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  • Devil's Advocate
    • by Mumbai Mirror
      Patna: More trouble may be in store for jailed RJD MP from Siwan Mohammed Shahabuddin after a lawyer close to him allegedly threatened a judge with dire consequences if he did not deliver judgements in his favour. .....
  • Pensioners' paradise now a terror hideout
    • by Abhay Vaidya & Siddhartha D Kashyap
      A striking instance of the changing face of terrorism in Maharashtra came to the fore in Pune in May 2003 when Anwar Ali, an Urdu lecturer at the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, was arrested in connection with the 2003 Mulund blast in a Mumbai local train. .....
  • LeT man hid in Surat for five years
    • by Sourav Mukherjee
      Ashraf Kashmiri, the man credited with setting up the Aurangabad module of Lashkar-e-Taiba that is believed to have played a key role in the Mumbai serial blasts, had been hiding in a Surat madrasa for at least five years till 2005. .....
  • Combating a Killer Crop
    • by Ramesh Vinayak
      For the past six years, Jasbir Singh had been reaping rich benefits from saathi-a fast maturing and therefore lucrative variety of common paddy sown after the wheat harvest at the end of April. Then, three weeks ago, onlookers watched aghast as the 33-year-old ploughed a tractor through his fields in Akkanwali of Haryana's Fatehabad district and mowed down 10 acres of standing saathi crop. .....
  • Winning Back the Earth
    • by Uday Mahurkar
      In the Banni region of Kutch, western Gujarat, there is a move to turn back the ecological clock. It will take unusual means and Banni, a 2,900-sq-km area, which once epitomised greenery, may never be the same. But, there is hope still that the damage done to what once claimed to be Asia's largest pasture can be redressed, even if to a small degree. .....
  • Future Perfect
    • by Neeraj Mishra
      In a place like Bhopal, where infrastructure is in a shambles and where there is no planning in the name of development, a state-of-the-art 150-acre campus with a 750-bed hospital, two dental colleges, one medical college, one management institute, one paramedical college and one school, is sure a novelty. The brainchild of an NGO People's Group, this campus is a one-stop shop for all the educational requirements of a child-from kindergarten to class 12 and beyond. .....
  • Fears confirmed: 'CBMs backfired'
    • by The Times of India
      Union home minister Shivraj Patil confirmed the worst suspicions of security agencies on Tuesday when he said that terrorists had taken advantage of buses and trains launched as part of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) to sneak in from Pakistan and Bangladesh. .....
  • Character Of Shivaji
    • by Jadunath Sarkar
      Shivaji's private life was marked by a high standard of morality. He was a devoted son, a loving father and an attentive husband. Intensely religious from his very boyhood, by instinct and training alike, he remained all through his life abstemious, free from vice, respectful to holy men, and passionately fond of hearing scripture readings and sacred stories and songs. .....
  • 7/11 and insipid editorials
    • by M.V. Kamath
      The July 11 bomb blasts in suburban passenger trains in Mumbai significantly enough did not end up in communal riots, especially considering that someone - everyone is free to guess who - sought to deface the bust of the late Mrs. Thackeray. It may be taken for granted that there is a clear connection between the two acts though the Shiv Sena wisely did not take the second opportunity to initiate a communal riot. .....
  • Was AC mechanic playing Bunty to two Bablis?
    • by Vijaita Singh
      A day after, Delhi Police is still puzzling over the incident when two girls in a Hyundai Sonata accompanied by an AC mechanic in designer clothes breezed through the security cordon and reached the alignment point of the Prime Minister's residence on Thursday night. .....
  • Pak Major killed in J&K encounter
    • by M Saleem Pandit
      The Indian Army late on Friday disclosed that a terrorist killed in a gun battle with soldiers two days ago was a Pakistan Army Major. .....
  • Malaysia Hindus suffer Muslim persecution
    • by Ramesh N. Rao
      Last week I pondered the question of who could enter Hindu temples. But I had not thought of a situation where that question would be moot because there would be no Hindu temples to enter. .....
  • Tricks of conversion
    • by Baba Prem
      So we feel secure in the realization that Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism) is the oldest and purist of the worlds major religions. Not to mention our strength in numbers, being that Hinduism is over 1 billion strong. Why should we be concerned? After all, didn't we teach our children that Brahman has manifest in all? .....
  • What proof, Musharraf
    • by The Free Press Journal
      Is President Musharraf being encircled? As he is expressing word sympathy with the next of kin of the 200 killed and about the 1000 injured in Mumbai bomb blasts, he is somewhat aware that he is not taken seriously in this country when he talks about the peace process. He is repeatedly asking for proof that terrorists operating from Pakistan are behind train blasts in Mumbai. .....
  • Home unmoved on Naxal crisis: Chhattisgarh CM
    • by Pradeep Kaushal
      Faulting the Centre for not doing enough to tackle Naxalism, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has said the Centre was washing its hands of the issue by only providing funds and additional forces. Even as he appreciated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's understanding of the problem, he added that the Home Minister was indifferent. .....
  • Our secularist warriors, these
    • by The Free Press Journal
      Democracy has its downside, specially in underdeveloped countries like India. Rampant poverty, widespread illiteracy and, consequently, ignorance make for an imperfect democracy. Only informed people can make informed choices. Populism of the bank nationalisation variety did succeed in its immediate purpose of getting Mrs Indira Gandhi a huge number of votes. But, as by now everyone knows, it, and other so-called socialistic measures came in its wake, ended up inflicting huge costs on the economy. .....
  • An appeal to the Chairman of the Experts Committee
    • by PVRK Prasad
      We celebrated the birth centenary year of my late grand father, Sriman Kalyanam Iyengar last year. I am sure you continue to remember him as "Laddu Iyengar", for you have served as the Executive Officer of the TTD in the late seventies and my grand father had an active role to play in the introduction of Laddu as Srivari Prasadam, a few decades earlier, in addition to managing the affairs of the entire manufacture and marketing of the Srivari Prasadams at Tirumala Mandir on behalf of the Gamekars and Archaka Mirasdars, before the Mirasi system was abolished in the early 80's. .....
  • Islamic Terrorism - Is it a New Threat?
    • by MA Khan
      In recent times, overshadowing the relative calm of the past few decades, there has been a sudden surge in violence and terrorist activities by the Islamic zealots and fanatics. Hence, there is a debate as to why Muslims did not indulge in terror and violence during the past decades and centuries. There might be some consolation in the thought that Islamic violence was not so evident during the early 20th century. .....
  • Talibani Secularists Provide Alibi For Terrorists
    • by S.R. Ramanujan
      There are 3000 madrasas in Maharashtra with a strength of 200,000 students. 500 madrasas are in Mumbai alone, and it is believed they are the potential breeding grounds for SIMI's activities. .....
  • Desi Uncle Sam(Uel) And His Bua Ka Beta Christopher
    • by S V Badri
      Samuel Rajasekhar is our Desi Uncle Sam(uel). And his Bua Ka Ladka is Christopher. Samuel loves his nephew, Christopher. Nothing wrong with that. He will go all out to help him. Nothing wrong with that either. And each time, bending every rule in the book to help him. Everything is wrong with that. This narration traces to what extent Desi Uncle Sam(uel) goes to help Chris. .....
  • Protestations of the credulous
    • by Balbir K Punj
      It might appear preposterous to the rest of the country, but two Ministers from the Congress, a CPI(M) top brass and one Muslim maulana distinguished themselves by offering alternate theories on 7/11. .....
