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      The earth quake that hit the East Coast line on December26,  2004 did extensive damage to many places of Tamil Nadu, particularly  Chennai, Pondichery, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam and Kanniyakumari. Tremors  were initially felt around 6.30 in the morning.  But around 8.45 a.m.,  the sea water raised upto 10 mtrs. .....
     

      Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil's admission that at least a part of the Centre's development fund for the Northeastern States goes to finance terrorist activities there, hardly comes as a surprise. The fact has been known for decades to people familiar with developments in the region. .....
     

      The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of USA on Monday said it was looking at collaborating with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for multi-centric trials of a homeopathic cancer cure protocol developed by a city-based homeopath duo, making it the first such alternative medicine to be tested by the coveted global body. .....
     

      Piqued over the peace prayers at the local Jamia Masjid in non-descript hamlet of Danwakote in Rajouri district, militants last night abducted and slit the throat of the Imam of the mosque, sparking off a huge protest demonstration in the area. .....
     

      Muqtedar Khan of the Brookings Institution has announced, in a recent article in the Daily Times of Lahore, the coming into existence on Dec. 13, 2004, of yet another organization of American Muslims claiming to be moderates. .....
     

      The State Women's Commission (SWC) visited the Bangladesh Colony here, which of late has been the centre of drug mafia operations. .....
     

      Skyra is a runaway Mauritanian slave. Her earliest childhood memories are of fetching water, tending animals and cooking and cleaning. .....
     

      It is the 23rd day since the Deepawali eve of Kali Samvat 5105 and the incarceration of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peethadhipati Jagadguru Shankaracharya Sri Jayendra Saraswati Swamiji. The Acharya continues to be in jail pending the consideration of his second bail application in the High Court of Chennai. Hearing on the application began on Monday, November 29. .....
     

      Since politics fortunes are made as much on the strength of perceptions as ground realities, conventional wisdom has it that the Congress-led UPA Government is sitting pretty and that it is the opposition BJP which is confronted by existential turbulence. .....
     

      In 1989, over 4,000 multi-storeyed houses stood tall on the banks of river Vitasta (Jhelum) in the heart of Srinagar. Bustling with life, all these belonged to Kashmiri Pandits. Today, all that remains of them is burnt shells and rubble with overgrown vegetation, while some have been occupied by Muslims. .....
     

      A gentleman is also known by the people he shuns. Given some of the company the gentleman Prime Minister Manmohan Singh keeps, there is every danger of his own clean image going for a toss. For, it is not enough for the PM to be personally clean; the onus that his ministers too adhere to the minimum acceptable norms of good conduct clearly lies with him. .....
     

      Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has hit out at her political opponent Karunanidhi for the twin somersaults made by him through his inconsistent successive reactions to her order to arrest Kanchi Shankaracharya Swami Jayandera Saraswati. She laments that he is resorting to all these with the only intention of besmirching the fair name of her government. .....
     

      The day the people were preparing for the Deepawali festival, the Tamil Nadu police arrested Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shri Jayendra Saraswati at midninght from Andhra Pradesh on fictitious ground. .....
     

      The Vanvasis, incorrectly equated with adivasis or 'original inhabitants' have made an enormous contribution to India's civilisation: all the major gods of the Indic tradition have Vanvasi links. Even caste, long regarded as the keynote of Hindu society, possibly originated in the Vanvasi clan or gotra. It was the British who first made the claim that India's so-called Vanvasi population lay beyond the pale of mainstream Hindu society. .....
     

      I am not holding a brief for the Kanchi Shankaracharya, Jayendra Saraswati. I can understand the Tamil Nadu police, now at the receiving end of countrywide criticism of its handling of the issue, is human enough to overshoot its attempt to nail its prey. But certain things seem to jar on any reasonable ears even if you concede, for argument's sake, that the police has a case. .....
     

      Thousands of people held a procession last week to protest the arrest of Swami Jayendra Saraswati, Jagatguru Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamkoti Peeth. The people gathered at Subodh Mallick Square of central Kolkata, from where the march began to end at Rani Rashmoni Road. A large laminated photograph of Swami Jayendra Saraswati was displayed at the site. .....
     

