by Persecutedchurch.info
Seized by an influential Muslim, with the “political cover” of an elected official, 19 year old Rinkel Kumari launches a desperate appeal to the courts. “Justice is denied Hindus in Pakistan” and therefore asks to “kill me here” in the courtroom. The family, after reporting to police, forced to leave the village in Sindh. Each year there are 300 forced marriages and conversions. ....
by Samvada.org
The Court of additional division at KGF Kolar district has declared its verdict on a case of forcible conversion today. As per the judgement given by Additional Civil judge H Gopalakrishna, 2 accused gets 3years 6months of imprisonment and fine of Rs 6000, other 9 members gets i year of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 3000 each. ....
by The Pioneer
The CBI on Saturday accused the Delhi Police of keeping its “eyes closed” to violence and acting in a pre-planned manner during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. ....
by NDTV.com
Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political self-immolations in recent history. ....
by Kestur Vasuki
For them Sanskrit is everything. They want Sanskrit to bridge the gap between past and the present. They are working towards bringing many untold and unheard Sanskrit verses to the benefit of the new generation. ....
by Indrani Bagchi
India's tormentor-in-chief Hafiz Saeed, the head of Pakistan's deadliest terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, now carries a $10 million bounty on his head. The US has announced this reward for the capture or information leading to the capture of Saeed, making him one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. ....
by Ritu Sarin
A report prepared by the World Bank’s Institutional Integrity Unit has listed “fraudulent and corrupt” practices by private Indian contractors working on national highway projects funded by it, and sought a thorough investigation into the matter. ....
by The Indian Express
Lauding the Election Commission’s decision to cancel the Rajya Sabha election in Jharkhand, senior BJP leader L K Advani on Sunday said the decision would go a long way in preventing moneybags with no political support from entering Parliament. ....
by IBNLive.com
Shortage of trained nut pluckers is a grim farm sector problem in Kerala but for 37-year-old Selvin Chacko coconut plucking is a hi-tech profession involving car, mobile and even a dedicated website. ....
by Binoo K John
When a Chinese dignitary visits, the Delhi Police are in a tizzy. They do not know where the angry flag-waving Tibetan will spring up from. So three days before the visit, the “Free Tibet”-wallahs are rounded up as it happened last week, when Chinese President Hu Jintao was in New Delhi for the BRICS summit. ....
by Soumabha Nandi
Although the former president of India is entitled to live in a house admeasuring not more than 4,498 sq ft, land admeasuring 2,61,000 sq ft has been allotted for the post-retirement accommodation in Khadki of president Pratibha Patil. ....
by Deepa H. Ramakrishnan
Be it picking up seven plastic toys for Rs. 50 from a pavement vendor or choosing from a bundle of ‘kolam' stickers outside Indra Stores or buying liquid soap-filled containers to blow bubbles from, it's fun choosing stuff you don't really need. And this week, with the shops that have sprung up in Mylapore for the Arubathu Moovar festival at the Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple, there's no better time to indulge in unnecessary shopping. ....
by The Pioneer
Tension prevailed in the northern Kerala town of Kanhangad on Tuesday over the alleged move to desecrate a Hindu temple in Kasaragod town. ....
by The Hindu
The BJP on Wednesday leaked a copy of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) which exposed irregularities in land allotment in Maharashtra, favouring some Ministers and their relatives. The party members leaked the report after their repeated demands in the Assembly to table the same met with little success. ....
by The Pioneer
At least 15 people have died and 50 others injured as sectarian violence recently broke out in the Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, but the Government of India has virtually ignored the incident. For decades now, New Delhi has painstakingly cultivated a consistent disinterest in the happenings in what it has maintained is legally its territory. ....
by Indrani Bagchi
Hafiz Mohammed Saeed is a "powerful" man in Pakistan. He could, for instance, openly conduct fune-ral prayers for Osama bin Laden last year when all of Pakistan, including its alphabet soup of jihadists, was stunned into silence after the May 2 killing of the al-Qaida supremo in Abbottabad. ....