  • 'Our religion says to fight for jihad' (Interview with Pakistan General (retd) Muhammad Nasir Akhtar)
    • by Rediff.com
      Lieutenant General Muhammad Nasir Akhtar (retd) served in the Pakistan army for 36 years and took part in two wars against India. He was corps commandant, Karachi, before he was assigned a senior post at army headquarters in Rawalpindi. After retirement he settled in Lahore to run a business and tour the seminar circuit, one of which brought him to India as part of a delegation of retired military officers led by Zafar Chaudhry, former air chief marshal, Pakistan Air Force. .....
  • Enemy within: 1 more soldier held
    • by M Saleem Pandit
      The Army on Wednesday said it had arrested another soldier of J&K Light Infantry (JAKLI) for his alleged links with terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. .....
  • Pak has failed to rein in Islamic radicals: report
    • by The Indian Express
      Pakistan army has failed to rein in radicals in the country's restive tribal belt and Islamic clerics throughout the region continue to give 'jehadi' sermons asking people to live by the Islamic Sharia. .....
  • Blast: Unani practitioner in ATS custody
    • by Sagnik Chowdhury & Stavan Desai
      The crime branch of the Mumbai Police on Monday handed over Dr Tanvir Ahmed Mohammed Ibrabim Ansari, one of the five persons detained on Friday for questioning in connection with the July 11 serial blasts, to the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). Although his role in the blasts has not been established yet, crime branch officials believe him to be part of a sophisticated LeT module in the city. .....
  • Perceived fears
    • by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
      Recognition of Islamophobia as the irrational and unwarranted fear of Muslims and Is-lam lingers in lexical incubation. Some accept the term fully while others discount its validity. Whether this neologism will gain currency as a bona fide social pathology or be viewed simply as a marginally legitimate term, moonlighting as a public relations tool, remains to be seen. Phobias, according to the American Psychiatric Association, are mental disorders characterised by persistent and irrational fear of a particular thing, situation or animal. .....
  • The Dynamics of Deadlock
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      Let me make yet another horrible confession of political incorrectness. I happen to be among the minuscule die-hards who are instinctively at ease with Bombay, rather than Mumbai. Perish the thought that this has anything to do with any aesthetic repugnance for the Shiv Sena-bjp government that effected the change in the mid-1990s. .....
  • Fears confirmed: 'CBMs backfired'
    • by The Times of India
      Union home minister Shivraj Patil confirmed the worst suspicions of security agencies on Tuesday when he said that terrorists had taken advantage of buses and trains launched as part of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) to sneak in from Pakistan and Bangladesh. .....
  • Jihad is an integral part in Pak schools
    • by The Pioneer
      Notwithstanding its decision to pursue the policy of "enlightened moderation" to stem the growth of fundamentalism, Pakistan government has said the concept of 'jihad' would not be deleted from the new school curriculum as it is an integral part of Islamic teachings. .....
  • Jihad integral part of curriculum, says Javed Ashraf
    • by Irfan Ghauri
      Jihad is not being deleted from the new curriculum because it is an integral part of Islamic teachings and Muslim beliefs, said Education Minister Lt Gen (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Monday. .....
  • Dhaka grabs 2 sq km of India's land
    • by Syed Zarir Hussain
      Assam Minister says Bangladeshis have moved border posts ---- In a sudden and daring move, Bangladeshis, backed by their country's Army, have uprooted pillars demarcating the Indo-Bangla border along Dhubri and Karimganj districts of Assam, and forcibly grabbed at least 500 acres (2.02 sq km) of Indian territory. The land grab has taken place under the very nose of the Border Security Force. .....
  • Soldiers from border areas under scanner
    • by Mohit Kandhari
      Following detention of three jawans of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) for their suspected links with field commanders of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba in Jammu and Kashmir, security forces have been asked to launch intensive screening of jawans hailing from border districts of Poonch and Rajouri to weed out those involved in militant activities in the region. .....
  • Yet, Sonia defended them in Parliament, Salman in Courts
    • by S Gurumurthy
      It was founded in the year 1977. Not by a religious leader, but by an English-educated academic, Mohammed Ahamadullah Siddiqui. He was a professor not at some Alighar University in India, or in Islamabad, but at Western Illinois University in the US, a country of free thought that claims to melt people of diverse ideas into a wholesome one. He was professor of Journalism and Public Relations. For which goals did the professor found it? Leave the first two goals. Its third goal is `Jehad' for the cause of Islam. .....
  • The oppressed of the world
    • by Dr M S Jillani
      Like most Muslims around the world, one, after 9/11, had become convinced of the existence of a well-conceived international conspiracy to destroy Muslim states, subjugate Muslim populations mentally and economically, poison Muslim youth by injections of depraved cultural practices, rob Muslim nations of their possessions, especially oil, and exploit their physical assets to benefit the west. .....
  • 11/7 blasts: Bangladesh hand triggered terror?
    • by Pramod Kumar Singh
      Investigations into the 11/7 serial blasts have pointed towards the involvement of Bangladesh trained terrorists. It is now becoming clear that those who executed the plot at the behest of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had clear links with Bangladesh-based terrorist groups. .....
  • 'There's proof to link Pak-based groups with blasts'
    • by Sify News
      Asserting that Pakistan-based terrorists were involved in the July 11, 2006 bomb blasts in Mumbai, the Maharashtra government on Friday said police would soon "submit" evidence about this. .....
  • India ready to 'prove' Pakistan's 11/7 links
    • by Nilova Roy Chaudhury
      India is not buying Pakistan's protestations of innocence about knowledge of terrorist elements on its soil, and professed itself "disappointed" with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's need for "proof" to act against terror infrastructure that is "intact" in Pakistan and PoK. .....
  • No deterrence against jihad
    • by KR Phanda
      Islamist terrorism may be a new phenomenon for the West, but India has never been free from this menace. The only thing new for the country is that the UPA Government has miserably failed to tackle it. .....
  • US Snub, Indian Response Terror And Us
    • by R. Balashankar
      The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh spoke out of the box in Mumbai last week. Four days later, back from the G-8 summit at St. Petersburg, Dr Singh is subdued again, back in the box. .....
  • Manmohan gave us what Atal refused: US expert
    • by Deccan Chronicle
      Former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was not willing to "offer much to the United States in exchange for the (civilian nuclear energy) agreement, we got more from the government of Dr Manmohan Singh," according to Dr Ashley Tellis, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr Tellis worked with US officials on the nuclear agreement with India. .....
  • Did local terrorists cause blasts? We need a leader the jehadis dread
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      There are some moments in the life of a nation when people eschew individualism and look for leadership. I don't know whether history will record the carnage of July 11 as a defining point for our country -just as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 was for our grandfathers, the fall of France in 1940 was for the British, and September 11, 2001, was for the majority of Americans. .....
  • Terror in the ranks: 2 soldiers taken in for LeT links
    • by M Saleem Pandit
      Within days of an ominous warning by the country's top security adviser about terrorists infiltrating the armed forces, two soldiers have been picked up in Kashmir for possible links with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). .....
  • Notice to Cong MLA for cheating farmers
    • by Ramu Bhagwat
      Taking cognizance of a letter written by a farmer and treating it as a PIL, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Monday issued notices to the family of sitting Congress MLA from Khamgaon in Buldana district Dilip Sananda, against whom there are over 40 complaints related to illegal money lending and dispossessing indebted farmers of their lands. .....
