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      At least 15 terrorists were killed on Thursday in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district in south Kashmir, defence sources said. .....
     

      More army troops have been moved to Jammu and Kashmir to maintain the heat on militants after the Operation 'Sarp Vinash' and in fresh big strikes on militant hideouts, 45 militants, mostly Pakistani mercenaries, have been killed and ten captured during the last three days. .....
     

      Hailing Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as a "statesman" for his latest initiative for peace with Pakistan, Germany today strongly backed India in its fight against cross-border terrorism and asked Islamabad to put an end to this menace. .....
     

      Despite peace moves by India towards Pakistan, there is no let-up in infiltration efforts from across the border, Chief of Army General N C Vij said today. .....
     

      Strongly supporting India's move to extend a hand of friendship to Pakistan, the US on Wednesday categorically ruled out any mediation on the Kashmir issue, report Agencies. .....
     

      As a sequel to Operation 'Sarp Vinash', Army's large-scale anti-military operation in upper reaches of Poonch district, the security forces are poised to launch sustained operations in other inaccessible areas of Jammu and Kashmir where it is suspected militants might have set up fortifications reports PTI. .....
     

      A day after suicide bombers killed 29 people in Morocco in mid-May, that country's interior minister noted that the five nearly simultaneous attacks "bear the hallmarks of international terrorism." More strongly, the Moroccan justice minister asserted a "connection to international terrorism" and the prime minister spoke of a "foreign hand" behind the violence. .....
     

      Over and above the invisible fifth column, there is a known fourth column in India. There is a Pakistan inside the borders which needs to be defeated first. President Musharraf's country is beyond the borders and is comparatively a lesser menace. An inimical neighbour is more dangerous than a transborder enemy. Asghar Ali and his several accomplices, recently apprehended in Hyderabad for the murder of Haren Pandya, are a good example of Pakistanis who flourish in India. .....
     

      Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani may take up with Washington the issue of Pakistan handing over 20 terrorists and criminals sought by India during his visit to the US beginning June 8. Mr Ad-vani had told US deputy secretary of stale Richard Armitage, when he was here recently, that he was unable to understand why Islamabad was hesitant in returning those 20 terrorists and criminals, sources said. .....
     

      US President George W. Bush   on Saturday said the recent suicide bombings in the Saudi capi-tal  of Riyadh that killed 34 people, including eight Americans, provide a "stark reminder" that war on terror continues even as he vowed to hunt down Al Qaida "killers" from Pakistan to the Philippines until they are all brought to justice. .....
     

      I'm proud to be a liberal. I've been a liberal all my life, espousing civil rights, environmental protection, fiscal prudence, energy independence, gun control, educational uplift, stands against military dictatorships, etc. I believe firmly in individuals thinking of causes greater than their own and translating such impulses into public policies to change society for the better. .....
     

      Liberals now seem to cover for the most illiberal force on the planet, Islamic fundamentalists who destroy free speech and enslave blacks and heap blame on U.S. policy, but do not ask the Muslim world to take a hard, long look in the mirror. .....
     

      In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, Sami Omar al-Hussayen led fellow Muslims as they joined an emotion-charged candlelight march remembering the dead. The Saudi graduate student in computer science at the University of Idaho helped organize a blood drive for victims. .....
     

      The world is paying more attention than ever before to Muslim countries. However, the treatment of women in some of these countries has been cause for outright shock. In many ways, the present treatment of women in those countries reflects tribal - rather than Islamic - values. In this Globalist Interview, Professor Akbar Ahmed - Chair of Islamic Studies at American University - offers new perspectives. .....
     

      A professor of Cambridge University is deeply, engrossed in his studies in his calm chamber: An agitated English soldier enters the study room and accuses the professor in not sharing the trauma of war which he and many others like him are facing while fighting Germans. The professor calmly asks the young soldier for whom he is fighting for. .....
     

      Two persons were killed and three others kidnapped by NLFT insurgents in separate incidents in West Tripura district, police on Thursday said. Two collaborators of the banned outfit were kidnapped at gun point by the armed ultras from Jangalia village in the district last night and one of them was later shot dead. .....
     

      In 1996, during a six-month employment in Bhubaneshwar, fascinated by the beauty and antiquity of the area, I travelled with friends to Konarak and to Puri. Here, I was interested in seeing the temple of Lord Jagannath, considered to be the symbol of Orissa. .....
     

      In her article `Hindutva and ethnicity' (The Hindu, February 25), Ms. Gail Omvedt has made several statements which call for comments. The solicitude and greed of the Pandas, which are sarcastically mentioned by the author, are not a peculiarity of a temple or found only in India. .....
     

      A Muslim woman is going to court against the state this week in her fight to wear a veil that covers most of her face for her driver's license photo. .....
     

      Totalitarian regimes in the Middle East have targeted the United States with a well-financed influence campaign that is being rooted in American politics. .....
     

      It is unnecessary to recall the horrors of the panchayat polls in West Bengal to come to the conclusion that something is very rotten in the state of Denmark. Signs are unmistakable; the Marxists are losing their grip and it is no one's fault but their own. .....
     

      On a recent Saturday in a church fellowship hall here, evangelical Christians from several states gathered for an all-day seminar on how to woo Muslims away from Islam. .....
     

      The recent times have witnessed a flurry of activities in the academic circles regarding our culture, heritage and traditions. The emergence of right wing writers and an increasing undeniable movement of the hoi polloi towards the far right has brought the conflict between the so-called 'secular progressives' and the others (Whom the media loves to call 'fascists') into sharp focus. .....
     

      Asserting that the disputed site in Ayodhya was the birthplace of Lord Ram, the Centre today told the Liberhan Commission that continued effort by Hindus to liberate it either by way of struggle or negotiations and litigations have been on even during the existence of the mosque there. .....
     

      Choosing yet another soft target, militants killed five members of a Gujjar family, including three children and one woman, and set their house on fire late last night in Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir, Police sources said here today. .....
     

      For the hypothetical choice between Narendra Modi of Gujarat and General Musharraf, it's no contest really - the truly disturbing sign of the direction India's democracy has taken is that the 'Paki in khaki'would get my vote any day over the saffron-draped Hindu nationalist peddling the politics of hate. .....
     

      India, which has the second largest Muslim population country in the world after Indonesia, was almost set to join the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). .....
     

      Wing Commander (retd) R V Parasnis, who so chivalrously defended me in the message board, points out that "The Pakistani invasion began on the 22nd of October 1947 and not in 1948 as you have quoted." .....
     

      The cell, comprising at least six individuals and based in London and Luton, is part of the 'al-Tauhid group'. The group is independent of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation, but follow a similar hardline agenda and has been blamed for a series of attacks and plots over the last three years. .....
     

      Three days after a tribal woman was raped allegedly for not voting for the CPM in the panchayat polls, a complaint was lodged with the police today. But it was only after the victim approached the additional district magistrate and submitted a memorandum to him that an FIR was lodged. .....
     

      When he was a teenager issuing his own fatwas, Mansour al-Nogaidan ordered his followers to blow up a video store in downtown Riyadh because it was spreading Western corruption. Now, years later, a completely changed man has dropped a philosophical bombshell in the fervent national discussion swirling around the suicide attacks this month against residential compounds here. .....
     

      Saudi security agents thwarted a Sept. 11-style plot, arresting three Moroccan extremists who had planned to hijack a jetliner and crash it into the national bank in Jeddah, it was revealed yesterday. .....
     

      In what may be the largest single counter-insurgency operation in India in the past decade or so, security forces have in the last three weeks killed an estimated 60 hard,-core militants in the Surankote area close to the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. .....
     

      Defying orders ban-ning his entry into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Jaish-e- Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar to-day reached Kotii town in PoK, a private television channel, Geo TV reported. .....
     

      It is now more than a week since Pakistan- backed Islamic terrorists shot up the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, killing 12 people and leaving the Parliament building pocked with bullet holes -- yet India has so far received zero support from the nation supposedly leading an international coalition against terrorism. .....
     

      Nisha Sharma's is a case of accidental awakening. This petite 21-year-old, middle-class girl who called the police to her wedding mandap and sent her would-be groom behind bars had never even dreamt of female empowerment. She grew up following a conventional script: be good, do good, accept customs, follow traditions, respect elders. .....
     