by IBNLive.com
The Congress as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ask for strict action against Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks plotter Hafiz Saeed when he meets Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. ....
by Uma Sudhir
The liquor lobby seems to have won the latest round in Andhra Pradesh, with the state government firm on transferring out investigating officer Srinivas Reddy despite public outcry and political protests. Apprehensions are now being expressed that this is an attempt to scuttle the probe that had named several political heavyweights. ....
by Tarun Vijay
The media hype built around the Zardari visit was simply uncalled for and shows how trivia dominate TV channels. There was nothing private in this heavily loaded political visit. A 40-member delegation, with the chairman of a political party, who also happens to be the president's son, an invitation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and the usual bonhomie that accompanies whenever a Pakistan delegation is here. ....
by Shobhan Saxena
Timing is everything. It reveals more than actions and words. So this week, when the US announced a bounty of $10 million on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, it was natural to ask: why now? The announcement was made just a few days before Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari visited India for a Sunday lunch with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. ....
by Southasianidea.com
In my three decades of reporting on the Indian military, I have never felt more uneasy about the military-media interface as I have in the past three months. ....
by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. ....
by IBNLive.com
The Odisha police association on Monday threatened to boycott duty in Maoist-infested areas if the government releases hardcore Maoists. This comes after the Odisha government bowed down before the Maoists and announced that it would release 27 Maoists to in exchange for Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MLA Jhina Hikaka and Italian national Paolo Bosusco. ....
by Satish Jha
The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) has found no evidence against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 61 others in the complaint filed against them by Zakia Jafri in the 2002 Gujarat riots, a Magisterial court said today. ....
by The Indian Express
Terming as a "big relief" the clean chit given by Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gulberg Society case, BJP today said ten years of vilification against its leader should stop now. ....
by IBNLive.com
Special Investigation Team (SIT) Chief Raghavan on Tuesday said that they have filed the closure report in the Gulbarg Society massacre case as they did not find any evidence against any of the 58 accused, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. ....
by Kanwal Sibal
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India has produced predictable results. It was a private visit, but it was unavoidably given an official colour as the Indian prime minister could not have ignored the Pakistani president's presence on Indian soil without creating a misunderstanding. ....
by Rediff.com
We cannot afford to continue expending our logistic resources on the riots of Gujarat, an exercise that has run its full course. The nation demands closure in the form of acceptance of the SIT report. To do otherwise is to indicate a lack of faith in the institutions of our country, in effect a lack of faith in ourselves, says Vivek Gumaste ....
by The News
The Hindu Panchayat (HP) and the Shehree Ittehad (SI) continued protests on the 40th day on Wednesday against the kidnapping of a Hindu girl Ayesha Kumari. ....
by Dalai Lama
We Tibetans look to India with open hearts. The longstanding relationship between India and Tibet is unique. From a historical point of view the Tibetan way of life and culture has been strongly influenced by Buddhism which originated in the Sacred Land of India. It is the source of our tradition of nonviolence. ....
by VR Jayaraj
Kerala’s Congress-led ruling UDF on Wednesday settled a vexed dispute that had been dogging it for the past several months by agreeing to give a fifth Cabinet berth to Muslim League, second largest front constituent, and to make Kerala Congress’s Anoop Jacob, who was elected MLA in a recent by-poll, leading to complaints of upsetting community balance in the Government. ....
by Dr Vaidehi Nathan
Shah Jahan, the Mughal Emperor who was a “ruthless political operator, who only achieved power by ordering the murder of two brothers and at least six other relatives, one of them the legitimately crowned Emperor Dawar Baksh… an enlightened despot, a king who dispensed largesse to favoured courtiers but ignored plague in the countryside.” ....
by Veeresh Malik
While the Moneylife report on the construction of a post-retirement bungalow for Pratibha Patil in Pune became viral in social media, the President's office came up with a denial which did not address the core issues, but was carried faithfully by the mainstream media ....
by Hinduexistence.wordpress.com
Bengal BJP unit protests against proposed Imam’s allowances in WB. BJP will go to the Court against the ‘allowances for Imams’. ....
