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4 yrs after CBSE order, schools yet to abolish rank system - Indian Express


In a bid to make education stress-free for children, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had decided to exempt students of the primary section from the system of pass and fail and issued instructions to schools in this regard. Various ...


20 Nov 2008

Natuva orders probe on bus pullout - Fiji Times


INTERIM Transport Minister Timoci Natuva has ordered the Land Transport Authority to look into transportation problems for the people of Ra. Mr Natuva said he asked LTA to look into the problem after The Fiji Times highlighted that school children ...


19 Nov 2008

Jains to Work With Hindu Statesman Zed on Interfaith Actions - Newsblaze.com


The Federation of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA) has expressed interest in working with acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed on interfaith issues. Dilip V. Shah, JAINA President, replying to a communiqué of Zed, who is the president of ...


19 Nov 2008

The Maya world, in miniature - Los Angeles Times Blogs


My obsession with clay Jaina figures started about a year ago at the Museo de la Cultura Maya in Chetumal, Mexico. That is where I set my eyes on the tiny statues of a Maya woman wearing an elaborate blouse and ear spools and a young warrior with ...


16 Nov 2008

10km walk - Fiji Times


SCHOOL children in the upper-reaches of Ra Province are forced to walk 10 kilometres to their respective schools following the withdrawal of the bus company servicing the area. And angry parents have called on the interim administration to ...


16 Nov 2008

"Blood Oath" by Elaine Cunningham - TheForce.net


I assume this is legit, because it's in the Random House online catalog . Elaine Cunnigham, author of the NJO book Dark Journey , is writing a new Star Wars novel. It's called Blood Oath , and it weighs in at 352 pages. It's due for release in April ...


15 Nov 2008

For three generations, family led by faith (The Wheaton Sun)


YAHOO - For three generations, family led by faith (The Wheaton Sun)Not everybody follows a conventional career path. Sometimes s faith can steer someone in a totally different direction. No one knows that better than Mark Ruch of Wheaton. Three generations of his family have worked in the Philippines to try and make the world a better place.


21 Nov 2008

Heather Locklear charged with misdemeanor DUI (Los Angeles Times)


YAHOO - Heather Locklear charged with misdemeanor DUI (Los Angeles Times)The actress was arrested in Santa Barbara County about two months ago on suspicion of driving under the influence of legally prescribed drugs. Heather Locklear was charged today with misdemeanor driving under the influence of legally prescribed drugs, stemming from her arrest two months ago in Santa Barbara County, a prosecutor said.


17 Nov 2008

Pothier shatters 19-year-old swim record (Orillia Packet & Times)


YAHOO - Pothier shatters 19-year-old swim record (Orillia Packet & Times)Orillia Channel Cat Jessica Pothier broke a 19-year-old club record by swimming the 800-metre freestyle in nine minutes, 59.53 seconds at the Meridian Aquafest Invitational [...]


16 Nov 2008

The Maya world, in miniature (Los Angeles Times)


YAHOO - The Maya world, in miniature (Los Angeles Times)Tiny funerary figures fascinate in their depictions of everyday life in the ancient Yucatán world. They were unearthed at Jaina, a Maya island of the dead. My obsession with clay Jaina figures started about a year ago at the Museo de la Cultura Maya in Chetumal, Mexico. That is where I set my eyes on the tiny statues of a Maya woman wearing an elaborate blouse and ear spools and a young ...


16 Nov 2008

Sacred stupas (Daily News)


YAHOO - Sacred stupas (Daily News)The concept of samsara, the illusory nature of the material world, underlies the Indian philosophic vision. The search is constantly to rise above illusion (maya, or mithya), to seek the truth beyond: to lose our ego and attachments to the objects of the world around us.


11 Nov 2008

Events calendar (The Times-News)


YAHOO - Events calendar (The Times-News)A fall family festival will be held 6 to 8 p.m. at Valley Christian Church. Halloween fun, games and candy. Free admission. Information: Judy Steinmetz, 733-2588. The church is at 1708 Heyburn Ave. E.


5 Nov 2008

Looking Through the Lens: Please pray for my Uncle Don


girl with the camera. Jaina: I'm a 23 year old recent college graduate, figuring out this whole "real world" thing one day at a time, and loving nearly every minute of it. View my complete profile ...


19 Nov 2008

Jainism Articles and Essays: Jain Studies in the west


Padmanabh S. Jaini's The Jaina Path of Purification has rightly been hailed as one of the best studies sin the religions of South Asia in this century and certainly the best on Jainism. More recently, he has Gender and Salvation: Jaina ...


19 Nov 2008

Jaina Art and Architecture in Karnataka


KV Ramesh I Those of you who, on hearing the title of my paper, expect me to give a list of the Jaina monuments of Karnataka with their locations, dates and descriptions will be surely disappointed after listening to me. ...


17 Nov 2008

JAINA ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ANDHRA


Except casual references in PB Desai's work, Jainism in South India, and some Jaina Epigraphs, (Sholapur, 1957) and stray notices in A. Ghosh, (ED) Jaina Art and Architecture, Bharatiya Jnanapith (New Delhi, 1975), Vols. ...


17 Nov 2008

Jainism Articles and Essays: JAINA MONUMENTS IN NORTH KARNATAKA


BEGINNERS:The origin of Jaina architecture in north Karnataka is still uncertain as the vestiges of the early period have not come down to us. Jaina structures contemporary to the sojourn of Bhadrabahu to Sravanbelgola have not been ...


15 Nov 2008

Jainism Articles and Essays: JAINA LITERATURE IN TAMIL


"8 It is further claimed that the only Indian darsana that is in conformity both in theory and practice with the ideas contained in the Kural regarding the gospel of ahimsa, is the Jaina darsana.9 Among other internal evidences, ...


15 Nov 2008