      When Koodiyattam scholar G. Venu was appointed director of the Sweden-based World Theatre Project, he believed it was a life-time opportunity that would provide him with the much-touted global exposure. To his utter surprise, however, what was revealed to him were some home truths. .....
     

      The attack by suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the night of May  12 was a reminder America-or for that matter the entire world-cannot ignore: Al-Qaida is alive and is capable of repeating 9/11 on varying scales of horror. The imprints were a giveaway. .....
     

      She called off her wedding, only to be married to a cause forever. And from now on, when stories of Indian women's struggle against dowry are recounted, 21-year-old Nisha Sharma is sure to be an inspiration. .....
     

      The devotional music of Marathi saints is hitting the high notes in Birmingham, UK, of all places, finds Renuka Suryanarayan. Next up: Abhang rap (no kidding!) .....
     

      He is an activist of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a group not too popular with the minorities. But this school teacher has turned out to be a good samaritan for a hapless Muslim girl. .....
     

      Pune, a quiet city off Mumbai, is fast changing into a base of Islamic militants as the security agencies claimed that they had substantial inputs and interrogation reports suggesting that groups of Lashker-e-Tayiba militants and underworld gangs were receiving arms training in the area. .....
     

      Using new scanning techniques, neuroscientists have discovered that certain areas of the brain light up constantly in Buddhists, and not just when they are meditating, which indicates positive emotions and good mood. .....
     

      In an operation code named Sarp Vinash, the Army has destroyed a huge terrorist training and support base at Hill Kaka, south of the Pir Panjal range in Jammu. .....
     

      Bangladesh is one of the top countries which caters to the need of world of manual labourers. The work which an Indian or Pakistani worker will not do for Rs.100/-, is done by a Bangladeshi worker for Rs. 30 or 40/-. Hence, from the Gulf to the Western countries, Bangladeshi worker is the cheapest. .....
     

      India said Friday it had destroyed a large mountain base of Muslim guerrillas inside Kashmir but noted there was no sign yet that Pakistan had stopped supporting the rebels. .....
     

      Was it just a fortnight ago that President Bush flew to the USS Abraham Lincoln, to proclaim the beginning of the end of the war on terrorism? Days later, Al-Qaeda struck back with a synchronised onslaught in Riyadh, followed by suicide attacks in Casablanca. .....
     

      The former chairman of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference and Jamat-e-Islami ideologue, Syed Ali Geelani, today hit back at Pakistan for its decision to ban the Hizb-ul Mujahideen. He termed it shocking and painful. .....
     

      Norwegians, proud of their role as a global peacemaker, were puzzled and concerned yesterday that a leading al Qaeda member singled out their country in a terrorist threat. .....
     

      In his letter, 'Urdu school of thought' (March 9), Syed Shahabuddin demands the Urdu teaching and adequate number of Urdu-medium primary schools as a constitutional and human right. He says the Government strategy of converting madrasas into schools will not work. It will only destroy madrasa education which has and still produces great Islamic scholars. These must stay religious seminaries, in his view. .....
     

      While infiltration may be looking down, acts of terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir have not subsided. This will only happen once the swamps and pits of terrorist infrastructure have been dried and destroyed, permanently and irreversibly. This is easier said than done. .....
     

      Britain continues to play a significant role as a support base for Al Qaeda, the UK government conceded on Monday. But while it was once a haven for Islamic fundamentalists, it is now a prime target, a court heard. .....
     

      The kingdom's three major cities - Riyadh, Dammam and Jidda - have been turned into near-garrison towns in recent days as the royal family confronts the biggest threat to its authority in more than 20 years. .....
     

      It is a very emotive issue, but the British government appears set to ban slaughter of animals without stunning them. This would affect the supply of halal meat. The move has come as a surprise. .....
     

      What type of illnesses are you prone to? What will be the nature of the disease and its duration? How does one go about diagnosing a particular disease - do we take into account physical symptoms only? Some of these questions that have perturbed mankind for ages find ready answers in the science of astrology, says Dr Dinesh Sharma. .....
     

      A recent action of the Supreme Court has put the spotlight on the vexatious issue of the accountability of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) . On May 2, 2003 the apex court admitted a public interest litigation seeking the evolution of a mechanism to monitor the functioning of NGOs working for the welfare of AIDS patients. .....
     

      Faced with an acute resource crunch, the Rajasthan Government has approached the sadhus of the state to raise Rs 14 crore for a new university. .....
     

      We have to overcome a misunderstanding asserted by Italian scholars that one has to be born in India to be a Hindu. Our Sangha also hopes to spread the authentic Hindu culture among Italians who take yoga as just a sweet gymnastic," stated Swami Yoganandagiri. .....
     

      It was the 2 nd of May , sundown under a crescent moon at the Marad beach. The Hindu fishermen, most of whom had just hauled their daily catch and were resting on the beach, never knew what hit them. Three teams of about a hundred armed men climbed out of their fiberglass boats on to the shore. .....
     

      The first clear evidence of a nexus between the now- outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi) and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) emerged in December 1991 at the All India Simi Conference held at the Bandra Reclamation grounds, say ex- Simi members. .....
     

      Soon after smashing the transit camp of militants at Hill Kaka and the surrounding ridges near Surankote, the army were in for a few surprises as they started sifting through the documents and telephone numbers found in the INMARSAT (Satellite phone). Out came telephone numbers that stretched from the Aligarh Muslim University in the North to Malappuram in Kerala. .....
     

      A police constable was burnt alive by an irate mob in a remote village of Baric district in eastern Uttar Pradesh around midnight of Wednesday and Thursday. .....
     

      In what could end the dilemma of the Congress on its stand on cow slaughter, the AICC's minority department has informed Congress chief Sonia Gandhi that the Muslim community would support such a ban. The party had found itself in a quandary, as it felt that supporting the ban would hurt the sentiments of minority community and opposing it would hurt the feelings of majority community. .....
     

      Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is sniffing the Christian Missionary hand in the recent flare ups in North Cachar Hills and Cachar districts in Assam. .....
     

      It is technically wrong to term those who kill themselves in the process of killing others as suicide bombers. It is not suicide. It will be suicide if someone blew himself off without killing others. When a person goes to war, he is taking risk to get killed too -- in some ways it also could be called "suicide" but it is not. For obvious reasons. .....
     

      The starting point is at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).  It was there that the Muslim Student Organization (MSO) decided to establish two Islamic centers, each appropriately within arms length of the school. .....
     

      Pakistan's ISI and al-Qaeda agents are aiding militant outfit Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Asom active in the state from various places in Bangladesh, intelligence sources said. .....
     

      The recent bomb blasts at Riyadh (May 12) in Saudi Arabia and Casablanca in Morocco (May 16) have proved, if proof was needed, that despite the successes scored by the international coalition led by the US in the war against terrorism, the motivation of the various jihadi terrorist groups inspired by Osama bin Laden remains strong and that they suffer from no dearth of volunteers for suicide missions. .....
     

      A nun from West Bengal was killed today when militants attacked a Christian school in Anantnag in the first such incident in Kashmir. .....
     

      Tension has been prevailing in Arunachal Pradesh's Changlang district after the torching of two temples of the 'Rangfraa' deity, considered by the local tribals as the creator of the universe, earlier this month, according to reports reaching here. .....
     

      Some Muslim groups in the U.S. have launched a campaign to block the appointment of Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace. The USIP is a taxpayer-funded institution with a mandate to promote "peaceful resolutions of international conflicts." Mr. Pipes, a Bush administration nominee, is a scholar of Islam and the Middle East and an outspoken critic of militant Islamists. .....
     

      I have observed for some time that there is a certain class of people who might best be called 'Resident Non-Indians', or RNIs, for they apparently reside in India, manage to look and act astonishingly like real Indians, even hold Indian passports, but are decidedly anti-Indian in mindset. I wrote an open letter to them years ago, but given their hyperactivity recently I thought I might bestir myself once again. .....
     

      If Gen Pervez Musharraf is indispensable for the US' war on terrorism, it is because he has gone a long way in accommodating American military requirements for Afghan operations. He has also provided facilities for the FBI and the CIA that no self-respecting democratic government would. New Delhi should not get too excited about this. .....
     

      Government officials warn that America remains in danger from Al Qaeda and other terrorist operatives who wish to destroy us. This is not a one-front war, because we also face dangers from within our democratic institutions. .....
     

