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      Perturbed by experiences of the past, the Indian officials are not ready to trust Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf on his assurance that his Army would not occupy Siachen glacier if Indian troops withdraw from the world's highest battle field. .....
     

      In our war on terror the enemy is now positioning to strike America from yet another direction and with a potentially fatal blow, with many thanks to France. The 9/11 Commission pointed out that our biggest failure was "a failure of imagination." That is, our thinking lagged the evolving reality and our key leaders failed to grasp the possibility of such a daring attack and hence we were caught unprepared. .....
     

      Astrology, it now transpires, is an unguided missile. The planetary orgy that many at the centre of the BJP's decision-making process believed would herald the downfall of the Manmohan Singh Government by September 26 has, instead, rebounded on the party. Far from Atal Bihari Vajpayee being the beneficiary of a divinely ordained coup, it is the BJP that gives the impression of having scored a plethora of self- goals. .....
     

      The Dalai Lama, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur and new age guru Deepak Chopra may come together soon for a film on the Buddha. .....
     

      There is no worse example of shooting the messenger rather than the message in the Union home minister Shivraj Patil giving a dressing down to the census commissioner Jayont Kumar Banthia for what the 2001 census figures have revealed. Forget the census commissioner. .....
     

      Despite the media's breast-beating and the periodic, usually self serving, protestations of political parties on the subject, the criminalisation of politics continues apace. The list of proposed candidates for the coming Maharashtra assembly elections, which includes confirmed offenders, suspects in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and brothers of two of the world's most wanted criminals, is a portent for the future. .....
     

      The proliferation of rights and dilution of corresponding duties has been a cause for concern. One response was the Forty Second Constitutional Amendment which incorporated certain fundamental duties of citizens in Article 51-A of the constitution. The concept of duties of citizens was not a new fangled idea. Our ancient rishis and sacred texts emphasise the importance of duties. .....
     

      A powerful field that can control the society is education. At present the education sector in Kerala is under the control of minorities, who are politically influential and economically sound through the remittances made by the Non- Resident Keralites (NRK). While the minorities manage 3,340 schools in the state, the entire Hindu jatis altogether are in possession of 194 schools only. .....
     

      That the Hindus of Kerala are getting to be a minority community in their native land is not a secret any more. When India became a republic, the Hindus of this land had a population share of 61.5 per cent. Today it has progressively and gradually declined to reach the level of 55 per cent. This numerical decline in the Hindu community cannot be treated as an inadvertent phenomenon. .....
     

      Hundreds of Dalit Christians staged a day-long dharna at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against "increasing corruption in Church organisations" and asked the UPA government at the Centre to bring about transparency in working of Christian NGOs that misutilise foreign aid and funds received in the name of welfare and upliftment of the poor and downtrodden. .....
     

      There must be something in the word 'Arjun' itself which enables the bearer of this great name to be always a champion of some cause or the other in the spirit of a warrior. That is what we find in our Human Resources Minister, Arjun Singh. He has that spirit of a crusader, a defender of all that which stands for 'secular' values and an offender of all that he considers 'communal'. .....
     

      The Leader of the Opposition, Shri L.K. Advani feels that the kind of respect the NDA government earned during its six- year rule both at home and abroad is unmatched by any previous record of a government. And this enhanced the prestige and respect of the RSS, its philosophy and the entire parivar. .....
     

      Pastor Paul Crouch looked into the camera and told his flock that Trinity Broadcasting Network needed $8 million to spread the Gospel throughout India and save 1 billion souls from damnation. .....
     

      A Mumbai-based non-governmental organisation, the Sadguru Shree Aniruddha Upasana Trust, headed by Dr Aniruddha Joshi aka Bapu, has taken up the task of spreading awareness about environment-friendly Ganesh idols. .....
     