  • Of 256 sleeper cells in India, six are in state
    • by Siddhartha D Kashyap & Tarachand Mhaske
      At least 256 modules of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence are working nationwide, recruiting youth and commissioning sleeper cells over and above those in Jammu and Kashmir, intelligence reports say. .....
  • Where's reward for '93 probe?
    • by Naveeta Singh
      Whenever there is a major crime in Mumbai, the government announces various kinds of rewards to those who catch the culprits. But it appears these announcements are mere publicity stunts. .....
  • Fans or Fanatics?
    • by Jigna Vora
      The four people detained on the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan on Tuesday evening might not have anything to do with the July 11 serial blasts, after all. They may be cricket fans who came to India for the Indo-Pak series and overstayed. However, the possibility is not entirely ruled out. .....
  • This is for Captain Anuj!
    • by Lokesh Sapre
      After the blazing summer of 1999, Delhi was bathing in the respite provided by the monsoons in July. I was working on a campaign idea with my art partner when I got a call from my mom. She sounded anxious, but managed to tell me that Anuj -- he was one of my pals and lived near my house -- had been killed in Kargil. .....
  • After Mahim, Malwani, cops will focus on south Mumbai
    • by Ganesh Thakur
      After combing operations in Malwani and Mahim - conducted over the last five days - the Mumbai police will zero in on areas in south Mumbai in their effort to make headway in the 7/11 blasts case. From July 12, the Malwani and Mahim police, with assistance from the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), detained more than 500 people for interrogation. However, the cops released most of the detainees after grilling them. .....
  • Terror accused Mahdani most valuable ally for Left, Cong
    • by Rajeev PI
      If the DMK government in Tamil Nadu is arranging for 1998 Coimbatore blast accused Abdul Nasser Mahdani's Ayurvedic massages, the Left and the Congress in Kerala have been doing the stretching-prostrate at his feet. .....
  • Lebanon and the lessons for Pakistan
    • by Husain Haqqani
      Over the last few days, terrorists have severely disrupted - fatally undermined, some argue - the peace processes in South Asia and the Middle East. Unlike Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories, widespread violence has not yet erupted between India and Pakistan. But given the two countries' history, their war of words should not be allowed to escalate unattended. .....
  • DMK turns jail into spa for Coimbatore terror accused
    • by Jaya Menon
      One man has reason to laugh at all the tough talk on the need to crack down on terror: Abdul Nasser Mahdani, key accused in the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts that targeted BJP leader L K Advani and killed 58 people and left several more injured. .....
  • Locking Horns
    • by M.G. Radhakrishnan
      The scene is all too familiar. A stark reminder of the days of the late 1950s when Kerala witnessed a "liberation struggle" against the communist government's move to control and regulate the private sector-dominated education sector in Kerala. .....
  • Road To Recovery
    • by Farzand Ahmed
      Having spent over 200 sleepless nights since they came to power and promised to create a "new Bihar", Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi have realised that it's easier said than done. But they have not lost hope. Says Nitish, "We started from a big zero. There was no governance. Even Cabinet meetings were not held for months. .....
  • Nurturing Terrorists
    • by Saurabh Shukla
      Despite assurances by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and his public proclamations to end terrorism, Pakistan continues to be a nursery of global terrorist groups. With close to 60 active training camps (including those of Al Qaeda) in the country, Pakistani intelligence agency ISI has now unleashed a new strategy to foment terror in India. .....
  • First 7/11 arrests: Mumbai to Bihar
    • by The Indian Express
      Ten days after Terrible Tuesday's serial blasts, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) claimed this morning to have achieved a "breakthrough" with the arrest of two persons from Bihar and one from Navi Mumbai in connection with the blast at Matunga, one of the seven on 7/11. .....
  • Fighting terror on shoestring budget
    • by Girish Kuber
      Maharashtra may be the richest state and home to the country's financial capital where some of the wealthiest live. But it doesn't have enough funds to pay for its police personnel's uniforms and rainwear. .....
  • Where we can trip
    • by Jaithirth Rao
      Mumbai has been targeted along its febrile nervous system. Quite sensibly, in my opinion, most of us do not care about who did it or why. We are back to 'normal' work ignoring the perpetrators with the contempt they deserve. We don't need PhDs to present us with an analysis of the whys and wherefores. Much is obvious even to a non-expert like myself. .....
  • Look who's disappearing in Pak: prisoners freed by India
    • by Adnan Adil
      Sarwari Begum, an old woman from Chungi Amarsidhu, Lahore, says that two years ago her son, Atif Idrees, was taken into custody by the military authorities. She has not been allowed to contact him ever since, and neither have there been any legal proceedings against him. .....
  • Don't blame Pakistan, look within
    • by Tavleen Singh
      Am I the only one disturbed by a minister in Mulayam Singh Yadav's government asking for a Muslim Pradesh in western Uttar Pradesh? Is there nobody in Dr Manmohan Singh's Cabinet who thinks this a worrying development? It seems that way. Two days after The Times of India reported Azam Khan's demand, Dr Manmohan Singh and his Cabinet met and discussed the following subjects. .....
  • 'We no longer feel safe'
    • by Ashish Khetan
      A majority of the city's police force feels unsafe under the present Democratic Front (DF) government. That is the finding of a survey conducted by the Special Intelligence Branch (SIB) of the Mumbai police, which was conveyed to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Home Minister R R Patil on Saturday. .....
  • Sion Hospital rose to the occasion on day of blasts
    • by Kaptan Mali
      Their efforts have been lauded by the Prime Minister of the country. "Splendid Job", is what Dr Manmohan Singh had to say to the medical fraternity at Sion Hospital (LTMG) and KEM Hospitals which he visited when he was in the city last week. .....
  • Medicine & Spirituality!
    • by Gayathri Ramanujam
      The BhaktiVedanta Hospital of Mira Road, which was shut to the needy of Mumbai's far-flung western suburbs for nine months between 2003 and 2004 due to labour problems, redeemed itself last Tuesday when it took in 43 victims of the train blast that occurred five kilometres away. .....
  • Did he inspire 7/11?
    • by Ruhi Khan
      History repeats itself. With no clues on Tuesday's train bombings, senior police officials in the ATS and city police believe that it is imperative to study the motivation and modus operandi of India's very first train bomber-a Mumbai doctor who, in 1993, first planted several bombs on trains in India. .....
  • Missing SIMI activists keep police on the tenterhooks
    • by Gomantak Times
      Even as various investigating agencies have launched intensive operations through out the country in search of the terrorists who engineered the July 11 serial bomb blast in Mumbai, the Maharashtra police are concentrating on hunting down missing activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) organisation, with special focus on Solapur and Aurangabad. .....
  • In Kerala, SIMI thrives on West Asia funds, Lashkar-e-Toiba links
    • by Rajeev P I
      In Kerala, much of the original cadre of the proscribed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) have survived the ban using the cover of a slew of Islamic outfits and still continue with their cause, state intelligence sources told The Indian Express. .....
  • Hallmarks of an Al Qaeda job, say experts
    • by Nabanita Sircar
      Anti-Terror experts in London believe that India should be prepared for more attacks on the lines of Tuesday's serial blasts on Mumbai trains. "Probably India will see more, rather than less terrorist violence," said Paul Beaver, an independent security analyst and member of the House of Commons Select Committee on security. .....
  • Bhiwandi issue causes noisy scenes in house
    • by Afternoon Despatch & Courier
      Bhiwandi resurfaced yet again in the Assembly yesterday. It was the same old issue but with a new dimension and an added touch of aggression. .....