      Taken out of context, it looks like Naresh Trehan is playing a video game. He stares intently into a console at a three-dimensional image, his feet pressing on pedals, his hands maneuvering levers. .....
     

      Why has it become so cool to hate India? An excellent question that has a simple answer: It pays to hate India. Most India haters are actually on the direct or indirect payroll of Western-Christian-Marxist-Muslim masters. Although the axis of these four masters may seem to be an unlikely one, but from the viewpoint of Chanakya, it is a very likely one indeed. .....
     

      At least 40 people were killed and about 100 wounded in suicide bomb attacks in Morocco's biggest city Casablanca on Friday night, diplomatic sources in the capital Rabat said on Saturday. .....
     

      I would like to congratulate Mr. Arindam Banerji for his thoughtful article and stating the real facts of what's happening in West Bengal right now. I am from West Bengal and last year I went back home for a visit. One night several Muslims (live in nearby slums) kids were passing by our house and using fowl languages very loudly. .....
     

      Last week, when American Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage visited Pakistan and met President Musharraf, he was given an 'absolute assurance' that there is no infiltration across the Line of Control. Musharraf even added, "If there are any militant camps in Azad Kashmir they will be gone tomorrow." .....
     

      In a rare case of predator-prey friendship, a leopard coming to 'visit' a cow at night has literally become the talk of the town. .....
     

      Arindam Banerji, the author of this article, took the usual route of going from the IITs, through a Ph.D in the US, to finally working in sundry research labs. Currently, he is a scientist of some repute, you know the kind whose ideas actually get used by people, and an entrepreneur, with, he says, not much success. Some day, he says, he'll go back to India, but for now, as time permits, he is a writer and political thinker on South Asian geo-political issues. .....
     

      The Kerala Government today took over the  Juma Masjid of Marad from where a huge cache of arms was recovered  and most of the accused, allegedly involved in the May two  massacre of fishermen, were arrested. .....
     

      India at present may be a moral maze of colliding barbarisms but British media corridors have converged on the single source of Hindu Indian guilt. If BBC led the charge, the lower circulation broadsheets, such as the Independent and Guardian, have shown no lack of enthusiasm in operating the batteries. .....
     

      But I thought Delhi was more a city of middlemen?" "No, Sir. Delhi is a city of conspirators, rumour mongers and kothi politicians!" .....
     

      Indians beamed with pride last year when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced it had selected the subcontinent as the home for its first Media Lab in Asia. Launching this high-profile pilot project was a vote for India's brainpower over other Asian nations. America's best technology brains from academia would work with local talent to bridge the digital divide between the rich and the poor. .....
     

      In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. .....
     

      On night of 7 December 2002, police arrested me at 2 am from my residence (Ga-16, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212). When I was arrested they were in plainclothes and failed to produce any arrest warrant. When I told them to wait until it was dawn - they decline. Without seeking my permission and any search warrant they forcibly entered my house and searched different rooms. During the search, they barged into rooms without knocking where women were sleeping. .....
     

      Myself together with freedom fighter Tareq Ali and Social leader Pankaj Bhattacharya day before yesterday (14th May) went to the remote and inaccessible village Aruya, in Aruya union under the police station Shivalay to collect first hand information about the alleged sexual violence on a girl, daughter of a priest. .....
     

      It was a pretty public enunciation, made in front of 1,200 dinner guests of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), never mind the euphemisms from National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra and subsequent caveats from nervous Indian diplomats. Last week, India spoke out, leaving little ambiguity in positioning itself besides Israel and the US in terms of shared interests and common dangers. .....
     

      Even if it is not immediately apparent, the May 12 car-bomb attacks in Riyadh are no ordinary episode in the jihad currently menacing the world. Though foreigners were the physical victims of the well-planned horror, its political targets were the ruling house of Saud. .....
     

      In a gruesome act of reprisal against the family of a security services personnel, militants belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad beheaded six members, four women and two infants, in Chowikan Kotedara village of Rajouri district last night. .....
     

      Justice G T Nanavati, heading the two-member commission to probe the Godhra train carnage and the riots that followed last year, said on Sunday that the evidence recorded so far did not indicate any serious lapse on the part of the police or administration in controlling the communal clashes that followed the Godhra mayhem. .....
     

      If Islamic society is to become prosperous, free and democratic, a true reformation must take place within the Arab nations. The Arab governments of the Middle East must remove theocratic Islam as the most dynamic, element within their borders. Gradually secular education, respect for other faiths and the reflective gift of self-criticism must blossom to produce a harvest of individual liberty. .....
     

      BJP national president Venkaiah Naidu today his party favoured enacting a legislation to pave the way for construction of a "grand" Ram temple at Ayodhya, but made it clear that it would not force its alliance partners to accept its line. .....
     

      It's not true as if India is totally friendless in the supreme law-making body of USA. And she has earned kudos from a Congressman for border restraint on the west. On the other hand, Pakistan, despite being a US ally on war against terror, has not passed tests in crucial areas, as is evident in a US measure that calls for officially certified declarations of "no" from Islamabad to sensitive questions. .....
     

      Anwar Ali, who taught Urdu on an ad hoc basis at the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla. and was arrested by the police on Sunday in connection with the March 13 Mulund blast, had set up a pistol firing range at his residence at Kondwa in Pune, police sources said. .....
     

      There has been a lot of attention in the last month to the reporters, columnists, and TV generals who mis-predicted the outcome of the Iraq war - all that talk of "quagmire" and an army "bogged down" against "stiff resistance." Media heavies have either admitted their mistakes (Chris Matthews), defended their record (William Raspberry), or done a bit of both (Nicholas Kristof). .....
     

      Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, joining issue with UP Chief Minister Mayawati for her threat to convert to Buddhism, today said that conversion was no panacea for the problems of Dalits. .....
     

      This means that while I recognise that India made the wrong economic choices, I believe that this country has held together because of the values propounded by our founding fathers: secularism rather than religious chauvinism, a scientific approach to the world, freedom of speech, tolerance, equality of opportunity and the like. .....
     

      I first went to Iran during the Shah?s time. Several years later, there was another opportunity to do so. By then the Shah had been gone nearly ten years and the Mullahs were in control. Of course, a great deal had changed ? none for the better ? but that is another story better left for another day. .....
     

      A violent mob from the Indian border ransacked a Bangladesh village following the kidnap of a Tripura farmer in Dharmanagar of North Tripura on Monday. It is the first such incident of cross border attack on Indian parts in Tripura. .....
     

      Every gesture towards normalcy brings a little more sunshine to the dark and murky world of Indo-Pak relations. We still dare not say a little more light at the end of the tunnel. One does not know how long is the tunnel. In any case,as this Journal has been pointing out, it is better to proceed with caution,if this country has learnt anything from the last two encounters at Prime Minister Vajpayee's initiative. .....
     

      Prime Minister's principal secretary and part time national security adviser, Brajesh Mishra during his discussions in Washington, DC with his counterpart, Condoleeza Rice had the occasion to address American Jewish Community's annual dinner meeting. Mishra, at this meeting, publicly advocated a trilateral effort-by India, US and Israel to fight the scourge of international terrorism. .....
     

      As a controversy raged over his remarks on the probe into the Gujarat violence, Justice G T Nanavati, heading the inquiry commission, today said there was very limited evidence against any individual VHP or Bajrang Dal leader based on the evidence before it so far. .....
     

      In the final part of the series based on mission papers prepared by the US embassy in Islamabad, we examine the gains, military and otherwise, for Pakistan provided it continues to toe the American line. .....
     

      We've been told about the existence of at least two such road maps -- one made by Delhi and the other by Islamabad. And nobody but nobody knows whether the twain shall ever meet -- excepting perhaps our poet PM named Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the new Empire of the US which probably has its own road map for a South Asia compatible with its Pax Americana concept of the world. .....
     

      Hours after capturing four suspected al Qaeda members in last week's bombings at three housing complexes, Saudi Arabian officials admitted that members of their country's National Guard are being investigated for selling arms to the terror group. .....
     

      This all-girls' summer camp at Juhu is, well, different. The afternoon sun catches the glint on the swords. The air whooshes as three girls bring their lathis down. In a formation, a batch of 20 stands to attention-each holding up a wicked-looking dagger. .....
     

      Peace may not dawn every time the New Delhi-Islamabad hotline crackles, but each overture does bring in its own dividends. Twenty Indians who were languishing in Pakistan jails for the past two-three years took their steps to freedom here today after they were released by Pakistan Rangers. .....
     