      Earlier it was a faint sugggestion, but now it is clear that the chief proof of being considered secular is an attack on the Hindus. As a result, the majority of members of the Hindu society have come to believe that this nation belongs only to the minorities, that is, the Muslims. .....
     

      Bravery of fishermen in Kanyakumari helped to save the lives of over 500 people at the Vivekananda rock memorial on Sunday. .....
     

      "Everyone is equal before law". This is what the 'seculars' keep saying whether the issue is the Ram temple in Ayodhya or the arrest of the Sankaracharya. Let us see how equal the law has been in 'secular' India. .....
     

      There is a concerted roar from Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and State CPI-M Anil Biswas in favour of fighting the Naxal menace politically. Concurrently there is a mew from the Left Government's approved musclemen, the police, in favour of taking on the Red terror. .....
     

      The Benny Hinn Ministeries, headed by controversial evangelist Benny Hinn, announced that they are expecting over 10 million to attend a miracle show in Bangalore, India slated for January 21-23, 2005. Known as "The Festival of Blessings", Hinn supposedly performs miracles such as talking to the dead and curing audience members of ailments. Following the show, Hinn attempts to convince audience members to convert to Christianity. .....
     

      The understanding and living of a "healthy secularity" is the first challenge faced by religious freedom, says the Vatican secretary for relations with states. .....
     

      I want to bring the attention of the authorities concerned to extremism at the campus of Peshawar University. On Monday I visited the university's central library where I was surprised to see newspapers and magazines of banned organizations duly stamped by the librarian, with the instructions that they should not be torn since they belong to the library. .....
     

      Days before she was due to be married, Ghofrane Haddaoui, 23, refused the advances of a teenage boy and paid with her life. Lured to waste ground near her home in Marseilles, the Tunisian-born Frenchwoman was stoned to death, her skull smashed by rocks hurled by at least two young men, according to police. .....
     

      Pakistan's education reforms, which really mean modernising and de- radicalising the existing madrassas (Islamic seminaries), will now remain under sharp and direct American focus following the passage of a bill through both houses of Congress on 20 November. .....
     

      Tom Wolfe's new novel about a young student, "I am Charlotte Simmons", is a depressing read for any parent. Four years at an Ivy League university costs as much as a house in parts of the heartland-about $120,000 for tuition alone. But what do you get for your money? A ticket to "Animal House". .....
     

      One of the great strengths of Hinduism is that it is not an organised religion rigidly structured on verse and chapter of a single holy book. Hinduism accommodates in its fold both believers and non-believers, iconoclasts and idol-worshippers, liberals and conservatives. It is at once amorphous and intense, reverent and irreverent, ancient and modern. .....
     

      Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy urged people to imbibe the love and compassion displayed by Jesus Christ towards his fellow beings. Addressing a mammoth gathering of people who congregated at the Polo Grounds in Secunderabad as part of the Twin Cities Prayer Festival, the Chief Minister said that Jesus felt love was the solution to every problem, and His teachings were very valid in the present times. .....
     

      The Hindu Students Council (HSC) strongly condemns the manner in which His Holiness Sri Jayendra Saraswati Swamiji, the Shankaracharya of the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, was arrested on November 12, 2004. .....
     

      For the past 3 days, Sri Jayendrar has not been given his  medications. There are fears that he may be killed in Velur prison  itself. Therefore, the President should intervene to protect his  life requests Supreme Court Senior Advocate MN Krishnamani. In a  telegram to the President. .....
     

      Wolfgang Bruno is an author writing a book about the Internet movement of ex-Muslims. All of Bruno's essays can be freely published and reprinted by anybody who wants to. .....
     

      The leftist inclined Indian media has once again shown signs of lacking  professionalism by its irresponsible conduct in the Kanchi issue. By  over emphasizing on the baseless allegations and refusing to highlight  the facts which it finds undesirable, the media has tried to portray the  issue in a manner which suits their ideological interests. .....
     

