There lived a saint in an ashram in the kingdom of Emperor Akbar.
He was believed to prophecy the future correctly.
Once he had a visitor who had come to treat their niece. The child's parents were killed in front of the girl's eyes. Once she saw the saint, she started to scream loudly saying that that saint was the culprit.
Angered by the girl's words, the saint demanded the couple to get away with their child.
The whole day the girl cried which made the couple to realize that the girl was not lying.
Therefore, they decided to seek the help of Birbal.
Birbal consoled them and asked them to wait at the Emperor's assembly. Birbal had invited the saint to Akbar's court too.
Then in front of all the ministers he drew a sword and neared the saint to kill him. The saint in bewilderment immediately drew another sword and began to fight. Thus by this act of the saint it was proved that he wasn’t blind.
Therefore, Akbar demanded to hang the culprit and rewarded the girl for her bravery for telling the truth even at the critical situation.
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'India 2nd only to US in sending spam'
India has retained its second position in originating spam, accounting for about 12.55 per cent of the global junk mails sent in July, even after reducing the number of mails sent, says a study.
Besides, the US has continued to maintain its first position as the king of Spam relaying nearly one-fourth of the world's total junk mails and Brazil also continued to hold the third position with 12 per cent, the study by Trend Micro said.
Continuing the last two-month trend in July, the US, India and Brazil retained their positions as the top three spam-sending countries.
The report also noted that while India has posted a decline in numbers of mail sent, both the US and Brazil have witnessed an increase in their spam numbers during the month.
"User account information and credit card credentials reap good profits for cybercriminals. Cybercriminals continued to leverage on the widespread use of social networking sites, search engines, and redirectors this July," Trend Micro Manager(India and SAARC) Amit Nath Country said.
The report noted that attacks are now carried out using three primary vectors - email, Web, and file.
With 11.3 per cent of global junk mails, the UK placed fourth in the list, while Germany was fifth by generating 8.66 per cent of junk messages sent around the world.
Surprisingly, China, often blamed for cybercrime by other countries, did not appear on the list .
Junk mails virtually come from malware-infected computers and cause a huge strain on company resources and leads to lost productivity.
In terms of companies, HSBC has become the top phishing target for July via email.
Among other countries on the list, Vietnam was sixth with 7.71 per cent, followed by France (6.71 per cent), Republic of Korea (6.09 per cent), Italy (5.46 per cent) and Romania (5.13 per cent)
New York rider asks if cabbie is Muslim, stabs him
WASHINGTON: It's a slash that has cut deep into New York City's storied reputation as the world's greatest ethnic and cultural melting pot.
A crazed, and possibly drunk, 21-year old wingnut pulled a knife on a New York City cabbie and slashed him multiple times during evening rush hour on Wednesday after inquiring if he was a Muslim.
The incident, coming amid a fervid debate over a proposed mosque close to the site of the 9/11 tragedy, sparked off an tortured debate about possible growing Islamophobia in the United States, even as it stunned the city known as Big Apple, almost 40% of whose residents are foreign-born and hail from nearly every corner of the world.
Michael Enright's cab ride after he hailed the taxi driven Ahmed Sharif, a 44-year old Bangladeshi immigrant appears to have begun calmly enough. Enright actually greeted him with a "salaam aleikum" and inquired about how the holy month of Ramzan was going for him.
At some point, the young man began making fun of Ramzan, upon which Sharif says he went quiet to avoid any further aggravation. But as the traffic inched down on Third Avenue, close to a block lined with Indian and Bangladeshi eateries, Enright began some soldierly shouting and cursing at Sharif.
Yelling "This is a check point...I have to bring you down, mo..fo", Enright pulled out a knife, reached across a plastic divider that typically screens drivers from passengers and slashed Sharif across the throat and his hands as they went up in protection. He then bolted from the cab in slow moving traffic. Police officers alerted to the incident by a bleeding Sharif apprehended Enright, who claimed the cab driver had tried to rob him.
After a psychiatric evaluation, Enright was charged with second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime, first-degree assault as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon, and held without bail.
It turns out that Enright is an aspiring film-maker who was working as an unpaid intern at an internet media company and working on a documentary on Bravo Company, a US Marine group also known as Lava Dogs. He spent several weeks embedded with them in Afghanistan earlier this year. But nothing in his behavior then or later appeared to suggest he had any anti-muslim prejudice, his friends and employers said.
The incident stunned New Yorkers, including the community of 44,000 licensed cab drivers, nearly half of whom are from the Indian sub-continent. Typically, as many visiting Indians discover, there is an even chance that the driver of cab one hails in NYC speaks Punjabi or Bengali. A contrite mayor Michael Bloomberg said the episode went against everything the city stood for, even as questions raged about whether the attack was a sign that the mosque debate was getting out of hand.
The irony was that Sharif had frequently expressed himself against the proposed mosque near the 9/11 site.
Eating grapefruit can treat Diabetis
Grapefruit could hold the key to tackling diabetes, a new study has found.
Naringenin, an antioxidant derived from the bitter flavour of grapefruits and other citrus fruits, may cause the liver to break down fat while increasing insulin sensitivity, a process that naturally occurs during long
periods of fasting.
Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) report that naringenin activates a family of small proteins, called nuclear receptors, causing the liver to break down fatty acids.
In fact, the compound seems to mimic the actions of other drugs, such as the lipid-lowering Fenofibrate and the anti-diabetic Rosiglitazone, offering the advantages of both.
If the results of this study extend to human patients, this dietary supplement could become a staple in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, type-2 diabetes, and perhaps metabolic syndrome.
"It is a fascinating find. We show the mechanism by which naringenin increases two important pharmaceutical targets, PPARa and PPAR?, while blocking a third, LXRa. The results are similar to those induced by long periods of fasting,” said Yaakov Nahmias, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the paper's senior author.
The report appears in this week issue of the online journal PLoS ONE
Ingredients: 1 loaf Bread
1/2 cup grated Paneer (Cottage Cheese)
1 Tomatoes
1 Onions
2 Green chillies
1/4 tsp Red chilli powder
Salt to taste
Butter as needed
Method:
Chop onions, chillies and tomatoes.
Mix the grated paneer with chopped vegetables, salt, red chilli powder and keep aside.
Take two bread slices and butter them, put some paneer mixture on one slice and cover it with other bread slice.
Put this in sandwich toaster until the bread turns crispy and brown.
Serve with ketchup.
Contributed by Anthony
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