      Ladnun is a small town one of the most backward districts of Rajasthan. A serpentine road from Ratangarh railway station through parched land takes you there. If you are lucky you would have passed a truck or two, for on this road you travel for miles without seeing a human or an animal. The drought for the fifth year running has left the ground cracked. .....
     

      The bulk of the militants to be sent across the Line of Control (LoC) will be drawn from the renamed Lashkar-e-Tayebba, say both Indian and Pakistani sources. Senior Pakistani officials are saying they are preparing the ground for waves of suicide bombers and fidayeen attacks in the Valley. .....
     

      The series of car-bomb attacks that devastated Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, earlier this week is a horrific reminder that victories in Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to have only a limited impact on the war against terrorism. More troubling is the likelihood of attacks intensifying in the weeks ahead. Although no one has taken credit for the savagery, al-Qaeda is the prime suspect. .....
     

      When Neelum Aziz visited Kashmir for the first time last year, the young British girl couldn't wait to explore her family's home village. But her parents had something else in mind. Two weeks after arriving in Kotli - in the Pakistan-administered part of the disputed territory - Ms. Aziz was told she had to marry her cousin. .....
     

      After ripping open the plot and logistics behind the series of explosions across the city, the Mumbai police have now entered their second and more crucial phase of investigation. i.e. closing in on the financial base of the local terrorist group that sustained, fuelled and materialised the subversive plans for over two years. .....
     

      India-Pakistan peace moves will top the agenda during Indian external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha's meeting with US secretary of state Colin Powell here, according to well-placed diplomatic sources. .....
     

      The Mumbai police claim to have neutralised three "modules" of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi) that reportedly were assigned by the Lashkar-e-Toi-ba (LeT) to carry out a series of explosions in Mumbai. .....
     

      It is an honour to be invited to this distinguished gathering at the AJC Annual Dinner. The people of India admire the pioneering work of AJC, particularly in promoting human rights and combating religious discrimination. We also value your contribution to promoting US-India relations and India-Israel relations. .....
     

      Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee is a man of peace and goodwill and it is no secret that making peace with Pakistan has been his life's mission. There was a touch of grandeur and nobility to his ''final and decisive'' offer of peace and friendship to Pakistan, from Srinagar and from Parliament. .....
     

      President George W. Bush has sent a powerful message which will galvanise his entire administration, American business and even the US military into new vistas of Indo-US cooperation. .....
     

      Observing that tridents cannot be considered weapons, a local court has granted anticipatory bail to five VHP activists accused of displaying trishuls, banned in Rajasthan under the Arms Act. .....
     

      India's image in the West has never been so bad. We foreign correspondents have been propagating in the last few weeks a picture of an intolerant Hindu majority, ruthlessly hunting down the Muslim minority. .....
     

      This opinion article appeared in Jane's Intelligence Review on September 1, 2001 and is reproduced with permission from Jane's Information Group. .....
     

      Prem Sagar Reddy, a prominent cardiologist and a successful health care entrepreneur based in California, last week donated a million dollars to a local community college to bolster its health programs. .....
     

      The MP High Court Wednesday turned down a writ petition filed by filmmaker Pardeep Krishen, husband of booker prize winner Arundhati Roy challenging the decision of Hoshangabad district administration to cancel their mutation of land in Bariam village in Pachmari. The district administration has cancelled the mutation of the land as it came under the reserve forest area. .....
     

      The Mumbai Crime Branch has recovered huge cache of arms from an alleged Students Islamic Movement of India cell near Mumbai. .....
     

      Police said on Wednesday they found more than 250 crude bombs and a big store of arms belonging to an offshoot of an outlawed Pakistan-based militant group who planned to use them to attack targets in Bombay. .....
     

      West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattachar-jee has described the blood- splattered three-tier Panchayat polls that took place in the State on May 11 as "more or less peaceful". If this statement strains credulity, his justification for it is even more incredible. Of the 17 poll-bound districts, he said, only three were affected by violence-Nadia, Murshidabad and 24 Parganas. And among the official death toll of 20, he claimed six were CPI(M) workers. .....
     

      The four bombings in Saudi Arabia Monday, which killed dozens, including 10 Americans, are symptomatic of a deep fissure in that country. The argument is over religion, politics and foreigners-and it goes back a long way. The West must react by helping the Saudi family win this dispute, while putting pressure on it to reform. .....
     

      Last Saturday, few of us were conferred the Nachiketa prize of journalism by the Prime Minister Vajpayee along with Deputy Prime Minister Advani. Because of time pressure, there was no space for individual speeches by the awardees. However, this is what I would have liked to say. .....
     

      Israeli police have arrested 14 Israeli Arab Islamic activists accused of running a money laundering operation to support the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, officials say. .....
     

      A Dramatic demonstration of the rapidly growing U.S.- India defence relationship recently took place in the dense jungles of Mizoram. There, American Special Operations Forces engaged their Indian counterparts in joint combined training called Exercise Balance Iroquois 03-1/Vajra Prahar. .....
     

      The peace-with-Pakistan initiative suddenly floated by poet Prime Minister Vajpayee at Srinagar on April 18 has created so much excitement all round that Karl Inderfurth, an American, got his two articles on the subject published in The Hindu and The Indian Express within three days of each other. .....
     

      South Asian Institutes in America are "literally in the hands of Indians and indirectly under the influence of Hindutva and Sangh Parivar," warns Prof Aslam Syed of the University of Pennsylvania. And sure enough, the Director and Associate Director at Columbia's South Asian Institute happen to be Indians. And you know what mischief that can be. .....
     

      Brigitte Bardot, French former film goddess turned animal rights activist, was quoted on Saturday as criticizing the "Islamization of France" in her latest book. .....
     

      Prosecutors suffered crucial setbacks Monday on the opening day of the trial of 12 terror suspects accused of supporting the Netherlands' enemies in a time of conflict, a charge that has not been filed since World War II. .....
     

      Every year, hundreds of Union County students take a field trip for the soul. Children are excused from class, loaded onto school buses with teachers and sent to Christian revival meetings for three days. .....
     

      Envy is eating the hearts out of Indians in the US. Why, they cringe, is Pakistan and Musharraf still chums with Bush and company, while Vajpayee and his abusers of Pakistan are frozen out by Washington. Salaam India. Yes, that's what yoga studios on the West Coast boasting a hip clientele will soon be doing. .....
     

      Thereis hardly any conceivable excess and atrocity which the Kashmiri Pandits as a characteristic religious group have not been subjected to by the Muslim marauders. Apart from the pogrom having no semblance of a human face that was perpetrated on them the devastating catastrophe that could befall them was the forcible conversion to an alien religion of Islam. .....
     

      Four separate overnight bombing attacks struck Western targets including residential compounds in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, causing an undetermined number of deaths and dozens of injured, Saudi officials and diplomats said today. .....
     

      Delhi Police on Monday slapped POTA on arrested Kashmir Press Service editor Ghulam Mohiudin Bhat following seizure of some documents and computer floppies indicating his alleged links with Pakistan Intelligence agency ISI, police sources said. .....
     

      Something changed Omar Khan Sharif, sent him in a new direction, and Derby's older Pakistani population cannot begin to fathom what it was. .....
     

      What would China prefer to see -- a Japan armed with nuclear  weapons, or Japan's alliance with the United States strengthened by  its participation in missile defense? In Beijing, neither option has  much appeal. .....
     

      The list of demands is never ending. Barring the Dalits, every other community in Rajasthan is hankering for a slice of the reservation pie. The Brahmins want it and so do the Rajputs, Vaishs and Kayasths. The Gujjars want to be shifted from the scheduled caste to the scheduled tribe category. And Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's Mali community, which now enjoys an OBC status, does not want to share its privileges with the Jats. .....
     

      Giving a cautious response to Pakistan's confidence-building measures, India today said that it could consider these steps "in due course" and on seeing evidence of Islamabad taking "firm and credible" action to stop cross-border terrorism and dismantle terrorist infrastructure. .....
     

      The goings on regarding the Ram Janmabhoomi illustrate the paradox of the Indian minority. The proponents of the Babri Masjid have consistently claimed that the land upon which the structure stood was a property dispute which only the law courts were qualified to decide. Now when the Government of India has requested the Supreme Court to deal with the Ayodhya dispute expeditiously, the proponents have opposed the action of the GOI. This contradiction of wanting justice, and wanting to delay it, demonstrates a deeper paradox. .....
     