      Spectacular spins, rhythmic footwork, graceful detailed movements, this Kathak dancer has it all. Meet Masako Sato, a Japanese chemical engineer, who has dedicated herself to Indian classical dance, her passion and now her life. .....
     

      Celebrations of the 150th Sree  Narayana Gurudeva Jayanthi were held  across the world during the weekend of August 28 - 29. The followers of  Shree Narayana Guru in the North East region of the United States of  America celebrated this great spiritual event under the auspices of Sree  Narayana Association of North America with events spread over for a full  day. .....
     

      A monument of Mahant Ramdass was unveiled at the El Dorado Shiv Mandir last Sunday. The late Mahant, fondly called "Kutia Baba'' by villagers, came to Trinidad from India as an indentured immigrant in 1889. .....
       

      When the country was trying to forget that frightening memories of the Godhra and Gujarat episodes, the proposed re-inquiry will not only reopen the Godhra file; it will reopen the Godhra wound. Nothing can benefit parties like the BJP more. The new inquiry by Justice Mr UC Banerjee has come when already an inquiry by the Nanavati Commission is in progress. .....
     

      A unique world record was created when around 15,000 children from 180 schools gathered in Gwalior and performed surya namaskar. .....
     

      Nine years ago a Muslim-born writer under a death threat warned Express & Star readers of the global dangers of Islamic militancy. As the third anniversary of 9/11 approaches, his latest warning is serious indeed, writes Peter Rhodes .....
     

      Panjab Radio UK reports that Sikhs in Nanakana Sahib, Pakistan have come under attack by a local mob of Muslim youth. Sikhs have been threatened that their shops will be burned if they didn't leave till Monday. It has also been reported that Pakistan Army has come to the site. UK Sikh delegations have contacted Pakistani Embassy, and various Muslim leaders to solve the situation. .....
     

      It started with a robbery, but the gang that burst into a branch of Al-Habib bank in this teeming port city had no interest in striking it rich, and the university graduate driving the getaway car was just getting started on a master plan for terror. .....
       

      When I was 8 years old, my family was in a terrible car accident, and my older brother almost died. The next night, as I lay scared and sleepless on my paternal grandmother's living-room couch, she softly explained to me who was to blame. Not my father's Aunt Estelle, a dour, aging wild woman and devout Baptist, who, as usual, was driving recklessly fast. .....
     

      Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said in an interview on  Monday that his leadership was freeing his country from the menace of  extremism and that this national "renaissance" might be lost if he kept  his pledge to step down as army chief at the end of this year. .....
     

      Each year Americans contribute millions of dollars through corporate-giving campaigns and Sunday tithes to support the "faith-based" humanitarian work of overseas Christian missions. This work--feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving medicine to the sick--seems a worthy cause, an outwardly selfless endeavor unsullied by the salacious headlines and bitter disputes now roiling the life of the church at home. .....
     

      Of late, Indians who visit Pakistan -- politicians, businessmen, journalists -- invariably return to gush over the hospitality shown to them during their stay. .....
     

      The article pointed out the economic value of being tolerant. This is a welcome observation that must be promoted and pursued with more vigor than tomahawks to open at least an alternative front to deal with the current turmoil in the world. .....
     

      An imam was sentenced to prison in Spain on Wednesday for inciting violence against women in a 1997 book that gave detailed instructions to Muslim men on how to beat their wives, judicial officials said. .....
     

      As per its preamble, the Indian Constitution stands for a secular state. The state has no official religion. Secularism pervades its provision, which gives full opportunity to all persons to profess, practice and propagate any religion of their choice. .....
     

      The Indian Communists are incorrigible. They neither learn from their  own experience nor from that of their fatherlands in China and Russia.  These economic Neanderthals are determined to enforce their obsolete  world view on the Manmohan Singh Government. China might have embraced  pragmatism in economic sphere to improve the lot of its teeming  millions. .....
     