      The fact that the culprits responsible for the awful massacre of 59 Dalits in Bihar in 1997 have still not been brought to justice - as a news series just begun by the Express underlines - is a grim reminder of both the ineffectiveness of our criminal justice system, and the sordidness of the politics that surrounds such massacres. Horrendous violence and brutal exertions of power against Dalits are routine to politics in many states. .....
     

      How do we sum up Manmohan Singh's first six months as Prime Minister? Lots of words and little concrete action. His one clear strategy seems to be a single-minded focus on surviving for a full five-year term, and if this means waffle and timidity, so be it. Optimists will call this prudence. Pessimists will call it funk. .....
     

      Maulana Qureshi's, who is also Secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, is reported to have said that the demolition of the structure at Ayodhya "is the blackest incident in the history of the country" and that "it will not be forgotten till justice is done and the rule of law is established". .....
     

      The comrades in Red are reinventing Aurangzeb. In their wisdom, they are suggesting to the UPA government to collect a cess from temples in India. Couched in the words 'places of worship', they have cited Vaishno Devi, Tirupati, Golden Temple, Amritsar and such shrines. .....
     

      Even before Sourav Ganguly and his boys could leave for Bangladesh for scheduled matches in Dhaka and Chittagong, newspapers were seized of genuine concern over the cricketers' safety following a fax message from 'Harkat-ul Jihad' received at the Indian High Commission, saying "Thank you (for the team's visit) for an opportunity to take revenge, just like the Israelis were killed by Palestine (sic)." It also mentions the death of Muslims in the Gujarat riots of 2002. .....
     

      Senior Supreme Court lawyer M N Krishanmani is a deeply religious man. Author of a book called Shankara, a treatise on Adi Sankara and the institution of the Shankaracharya, spirituality for Krishanmani is a way of life. .....
     

      The Kuwaiti progressive scholar Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a political science  lecturer at Kuwait University, recently published several articles in  the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, denouncing religious thought and praising  secularism. .....
     

      After 15 years in "exile", my brother-in-law is beginning to hope he will get to see his ancestral home in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-held Kashmir, by next summer when the crocuses will be in full bloom. .....
     

      The deaths and disappearances of more than 100 Asian women could be reopened to rule out the possibility of "honour killings". .....
     

      If it had been even a primitive nuclear weapon that hit the World Trade Center three years ago, hundreds of thousands of people would have died instead of fewer than 3,000, and the free society we enjoy almost certainly would have been a casualty as well. .....
     

      It would be folly to treat the threat issued to the Indian cricket team by a terrorist organisation based in Bangladesh as posing danger only to the players. The threat issued by Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) poses a direct and serious danger to India because, despite denials by the Bangladesh Government, it is clearly an indication that terrorist groups affiliated to the Al Qaeda have made Bangladesh an operational base. .....
     

      The news that the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has begun talks with the United Minority Front (UMF) for an electoral tie-up during the State Assembly polls due in 2006 would rate as the most bizarre pre-election alliance imaginable. At the same time it also serves to underscore the fact that anything is possible in politics - especially in Indian politics. .....
     

      For Left outfits, Communist camaraderie comes before the interest of the nation. If a resolution, which was defeated in the students' council of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, is anything to go by, the Communists of the world must unite. Unbelievable as it may sound, at the first council meeting of JNU Students Union (JNUSU), Left outfits voted against a resolution condemning China for repeatedly showing Arunanchal Pradesh as not being a part of India. .....
     

      Vellore, Dec6- kanchi Seer's advocate has been denied permission to meet  him in the jail. The Seer's lawyer Sri.Krishnaswmy had been meeting him  daily. Even on holidays he was allowed to meet the seer. Meanwhile he  had submitted a request for meeting him on Saturday and Sunday. But the  jail authorities have denied him permission. .....
     

      Don't look for enemies outside for there is a siege within. The task force report on internal security, formed after the Kargil war, says about 45 per cent of India's geographical area, covering 220 districts, is in grip of insurgency of some kind. .....
     

      Sehrunnisa Sheikh, mother of prime witness in the Best Bakery case, Zaheera Sheikh, was on Thursday held guilty of contempt of court by the special court conducting the retrial in Mumbai. .....
     