      India's prime minister recently announced the restoration of diplomatic ties and air links with Pakistan, part of an ambitious effort to end the dangerous state of enmity between the nuclear-armed neighbors. A month ago relations had sunk so low that India's foreign minister called Pakistan "a fitter case" than Iraq for pre-emptive action. .....
     

      India has handed Bangladesh a list of 155 terrorist training camps operating there, many with the help of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and al Qaida, and asked it to shut them down. .....
     

      The Centre on Monday claimed before the Liberhan Commission that the disputed site in Ayodhya was the birthplace of Lord Ram and maintained that the only dispute was whether a temple existed there before the construction of mosque. .....
     

      Anwar Ali, a professor at the prestigious National Defence Academy in Pune, was on Monday booked under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in connection with the March 13 blast in a local train in Mulund in Mumbai. .....
     

      The Centre today claimed before the Liberhan Commission that the disputed site in Ayodhya was the birthplace of Lord Rama and maintained that the only dispute was whether a temple existed there before the construction of mosque. .....
     

      In January 2003 tension prevailed near Deva Raja market in Mysore when a religious congregation led by Christian missionaries made derogatory references against Hindu gods and made attempts to convert people from the economically weaker sections and the local MIA went to the police station and lodged a complaint and the police are investigating the case. .....
     

      When the Britishers ruled India there was no anti-conversion law. The reason being that they were followers of Christianity and understandably they did not enact a law detrimental to their own interest by prohibiting conversion from one religion to another religion. During the British regime many Hindus willingly and voluntarily embraced Christianity to secure pecuniary gains and other advantages from the British rulers. .....
     

      HRD Minister M.M. Joshi on Saturday pledged to include the teachings of Shree Narayana Guru - Kerala's backward class icon - in the NCERT and CBSE syllabus and set up a national university in his name. .....
     

      Islamabad's  response to Prime Minister's peace offensive is dubious. It took Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali 11 days to call up Atal Behari Vajpayee to appreciate latter's speech at Srinagar and in both Houses of the Parliament. The two leaders talked about several issues of common interest in a general way in briefly over telephone. .....
     

      "Some of the facts are staggering. The findings published in this book should be taken seriously by all of us, especially by those who are in applied politics," said Shri Vasant Sathe, veteran Congress leader and former I&B minister while speaking at a function to mark the release of the book Religious Demography of India in New Delhi. The book, jointly authored by A. P. Joshi, M. D. Srinivas and J. K. Bajaj and published by Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), Chennai, was released by Dy. Prime Minister Shri L.K.Advani. .....
     

      CIA operative, weightlifter, US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage must clearly be a man of many parts. He probably realised he needed to say something different to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today, exactly 11 months after he'd promised on behalf of Pakistan that cross-border infiltration into India would ''permanently'' cease. .....
     

      Suggesing a shift in the American position, US deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage on Saturday indicated that the US could not give a full assurance to New Delhi that Pakistan would put an end to infiltration from across the border. .....
     

      Just a few months ago the armed forces of India and Pakistan were deployed on the borders ready to strike at each other. The international community kept its fingers crossed, hoping that the tensions would not escalate into a nuclear conflict. .....
     

      Coming to the rescue of thousands of people working in Bihar government corporations without salaries for years, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the state to deposit Rs 50 crore within two months before the Patna High Court for its disbursal to the employees. .....
     

      Replying to a two-hour discussion on Indo-Pak ties in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee made it clear that he would not let the fear of failure stymie the latest peace initiative. .....
     

      Faced with an increased opposition to its trishul deeksha campaign, the VHP chose to blow hot and cold in the same breath today. On one hand, VHP leaders vowed to persist with the drive, and on the other, they assured the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) that they would eschew anti-minority rhetoric at their functions. .....
     

      Speaking on Technology Day to the country's leading defence scientists today, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, hit out at the West's three- decade-long endeavour to impair India's quest to become self-reliant in hi-tech defence technologies while turning a blind eye to covert attempts in this by its neighbours. India's self-abnegation in turning down lucrative export offers to maintain the regional security balance and comply with international treaties also went unacknowledged, he said. .....
     

      Officials and ministers are putting on a brave face, but the government feels let down by US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage's visit last week. .....
     

      Many in India have been suspicious of the United States right from the beginning of its so-called war against terrorism.  The "terrorism" that the US claims to be fighting in the company of Pakistan is not the same scourge that India has been combating for nearly two decades which has resulted in the death of about 70,000 people, innocent civilians as well as security personnel. .....
     

      The Hindu Aikyavedi has demanded a CBI inquiry into the Marad incidents after keeping the Industries Minister, P. K. Kunhalikutty, and the Kozhikode District Collector, T. O. Sooraj, out of office. .....
     

      The Cabinet decision to repeal the controversial Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act (IMDT), 1983 in Assam has already raised political temperatures. Minority organisations have called for a statewide bandh opposing this decision. .....
     

      A Saudi consular official was held for two days and expelled from the United States this week because he was suspected of having links with terrorist organizations, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday. .....
     

      Four persons including two Pakistani militants, a Village Defence Committee (VDC) member and a civilian were killed and a militant was arrested in separate incidents across Rajouri and Udhampur districts today. .....
     

      A group of Hindu fishermen sitting on the beach near a temple is attacked suddenly, without provocation or warning, by a mob of Muslims armed with swords. After a chaotic ten minutes, nine people are dead or bleeding to death on the beach. Many are seriously wounded. The attackers vanish into the night. .....
     

      A chilling videotape surfaced yesterday showing Sept. 11 hijackers attending a wedding of one of their co-conspirators - and using the occasion to spout religious rhetoric justifying the murders to come. .....
     

      In three months, nearly 100 special police Officers have deserted their posts in Doda, taking their weapons with them. .....
     

      The inside story of the search for the Mulund bombers - and the daunting task that lies ahead. .....
     

      With an eye on the 18 lakh Muslim voters in the state, Chief Minister Ajit Jogi has come out with a posse of sops for the minority community, soon after raising the decibel level over a ban on cow slaughter. .....
     

      Pakistan's top spymaster Ehsanul Haq, Director of the Inter-Services Intelligence, better known by the acronym ISI, has begun a weeklong visit to Washington. There are expectations that he will be asked to clean up the wanton ways the agency is notorious for and back the peace process with India. .....
     

      The CPI (M) today admitted that a number of its supporters were involved in the attack on Union Minister and senior BJP leader Tapan Sikdar as Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya expressed regret over the incident .....
     

      The RSS strongly condemns the naked dance of death unleashed on the Hindu fishermen community by the Islamic terrorist elements in Marad beach near Kozhikode last week in which 8 members of the Sangh were brutally murdered while many others, including women, were seriously injured. This incident confirms our worst fears that Kerala coast has of late become asafe haven for the anti-national Islamic terrorist outfits sponsored and supported by the ISI. .....
     

      The visit of the Pakistani parliamentary delegation to India will not be complete till it meets Kashmiri Pandits, Dr Farooq Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, told rediff.com on Friday. .....
     

      The educated urban population of India has grossly underrated Laloo Prasad Yadav as the potential leader of the nation. They regard him as a rustic joker and buffoon. There is lot more to him than meets the eye. He is probably the greatest orator in Hindi we have in the country. His Bihari dialect has an earthy ring. He is blunt and drives his points home leaving no one in doubt about what he means. .....
     

      The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the Delhi High Court's order on the Parliament attack case, where it had held that intercepted telephonic conversation between the accused was not admissible as evidence under POTA (because the 'evidence' was collected before the case was registered under POTA). .....
     

      Vajpayee's hand of peace has been welcomed in Islamabad. Pakistan has announced several follow-up steps. Restoration of diplomatic relations (India has already proposed the name of its high commissioner for Pak agreement), air, train and road links are on the way. These are all essential first steps to maintain the momentum of the peace process. Pakistan has said that it is willing to discuss all issues including Kashmir. .....
     

      India's National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra has proposed an alliance between the United States, India and Israel, among other democratic countries, to meet the threat of terrorism. .....
     

      Declaring that India would move with "utmost caution" on the peace initiatives with Pakistan, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today ruled out the possibility of de-nuclearisation of South Asia and commended a no-proxy-war pact with Islamabad. .....
     