  • Salvation for Salwa Judum
    • by Balbir K. Punj
      On July 17 over 500 Maoists swoo-ped down on the Errabore base camp in Chattisgarh's Dantewara district and killed 27 Salwa Judum activists. More than 100 houses were razed, one man was burnt alive, fleeing tribals were shot or hacked to death. .....
  • Banned SIMI alive, kicking
    • by Debasish Panigrahi
      The Banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) may have ceased to exist as an organisation but its cadres, sympathiser base and activities continue to thrive. .....
  • 11/7: The last journey
    • by Shevlin Sebastian
      The living room of Meeta Shah's sixth-floor flat in suburban Dahisar is filled with people, mostly women. Meeta is sitting on a dhurrie, beside a low windowsill on which is placed a garlanded portrait of her late husband Tushit, 44, an equity dealer. When she sees me at the door, she beckons with her hand. But I prefer to stay where I am. .....
  • Failure
    • by Aditya Sinha
      The Blame lies squarely at the door of one man - National Security Advisor (NSA) M.K. Narayanan. However you look at the incidents of terrorism in the past year - Ayodhya (5/7), Delhi (29/10), Bangalore (28/12), Varanasi (7/3) and now Mumbai - they all point to one thing: intelligence failure. And with Narayanan functioning as India's intelligence czar, the buck stops with him. .....
  • Anatomy of sleeper agent
    • by The Hindustan Times
      Q.: How many?
      A.: Home ministry estimates that there are about 1,000 of them all over the country. .....
  • Sleeper agents give sleepless nights
    • by Mayank Towari
      In the aftermath of the serial blasts on trains in Mumbai, sleuths and security experts of the country are training their radars on sleeper agents who have their bosses across the border. "Pakistan supported sleeper agents have heightened their activity in India after being dormant for years," a senior government official told Hindustan Times. .....
  • Sleuths quiz SIMI leader to trace blast links
    • by Haidar Naqvi
      Intelligence sleuths are carrying out a massive operation in Uttar Pradesh to dig out the face behind the 11/7 blasts in Mumbai. They are questioning SIMI cadres in Kanpur, one of the strongest bases of the Islamic network in north India. .....
  • UP CM's remark shocks sleuths
    • by The Times of India
      On July 11, 2005, six people, including four of a family, were arrested from Faizabad in connection with the July 5, 2005 attack in Ayodhya. They were all associated with SIMI, a senior intelligence official said. .....
  • Mulayam, Khurshid rally behind SIMI
    • by Subodh Ghildiyal
      Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has emerged a great unifier for bitter political rivals Mulayam Singh Yadav and Khurshid, in what is turning out to be a reflection on the proscribed outfit's potential to influence electoral equations in the volatile state awaiting polls early next year. .....
  • The road to unimaginable horror
    • by Praveen Swami
      "The Hindu," wrote the Lashkar-e-Taiba's founder and spiritual guide Hafiz Mohammed Saeed in 1999, "is a mean enemy and the proper way to deal with him is the one adopted by our forefathers, who crushed them by force." Most of the few people who read Saeed's article dismissed it, correctly, as the ranting of a lunatic - and then made the error of dismissing his repeated promises to deliver maximum terror. .....
  • Principal organiser of bombings in safe house in Kathmandu?
    • by Praveen Swami
      Intelligence sources said Sheikh, along with Zulfikar Fayyaz Qazi and Zabiuddin Ansari, set up escape plans weeks before the bombings, in anticipation of what is being described as the largest counter-terrorism sweep since the 2001 attack on Parliament House. Police have named the men as key figures in Lashkar cells operating out of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Delhi - networks whose relationship with the bombings was first reported in this newspaper. .....
  • India's most wanted terrorist is faceless
    • by Praveen Swami
      `Rahil Abdul Rehman Sheikh,' reads the text on the top of the dossier on India's most wanted terrorist - the man believed to be the principal executor of the Mumbai serial bombings, which claimed 200 lives. There is no photograph below it: for all of his adult life, Sheikh refused to have one taken, on the ground that graven images were forbidden by Islam. .....
  • India terms Kasuri's statement on blasts appalling
    • by The Times of India
      India on Wednesday described as "appalling" Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri's statement which sought to link the blatant and inhuman bomb blasts in Mumbai to the so called lack of resolution of disputes between the two countries. .....
  • The Jihadist War Against India
    • by Dr. Walid Phares
      Is this the beginning of the Jihadi war on India? Yes and no. Yes it is a jihadist war on India, but no, the trains' bombings weren't the beginning of that war. Unlike the U.S., Spain, and the UK, the Indians have been subjected to small explosions of the holy war for years. Yesterday's bombings of Mumbai's trains (previously Bombay) are not the first strikes on Indian mainland. .....
  • Mumbai police tipped off on June 27!
    • by The Times of India
      Central intelligence agencies are believed to have provided information to Mumbai police on June 27 and 28 that the metropolis would be targeted by the Lashker-e-Toiba militants with the help of Students' Islamic Movement of Indian (SIMI) activists. .....
  • Vote-bank concerns add to govt's Mid East woes
    • by Indrani Bagchi
      Israel's offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon and its backers in Syria on Thursday has left policymakers here scratching their heads because India has enormous political, economic and strategic stakes in the right power balance in the region. As oil and gold surged northwards in the international markets, the fear is that the Middle East crisis might hit India where it hurts. .....
  • Hunt begins for SIMI outfits in Kerala
    • by The Pioneer
      Central and State Intelligence have stepped up their watch on certain fundamentalist organisations in Kerala, following the serial blasts in Mumbai on Tueaday. The watch is particularly focused on organisations with links to the Union Government banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which was initially said to have had a role in the serial blasts. .....
  • Governor memo rattles Mulayam
    • by The Times of India
      Has governor T V Rajeswar's strongly-worded memo prompted chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav to beat a hasty retreat on his controversial stand on SIMI? The receipt of the governor's letter at the fifth floor office of the CM and Yadav's backtracking in Muzaffarnagar on Friday were both sweetly timed. .....
  • This is jihad
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      The holy warriors who carried out the 7/11 bombings in Mumbai may be members of local sleeper cells of the LeT and SIMI but the battle they are fighting is part of the global war being waged by Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda. With Islamism finding an increasing number of converts in India, Osama and his generals will now find it easier to deploy foot soldiers in our country to push the frontiers of jihad, writes Kanchan Gupta. .....
  • Vadodara to Bhiwandi
    • by Balbir K Punj
      If anyone throws stones at policemen, we will answer them with bullets." That was no Narendra 'Milosevic' Modi defending Gujarat Police for firing that resulted in the death of two Muslims in Vadodara. That was Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister cum Home Minister RR Patil defending his State police for shooting down two Muslim rioters in Bhiwandi. .....
  • Banned SIMI operating under new names
    • by Subodh Ghildiyal, Pradeep Thakur & Vishwa Mohan
      Banned for over five years for its anti-national character and now under the scanner for its role in the Mumbai blasts, the Students' Islamic Movement of India has begun to ward off proscription by changing identities. .....
  • Terrorism escalates to new levels
    • by Abhay Vaidya & Syed Rizwanullah
      It's not the usual face of Kashmiri terror. When security officials investigated a recent encounter, they discovered the gun-wielding jihadi was a 19-year-old boy from Kolhapur who had become a Hizb-ul Mujahideen operative after passing through several madrassas near Kohlapur and in Gujarat. .....
