worried about stress […]
Chavez Goons Raid Venezuelan Jewish Center
Before the December 2nd vote on the referendum changing the constitution to expand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s powers and cement his plan to transform the South American major oil producer into a socialist utopia, his armed security agents raided a Jewish center in Caracas, Club Hebraica. They were supposedly searching for arms and none were found. The […]