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October Month Articles
- A Tale of Two Scandals
- by Shalini Singh
With no one nailed in the 2G scam, will the probe into Games corruption
fare any better? .....
- 'Germany home to 1,000
terrorists'
- by Daily Times
Germany is probably home to more than 1,000 potentially violent terrorists
and the number of identified militants has risen constantly in the past
few years, the Federal Crime Office (BKA) said on Wednesday. .....
- Faith and Law
- by Prakash Nanda
By defying and disregarding the national mood for a reconciliation, the
"secularist fundamentalists" have prompted some vocal self appointed
leaders of the Muslim community to approach the Supreme court to reject
the High Court judgment and give its own. .....
- Kashmir' most wanted separatist
leader arrested
- by The Hindustan Times
In a major breakthrough, the Srinagar police has arrested Masrat Alam,
the most wanted separatist leader and mastermind of the ongoing Quit Kashmir
agitation. .....
- Kashmir mosque siege on
as militant refuses to give up
- by The Times of India
The standoff between an injured guerrilla hiding in a mosque in Kashmir's
Bandipora district and the security forces continued Monday evening as
a village cleric and elders failed to persuade the militant to surrender.
.....
- If Pakistan splinters...
- by Bharat Verma
The Chinese will suffer a major setback if dysfunctional Pakistan splinters
in the near future. .....
- Ram Leela end in victory
- by Maneesha Karan
TEN days of the 105th Ram Leela festival celebrated in Bulileka, Labasa
came to an end yesterday after the burning of Ravana ù the ten-headed
king of demons in the Hindu mythology the Ramayana. .....
- Pumpkins, cucumbers replace
animal sacrifice in Puja
- by Madhuri Kumar
Isn't it a heartening news that Durga Puja committees have been sensitized
against animal sacrifice and Puja pandals did not offer any `patha bali'
on Mahaastami day nor will they do so on Mahanavami day. .....
- Thousands of tots scribble
first letters in Kerala
- by The Times of India
In a unique custom that transcends religious barriers, thousands of children
in Kerala entered the world of learning by scribbling their first letters
on Vijayadasami day today, marking the conclusion of the Navaratri festival.
.....
- Second wife warned U.S.
of Mumbai plotter
- by Michael Isikoff
There were two separate warnings that an American businessman was plotting
a terrorist attack in India with the Pakistani extremist group that carried
out the Mumbai assault, NBC News confirmed Saturday. .....
- Afghan contractors fund
Taliban, says US Senate report
- by The Times of India
Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line
the pockets of the Taliban because contractors often do not vet local
recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs, Senate investigators said
on Thursday. .....
- Verdict on Rama Janmabhumi
an auspicious sign
- by Ma. Mohan Bhagwat
Vijaya Dashami is celebrated in our country with great gaiety and enthusiasm
from time immemorial as a day of victory of the "Dharma" i.e.
virtue, service and righteousness. .....
- BJP defeats Cong in Chhattisgarh
by-poll
- by The Pioneer
The ruling BJP pulled off an impressive victory Monday in the Chhattisgarh
assembly by-election from the Bhatgaon constitueny in Surguja district,
handing over one of the worst defeats to arch rival Congress in recent
years. .....
- Ram, and not temple, is
the issue
- by Virendra Parekh
It took just a day for secularist sewer rats to crawl out of their holes
after the Ayodhya judgment. Mulayam Singh Yadav discovered that Muslims
felt 'cheated and disappointed' by the verdict .....
- A textbook case of howlers
- by Michel Danino
Is a nation, we often take pride in our history, yet in my decade-long
interactions with Indian students and teachers, I have rarely found any
in love with the discipline .....
- Vaishno Devi pilgrims cross
1 lakh
- by The Hindustan Times
More than 1 lakh yatris performed darshan at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine
in the first three days of the nine-day Navratas. .....
- Vaishno Devi pilgrims cross
1 lakh
- by The Hindustan Times
More than 1 lakh yatris performed darshan at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine
in the first three days of the nine-day Navratas. .....
- IT IS NOT FAITH versus
LAW, IT IS FAITH upheld by LAW
- by L.K. Advani
I spent the first twenty years of my life in Karachi. The only two languages
I became conversant with during that period were my mother tongue Sindhi,
and the language I had my education in, English. .....
- Assaulted in Edinburgh
for a good deed
- by The Times of India
An Indian-origin man was brutally assaulted in Britain when he tried to
stop a gang of men from attacking a woman. He was called an "Indian
b******". .....