      The furore over the census figures for Indian Muslims recalls Ying Ma, a Chinese American campaigner against black militancy, describing racism as "the hate that dare not speak its name". Hate begets hate. It also often masks fear which explains the far more crude posturing of Britain's shadowy White Nationalist Party. .....
     

      The Chinese PLA is collaborating with Pakistan's ISI to gather intelligence about Indian Army movements, locations and training centres in the North East, and this was part of a deal signed by General Parvez Musharraf during his visit to China in 2002. .....
     

      Bitten by the controversy of appointing foreign agency representatives to the Planning Commission, the Centre it seems is shy to even have domestic industry experts in the newly-constituted board for public sector reconstruction. .....
     

      Faced with resistance from the security forces in the northern part of the State, Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has chosen the Gangetic, West Bengal as a new base, a vivid report prepared by the Intelligence Bureau(IB) has suggested. .....
     

      "Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely based on prophecies." - HL Mencken. A group of top communist ideologues from China visiting Kolkata to study the "Hindu way of life" in context of the Left movement in India made interesting news. In the heydays of communism, it was the Indian Leftists who were visiting Moscow, Beijing or Havana for crash courses in the theory and practice of communism. .....
     

      BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharati on Wednesday declared that she would quit politics after the tiranga yatra. .....
     

      Led by Sushma Swaraj, 150 BJP MPs and MLAs today marched carrying a plaque containing Veer Savarkar's quotation demanding its restoration in the Cellular Jail here, but courted arrest when the local administration prevented them from doing so. .....
     

      The military actions being taken in South Waziristan by the Pakistan army, resulting in rising casualties on both sides, are beginning to take on aspects of a minor civil war. .....
     

      According to the National Census of 2001, the Muslim population in the Northeast Indian State of Assam is 30.9 per cent out of a total of 26.6 million. Although the last Census was conducted three years ago, it was only on September 6, 2004, that the office of the Registrar General of India, which carries out census operations, released the statistical break-up on religious lines. .....
     

      It's not surprising that Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf,  intends to break his commitment to retire as army chief of staff by  the end of this year and thereby restore civilian rule to Pakistan  five years after he led a coup against an elected government. .....
     

      The Beslan school siege has created panic among Indian security officials who fear that a terrorist group could carry out a copycat attack in India. It is noteworthy that the Chechen separatists had planned their attack meticulously months in advance. They came to know that the gymnasium's floor was to be relaid during the school's summer holidays. .....
     

      A Delhi court has asked police to register a case against Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit's daughter Latika Dikshit Syed on a complaint filed by a city advocate accusing her and some "policemen" of assaulting and wrongfully restraining him. .....
     

      Expatriate Muslims integrate less well with host societies than other expatriate communities. This started happening towards the end of the 20th century as Muslims all over the world sought their identity increasingly in religion. As a result, communities that had lived in peace in diaspora started feeling ill at ease and often found themselves in conflict with the host societies. .....
     

      A group of 30 women from the Kargil border area in Jammu and Kashmir, which witnessed a conflict with Pakistan in 1999, is set to tour the northern part of the country under a programme arranged by the Indian Army. .....
     

      Bangladesh will never allow India to use its territory to take its army and ammunition to fight against the rebellion people in eastern provinces. .....
     

      The military authorities in Pakistan say they have arrested at least three army officers on suspicion of having links with Islamic extremists. .....
     

      A recent report prepared by Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPACE) says that Pakistan has literally ignored the UN Convention of the Rights of Child (UNCRC) on the involvment of children in armed conflicts. .....
     

      Let the inferno of thy indignation consume the wrong-doer and the indolent one alike. Rabindranath Tagore's equi-contempt for the one who committed a wrong and the one who tolerated such wrong was not merely an emotional outburst but a logical deduction holding both as equally guilty. .....
     