      Soon after the arrest of Saquib Nachan, main accused in the Mulund bomb blast case, Deputy Chief Minister  Chhagan Bhujbal revealed that militant training camps were being run on the outskirts of the city. .....
     

      Panun Kashmir wants US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to take up the issue of 'ethnic cleansing' in Jammu and Kashmir during his visit to the subcontinent, the outfit's national general secretary, Ramesh Manavati, said on Thursday. .....
     

      Police in London charged two women and a man with terrorism offenses Thursday in connection with a suicide bombing carried out by a British Muslim in Tel Aviv last month. .....
     

      What are the chances for Indo-Pak peace? Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did the right thing when he clarified his call for peace with Pakistan made in Srinagar with a subsequent statement made in the Lok Sabha, that clearly said talks could only be held when crossborder terrorism ceases for good. .....
     

      In a 9 pm raid in West Tripura's Moharchhora market in the Peliamura police station area of Khowai sub-division, militants massacred 10 people. Eight were killed on the spot and two died while being taken to hospital. The identity of the militants could not be ascertained. .....
     

      The French interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, was booed and whistled at when he said at the annual conference of one of this country's most important Muslim groups last month that Muslim women would have to go bareheaded when posing for pictures for their identity cards. .....
     

      Here is a conundrum for the legal eagles amongst you. Assume that a cat burglar enters your house and gets away with some piece of jewellery. The next day he gets careless, and is shot by an angry householder. Are the thief's children then entitled to claim that necklace which their father had stolen as part of the property that they have inherited? .....
     

      At the urging of the US India Political Action Committee, the International Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives unanimously passed an amendment today requiring the Administration to disclose to Congress and to the American people the extent to which Pakistan is fulfilling its promise to clamp down on cross-border terrorism, shutting down terrorist camps in Pakistan-held Kashmir, and halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons technology to rogue states and terrorists. .....
     

      Democrats wedded to liberal ideas may be shocked by the almost 20,000 uncontested wins in the West Bengal panchayat elections - voting for which is scheduled for 11 May. But one must visit Garbeta in West Midnapore district for an interesting micro-study of CPI-M's one- party democracy at the grassroots level. .....
     

      The United States has given an ultimatum to Pakistan to terminate cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir within a month or forty-five days or be ready for drastic action. The visiting ISI chief, Lieutenant-General Ehsan ul-Haq, was told by the CIA top brass and officials of the State Department and National Security Council that they were unhappy with his steps to curb the terrorist activities of the Inter-Services Intelligence. .....
     

      Even the most diehard Opposition supporter in West Bengal cannot deny that the Left Front, with the CPI-M in the lead, is poised to sweep the panchayat polls scheduled for 11 May. But even if the Left Front wins, it won't necessarily indicate the 30-million electorate's faith in the ruling coalition. .....
     

      It was Friday afternoon and the women in the Nimo Beauty Salon were talking politics. While thousands of people flocked to mosques for prayer services, the women here debated the difficulties of democracy while getting cuts and colors. .....
     

      One given in the war against terrorism seems to be that suicide attackers are evil, deluded or homicidal misfits who thrive in poverty, ignorance and anarchy. .....
     

      They were model sons, according to friends and family, who turned into men capable of inflicting murder and carnage. Yesterday, as the wounded from the Tel Aviv bar attack recovered in hospital, families in Derby and west London were coming to terms with the men's journey from anonymity to notoriety. .....
     

      India is a plural country with rich diversity.Muslims have been living since centuries, in this great country.But still the attitude of the few Muslims gives Islam the bad name and projects it as an intolerant religion. Recently the behaviour of a Muslim teacher in Mumbai forced Bombay high court to pass strictures against her behaviour. .....
     

      Lucknow museum authorities sought to unravel the mystery of the 'missing' Ayodhya inscription as reported in a section of the media when they produced the contentious piece before mediapersons on Wednesday and claimed that the piece never left the museum. The inscription (number 53.4) which was brought to the state from the Nagar Palika Sanghralaya of Faizabad in January 1953, is safe and intact, claimed museum director Jitendra Kumar. .....
     

      What are the chances for Indo-Pak peace? Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did the right thing when he clarified his call for peace with Pakistan made in Srinagar with a subsequent statement made in the Lok Sabha, that clearly said talks could only be held when crossborder terrorism ceases for good. .....
     

      Evangelical Christian leaders from across the country called Wednesday for fellow ministers such as Jerry Falwell, Franklin Graham and Pat Robertson to stop making broad, inflammatory remarks about Islam. .....
     

      Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told Parliament on Thursday that India would not reciprocate on Pakistan's offer to dismantle nuclear weapons. .....
     

      When terrorists, quite evidently from the Lashkar-e-Toiba, massacred innocent Hindus in Nadimarg on March 23, they sought to shatter the credibility of the newly elected Government in Jammu & Kashmir and establish that they could undermine efforts to restore peace and normalcy in the State. Lashkar leader Hafeez Saeed proudly announced that killing Hindus was a legitimate action for people devoted to jihad. .....
     

      The mayhem in Marad has made it imperative for the UDF Government to come out with confidence-building measures to remove the fear and anxiety generated by the attack by religious extremists in which nine persons were brutally killed. .....
     

      In a major victory for India, the House International Relations Committee late on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution requiring the Bush Administration to disclose to Congress the extent to which Pakistan is fulfilling its pledge to permanently halt cross-border terrorism, shut down terrorist camps in PoK and eschew proliferation of nuclear weapons. .....
     

      Delhi Police have decided to step up a campaign to identify illegal Bangladeshi migrants living in the National Capital. In a meeting held in the GOS Mess on Saturday, the Commissioner of Police (CP), RS Gupta asked his field officers to launch targeted action against Bangladeshis. The CP asked his officers to ensure that the sustained action against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants is continued along with action against kabaris (junk dealers). .....
     

      A renowned French thinker and writer has challenged Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's claim of being in total control of his country's nuclear arsenal and says there is a real risk that such weapons may find their way to terrorist organisations like Al-Qaeda. .....
     

      The race for the panchayats got a bit too hot for an embarrassed CPI-M on Tuesday night, when coalition partner RSP's PWD Minister Amar Chowdhury, was put to flight by a pistol-brandishing CPI-M worker. .....
     

      Most of the public attention to those who have opposed our (now, successful) drive to oust Saddam Hussein has been devoted to organizations like ANSWER and the Not in Our Name movement. Far more important to the anti-war effort, however, has been the quieter, behind-the-scenes work of academics and leftist groups, such as the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Ploughshares Fund, the American Friends Services Committee and journals such as The American Prospect. .....
     

      Police have intensified raids to unearth arms and weapons suspected to be hidden or buried in the areas surrounding Marad beach, the scene of Friday's attack which left nine persons dead, reports PTI. .....
     

      The Central Government has reimbursed the additional security related expenditure for 'approved activities' from 1989 onwards, says an official release. .....
     

      In a move that could help the BJP keep the poll pot boiling, the Cabinet plans to ask the states and Union Territories to pass a resolution banning cow slaughter, and delegate to the Centre the authority to enact an amendment introducing a uniform nationwide law. .....
     

      The Prime Minister's evocative words on the proposed Indo- Pak dialogue should in no case lead one to conclude that the peace is about to break out between the two estranged neighbours. Vajpayee's stirring performance in Parliament on Friday, which forms the foreground for " a decisive and conclusive" dialogue with Islamabad, should not delude anyone, least of it the US, that the accumulated bitterness and hatred of over 50 years is about to dissolve. .....
     

      Will you take BJP's help in temple construction movement as did in the past?
      Singhal : We shall not allow this programme to get affiliated to the BJP any more. BJP The BJP has ditched us. Atal and Advani have backstabbed the VHP. In the eyes of the people they have proved to be enemies of the temple movement. This is also the general view of most saints. The BJP only drew political advantage out of this movement. But it has done nothing. Its leaders too have lust for power. .....
     

      The new map of Jammu and Kashmir recently released by the CIA significantly describes the region east of the Line of Control as ''Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir'' while it designates the territories to its west as ''Pakistan-controlled areas of Kashmir.'' In the past, the US treated the whole state as disputed. .....
     