- Pakistan, China two irritants
for India: Army chief
- by The Pioneer
Describing China and Pakistan as "two irritants" for India,
Army Chief General V.K. Singh Friday said the terror infrastructure across
the western border and Beijing's rising military prowess were a matter
of worry for the country. He, however, ruled out any possibility of war
with the neighbours. .....
- An Ambiguous Victory for
Wilders
- by Srdja Trifkovic
The news just in that Dutch prosecutors have changed their mind about
prosecuting Geert Wilders for the Orwellian crime of "discriminating
against Muslims" and "inciting hatred" is prima facie a
victory for free speech and all that. In fact it is not nearly as good
as it may seem. .....
- The Eminent Historians
- by Koenraad Elst
A group of them raised the stakes and turned a local communal deal into
a clash of civilizations .....
- ASI report clinched verdict,
says Advani
- by The Indian Express
Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday said the Archaeological Survey of
India (ASI) report was "clincher" for the Allahabad High Court
verdict on the Ayodhya title suits. .....
- Mischief-makers in J&K
- by G. Parthasarathy
The Hurriyat leadership and its mentors in Pakistan know that with the
army no longer in the valley, the writ of the Indian State can be challenged
with impunity. .....
- Pakistan Urges On Taliban
- by Julian E. Barnes, Matthew Rosenberg
and Habib Khan Totakhil
Members of Pakistan's spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders
to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan. .....
- Mad for Mumbai
- by TheAustralian.com.au
Tonight, as I waved my high heel in the face of a bewildered taxi driver,
I thought suddenly: I am absolutely nuts in India. It's a thought I have
often. Someone or something is always going nuts, and quite often it's
me. .....
- Here Come the Pious
- by VK Shashikumar
A new Islamist body, the Popular Front of India, is causing alarm with
its religious overdrive in the south. VK SHASHIKUMAR tells us why we should
be worried .....
- Modi blasts Congress after
civic poll win
- by The Hindustan Times
With BJP sweeping the polls to six municipal corporations in Gujarat and
crisis in saffron party-ruled Karnataka persisting, Chief Minister Narendra
Modi on Tuesday warned Congress-led UPA that blatant "misuse"
of constitutional offices would backfire. .....
- The social revolution in
Uttar Pradesh
- by S A Aiyar
Last week, this column highlighted major economic improvements for dalits
in Uttar Pradesh, based on a research paper by Devesh Kapur and others
(Rethinking inequality: Dalits in UP in the market reform era). But the
real dalit revolution has been in social status, far more than economic.
.....
- Forget Kashmir, worry about
your own survival: Krishna to Pak
- by Chidanand Rajghatta
Forget Kashmir, worry about your own survival. This was the blunt message
India's external affairs minister SM Krishna gave Pakistan after Islamabad's
familiar rhetoric on Kashmir at the United Nations through its foreign
minister SM Qureshi scuttled an expected meeting between the two. .....
- Demystification of the
Islamic Rule in India, Part I
- by Ibrahim Lone
A lot has been said about the peace and prosperity that was abound in
India during the Islamic Rule. Even British historians in their zeal to
win over Muslims as their allies distorted the true history of the Indian
subcontinent under Muslim rule. .....
- Demystification of the
Islamic Rule in India, Part I
- by Ibrahim Lone
A lot has been said about the peace and prosperity that was abound in
India during the Islamic Rule. Even British historians in their zeal to
win over Muslims as their allies distorted the true history of the Indian
subcontinent under Muslim rule. .....
- Briton killed by drone
'was to be terror chief'
- by Dawn.com
A British terror suspect killed in a drone strike in Pakistan last month
was being groomed to head a new Al Qaeda splinter group in Britain tasked
with attacking Europe, the BBC reported on Tuesday. .....
- Cong muzzling the Muslims,
says Shahi Imam
- by A. M. Jigeesh
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is yet to take a final
decision on filing an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Ayodhya
verdict delivered by the Allahabad High Court. .....
- Youths go to Pak on regular
visa, return after LeT training
- by The Times of India
A new phenomenon called 'legal infiltration' is causing concern among
security agencies in J&K as reports emerge that youths are visiting
Pakistan on regular visas which are extended to facilitate their basic
training in handling explosives and weapons. .....
- Archaeology in India has
matured, Sengupta
- by Jimmy Peterson
Gautam Sengupta, the director general of the Archaeological Survey of
India said on Wednesday that Archaeology in the country has matured in
its geographic expanse and the nature of questions it raises in the last
five decades. .....