      Can't blame Gautam Bhatia really ('Bungle oh! There's Amar Singh's  house', IE, September 14). He is a typical forward-looking guy of Urban  India, whose idea of Modern India is development at any cost. Many like  him love to talk with an air of sarcasm and cynicism about archaic laws  and wax eloquent on the hell-with-heritage-rules theme. .....
     

      Irked by railway minister Laloo  Prasad's barrage of allegations against  its leaders, that BJP on Tuesday came down heavily on the RJD chief  describing him as "a joker of Congress circus" and terming his  accusations as baseless and imaginary". .....
     

      Gujarat could be the next international tourist hotspot if plans of  Golden Heritage Fund and the state government bear fruit. .....
     

      Remnants of an approximately three-millennium-old human settlement have been unearthed from archaeological excavations in southern Rajasthan, official sources said here today. .....
     

      Arjun Singh's outburst against the RSS is not only childish, but also  reveals his ignorance about the workings of Sangh Parivar. The very  concept of the RSS is lost on him. The Sangh resembles the vast umbrella  which Hindu Dharma offers to all faiths and beliefs and enables all to  develop with full freedom. This dharma accommodates those who believe in  one God, in two and those who live by several. .....
     

      Daniel Pipes's comparison between Nepal and France (Between Rage and Appeasement, Sept. 16) missed an important reference: religion. While France is marching toward becoming an Islamic state, Nepal's population is 86% Hindu and is the only official Hindu country in the world. .....
     

      At 19, when he sneaked across the Line of Control (LoC) for arms training, he wanted to return to the Valley to fight the Army and become a martyr. .....
     

      Even as the debate rages on the 'scientific status' of astrology, it has found its way into the curriculum of a Canadian university. City-based astrologer J Udaya Bhaskara Sastry has propounded a new theory which has been incorporated in the syllabus for the advanced numerology course in the Canada-based Suite University. Sastry will start taking online classes for the students of the university from next week. .....
     

      The government should dump the Haj subsidy, rather than expand its benefit to income-tax payers, as proposed by minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal. .....
     

      A photo-journalist, working for a local newspaper in Srinagar, has been arrested on charges of passing sensitive Defence-related information to Pakistan. .....
     

      Fifteen-year-old Anees Begum was rescued from a Mumbai hotel yesterday hours before she was to board a Muscat-bound flight to join her septuagenarian husband - an Arab sheikh. .....
     

      The impolitic and impolite anti-India rant of Bangladesh's Foreign  Minister Morshed Khan at a recent public event, that too in the presence of  India's High Commissioner, had cast a long shadow over upcoming bilateral  dialogue on two issues: The first, water sharing between the two countries, of  great importance to Dhaka; and, the second, the rapid transformation of  Bangladesh into a hub and haven for Islamic terrorists with Al Qaeda links, of increasing concern for New Delhi. .....
     

      Division Bench of the State High Court, comprising Justice VK Jhanji and Justice SK Gupta has directed Chief Secretary and Chief Conservator of Forests to produce the record of over 623 kanals of forest land which has been identified for setting up of Kashmiri Muslim Migrant Colony near Jammu. The Court also restrained Government from raising any construction of the colony on this land till next date of hearing. .....
     

      Insurgent outfits like United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa). All  Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) and the National Socialist Council of  Nagaland (NSCN-IM) have found sanctuaries as well as conductive climate  to launch business ventures in Bangladesh. .....
     

      Several Arabs were among the terrorists who recently murdered over 350 people in a Russian school. I'm not surprised. But how many Arabs in the Middle East even try to connect the dots that link their current radical culture of Islam to these unspeakable deeds around the world? They simply do not see the connection, and unfortunately the world media are not doing their job of informing the Arab world. .....
     

      There is no time for side shows. Let us go straight to the heart of the issue. The Indian spy agency, RAW, formed in 1968, had established a clandestine network with its counterparts in different countries __ with the USA, UK, Israel, France, West Germany and other countries which possessed the capability for exchange of information on terrorism, insurgency, China and similar subjects. .....
     