      A nation has security, Walter Lippman notes, when it does not have to sacrifice its legitimate interests to avoid war, and is able, if challenged, to maintain them by war. It must be clear to any objective observer of the trajectory of developments in this country that India does not meet these criteria, and that its leadership has not even begun to imagine the task of building them into a national vision. .....
     

      We are back to the incorrigible Laloo Prasad Yadav again. The Railway Minister in the Government of gentleman Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeks attention in ways which cannot but reflect poorly on the ragtag ruling UPA. Yet, neither Singh nor his controller-cum- boss, Sonia Gandhi, seems to have either the courage or the inclination to discipline him. .....
     

      Two meta or transformational trends, exported from Bangladesh, pose a real danger for the entire eastern slice of India. These are: One, the infiltration of mllions of Bangladeshi Muslims who have now spread all over India, and, two, Taliban-type Islamic terrorism manned by fundamentalist cadres. .....
     

      Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi, who has been arrested in connection with the Sankararaman murder case, has complained to the NDA team that called on him of "mental and psychological torture" while in police custody and has denied making any confessional statement. .....
     

      Four Islamic institutions are being investigated for spreading militant Islam through visiting scholars from Japan, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives following a protest from a South East Asian nation. .....
     

      Two cases were registered by police yesterday against BJP Tamil Nadu unit secretary H Raja, MLA, on the charge of making an "inflammatory and provocative speech" at a public meeting organised in connection with Ganesh Chathurthy at Karaikudi on September 20 last. .....
     

      DMK president M Karunanidhi today denied that he had demanded the Tamil Nadu government to take over the Sankara Mutt at Kancheepuram. .....
     

      The presence of the Bangladeshi writer Salam Azad as a visitor to the Sixth North East Book Fair at Guwahati is indeed serendipitous for the people of Assam. This is because the Bangladesh Government is too full of lies when it comes to the issues of large-scale illegal migration of Bangladeshis to the North-east and of the presence of a large number of camps for the training of insurgent groups from the North-east in Bangladesh. .....
     

      The leftist inclined Indian media has once again shown signs of lacking  professionalism by its irresponsible conduct in the Kanchi issue. By  over emphasizing on the baseless allegations and refusing to highlight  the facts which it finds undesirable, the media has tried to portray the  issue in a manner which suits their ideological interests. .....
     

      "Is the government aware that the government of the United States of America has circulated a document earlier which seeks to alienate the north-eastern region from the country?" The question by Dr Vijay Mallya was listed for discussion in Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, but was suddenly pulled out of the list of starred questions and placed in the unstarred category. .....
     

      The most encouraging thing in this "tamasha" created by the arrest of the Shankaracharya in Tamil Nadu was the 70-year-old spiritual leader's clear instructions to his followers not to pursue his bail application to the Indian Supreme Court. I wish he had refused to move any bail application, even in the lower courts. .....
     

      India at a heavy cost of men, money and materials helped the people of Bangladesh in its liberation from Pakistani bondage. Since its birth in December 1971, our country has been providing assistance in various ways. The Ganga waters treaty of 1996 is a glaring example. .....
     

      Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar's book Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist illustrates just what is wrong with Indian secularism. .....
     

      CM Vilasrao Deshmukh stated in the legislative assembly on Tuesday that Arthur Road jail superintendent Swati Sathe had on Monday informed special judge Abhay Thipsay, who is hearing the Best Bakery case in Mumbai, of a plot to poison the 17 accused who are lodged in the jail. .....
     

      More than a year has gone by since President  George W. Bush declared promotion of democracy in the Muslim world as one of the key objectives of US foreign policy in the 'greater Middle East'. The US went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, partly to create models for pluralist democracies for neighboring Muslim states. .....
     

      The Musharraf-led military government's decision to allow the country's top intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), to recruit its own civilian officers without going through the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC), has literally given absolute powers to a spy agency that is already perceived by many to be excessively intrusive in national politics. .....
     