by Psychcentral.com
When caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s use yoga to engage in very brief, easy daily meditations, they lower levels of depression, improve cognitive functioning and reduce stress-induced cellular aging, says a new UCLA study. ....
by Insiya Rasiwala-Finn
My earliest memories are of watching my father pray in the silence of the early morning. He would kneel on his prayer mat angled precisely westward, toward Mecca, a white topi on his head, and recite verses from the Koran. ....
by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Narendra Modi government on Friday moved the Supreme Court and sought an independent probe into encounter cases in all states in last 10 years, while venting its ire at Mumbai-based human rights activists accusing them for focusing only on incidents in Gujarat. ....
by The Indian Express
Danish prosecutors accused four alleged terrorists on Friday of targeting the country’s crown prince as part of a revenge attack on a Danish newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. ....
by Debabrata Mohanty
As the Naveen Patnaik government explores option of back-channel talks with pro-Maoist organisation Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) for early release of abducted BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka, there is growing anger among tribals and Dalits who have been at the receiving end of CMAS violence here. ....
by Prakhar Jain Q.: Why has the police threatened non-cooperation in Naxal areas if the state releases hardcore Maoists in exchange for the hostages?
A.: We have no objection to any positive discussion with the Naxals. But we oppose any dialogue that will cost us the release of hardcore Maoists. ....
by Vinita Deshmukh
Commander Ravindra Pathak (retd) and Col Suresh Patil (retd) who have been campaigning against excess defence land being taken by President Pratibha Patil are well known activists in Pune. Let’s see how far their tenacity takes them in this campaign which is connected with the highest chair in this country ....
by Stephen Messenger
A little over 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav “Molai” Payeng began burying seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in northern India’s Assam region to grow a refuge for wildlife. Not long after, he decided to dedicate his life to this endeavor, so he moved to the site where he could work full-time creating a lush new forest ecosystem. ....
by India Today
He started his career as a teacher of Islamic studies at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore. But Hafiz Saeed's name made headlines globally after the 2001 attack on Parliament in Delhi. ....
by Persecutedchurch.info
Pakistan’s Supreme Court rules against all three. Abducted back in February in Sindh province, they were forced to marry Muslim men. Families complain about pressure from powerful Muslim groups. All three received death threats. ....
by Persecutedchurch.info
Hindus say they have lost their faith in the judiciary after the Supreme Court yesterday opted to allow three young girls at the center of a tug of war case to decide their own futures. ....
by Firstpost.com
Criticising the government for refusing to take a stand on the issue, Vishwa Hindu Parishad today demanded that the mythological Ram Setu be declared a national monument. ....
by Thehoot.org
“I knew what I was doing when I leaked the documents to you. I could not count on my government or Bofors or the government of India to get to the bottom of this.” STEN LINDSTROM explains why he chose to turn whistleblower to CHITRA SUBRAMANIAM-DUELLA ....
by J Gopikrishnan
While Home Minister P Chidambaram continued his stony silence on Friday over Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy’s allegations against him and his son Karti on Aircel-Maxis deal, the Home Ministry’s Media Wing distributed a Press release on behalf of a Chartered Accountant representing a company allegedly controlled by Karti. Swamy has alleged that this company benefitted from the deal. ....
by TN Raghunatha
Amid a raging controversy on how the rules were bent to allot defence A1 land in Khadki cantonment to the President, there comes a contrasting story on how the authorities used the same rules to deny permission to a war veteran to build a post-retirement home on his own plot of land in Deolali. ....
by The Indian Express
The Reagan administration repeatedly ignored the warning of the US intelligence community that the then Pakistani military ruler General Zia ul-Haq was consistently lying to them on the country's nuclear programme, latest declassified information have revealed. ....
by Lokpal Sethi
Two accused in the Ajmer Dargah blast case have told a special court that they have been offered a considerable amount of money by the National Investigation Agency to implicate three senior RSS functionaries. ...