      A religious edict saps the energy out of yoga  enthusiasts in Egypt, where clerics say the 5,000-year-old practice  violates Islamic law. .....
     

      When the Muslim votebank frowns, politicians get into a frenzy. Reacting  with alacrity to Muslim ire at Census revelations of the community's  steep growth rate, the UPA government reverted Commissioner J.K. Banthia  to his parent cadre for not consulting the Union Home Ministry before  releasing data on religious demography. .....
     

      The ASI is doing more than just conserving monuments at the Kumbhalgarh Fort. Officials have for long wanted to shift out about 400 people living in two  small villages inside the fort-one inhabited by Muslims, the other by tribals. The Muslims are descendants of the artisans employed to build the fort. The tribals trace their lineage to the captains in charge of security of the fort. .....
     

      Two years ago, when Jagmohan, then Union minister for art, culture and tourism, visited the 15th century Kumbhalgarh Fort in Rajasthan, he was shocked to see that the beautiful palaces, dams and temples that even invading armies had spared, were falling apart for want of maintenance. .....
     

      It was the perfect disguise. Not only did Hashim Makhwana (46) grow a beard, part his hair on the right and change his name, he became his younger brother Altaf. .....
     

      The Supreme Court today took serious exception to the hurry with which the Bihar government had moved to withdraw a criminal case against Union Minister Taslimuddin, and restrained the trial court from proceeding further on the issue. It also issued notices to him, the Bihar government and the Centre in this regard. .....
     

      So when Arun K. Bansal, the father of computer astrology in India, says that Hindu god Krishna was born on July 21, 3228 bc, it feels momentous somehow. The date essentially transforms Krishna in our minds: from a mythological figure of mystery, even if a much-loved one, into well a flesh and blood entity. .....
     

      He may swear by Sonia Gandhi's leadership in Delhi, but when it comes to pre-poll jostling in Bihar, RJD supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav is not willing to yield an inch-even to the Congress. .....
     

      The mass murder of children revolts the human psyche. Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to children during the Holocaust. Slaughtering the innocents violates a universal human taboo. .....
     

      Was the "River Incident" in Yugoslavia, widely reported by the media, the work of a well-paid public relations firm? .....
     

      So much of hate is being generated against the national icons, be it Savarkar or the tri-colour, that it's going to affect the governance and health of the nation badly. It's a totally un-Congress-like situation, a party which has stood for nationalism and national pride in pre-Independence days. .....
     

      At least 25 charred and bloated bodies were discovered in the basement of a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf's Old City, police said. .....
       

      For nearly three weeks now, the Union home ministry has been sitting over a damaging report about a Union minister's arms smuggling activity from Bangladesh and his burgeoning contacts with Nepal's Maoist insurgents. .....
       

      On August 21, 2004, the main opposition party, the Awami League (AL), leader and former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped an attempt on her life. The incident, ironically, took place immediately after she wrapped up a rally of around 25,000 supporters protesting the recent Sylhet blasts, with a call "to end the rule of the government that inspires bomb attacks." .....
       

      The Independent, London, reported it rather matter of factly: 'Like so much in the war on terror, the trail of the latest warnings of imminent al- Qa'ida attacks and orange alerts in the United States appears to lead back to Pakistan.' .....
       

      Although they came in heaps subsequently, the first slap was symbolic, one which Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is unlikely to forget in a haste. As for his party, the Congress, and its alliance partner, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), both will have to live with the echoes of that slap in the run-up to the Maharashtra Assembly polls. .....
       

      Three militants including two Pakistanis and a couple were killed in the militancy related incidents across the Jammu region overnight. .....
       

      The Government had taken the decision to pass the budget without discussion after consulting the opposition parties. But this decision was informed to the Prime Minister afterwards. Hence the Prime Minister got extremely angry and he took out the anger on the opposition leaders, it is reliably learnt. .....
       

