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Saturday, 13 August 2016

4,500-year-old Early Harappan wall damaged

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It was worked as a fortress on the southern side of Dholavira in Kutch 

Around 400 meters of the remaining parts of a 4,500-year-old mud-block divider, which lay under the dirt in the Harappan city of Dholavira in Gujarat, has been harmed by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) when it uncovered the range, notwithstanding staying alert that the divider existed there. The bit of the divider that was over the ground had broke down long prior. The Early Harappans manufactured it as a fortress on the southern side of the city. 

After the ASI authorities had chosen to manufacture a "cutting edge limit divider" on the southern side of the Dholavira site, a temporary worker drew in for the reason utilized a Poclain machine a few weeks prior to burrow a trench for the establishment of the new divider and, all the while, harmed the Early Harappan divider. 

Experts in the Harappan civilisation are anguished this happened in spite of "the forms of the covered divider being accessible on the lifted surface." Besides, Dholavira is the ASI's ensured site going under the Ancient Monuments and Archeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010. 

Breathtaking confirmation 

Dholavira is arranged in an island called Khadir in the Great Rann of Kutch. Its Harappan story started around 3000 BCE and finished around 1500 BCE. Its unearthed remains bear a fantastic affirmation to the Early Harappan, the Mature Harappan, the Late Harappan and the post-Harappan periods of the civilisation. Its beginning, development, rot and afterward crumple traversed seven phases amid those 1,500 years. 

Jagat Pati Joshi, who went ahead to end up the ASI Director-General, found Dholavira in the mid-1960s. A multitude of ASI archeologists led 13 field periods of unearthings at Dholavira from 1990 to 2005 and again in 2008-09. They disentangled its momentous design, strongholds, fastidious town-arranging with scientific exactness, astonishing water administration framework with a progression of 16 stores shaping a laurel around it, two stadia with terraced remains for observers and its funerary engineering. The site yielded the longest Indus engraving — three meters in length and containing 10 substantial measured Indus signs made of white gypsum, which shimmered during the evening. 

As per sources, in spite of the fact that the site was ensured by a wall on its eastern, western and northern sides, there was perplexity on the site's security limits, particularly on the southern side. An ASI surveyor drew a line outlining as far as possible, yet the line ignored the Dholavira city's southern mud-block divider 

ASI authorities at Vadodara and somewhere else said they ceased the work of raising a wall/"a diminutive person divider" on the southern side once they came to realize that "two block structures" were uncovered by the trench. 

"Wherever you delve in Dholavira, you get a divider," an ASI official in Vadodara said pompously.

Friday, 8 July 2016

4,000 speeches & counting, fans swear by Naik

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Fateh has been under the scanner as far back as Dhaka requested test into his discourses. 

He has conveyed more than 4,000 talks lecturing Islam around the globe. He is so prevalent among his adherents that the aggregate viewership of his evangelist TV channel Peace TV has surpassed 100 million. His adherents swear by him; to such an extent that it is presently affirmed that the Bangladesh terrorists who as of late shot a few outsiders in Dhaka were affected by the teachings of Zakir Naik. 

Dhaka's interest 

The slight looking, yet forceful Naik has been under the scanner of Indian law requirement powers as far back as Bangladesh requested an examination concerning his talks and his composition taking after a case that a terrorist was his devotee, and was roused by his discourses to complete the assault. 

The Maharashtra government has requested a test headed by Mumbai Police Commissioner Dattatray Padsalgikar to contemplate Dr. Naik's addresses and see whether they have supported antinational assumptions. 

Supporters of the compelling Salafist Islam evangelist from Mumbai say there is no offense to be made out against Dr. Naik. 

"One of his addresses was on the similitudes amongst Hinduism and Islam, in which he demands the two groups touch base at a typical term," Dr. Naik's brother by marriage Mubarak Kapdi told The Hindu on Friday. "In the event that he needed to spread scorn, why might he even discuss the shared characteristics?" 

Conceived in October 1965 in Mumbai, Dr. Naik went to the Kishinchand Chellaram College in Churchgate, and later considered pharmaceutical at Topiwala National Medical College, and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital. 

In 1991, he started Da'wah, which truly implies converting of Islam. Dr. Naik then established the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) propelled by Ahmed Deedat, an Islamic minister who met him in 1987. 

"He has achieved so much ubiquity that even inside our own particular group there is a segment feeling compelling envy towards him. These groups are being utilized as an instrument to fuel a horrendous purposeful publicity against him," said Manzoor Sheik, trust administrator, IRF. "He is to a great degree tormented to realize that his straightforward teachings of Islam are being understood to target him." 

The 50-year-old is known for his practically eidetic memory, which permits him to quote part and verse from the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Bible. He has frequently talked about ministers and specialists from different religions on his TV appears, and inspired them with his insight into Hindu and Christian sacred writings. 

Dr. Naik's Islamic teachings and addresses have not gone unnoticed in the Muslim world. His commentators frequently call attention to how his discourses have slandered the Shia and Ahamadi factions of Islam. The Sunni-dominant part Saudi Arabia, which is viewed as the support of the radical Wahabist philosophy, honored him the King Faisal International Prize in March 2015 for "administration to Islam." 

Disputable discourses 

Some of his addresses have been questionable. In 2008, in a telecast on Peace TV, he guaranteed that the fear assaults of September 11, 2001 in America were an "inside employment." In 2010, the U.K. banished him passage for his asserted "inadmissible conduct." Peace TV is banned in India, yet a few neighborhood link administrators keep on showing it. 

Dr. Naik's attorneys claim there is no offense to be made out. "In the event that he has discussed Osama canister Laden in one of the discourses that in itself does not constitute a charge or offense against him. In the event that one plane [in Bangladesh] says he was enlivened by Dr. Naik's talks, in what capacity would he be able to be considered responsible," said Dr. Naik's legal counselor Mubin Solkar of Solkar and Associates.