      The Bombay Times (Times of India - April 19, 2002) has published a news item regarding one Bohra woman Asma Mukadam, principal of Taiyebiyah Girls High School run by Sayedna Saheb in Bombay. It is her story of sacking one Dawoodi Bohra math and science teacher of the school, Tasneema Haji, who according to Asma Mukadam disliked non-Muslim teachers. So far so good. .....
     

      It wasn't easy for Principal Asma Mukadam of Taiyebiyah Girls High School to take a stand against a teacher from her own community. .....
     

      History is constantly rewritten by historians in every country in every age. Since India became independent in 1947, there was an urgent need to rewrite Indian history from the point of view of independent India. Not only was there so much of accumulated new source materials, both archaeological and literary, waiting to be processed and interpreted, but the new citizens of the Republic of India had several new questions to be addressed to the past. .....
     

      Haren Pandya, Gujarat's former minister of state for home, was gunned down on March 26. His killing early one spring morning in Ahmedabad was political dynamite, severely embarrassing Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Pandya's arch-foe. .....
     

      "Some of the facts are staggering. The findings published in this book should be taken seriously by all of us, especially by those who are in applied politics," said Shri Vasant Sathe, veteran Congress leader and former I&B minister while speaking at a function to mark the release of the book Religious Demography of India in New Delhi. .....
     

      With West Bengal's Panchayat polls round the corner, ruling Left Front bhadraloks are evidently showing their true colours. It is perhaps not an accident their ideological hue is also the colour of the blood long spilt by Left lumpens to help maintain the CPI(M)'s political stranglehold on the State. The latest victim of its reign of terror is Union Minister of State for Small Scale Industries and BJP leader Tapan Sikdar and his associates, injured in an attack in Kaipul in North 24 Parganas. .....
     

      Many Muslims in Britain are perturbed by media reports that Israeli secret agents are to step up operations in the country to counter the threat of terror. The Israelis believe Islamic fanatics are being allowed to operate with impunity from London, in particular. .....
     

      Even as agitated BJP and Shiv Sena MPs demanded an inquiry into the assault on the Union Minister and BJP leader, Tapan Sikdar, in West Bengal yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, called up the West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, and expressed his distress at the attack. .....
     

      Islamic militants clashed with villagers opposing their campaign for a Taliban-style revolution in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, leaving one rebel dead and five wounded, authorities said on Tuesday. .....
     

      Revenge killing of four Congress supporters in Chopra in north Dinajpur on Friday by CPI-M supporters is ominous for next Sunday's panchayat poll. Not only did the rampaging Marxists indulge in targeted murder, mayhem, arson, loot and molestation but also forced the residents of Chopra, a traditional Congress bastion which has a sitting congress MLA and seven of the eight panchayat samities under Congress control .....
     

      The Cabinet on Tuesday night decided to repeal the contentious Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983. .....
     

      Moving scenes were witnessed in Marad when the Union Minister of State for Home, I. D. Swami today called on the relatives of the victims of the carnage which claimed nine lives in Marad. .....
     

      The decision of the A.K. Antony-led Congress Government in Kerala to allow the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to conduct "trishul diksha" ceremonies in the State is fast becoming an embarrassment for the party. Mr. Antony's decision not to ban the trident distribution ceremony in Kochi raised several eyebrows both inside and outside the party. It also led to questions being asked about the lack of consistency in the party's stand on the issue. .....
     

      A leading newspaper just performed a sterling service by publishing a photograph of the "Ganesh chappals" that have so enraged the Hindu-Indian community in America. Without the photograph, it would have been difficult for people in this part of the world to envisage how something so deeply offensive could have been contemplated and executed with such equanimity by cobblers in a country otherwise prone to the mantra of out-sourcing. .....
     

      There has been an enormous burst of activity and accompanying euphoria since India's Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, visited Srinagar on April 18 and made an offer of renewed talks with Pakistan over the vexed Kashmir issue. .....
     

      It is like a scene from the old days of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Dozens of religious students, or talibs, and other Afghan exiles with thickly wound turbans and long beards gather on Thursday afternoons on two of the main squares in this city. .....
     

      While infiltration on India's western border has been a worrisome issue for over the past two years, the illegal movement across India's international border with Bangladesh has received little attention. .....
     

      Kashmir's Grand Mufti has called for social boycott of Ahmadiyyas, thus endorsing the view held by orthodox Muslims across the globe that since the members of the sect have apostatised they cannot claim to be Muslims. .....
     

      On Thursday, May 1, The Washington Times published something on Christian conversions occurring in Jammu & Kashmir -- "something" because the thing wasn't an opinion piece, nor a report (datelined New Delhi, the content made obvious that the writer hadn't ventured into the jihad-struck state), and was stuck in the 'Culture' section of the newspaper, even while containing extraordinary political assertions such as: .....
     

      The Kerala Government of may have ignored the warning of the Tamil Nadu intelligence, that the coastal areas of Kerala are under potential threats by fundamentalist organisations and the report had even mentioned Kozhikode, Kannur and Nadapuram as the probable areas. .....
     

      Britain is harbouring an estimated number of 50 would-be suicide bombers who have roots in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, British media reported today, quoting a leading London- based Islamic radical. .....
     

      The RSS State secretary, A.R. Mohanan, who suspects a well-plotted conspiracy by Muslim terrorists behind the Marad carnage, has sought a comprehensive probe into it. .....
     

      Could The main reason behind the Marad communal killings be the undue haste shown by the Kerala Government in dropping cases against the men from the dreaded Islamic fundamentalist oufit NDF, at the instance of the Minister for Industries Kunhalikutty? .....
     

      In a move that could help the BJP keep the poll pot boiling, the Cabinet plans to ask the states and Union Territories to pass a resolution banning cow slaughter, and delegate to the Centre the authority to enact an amendment introducing a uniform nationwide law. .....
     

      In a bitter violence spiral smacking of reprisal killings before the crucial panchayat elections in West Bengal, six Congress supporters were hacked to death and several hutments torched by miscreants in North Dinajpur and East Midnapore districts last evening, signalling a bitter war over a zone that has been extremely hotting up, delayed official reports received here said today. .....
     

      Fed up with empty promises, they are  resorting to fast as a protest measure. The Kashmiri Pandit community, yet to recover from the scars of the recent Nadimarg massacre in which 24 of their ilk were shot dead by militants, today said they were going on a 'fast unto death', putting the Mufti Sayeed-led state government on a three months notice to address their security concerns. Or else, they say, the entire community will migrate out of the Valley. .....
     

      Congress on Monday found itself in a tight spot following veteran party leader Vasant Sathe's reported demand for declaring Bharat as a Hindu rashtra. .....
     

      In an important finding, an ancient stone inscription in the Dev Nagari script and a foundation were discovered in the on-going excavation in the acquired land in Ayodhya today, sources said. .....
     

      The authorities of the US Homeland Security Department have issued an alert to all airline companies about the dangers of a terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Karachi mounted from the air. The staff of airline companies and airports have reportedly been asked to be on the look- out for any suspicious attempts to hire trainer or other aircraft. .....
     

      The al Qaeda terrorist network is recruiting in the United States, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said yesterday. .....
     

      The meticulously-planned gruesome massacre of eight people belonging to a particular community has pushed unwelcoming dark clouds of communalism and extremism over the horizons of Kerala, so far hailed as a beacon of amity and harmony. .....
     

      The death toll in Friday's communal violence on the Marad beach here rose to nine with the recovery of the body of a youth this morning. .....
     

      Every time there is news of a British Muslim taking part in some Islamist atrocity there is a hectic rush of the most highly esteemed members of the respectable British Muslim establishment to camera, microphone and print to reassure the rest of us. I cannot count the times they have told us that Islam is a peaceful religion, that suicide is forbidden and that these dreadful acts are committed by a few unhinged loners, or by a tiny lunatic fringe. .....
     

      Many a lucky men who escaped unhurt during the gruesome killings that hit Marad on Friday are yet to recover from the shock. And Thekkethody Ramanan is no exception. .....
     

      Terrified members of a particular community in Marad Beach of Kozhikode have decided to leave their homes and move to safer destinations after recent violence in the fishermen- dominated area which claimed nine lives. .....
     

      The controversy over the unfortunate ban on the trishul and the illegal arrest of VHP International General Secretary Pravin Togadia by the Congress Government of Rajasthan is an example of how the dirty politics of appeasement can try to defame a pious cause. The trishul is the symbol of Lord Shiva and Goddess Durga and their spiritual, physical and divine forces. The Bajrang Dal worships Hanuman, the incarnation of Shiva. .....
     