  • The SIMI Story
    • by Yoginder Sikand
      The identity of those behind the bomb blasts that shook Mumbai recently remains unclear. Some claim Hindutva terrorists were responsible, while others suspect the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-i Tayyeba or the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIM) or a combination of both. In the meanwhile, scores of suspected SIMI activists have been detained by the police. .....
  • There were 24 armed fidayeen
    • by Pramod Kumar Singh
      Conspirators used e-mails, hid behind women ---- The men who planted explosives on Mumbai's train were heavily armed and numbered nearly two dozen. Investigations by the security agencies into the 7/11 Mumbai blasts have revealed that the executioners of the plan were ready for a fidayeen encounter with the police in case of any confrontation. .....
  • How many blasts will it take for the govt to act
    • by The Times of India
      New York was bombed once, London was bombed once, and Madrid, too, was bombed once. But Mumbai, the wannabe financial hub of the new world, has had it many many times over and over since 1993. The first attack was laid at the doorstep of the Don, but investigations into almost all the ensuing terror attacks have stopped at one name: SIMI or the Student's Islamic Movement of India. .....
  • Rhetoric, half-truths and terrorism
    • by Arindam Bannerjee
      "It cannot be excluded that yesterday's atrocity in Mumbai was organized or facilitated by agents provocateurs working for one of India's intelligence agencies or that elements within the security forces allowed the terrorist attack to take place, with the aim of panicking the public into accepting increased repressive powers for the state. .....
  • Bomb Blasts In Mumbai - Crossing The Limits
    • by Asghar Ali Engineer
      But then, is the label moderate correct for the author? One of the arguments he uses to justify his position is to refer to the treaty of Hudaibiyah, which Mohammed signed, even though it was most unfavourable to him. And then the same Mohammed used the time porvided to him to regroup and make himself strong, and then he broke the treaty. .....
  • Can There Be Peace With Islam?
    • by Barbara J. Stock
      The suicide bombers continue and now public executions are beginning. Iraqis continue to kill Iraqis in alarming numbers. Shia Muslims want revenge against Sunni Muslims. Sunni Muslims want their power back. Iraq has a serious problem. .....
  • Go for the Terrorist
    • by A K Doval
      Let us understand and appreciate the ground situation correctly. Pakistan continues to be the fountainhead of terror. They continue to send people and weapons and they continue to train and motivate jehadis. To effectively deal with the threat of the expanding terror network, India must deal with Pakistan as an aggressed state should deal with an aggressor state. We need to send an unequivocal message that we mean business and that we will not negotiate or be part of a dialogue unless acts of terrorism stop. .....
  • Training 'prospective' harvesters of souls
    • by V Sundaram
      The first glimpse of the Jesus of the Gospels came to me when I joined as Sub Collector in Pollachi in the erstwhile unbifurcated Coimbatore District of Tamilnadu in 1967. I had gone to a remote village incognito for a confidential inquiry. An enthusiastic and young Christian Pastor tried to convert me and failed in the attempt. .....
  • Madhya Pradesh hub for Pak spies
    • by The Hindustan Times
      Abdul Sami was a Pakistani criminal trained in Karachi. He sneaked into India and lived in Madhya Pradesh like a local and spying on military establishments. Authorities say Madhya Pradesh is a haven for Pakistani spies. .....
  • India not to go ahead with Foreign Secretary level talks
    • by Daily Excelsior
      The deadly serial Mumbai blasts today had its impact on the peace process with Pakistan with India deciding not to go ahead with Foreign Secretary-level talks that were expected to be held here next week. .....
  • 'Arjun encouraging terrorism, sack him'
    • by The Indian Express
      The BJP demanded dismissal of Minority Affairs Minister A R Antulay and HRD Minister Arjun Singh from their posts for their alleged remarks in a Cabinet meeting suggesting that Hindu groups faked terrorist attacks and blamed them routinely on Muslims. .....
  • Pak hand, says NSA; Arjun, Antulay have a different take
    • by Shishir Gupta
      At a Cabinet discussion on the Government's response to the terror attacks in Mumbai, while National Security Advisor M K Narayanan pointed a finger at Pakistan, two Ministers tried to make the point that it was routine for Hindu groups to blame Muslims for acts of violence. .....
  • Zion to Sion
    • by The Pioneer
      From Israel, lessons for Mumbai ---- Facetious as it may sound, weeks like this one are ripe for bemoaning the limits to outsourcing, and the fact that the mandate for India's internal security cannot be contracted out to the iron-willed consciousness of Israel. In the past two days, Israel has bombed Beirut airport and begun a naval blockade of Lebanon, aimed at disrupting the supply lines of Hizbullah terrorists and weaponry. .....
  • Crackdown on SIMI, Centre tells States
    • by Pramod Kumar Singh
      With intelligence bureau (IB) reports confirming that cadres of Students Islamic Movement in India (SIMI) were responsible for the Mumbai train blasts, the Centre has told all the State Governments to launch a crackdown on SIMI cadres and their sympathisers. .....
  • SIMI & Secular politics
    • by Premendra Agrawal
      At a time when Mumbai police are on the lookout for the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) members for their suspected role in 7/11 serial blasts, it is panic to know that Congress and Left parties including Sonia Gandhi and Ambika Soni opposed NDA to ban on SIMI. Now the Mulayam Singh Yadav government is contemplating withdrawing the cases against banned SIMI members and setting them free. We wonder if they take any action at all even if India gets nuked. .....
  • Bumptious UPA secularism vs. Jihadic terrorism
    • by V Sundaram
      With high-tech precision, eight explosions in rapid succession struck a busy commuter railway in the city of Mumbai on 11th July evening, killing 190 people, injuring many more, and turning the rush hour into a grisly tableau of carnage. This is the seventh major instance of a terrorist attack in the city of Mumbai during the last 13 years. .....
  • Cong leader defends SIMI in SC
    • by Narendra Kaushik
      Though the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre put a ban on Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in February this year, it has not stopped one of the party's senior leaders from vigorously opposing the ban in the Supreme Court. .....
  • Was local neta the pointman?
    • by Mumbai Mirror
      The central intelligence agencies and the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Mumbai police believe a politician with considerable following among the minorities in Mumbai may have played a crucial role in Tuesday's serial blasts. .....
  • 'Congrats' calls expose Pak, Bangla link
    • by The Times of India
      Just after the Mumbai blasts, a call from Karachi to Dhaka said: "Mubarakan, mubarakan (congratulations)" - a clear mission-accomplished message. .....
  • Hindu, Indian, Desi, anything but Asian
    • by Times Online
      The Hindu community is one of Britain's fastest growing and best integrated ethnic groups. The 2001 Census put the numbers at nearly 550,000 but community leaders believe that with the pace of immigration since then, there could be more than 700,000. They are Britain's third largest faith community after Christians and Muslims. .....
  • Locals abetted blasts: Cops
    • by The Asian Age
      Sources in the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) said that they are maintaining vigil in different areas of the city since they believe that the serial blasts, which took place in the local trains on Tuesday, could not have been executed without the connivance of the local population. .....
  • 'The dead have been forgotten'
    • by Syed Firdaus Ashraf
      For many residents, Mumbai may have returned to normalcy. For those in mourning, life and the city will never be the same. Chief Correspondent Syed Firdaus Ashraf spent some time with one such bereaved family. .....
  • Al Qaeda announces presence in J&K
    • by Mukhtar Ahmad
      The Al Qaeda terrorist outfit was launched in Jammu and Kashmir with its spokesman making the announcement in a telephone statement to a local news agency, Current News Service. .....