      It is not possible to confine Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram in the concept of a voluntary institution. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram is an inspiring force of national awakening, integration, and unity, said Prof. Gangmumai Kamei Professor of History in Manipur University, here today. .....
       

      A tug of war between Dalits and Vanniars in a small village near Tiruchirappalli -- with the latter adamant that the former can never hope to be relieved of the untouchability scourge -- has had a completely unforeseen consequence: the local church has had to be locked for the past three months and both sides have been forced to seek the divine elsewhere. .....
       

      Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that railway minister Lalu Prasad and his RJD colleagues in the mamohan Singh government were "dragging down" the image of the congress-led UPA minister. .....
       

      An Islamic Web site has posted gruesome still images and videos of what it says is the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages by a militant group in Iraq. .....
       

      We must know that [wife] beating is a punishment in Islamic religious law. No one should deny this because this was permitted by the Creator of Man, and because when you purchase an electric appliance or a car you get instructions - a catalogue, explaining how to use it. The Creator of Man has sent down this book [the Koran] in order to show Man which ways he must choose. .....
       

      Anyone who follows the developments in the Arab Islamic world will be struck by the complete absence of self-knowledge and introspection that characterizes these vexed cultures. Almost every problem is attributed to hostile external forces. The poverty and underdevelopment that plague most of the Arab world are the result of malicious machinations of Americans and Jews. .....
       

      A section of first-year medical students of R.G. Kar Medical College was beaten up and forced to go without dinner at the Maniktala hostel on Monday night after a clash with SFI members. .....
       

      Even as Pakistanis (at least a certain section of the elite) continue to be mesmerised by all things Indian and open their arms to various Indian delegations - ranging from "peace" delegations to trade groups - the more sceptical amongst us are well on our way to being proven right regarding the direction of the new detente between Pakistan and India. .....
       

      A bomb hidden in a motorcycle has exploded in a market place in southern Thailand, killing one person and injuring at least 25, some critically. .....
       

      Manmohan singh's government is 100 days old. It is too short a period to judge its performance, particularly when the BJP has not allowed even parliament, much less the administration, to settle down to normal functioning. .....
       

      A group of MPs, MLAs and other leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party will stage a satyagraha in Bangalore from September 1 to 7 demanding the removal of the `tainted' Ministers from the Union Ministry, withdrawal of the cases against the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, and restoration of the plaque commemorating Savarkar at the Cellular Jail in the Andamans. .....
       

      The Hyderabad police has arrested eight suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives and unearthed a plot to explode an improvised explosive device near a Ganesh temple in Secunderabad during the forthcoming Ganesh festival. .....
       

      Shakeel Ahmed Shaikh aka Lambu Shakeel, once Dawood Ibrahim's most trusted lieutenant, is spoiling for a political fight. .....
       

      Muslims took to streets here Sunday demanding independent reservation in jobs. The protest comes in the wake of Andhra Pradesh's recent move to extend reservation of seats in government jobs and educational institutions to minority Muslims. .....
       

      Some 180 young Hindus from around the world will meet in the Indonesian resort of Bali in November to set up a global secretariat that will seek to spread the virtues of the Hindu religion. .....
       

      "Soon it will be illegal to say this, so I had better do it now. Islam - yes even "moderate" Islam- threatens our freedom and civilisation. If we do not work out soon how to counter it in open debate, we will find that its influence has gone too deep for us to challenge or resist. The growing Muslim vote in Western Europe is already frightening many politicians into a submissive attitude. If Turkey joins the EU, the power of the mosque will grow even more. .....
       

      About 3,000 slogan-shouting activists of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) Sunday courted arrest when police stopped them from marching to Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha's residence. .....
       

      A ruling RJD Minister's raising a private army of toughs to tackle criminals in his assembly constituency in Bihar's west Champaran district has touched off criticism by Opposition leader and possibility of legal action by the district magistrate. .....
       




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