      Police have seized dangerous chemicals and arms from two terrorist training centres near Mumbai following the arrest of six activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India in the Mulund bomb blast case. .....
     

      Eight people were killed in rioting today between two communities in Kerala, a state with India's best record for social reforms and little history of communal riots. .....
     

      Police on Saturday arrested one of Bihar's most wanted criminal and contract killer Sultan Mian and rescued Kanchan Mishra, whom he allegedly abducted and married forcibly, from Siwan town. .....
     

      Q.: Why do we light a lamp?
      In almost every Indian home a lamp is lit daily before the altar  of the Lord. In some houses it is lit at dawn, in some, twice a day at dawn and  dusk- and in a few it is maintained continuously (akhanda deepa). All auspicious  functions and moments like daily worship, rituals and festivals and even many  social occasions like inaugurations commence with the lighting of the lamp,  which is often maintained right through the occasion. .....
     

      General Pervez Musharraf told an international conference at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal in Lahore that, despite the fact that Pakistan was 98 percent Muslim, certain quarters had unleashed a battle between Islam and "kufr" (non-belief). .....
     

      On Saturday, India's 51st Independence anniversary, several schools in Kerala's northern districts defied the state government directive on reciting Bankim Chandra Chatterji's poem, Vande Mataram. .....
     

      Editor's note: By special, exclusive arrangement with Courcy's Intelligence Review, WorldNetDaily publishes excerpts of the latest reports of the world's most prestigious intelligence newsletter. .....
     

      Vejle Municipal Court hands down not-guilty verdicts against two Danish People's Party members charged under the national racism paragraph. .....
     

      A prophecy written ages ago in the Land of Snows said: "In the Year of the Male Iron Dog, a war with China will occur." In 1910, the year of the Male Iron-Dog, the Chinese entered Tibet. The 13th Dalai Lama had to flee his country and seek asylum in India. On his way to the border, he sent a telegram to "Great Britain and all the Ministers of Europe" informing them about "large insects eating and secretly injuring small insects." .....
     

      Omar Khan Sharif, a British citizen who fled the scene of a suicide bombing in Israeli capital Tel Aviv after failing to detonate his explosives unlike his associate, was of Pakistani origin. .....
     

      The Indian high commission in London has taken steps to make it harder for suspected British terrorists of Pakistani origin to slip into India, it was claimed today. .....
     

      Today will be a red-letter day for the Indian aeronautics industry as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee christens the supersonic Light Combat Aircraft and rolls out its first pilot vehicle in Bangalore. .....
     

      I am an old man. Forgive me if contemporary events make me recall the past. Perhaps therein I perceive lessons that others, younger, may not. As CNN and BBC went on describing the events of Day 21 of the Iraq war, my mind went back to Germany in April 1945. Specifically Berlin. .....
     

      Every Muslim knows that animals sacrificed on Id-ul-Zuha should go to orphans, widows and other needy persons. There are charity trusts, educational institutions and social welfare organisations which collect hides and render noble services among the poor. In Pakistan too the same practice is followed. .....
     

      One of the most important feature of any culture is its religion -- its belief in a supernatural power or powers, its explanation of the origin of man and his purpose on earth, its interpretation of death and a possible afterlife, its set of ethical values and the penalties for their transgressions. .....
     

      Politics, Mao Zedong said, is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. But propaganda is the life-blood of both war and politics. West Bengal's ruling Marxists may win another battle in next month's panchayat polls, but they seem to have already lost the propaganda war. .....
     

      Once again, spring is round the corner and the majestic chinars will enrich the Kashmir skies. But will it change anything for the Kashmiri Pandits? Will this year be any different? .....
     

      Border Security Force chief Ajai Raj Sharma is to hold talks with his counterparts in Dhaka, among others, to discuss the contentious illegal migration of Bangladeshis into India and hammer out a strategy to avoid standoffs along the Indo-Bangladesh border. The Indo-Bangladesh relationship took a nose-dive after the standoffs in Malda and Coochbehar of West Bengal early this year. .....
     

      In a place where more than 50,000 people have been killed in the name of God, it could be assumed that religion is a dangerous word. But for 20-year-old Akbar Ahmad, who has seen violence between Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir for most of his life, the answer lies very much in the love of God - or, more specifically, in the love of Jesus Christ. .....
     

      While maintaining that Pakistan "remained a key ally" in the anti-terrorism efforts, the United States has said that extremist violence in Kashmir, which is fuelled by infiltration from Pakistan across the Line of Control had threatened to become a flashpoint for a wider India-Pakistan conflict for much of 2002. .....
     

      It is not an exaggeration to say that Friday's attack by CPI-M supporters on an election rally at Hilli addressed by Biswanath Chowdhury, RSP's seniormost cabinet minister was shocking and unprecedented. That Marxists could attack one of their fellow ministers and disrupt his election rally by hurling abuses, cutting microphone wires and smashing lights show how bitter the relationship between the two LF partners has become. .....
     

      Deported gangster Anil Parab's disclosures that his former mentor Dawood Ibrahim activated a Student Islamic Movement in India (SIMI) module to engineer another blast in Mumbai has recently got the crime branch into a huddle. .....
     

      Another bout of rioting and civil unrest was witnessed in Muttur last week that saw Tamils and Muslims clash using weapons ranging from cudgels and swords to guns and grenades. It was reported by the Trincomalee government agent the rioting had resulted in five deaths, though the number was still in dispute at the time of writing. Over a score was injured and 100s of families displaced. .....
     

      Despite Bangladesh's assertions that it would not allow its soil to be used for anti-India activities, BSF "strongly believes" ISI activity in that country is .on the rise and cites intelligence reports suggesting the presence of al Qaeda there, reports PTI. .....
     

      Claims by the Israeli authorities that a suicide bomber and his accomplice who attacked a cafe in Tel Aviv on Tuesday were British has rocked the UK's Muslim community. .....
       

      One of the central messages of the management guru, C.K Prahalad, to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) this week, as on previous occasions, is that India Inc's biggest problem is that it has consistently been underestimating its own potential. .....
       

      The Ministry of Defence has a sensational piece of information: Terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir have begun talking about the use of poisonous gas. .....
       

      Suddenly everybody is talking about Kashmir. I know it happens every Indian summer. The other day, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee let off a weather balloon in Srinagar. He said he was willing to talk to the General next door. Forgive me if I am nitpicking. Didn't his Foreign Minister, just a few days before, spew fire and venom on the same General, almost threatening to nuke the neighbourhood? .....
       

      Kashmiri pandits have raised a banner of revolt against the State government and issued an ultimatum that if their demands are not met, they would migrate from Kashmir valley. .....
       

      The situation all over the world is bad for Muslims, specially for Pakistanis. I am working in Ethiopia where more than 50 per cent of the population is Muslims and the rest is Orthodox Christians. They both live in harmony. A lesson for Pakistanis. .....
       

      While the deeds of Christian Church and its (elite) institutions receive a carefully planned blare of publicity, their misdeeds have been shrouded in mystery. The misuse of funds of educational institutions under the management of the Karnataka Central Diocese of the Church of South India is a case in point. .....
       

      A majority of Iraqis actually welcome the US invasion on their country though the jury is still out on whether coalition troops should pull out immediately or stay back, according to an opinion poll conducted by NDTV in Baghdad. .....
       

      Parliament was bathed in the saffron hues.  Amidst the blowing of the trumpets,. Shehanai renting the summer evening mixed with fragrance of roses and lilies the grand statue of Shivaji riding the horse finally arrived in Parliament. .....
       

      India's exports, for the first time, crossed $ 51 billion mark in 2002-2003 increasing the possibility of achieving the one per cent share of the world trade much ahead of the targeted 2007, reports PTI. .....
       

      Daniel Pearl, the US reporter beheaded in Karachi last year, was killed because he had discovered dangerous secrets about Pakistani involvement in Islamic extremism, according to an investigation by French philosopher and media personality Bernard-Henri Levy. .....
       

      The Indian Muslim Council-USA held a briefing on Sunday, April 27 at the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Leadership Conference on Hindutva in America. .....
       

      Its truly amazing to see the accusations of slander and Hindu right wing fundamentalists conspiracy being applied to me. .....
       




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