      Shabina (name changed), a nursing attendant and CPM activist, had hoped one of her party leaders would get her a better job. Instead, she was sold off to flesh traders in Kashmir. All this happened in the heart of the town at Taltalla, a stone's throw from CPM headquarters at Alimuddin Street, where the mandarins were busy flaunting the suddhikaran (purging) programme against errant partymen. .....
     

      The people of India have warm feelings for Bangladeshis. The  bilateral turf has witnessed many significant developments which  would go a long way in promoting peace, security and economic ties  in South Asia. However, good news does not make headlines in the  media-problems invariably do.There are some aspects in our relations  which engender these. .....
     

      On Wednesday, the Patna High Court had the right idea. To source the anarchy that blows through Bihar, it sought a peep into the prisons where powerful dons and petty criminals have been housed, presumably to keep them well isolated from pursuing any mischief. That impromptu raids ordered in Bihar's 55 jails would turn up mobile phones and other prohibited material was perhaps expected. .....
     

      The Inter-religious Council of Russia has denounced a recent "Food of Life" campaign organized by Russia's Hare Krishna community where members handed out vegetarian sweets to veterans and the disabled in a Moscow district. .....
     

      "Policemen probing Sankararaman murder case threatened to kill me if I did not confess to the crime," said Chinna alias Rajnikanth, one of the prime accused in the murder case. The threat was not once, but twice, he added. .....
     

      Muhammad Shahrour, a layman who writes extensively about Islam, sits in his engineering office in Damascus, Syria, arguing that Muslims will untangle their faith from the increasingly gory violence committed in its name only by reappraising their sacred texts. .....
     

      As Swami Jayendra Saraswati stoically braves the onslaught of secular  oppression unleashed by an unholy alliance of Government and media, it is clear  that his tormentors have no case, have failed hopelessly in their nation-wide  fishing expedition, but are nonetheless determined to keep him incarcerated. .....
     

      Escaping the stress of clogged roads, street violence and loss of faith in Holland's once celebrated way of life, the Dutch middle classes are leaving the country in droves for the first time in living memory. .....
     

      DMK president M Karunanidhi today criticised investigating officials for allegedly trying to link film actresses in the Sankararaman murder case, in which Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi has been arrested. .....
     

      Sir-While repealing POTA, Home Minister Shivraj Patil has said the strict bail provisions of the law went against normal practices of jurisprudence and that an accused should get bail, till his trial begins to be conducted. One is indeed bewildered at the Minister's warped sense of justice. .....
     

      We are back to the incorrigible Laloo Prasad Yadav again. The Railway Minister in the Government of gentleman Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeks attention in ways which cannot but reflect poorly on the ragtag ruling UPA. Yet, neither Singh nor his controller-cum- boss, Sonia Gandhi, seems to have either the courage or the inclination to discipline him. .....
     

      In an interview to rediff.com, Prosecutor for Tamil Nadu, KTS Tulsi said of those who show support for the Kanchi Sri Sankaracharya: "For them, a Brahmin is above the law." Ignore for now the fallacy that a sanyasi is bound by varna - that is a question, I am unqualified to discuss. There is something else there that Mr. Tulsi got wrong. It is not that we claim our Dharmacharya to be above the law. .....
     

      Abdul Matin, one of the prime accused in the Ghatkopar blast in December 2002, was on Tuesday granted interim bail on a personal bond of Rs five lakh by a special court here. .....
     

      Union home minister Shivraj Patil has said the Centre will make a distinction between illegal Bangladeshis who are living in this country for a livelihood and those fomenting insurgency. .....
     

      A group of extremists  recently attacked the Catholic church of St. Francis of Assisi in  Mathal, Diocese of Kottar, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. .....
     

      Dharampal, the well known Gandhian and historian of Indian Science, has given a detailed accounts of the extensive indigenous system of education that was thriving in India before the British came in his famous book, The Beautiful Tree. .....
     

      An alleged plan by the Dawood gang to eliminate the 17 accused in the Best Bakery case, currently lodged in Arthur Road Jail in central Mumbai, has been foiled by the jail authorities. .....
     