  • Blasts? What Blasts?…Yeh to hota hi rahta hai…
    • by Jai Dharma
      On Rediff, Nitin Chhoda wrote: "You want to help, but the only thing you can do is make a few phone calls. You want to feel sad, but you are too far away…In essence, you feel helpless." .....
  • Kargil invasion was pre-planned: Musharraf
    • by Rediff.com
      President Pervez Musharraf has confirmed what the world had suspected for long - that Pakistan's Kargil invasion had been planned even as the then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was preparing for his journey of peace by bus to Lahore in February 1999. .....
  • Soft Centre
    • by Newsinsight.net
      By now, we have become predictable in our responses to terrorist outrages, and it is no different with the Bombay serial bombings, which have killed nearly two hundred people since yesterday, and injured more than three times the number. The media leads the act in playing down the terrorist attack, by painting up a perfectly fraudulent picture of a city hurtling back to normalcy within hours if not minutes, and the more pseudo-secular, pseudo-liberal of the papers come out with absolutely crummy headlines. .....
  • India needs to be ruthless in its vengeance
    • by Shishir Bhate
      As a child, I rarely fell asleep without listening to my grandmother narrate 'good-over-evil' stories from religious scriptures. Her dramatic story-telling ability held me enraptured as she described how gods took on the demons and crushed them. With 330 million gods to choose from and a near-perfect memory, her bank of stories was inexhaustible. At school, I learnt 'moral science,' which primarily consisted of religious tales of divine domination over wickedness. .....
  • Bumptious UPA secularism vs. Jihadic terrorism
    • by V Sundaram
      With high-tech precision, eight explosions in rapid succession struck a busy commuter railway in the city of Mumbai on 11th July evening, killing 190 people, injuring many more, and turning the rush hour into a grisly tableau of carnage. This is the seventh major instance of a terrorist attack in the city of Mumbai during the last 13 years. .....
  • SIMI and Mulayam's political games
    • by Atul Chandra
      At a time when Mumbai police are on the lookout for the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) members for their suspected role in Tuesday's serial blasts, the Mulayam Singh Yadav government is contemplating withdrawing the cases against them and setting them free. .....
  • Boys gone astray, Minister?
    • by Shishir Gupta
      You don't have to wait for intelligence agencies to release their trademark identikit pictures to know the faces behind Mumbai's serial blast. Those fuzzy, looks-like-everyman sketches can't tell you anything what Abdul Razzaq can. Or what Mohammed Waliullah can. Razzaq and Waliullah are not foreign mercenaries. .....
  • Enough is enough!
    • by Saisuresh Sivaswamy
      When the first of the explosives went off at the Bombay Stock Exchange on March 12, 1993, by chance I was in the vicinity. .....
  • Bangla immigrants: The threat within
    • by The Times of India
      While investigators probing leads into the Mumbai train blasts are scouring for evidence linking the terror strike to groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, there is rising concern over a large of pool of illegals from Bangladesh in the city providing a steady stream of foot soldiers for extremist outfits. .....
  • NGOs can't run the country
    • by Anuradha Dutt
      The Narmada Bachao Andolan has had its severest setback in years. For, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who initiated the process of formally involving NGOs in policy-making, slammed the NBA's charges of inadequate rehabilitation of displaced people by submitting a statement in the Supreme Court that work on the Sardar Sarovar Project must continue as it was in public interest. .....
  • Back on track in 16 hours!
    • by Binoor Nair
      When the London underground was attacked on July 7 last year, services could be restored only three days later. On July 11, 2006, the Western Railway (WR) network was hit by seven blasts. Exactly 16 hours later, trains were plying along the entire line between Churchgate and Virar. .....
  • Siddhivinayak devotee Imtiaz is still missing
    • by Snehal Rebello and Ketaki Ghoge
      For five years, 18-year-old Imtiaz Shaikh, a Std VIII dropout, has visited Siddhivinayak Temple every Tuesday. On July 11, when he left home, Shaikh's mother, 36-yearold Shaheeda presumed that her son was on his usual Tuesday tryst with 'Ganpati'. .....
  • Qaeda lauds train blasts
    • by Arun Joshi
      A man claiming to be Al Qaeda's spokesman said on Thursday that the global terror group had set up base in Kashmir and praised Tuesday's serial blasts in Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people. .....
  • Karachi to Dhaka: Mubarakan
    • by The Times of India
      Just after the Mumbai blasts, a call from Karachi to Dhaka said: "Mubarakan, mubarakan (congratulations)" - a clear mission-accomplished message. .....
  • 7/11 brought out the heroes in them
    • by The Times of India
      A part from triggering a flush of gore and death, Tuesday's serial blasts left behind a vacuum that was almost immediately filled up by the common man's ability to take on several roles. Not only were people living near the railway station the first to rush to the disaster scene, but they also donned the role of a nurse, volunteer, blood donor and relative so that the blast victims could cling to hope till their relatives arrive. .....
  • J&K terrorists turn gun on Hindus again
    • by The Times of India
      If it's tourists on one hand, it's Hindus on the other. Terrorists shot dead four teenagers in Poonch district and left a middle-aged woman and her daughter injured in a post-midnight strike in this border district of Jammu region. .....
  • As their tactics backfire, they backtrack
    • by Meenakshi Jain
      Though the relentless pressure of several aggrieved groups has forced left historians to backtrack on some of their more contentious assertions on Indian history, this seems a tactical retreat rather than a sincere rectification of position. The cosmetic changes made by Professor Satish Chandra in his Medieval India, textbook for Class XI, as well as the response of the Committee of Historians to the objections raised by Shri Dinanath Batra and others in the Delhi High Court, smack of a forced withdrawal. .....
  • They baffle us with their Goebbelsian mischief
    • by Devendra Swaroop
      "The most prominent among these new leaders were Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and Aurobindo Ghosh. They came to be known as extremists." (Modern India, Social Science, Part 1, Arjun Dev & Indira Arjun Dev, Class VIII) .....
  • Textbooks that disparage the Indian heritage
    • by Dr Maheep Singh
      It is unfortunate that the History textbook prepared by NCERT for the students of class XI written by Prof Satish Chandra is full of distortions and wrong statements. In the previous edition of Medieval India, prescribed for class XI, Shri Chandra, referring to the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur quoting some Persian source, had written that after his return from Assam, the Guru in association with one Hafiz Adam, a follower of Shiekh Ahmed Sirhandi, had resorted to plunder and rapine laying waste the whole province of the Punjab. .....
  • The Politics And Conspiracy Behind Upa's Distorted Education Policy
    • by Dr J.S. Rajput
      Never before, education in India was put to such political siege as during the last two years. The ruling combine of the political parties diametrically opposed to each other emerged on the basis of the eternal political principle of 'power at any cost'. .....
  • Stalling growth as Patkar's profession
    • by Shyam Khosla
      Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) Supremo Medha Patkar has done it again. After putting impediments in the completion of the Narmada project under the garb of ensuring rehabilitation of displaced persons, she has now succeeding in her evil design to stall the work on the Maheshwar Hydroelectic Project on the untenable premise that the project authorities had failed to submit a rehabilitation plan for the displaced persons. .....
  • 'Papa is dead'
    • by Chitrangada Choudhury
      Vijay Jhawar's desperate search through Tuesday night in hospital after hospital for his younger brother Sandeep ended gruesomely at dawn at the Sion Hospital's OPD. .....
  • A few good men
    • by Kavitha Iyer
      Even as the seven near-synchronised bombs had just finished exploding, Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Johny Joseph was already receiving the first reports. Much before the cellphone networks passed out, he had called the hospitals and fire chiefs. The disaster control cell in the basement was told to expect the commissioner to take charge. Then he was on the phone with Mantralaya. .....