- Karnataka speaker's decision
inspired by Maharashtra counterpart
- by Kiran Tare
The Karnataka assembly speaker K.G. Bopaiah's decision to disqualify 16
rebel MLAs including 11 from BJP under the provisions of anti-defection
law was inspired from a ruling given by then Maharashtra assembly speaker
Arun Gujrathi in 2002. .....
- Pamela Geller: In Her Own
Words
- by The New York Times
The following are excerpts from an interview with Pamela Geller, a conservative
blogger who has been vocal in opposition to the Islamic center and mosque
to be built near ground zero. .....
- Division will escalate
dispute
- by S Gurumurthy
The otherwise legally proper and judiciously sound Ayodhya verdict has
suffered serious legal haemorrhage by the decision of Justice Khan and
Justice Agarwal to divide the disputed land into three parts and give
one-third each to Hindus, Muslims and the Nirmohi Akhara. .....
- Verdict - a prologue
- by S Gurumurthy
My judgment is short, very short", writes a relieved and happy Justice
S U Khan who delivered the Ayodhya judgment along with Justice S Agarwal
and Justice D V Sharma. .....
- Ayodhya: VHP lays claim
to entire 67-acre plot
- by Sachin Parashar
While it initially hailed the Ayodhya verdict as a Hindu victory which
had paved the way for a Ram temple, the VHP has now turned around by describing
the same judgment as completely uncalled for as none of the parties involved
had asked for a division of the disputed land. .....
- Suppressing voices in China
won't work
- by Swapan Dasgupta
What would have happened, it was asked on Twitter last Friday, if someone
in the state-controlled media in China had made a tasteless remark similar
to what the TV presenter in New Zealand made about Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit? . .....
- Finally, local don's Headley
link found
- by C Unnikrishnan
The Mumbai underworld's involvement in the 26/11 plot was always suspected
but never proved. With no leads, this line of line of inquiry was going
cold. .....
- J&K assembly erupts
over Omar's speech
- by The Pioneer
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator and a policeman were injured
Thursday as chaos erupted in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly with opposition
members disrupting proceedings over Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's speech
a day earlier. .....
- India furious over NZ anchor's
Sheila jibe, envoy apologizes
- by The Pioneer
Outraged over racial remarks against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit
on New Zealand's prime news channel, India today summoned its High Commissioner
Rupert Holborow and issued a "strong" demarche demanding "demonstrative
action"' against the TV anchor. .....
- ISI Pressing Taliban To
Fight US Troops In Afghanistan: Report
- by The Times of India
Pakistan's powerful ISI is pressing Taliban commanders in Afghanistan
to fight the US and allied troops and "kill everyone" so that
no peace deal is cut to end the war without Islamabad's involvement, a
media report says. .....
- Omar Abdullah challenges
J&K Integration with India
- by Bhim Singh
Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, in a speech to the Legislative
Assembly on Oct. 6, literally threatened to reopen all issues relating
to the State's Accession to India in 1947 .....
- ASI evidence proved demolition
beyond doubt
- by A Surya Prakash
An important aspect of the Allahabad High Court judgment in the Ayodhya
title suits case is its conclusion on the issue whether a Hindu temple
existed below the Babri Masjid. .....
- Cong divided on Ayodhya
verdict
- by Annapurna Jha
The sharp differences within the Congress over the Ayodhya verdict have
started coming to fore with party general secretary Digvijay Singh terming
the Allahabad High Court .....
- J&K: Peace by Pieces?
- by Sandhya Jain
On 29 Sept. 2010, an NGO called the Women's Initiative for Peace in South
Asia (WIPSA), organised a dialogue titled, Sisters for Peace: .....
- Ram, and not temple, is
the issue
- by Virendra Parekh
It took just a day for secularist sewer rats to crawl out of their holes
after the Ayodhya judgment. Mulayam Singh Yadav discovered that Muslims
felt 'cheated and disappointed' by the verdict, even before any Muslim
said so. .....
- US becoming increasingly
wary of ISI's clout
- by The Pioneer
Top U.S. defence officials are concerned some elements of Pakistan's main
spy agency may be interacting improperly with the Taliban and other insurgent
groups, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday. .....
- A perverse discourse
- by A Surya Prakash
Steeped in ignorance, pseudo-secularists are busy doing what they do best:
Deliberately misinterpreting the Ayodhya judgement. .....
- Pakistan officials: 8 German
militants killed
- by Melissa Eddy
Pakistani officials said Tuesday that eight German militants were killed
in a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's rugged mountain border area, but
German officials remained tight-lipped over the incident. .....
- Still-defiant Times Square
bomber gets life sentence
- by Tom Hays
The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday
night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and
warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims.
.....