      Kripashankar Singh was a man in a hurry, at least a month before the Assembly elections. The Assembly polls were scheduled for October 13. But just before the poll code could be enforced in mid-September, Singh, in his capacity as Minister of State for Home in the Democratic Front government, approved an unprecedented 349 arms licences in a month. .....
     

      "That All Peoples May Know Him" is the theme for this year's season of prayer for international missions in Southern Baptist churches across the country. For the next five days, Baptist Press will feature stories and photos that highlight the challenge of reaching the masses in India with the Gospel. .....
     

      Labour MPs yesterday hailed a leader of outstanding courage who has placed his country in the forefront of the war on terror. .....
     

      Underscoring the immense knowledge base of India's farmers, with regard to agricultural practices, climate, soil and water use, Mangala Rai, Director-General of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), on Monday called for marrying scientific tools with ancient wisdom. .....
     

      The President of Pakistan came to Westminster yesterday to tell us why we should love him. General Pervez Musharraf may have been feeling a little insecure for he is, technically, a dictator. I feel rather bad pointing this out, because no one else did so yesterday. .....
     

      Columnist and auditor S. Gurumurthy was today questioned by the special police team investigating the Sankararaman murder case in connection with a series of articles he had written in an English daily on the case. .....
     

      "The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think. Throughout the Mahabharata... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviours such as war... The Gita is a dishonest book; it justifies war. ...I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars." .....
     

      The United States is selling the theory that the Pakistan-based nuclear proliferation ring has been broken up and its mastermind, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, has been "brought to justice". He is under house arrest in Pakistan. Unfortunately, as much as the Bush  administration would like to wish away the Khan issue, it continues to dog two of the biggest foreign- policy crises for the US. .....
     

      The BCCI has deferred the departure of the Indian cricket team to Bangladesh for a two-Test tour after its players were issued a death threat by little-known Harkat-ul-Zihad in a letter to the Indian High Commission here. .....
     

      A splinter group of the Abu Salem gang is now targetting Bollywood producers for the overseas rights to their films. The latest victims of this group are said to be film-makers Yash Chopra and Ram Gopal Varma who released Veer Zaara and Naach respectively this Diwali. While Veer Zara, starring Shah Rukh Khan, has been a hit in almost all territories in India, Naach, featuring Antara Mali, has been a moderate success. .....
     

      There is a thin line dividing sanity from insanity. The great leader of the casteist forces in Bihar, Laloo Prasad Yadav, took pride in crossing that line last week in Parliament. On the first day of the winter session of Parliament, Yadav and some of his crime-scarred MPs went to great lengths to recycle the garbage that had earlier spewed forth from the mouth of a woman who, through a quirk of good fortune, had once been married into the Advani family. .....
     

      Bashir Ahmad 'Golu', one of the three men who made 27 unemployed Kashmiris pose as militants and ''surrender'' to the Army last month by promising them government jobs and ''a meeting with Sonia Gandhi'', is now blaming leaders of his own party, the Congress, for the hoax. .....
     

      In India, the ancient land of the Hindus, 80 per cent of the population is Hindu. Our peaceful life of millenniums was disturbed by foreign invasions. Unlike the Huns, Sakas, etc., the waves of Islamic onslaughts could neither be thwarted nor the invaders be absorbed by us due to their strong religious identity, well-knit organisation and their military might developed by conquering countries enroute to Bharat and also their merciless and cruel disposition towards adversaries. .....
     

      The Political vendetta is now clear as daylight. The tide seemed to turn slightly, with the Kanchipuram magistrate refusing to grant the prosecution request to extend the police custody for Kanchi Sankaracharya Shri. Jayendra Saraswati on November 22. But on November 26, he sent the Acharya for another 15 days judicial custody. .....
     

      The arrest and subsequent incarceration of the Kanchi Shankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswati has understandably evoked editorial attention in the English media but througout all the hundreds of words written on the subject runs the refrain that the law must take its course. An event such as the arrest of a Shankaracharya interestingly enough, is the first in the annals of the rule of law. .....
     

      Tripura State Police & Tripura State Rifles arrested one Sravanjoy Reang alias Subaljoy, Saranjoy or Sunny Reang active cadre of ATTF (All Tripura Tiger Force, a well known terrorist group) on last 19th July this year in a joint move from Gandachera village of Tripura. .....
     