  • Keeping the peace
    • by Lekha Agarwal
      Candle-light vigils, mohalla committee meetings, shraddhanjali, condolence meetings, and finally, public dialogue. .....
  • They opened their doors
    • by Kavitha Iyer
      Looking around nervously at Churchgate station at 7.45 pm on Tuesday, Amit Narayan, 17, saw a sea of people whose minds he could read in that instant. ''How do I get home? Are my loved ones safe?'' That one thought made them all kindred souls, he says, and then they all became roommates the next instant. .....
  • Healing a broken city
    • by The Indian Express
      At midnight, standing outside the makeshift mortuary near the emergency and casualties ward of the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital at Sion, the dean's standing instructions to Dr Rajeev Kumar, (communities and medicine) who was also in charge of co-ordination couldn't be more precise: ''Clear everything here. Make way for the blast victims.'' .....
  • They got Mumbai home
    • by Kalpana Verma
      They were the first heroes-seven motormen and seven guards. Fire extinguishers in hand, they joined relief efforts, then kept an all-night vigil around their mangled train compartments, hungry and tired, until the rakes were safely inside carsheds the next morning. .....
  • Ready for anything
    • by N Ganesh
      Far away from the scenes of the blasts, inside a basement office, another dedicated team had swung into action. This was the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, a crucial link in the coordination of relief efforts. .....
  • The annoying spirit
    • by Nilanjana Sengupta
      When people who usually don't take the trains have nothing meaningful to say about the blasts, they use an all-weather expression - the Spirit of Mumbai. So what if Mumbai has been bombed once again? Long live the spirit of Mumbai. .....
  • 'The blast destroyed my life, and no government ever helped'
    • by Kavitha Iyer
      This is the last interview he will give, says Kirti Ajmera. Ajmera (49) nearly became a second-time victim of terror when he missed one of the ill-fated trains on Tuesday by bare seconds, but it's March 1993 that gets this marketing professional talking. As he speaks, still bitter, memory bubbles over, fast and vivid. And, after 13 years, still painful. .....
  • At least they got to thank their 'heroes'
    • by Anumeha Yadav
      Almost every survivor of Tuesday's blasts has countless, nameless, strangers to thank-those who rushed in from outside the stations and helped the injured into taxis, tempos, policevans and ambulances, even carrying them on their shoulders in some cases, those who tirelessly worked at hospitals through the night only to slip into the shadows as dawn broke. .....
  • Bangladesh hotbed of terror activities
    • by Rakesh K. Singh
      Bangladesh is fast becoming the new international hub of terrorist activities and the country has become the hotbed of militant training and recruitment ground with even the Bangladeshi Army directly involved with terror outfits, sources said. .....
  • The enemy within
    • by A.R. Kanangi
      Two months ago, Zainuddin Ansari and two other terrorists who were involved in the storage of explosives in Marathwada stayed in the MLA hostel for a couple of hours. How did they gain entry into the place? Have the police found out whose guests they were? .....
  • Dawood behind Mumbai blasts?
    • by Nishant A Bhuse
      Immediately after a blast ripped through a local train in Matunga on Tuesday, a call was placed from Matunga to an associate of Dawood in Dubai, saying 'Thank You', Intelligence Bureau (IB) sources said. .....
  • Terrorists target Hindus in Valley
    • by Arti Tikoo Singh
      Terrorists shot dead four teenagers in Poonch and left a middle-aged woman and her daughter injured in a post-midnight strike in this border district of Jammu region. .....
  • Qaida claims to have set up network in J&K
    • by The Times of India
      A man claiming to represent Osama bin Laden's Al Qaida said the terror network had set up a wing in J&K and appealed to Indian Muslims to take up jehad, a Srinagar-based news organisation said on Thursday. .....
  • Centre suspects SIMI hand but Mulayam gives it clean chit
    • by Subodh Ghildiyal
      Turning a blind eye to the Centre's directive to clamp down on SIMI for its suspected involvement in the Mumbai massacre, UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday gave a virtual clean chit to the banned extremist outfit. .....
  • CJI spoke for tough law against terror
    • by The Times of India
      Less than a fortnight ago, Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal had noted the spiraling terrorist strikes against the country and said the international community could not fault India if it chose to enact tough measures to deal with the menace. .....
  • SIMI: 5 years of ban, 5years of growth
    • by The Times of India
      In the five years that SIMI has been officially banned, it has not only continued its activities in traditional strongholds, but has successfully managed to expand its sphere of influence. .....
  • Planning a Terrorist strike
    • by The Times of India
      Of the several Al Qaida documents recovered worldwide, few are more explicit and detailed in covering all aspects of setting up a terror organisation as the one found by the Manchester metropolitan police. .....
  • Unmistakably Lashkar
    • by The Times of India
      When, hunting for a killer, sleuths look for an accused with a motive, opportunity and weapons to carry out his murderous intent. Precise leads are yet to emerge in Mumbai, but there is a suspect - one who would willingly target innocents on a local train. .....
  • WR back on its feet by dawn
    • by The Times of India
      Five hours after Tuesday's carnage came to an end, under a bright full moon, the ill-fated 5.48 slow local from Churchgate to Borivli stood still on an empty track between Khar Road and Santa Cruz stations. The blast that had taken place at 6.24 pm near the Khar Subway had been devastatingly huge. .....
  • Make Rs 25 lakh on a terror tip
    • by The Times of India
      The Democratic Front government was lambasted in both houses of the state legislature on Wednesday. It was accused of lacking political will and the intelligence failure to avert the blasts dominated proceedings. .....
  • 13 yrs and still no conviction
    • by The Times of India
      The blasts have blown the lid off Mumbai's patience. It is an anger more palpable than merely the deflation of the city's fabled spirit. The anger is directed at the authorities for being unable to prevent the carnage, as well as at fellow-citizens for attempting to take the crime in their stride by putting on a "spirit of Mumbai" face. .....
  • Mr Moneybags with a heart
    • by The Times of India
      Standing at the makeshift information counter at Sion Hospital, Somnath Julka was not looking for any injured relatives. He was simply lending a hand-monetarily and otherwise. Standing guard all night, Julka not only helped people look for their kin but also gave out Rs 2.75 lakh by way of cash and medicines to the needy. .....
  • Mumbai says we will always be with you...
    • by Georgina Maddox & Sulakshana Gupta
      So what if it was the evening rush. At Santacruz, commuters now find time to stop briefly at the Shradhanjali Mandap at the entrance. ''Condolences from Mumbaiikars to the city's blast victims,'' it reads as the Tricolour flutters behind a collage of newspaper clippings chronicling Terrible Tuesday. .....
  • Our Stand Vindicated (Interview with Shri Madan Dilawar)
    • by Organiser
      Shri Madan Dilawar is among those BJP leaders, who are proud of their association with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He has no qualms in admitting that, as a minister, he is instilling good values into the people, which he has learnt as a swayamsevak. At times, some of his decisions courted controversies. It was he who had introduced the Bhojan Mantra in the hotels, run by the Special Welfare Department. .....
  • High Court upholds Rajasthan action against Emmanuels
    • by Lokpal Sethi
      About five months back, the district administration at Kota in Rajasthan received a complaint that the Emmanuel Mission International (EMI) at its various centres in and around the city was distributing or selling a book titled Haqeeqat, which contained several derogatory remarks about Hindu scriptures, faith, rituals and traditions. .....
