A heritage centre to showcase the role of the Indian Air Force in various wars and its overall functioning will come up at Chandigarh. The 'IAF Heritage Centre' will be set up jointly by the force and the Chandigarh administration. An MoU between the Union Territory of Chandigarh and the IAF for setting up of the centre was inked. The ceremony was attended by Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit and Air Chief Marshal V. R. Chaudhari.
This heritage centre will have artefact, simulators and interactive boards to highlight various facets of IAF. It will also showcase the vital role played by the service in various wars and assistance rendered for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. This joint project of Administration of UT Chandigarh and IAF is planned to be completed by October 2022.
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) uncovered the 2,100-year-old ruins of an agricultural farmstead in the Galilee region of Israel. They also uncovered tens of loom weights used for weaving garments, large ceramic storage vessels, and iron agricultural implements, including various picks and scythes. The ancient coins retrieved date the farmstead to the second half of the second century BCE (Hellenistic Hasmonean period).
The team also uncovered the foundations of buildings, pottery vessels, and other finds dating to the 10-9th centuries BCE (Iron Age).
More research is required to determine the identity of the inhabitants of the site.