      Anti-Hindu forces are determined to pursue their divisive policies and actions. They are at work all the time spreading canards about Hindu nationalism and making all out efforts, each in its own way, to weaken the Hindu society. Their aim is political domination and personal glorification, even if national unity and glory of India is the cost. .....
     

      When the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy allowed the Gujarat police to nab an alleged ISI agent, Maulana Naseeruddin from Hyderabad and within a few days helped the Tamil Nadu police to apprehend Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati from one of the Telengana districts, how can he or his police be faulted for any partisan approach? Obviously not. His hands were 'tied' as revealed by him as he had to uphold the rule of law. .....
     

      To slurry the image of the Hindu society, which is showing signs of awakening after a deep slumber of centuries, all the anti-Hindu forces, both indigenous and foreign, appear to be ganging together. A campaign of calumny is being unleashed against all Hindu revered icons. .....
     

      The culture troopers of the Nehru-Gandhi variety are back in full force, restyling and modifying the style errors of the recent past and encoding their own brand of aesthetics in public imagination. .....
     

      Will some Congress notable kindly enlighten the general public as to what exactly is meant by secularism? Is it related strictly to religion? Can one be casteist and still be secular? .....
     

      Thanks to the wedding of Suresh Kalmadi's son, Sumeer, the village of Gorhe Khurd is rejoicing. Host to the Congress MP's sprawling guest house, Jalsimha, this village of about 1,000 residents is witnessing the true meaning of development. And that too on the fast track. .....
     

      How do we sum up Manmohan Singh's first six months as Prime Minister? Lots of words and little concrete action. His one clear strategy seems to be a single-minded focus on surviving for a full five-year term, and if this means waffle and timidity, so be it. Optimists will call this prudence. Pessimists will call it funk. .....
     

      Contradicting Union home-minister Shivraj Patil's contention of sixty per cent reduction in terrorist infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir, the army says a figure between five-ten per cent is more accurate, and officers are disconcerted by the UPA government's decision for general troops reduction from the state. .....
     

      In his deposition before the Marad Judicial Inquiry Commission here today, the former Director General of Police (DGP) K.J. Joseph said that the then Kozhikode South Zone Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Abdul Rahim, had failed to investigate and take prompt action in the seaside village of Marad. .....
     

      So it is not only the leftists of various persuasions who routinely twist the arms of the gentleman Prime Minister to extract their pound of flesh. No, even other still smaller constituents of the ruling UPA are aping the Commies to bully the politically frail Manmohan Singh to carry out their dictates. .....
     

      With her smoke and honey voice, 22-year-old Ale Metha is almost the Norah Jones of Nagaland. She counts among her fans even state Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio who often calls the young schoolteacher to sing at functions. .....
     

      On Monday, the prosecutors had told Madras High Court that Jayendra Saraswati had long early morning conversations with Usha, a "deserted woman in Srirangam", to whom substantial sums of money had been transferred. The suggestion was that she was involved in the murder of temple manager Shankar Raman in which the seer is the first accused. .....
     

      The sidewalks of the prestigious Fifth Avenue near Central Park, right in the heart of New York City, reverberated with the slogans: "Santon Ka Apmaan -- Nahin Sahenge, Nahin Sahenge", "Hindu Persecution -- No More, No More", "Enough is Enough", and "Release our Shankaracharya -- Right Now, Right Now". .....
     

      His Holiness Jayendra Saraswati's arrest and imprisonment as a common criminal will have far-reaching repercussions; in due course it will become a watershed in the history of India. .....
     

      An FBI team which is touring India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Armenia has found intelligence of a pact between local Chinese authorities in Xinjiang and some Al-Qaeda members. According to the unwritten agreement, Al-Qaeda members may stay in Xinjiang so long they don't support the East-Turkistan separatist movement. .....
     

      Sporadic incidents of violence occurred in different parts of the district today as a sequel to the clashes between CPI(M) and IUML workers here yesterday in connection with the public reception to the Industries Minister, P. K. Kunhalikutty, organised by the IUML district committee. .....
     