- A perverse discourse
- by A Surya Prakash
Steeped in ignorance, pseudo-secularists are busy doing what they do best:
Deliberately misinterpreting the Ayodhya judgement. .....
- Kandhamal: the Real Challenges
- by R L Francis
The vice chairman of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Dr H.T.
Sangliana giving a clean chit to the Orissa government on the Kandhamal
violence by praising the steps taken to bring normalcy to Phulbani district
has given a blow to the Christian organisations' allegations against the
regime. .....
- White House report assails
Pak for not doing enough: WSJ
- by The Pioneer
Pakistan is not doing enough to combat terrorists and extremists in its
restive tribal belt where some of the most wanted insurgents are hiding,
says a new White House report, which also censured President Asif Ali
Zardari's leadership. .....
- Cracks show in Cong over
HC verdict
- by The Pioneer
Differences within the Congress over the Ayodhya verdict came out into
the open on Tuesday, which was also marked by a game of political one-upmanship
and firming up of follow-up action . .....
- Pak fanned terror in Kashmir,
says Mush
- by S Rajagopalan
We now have it from the horse's mouth. Pakistan's former military ruler
Pervez Musharraf has gone public with the admission that his country formed
and trained underground militant groups to fight India in Kashmir. .....
- Relic of the past
- by Prafull Goradia
Many progressive Muslim countries have abolished the institution of waqf
as it does not serve any purpose in modern times. .....
- Nirad Chaudhari tells the
historical truths
- by Ashok Chowgule
Those who go under the rubric secularists ('eminent' historians, most
mainstream jurnalists, 'liberals', etc.) have been most upset that the
High Court judgement on Ayodhya has accepted the following: ! . .....
- Ram Janmabhoomi belongs
only to Lord Ram!
- by Pravinbhai Togadia
Hindus have believed for ages that determined faith has tremendous power!
God does take the test of devotion of devotees up to certain period. Hindus
in India and all over the world have clearly passed this difficult divine
test! . .....
- Division of Ram Janmasthala
is unacceptable
- by Global Hindu Heritage Foundation
GHHF welcomes the verdict delivered by Allahabad court of Lucknow Bench
in a majority decision that "disputed site" was the birthplace
of Lord Rama. .....
- Puja workshop to help priests
stick to tradition
- by The Times of India
With less than six weeks to go for Durga Puja, several erstwhile zamindar
families of the city are organising training camps for priests to bring
authenticity into community pujas. .....
- Life returns to normal
in Kashmir
- by The Times of India
Life in Kashmir Valley on Saturday returned to normal as authorities lifted
curfew and hardline Hurriyat Conference exempted the day from its schedule
of protests and strikes. .....
- Dilute AFSPA and loose
Kashmir
- by Brigadier Arun
This is a time tested Act which has brought peace to Punjab, Mizoram,
Assam and Tripura. Even Supreme Court has upheld this Act. .....
- 'Next friend' helped Ram
claim rightful place
- by A Surya Prakash
Several commentators, who are not clued into the intricacies of Hindu
law, have expressed surprise over the Allahabad High Court's verdict in
the Ayodhya case .....
- J&K: Dismemberment
designs reach New Delhi
- by Nancy Kaul
Intifada and mob violence, the tools to further the agenda of terrorism
and proxy war in Jammu & Kashmir, has been tested by Pakistan and
the separatist elements in the Kashmir Valley. .....
- Plea against Bengal quota
- by Our Legal Correspondent
A Calcutta-based lawyer today moved the Supreme Court against a notification
the Bengal government issued last week formalising a 10 per cent job quota
the Left Front regime had announced for socially and educationally backward
Muslims. .....
- Judgement has paved way
for Ram temple construction: RSS
- by The Pioneer
The RSS today said the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya title suit
has paved the way for construction of a Ram temple on the disputed site
even as it appealed for restraint and said the order should not be seen
as anybody's victory or defeat. .....
- VHP welcomes Ayodhya verdict,
demands temple in entire area
- by The Pioneer
Welcoming the Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ayodhya title issue,
VHP claimed on Thursday that the ruling has established without doubt
that the place where Ram's idol was existing was the birthplace of the
Lord. .....
- Ayodhya: Triumph of Truth
- by Sandhya Jain
If there is a clear winner in the vexatious dispute over the Ram Janmabhoomi,
it is Truth (satya), which has triumphed in the face of formidable obstacles
placed by cussed political actors nurturing communal votebanks .....
- BJP: New chapter in national
integration
- by The Pioneer
The BJP has reacted cautiously to the Ayodhya title verdict, saying it
was a "new chapter in national integration" and a "new
era for inter-community relationship". .....
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