Punjab Minister for Irrigation, Dilavar Abbass has said the participation of farmers in irrigation management has resulted in marked decrease in water theft cases. He was talking to representative of FOs of Upper Gugera Canal Division. The Minister said the performance of FOs is a testament to the fact that they have been performing without […]
Institute to get ancient bible parchment
JERUSALEM – The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday. The parchment, about "the size of a credit card," is believed to be part […]
At One With Dual Devotion
The altar in Becca Topol’s living room carries a statue of Buddha and a garden stone painted with the Hebrew word for peace, shalom. In April she celebrated Passover with a "Zen Seder" feast that opened with a modified Haggada narrative comparing Israel‘s exodus from Egypt to Buddha’s liberation from suffering. "I’m a Jewish Buddhist […]
India’s Mob Justice
A BBC headline caught my eye as I was following the story of the recent Bihar lynching; where the bodies instead of being cremated were left lying on the banks of the Ganga after being nominally set on fire and the bodies were later observed being eaten by dogs. The BBC headline called Bihar a […]
Soldiers of Misfortune?
The court martial hearing of marines and scout rangers put on trial for mutiny in the Philippines a couple of months back is nothing but a simple gesture of the government’s recognition of the established due process accorded to any soldier found to have disobeyed or violated lawful military orders. The mutiny is a testament […]
Wireless Local Area Network
Historical Background: As we peep in the history of Networking we will find that inn 1971, the researchers at the University of Hawaii developed the world’s first WLAN , or in full form the wireless local area network which was named as ALOHAnet .The ALOHnet was spposed to be the bi-directional or two way directional […]