      The Bihar government's offer of a reward of Rs 3 lakh for vital information regarding the November 19 kidnapping of two top National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) officials involved with developing the state's rural roadways says it all, coming as it does in the wake of the Diwali day murder in his Patna clinic of medical practitioner Dr N K Aggarwal who had been sent a series of extortion notes by thugs. .....
     

      In a relief to Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, the Supreme Court today set aside a Mumbai High Court order of 1997 convicting him for contempt of court for levelling bribery charges against a judge in his Dussehra public speech at Shivaji Park in Mumbai in 1996. .....
     

      Twenty four hours later it turns out that Usha is a cancer patient for 15 years and has undergone radiation therapy 130 times, yes 130 times! That Jayendra Saraswathi was giving financial help to her. Her name was mentioned by the police in the court as a possible accomplice of the Acharya! The police obviously knew that that the `woman' angle would also malign him. .....
     

      A new study by a Harvard professor has found that terrorism is not caused by poverty - thus further undermining the main premise behind international aid to Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha). .....
     

      Police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the rampaging  Youth Congress workers, who attacked the Guruvayur police station  demanding the release of a youth on Tuesday. .....
     

      The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday alleged that Superintendent of Police Premkumar, heading the special investigation team probing cases involving Kanchi acharya Jayendra Saraswati, was a ''tainted officer'' with a ''shady background.'' .....
     

      Muslim quota in paramilitary forces ---- The BJP on Thursday charged the Manmohan Singh Government with taking a decision on reservation for Muslims that could have divisive effect in the country. .....
     

      The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, S. Narayana Kurup, will inquire into a complaint that the Thampanoor Circle Inspector, Sharafuddin, sent a false message on the police wireless with the intention of getting mediapersons arrested during the recent violent incidents in front of the RSP(B) office here. .....
     

      In his anxiety to please, prime-minister Manmohan Singh has submitted more than necessary or desired. In a tiny reshuffle, which saw the return of an alleged murderer, Shibhu Soren, into the cabinet, but no overdue changes, Shivraj Patil moved to a less onerous ministry, or Pranab Mukherjee upgraded to home, or general performance- related movements, the PM made a controversial concession. .....
     

      After spewing venom on the Americans and the infidels for their so-called attacks on Islam, jihadis in Pakistan are now imparting "violent lessons" aimed at targeting Hindus. .....
     

      The lack of a popular reaction among Hindus following the Kanchi Sankaracharya's arrest has made "Hindu passivity" a fashionable phrase among the commentariat again. Depending on their ideological proclivity, commentators have either been wistful or snide about the majority community not taking to the streets or even conducting agitated conversations in drawing rooms. .....
     

      If we look at the pattern of attacks on Hindu Mutts/  Peeths/Ashrams etc, it becomes clear that whenever a Hindu order or  saint becomes popular, they become the target of the Anti-Hindu  forces.They unleash canards and use thw media effectively to do it's  dirty job. .....
     

      A meticulously organized effort is under way to make the people suspect  Swami Jayendra Saraswati, the most revered head of the Hindu Religious  Centre, Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, as a murderer. Let the court decide  whether he is the one or not. It is not my point. .....
     

      The Kanchi seer's arrest at 10 pm during the Diwali celebrations in Mehboobnagar in Andhra Pradesh was cleared by the Union home minister, Shivraj Patil, after speaking to the Congress leadership, which did not include prime minister Manmohan Singh. .....
     

      Usha, a woman from Srirangam, wanted by police for  interrogation in connection with the Sankararaman murder case, in which  Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi was arrested, on Tuesday "presented  herself" before the police here. .....
     

      The bodies are anonymous, rotting in the shallows of the Straits of Gibraltar. The fortunate ones are dragged out for a hasty burial. They are Africans trying to make it to Europe, betting their lives on a nine-mile ride, thousands losing that bet each year. .....
     

      Expressing "outrage" over the arrest of Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Sarswathi, several Hindu religious and political organisations and the Sikh Sangat of America held a demonstration near the Indian consulate in New York demanding the seer's release. .....




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