  • Goddess of small lies!
    • by Balbir K. Punj
      She is a goddess who tried to give long legs to her small lies. Not surprisingly, Arundhati Roy often leaves a chink in her armour. Her family is one of the four who had been served notices by a local court in Madhya Pradesh for prima facie encroaching upon a tribesman's land. .....
  • Who speaks for India's Hindus?
    • by Sandhya Jain
      Two recent initiatives by Hindus living abroad raise fundamental questions about who has the right (adhikaar) to speak for the Hindu community in India and in the various countries where Hindus have settled, often for generations. The question is pertinent because in the Vedic tradition, the celestial island on which the territory of Bharat lies is the sole dharmic punyabhoomi and karmabhoomi. .....
  • Resilience is good, but amnesia is fatal
    • by Ranjit Hoskote
      Tuesday evening's terrorist strike in Mumbai is the seventh such attack that India's commercial capital has suffered in 13 years. And yet, churlish as it may seem to say so at this moment, Mumbai's self-image as a courageous and resilient city - which can spring back after any catastrophe - deflects attention from the fact that this global metropolis is uniquely unprepared to defend itself against the depredations of terrorist warfare. .....
  • Chinkara case reopened against Aamir Khan
    • by The Hindu
      After actor Salman Khan, trouble is now brewing for Aamir Khan over alleged use of chinkaras in the protected chinkara sanctuary in Kutch district, Gujarat. .....
  • Pilgrim polewalk
    • by The Hindustan Times
      Not the best time for road rage, starting this week for a month in the hot and dusty plains of Hindoostan: whole swarms of men in orange (and women, too) from the BIMARU states have seized the National Highways to march relentlessly on Hardwar. .....
  • CBI to prove don in Pak
    • by Rajnish Sharma
      Pakistan might deny that Dawood Ibrahim has found shelter on its soil but India is ready to prove otherwise. The CBI will soon provide more evidence to Interpol, Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the US Treasury Department about the don's activities and network in Pakistan. .....
  • Tihar's tale: Pay and play
    • by Anupam Thapa
      It is the biggest prison of South East Asia. Although Tihar jail has a sanctioned capacity of 5,648 prisoners, more than 13,000 are lodged here. Many of these are high profile prisoners-from Babloo Srivastava (whose conviction this past week, means he'll be staying here for a while) to Vikas Yadav, accused in the Nitish Katara murder case. .....
  • Meet Subhash More, he did not give up
    • by Vivek Deshpande
      Subhash Natthuji More is the happy exception to a sad rule in the killing fields of Vidarbha. While others spoke of hardship and misery, what more told the Prime Minister was about perseverance and hope: A successful cotton and orange farmer, he is not in debt, earning a neat Rs 5,000 a month. .....
  • How Andhra's plans went haywire
    • by Ashok Das
      Q.: When did Andhra Pradesh come up with reservation for Muslims?
      A.: The state government issued an order in July 2004, providing five per cent reservation for Muslims in jobs and educational institutions, after declaring the community a backward class. A flurry of petitions challenging the order in court followed. .....
  • Ladies first: A temple that worship women
    • by P K Surendran
      The guardians of celibate Lord Ayyappa's exclusivist Sabarimala shrine have so far turned a deaf ear on a chorus of demands from women devotees to let them in. In complete contrast, just across the narrow breadth of southern Kerala is the Chakkulathu Kavu temple, where women are worshipped. .....
  • 'Prove claim of ownership'
    • by The Times of India
      Deputy chief minister R R Patil on Thursday announced a sum of Rs 7.50 lakh and a government job for the next of kin of the cops who died in the violence. .....
  • Say it hard and true, at least now
    • by News Today
      Mumbai 1993 down to Coimbatore explosions to Delhi Deepavali blasts to attack in IISc in Bangalore to explosions in Varnasi to countless blasts in Kashmir to Mumbai again yesterday. It has been a never-ending bloody saga. No country in the world has suffered, humiliated, battered, pummelled as India has been due to what is simplistically called as acts of terrorism. .....
  • Could terrorism spiral into a civil war?
    • by The Economic Times
      It would be unwise to ignore what the jihadi forces, aided and abetted by our neighbour, are up to. True, India has been able to successfully thwart all Pakistani attempts since Independence to rip apart the secular fabric of our polity. .....
  • The Taliban's hidden masters
    • by Anil Bhat
      It is becoming increasingly clear that the kind of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) used against the coalition forces in Afghanistan is similar to the ones used in the Kashmir Valley, pointing as strongly to the Pakistani connection as the suicide attacks in Kabul and other places show similarity with attacks in Iraq. .....
  • 'Black magic law may be abused'
    • by Swati Deshpande
      The state's proposed law against blind faith and black magic has plenty of grey areas, feel experts. The Bill, called the "Maharashtra Eradication of Black Magic and Evil Practices Bill", may become an Act in the coming Assembly session but, in the absence of any public debate on its provisions, there is fear and confusion that a law meant to target tantriks may end up putting a curb on people's religious beliefs and practices. .....
  • 3 Lashkar terrorists to hang for Akshardham
    • by The Times of India
      A Pota court in Ahmedabad on Saturday sent three terrorists to the gallows and sentenced one to life for one of the most heinous attacks on civilians in India - at the Akshardham temple. Thirty-three people, including two commandos, were killed and 81 injured, when two 'fidayeen' stormed the temple complex in Gandhinagar and sprayed bullets indiscriminately on devotees on September 24, 2002. .....
  • Ask Bhiwandi rioters to show restraint: Thackeray
    • by The Economic Times
      Alleging that 'fanatic' forces in Bhiwandi, which witnessed riots fast week, have a hand in desecration of his wife Meenatai Thackeray's statue, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said that the rampage in Mumbai and parts of Maharashtra over the issue was a 'flare-up of emotions'. .....
  • UK Hindus appeal for recognition
    • by Emily Buchanan
      Hindus living in Britain feel they are ignored while other groups are being listened to, a survey claims. .....
  • Bhiwandi falls prey to hardline politics
    • by Miloni Bhatt
      The origins of the Shiv Sena's new muscle flexing are in the powerloom town of Bhiwandi which has been a minefileld of opportunistic minority politicians. .....
  • Planned attempt in Tirupathi by evangelists to defile the great holy shrine
    • by Organiser
      Sri Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji of the Pejawar Mutt in response to startling disclosures of the planned evangelist activities in the holy Tirupathi temple premises announced that the leaders of Hindu mutts would meet in the temple complex on July 15 to discuss the activities of Christian missionaries, including attempts to convert Hindus in Tirumala and Tirupathi. .....
  • Terror With State Patronage
    • by Amitabh Tripathi
      It is difficult to believe as Islamic terrorists are getting state patron in our country but unfortunately it is true. Last month when Mumbai police recovered huge cache of arms and ammunitions from some small towns and cities of Maharashtra like Aurangabad and Malegaon, anti terrorist squad also disclosed premises of three MLA's were used by these terrorists to hide and stay. .....
  • 'No substance, only impediments'
    • by The Pioneer
      Shunglu Committee report damns NGO ---- Exposing the Narmada Bachao Andolan's claims that Madhya Pradesh had not carried out adequate rehabilitation of several thousand people affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project, the Shunglu Committee report submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday has said the NGO's allegations are "without substance." .....
  • Surnames are now out at IIT Kanpur
    • by Deccan Chronicle
      There are no Guptas, Sharmas, Pandeys, Tiwaris, Tripathis, Shuklas, Singhs, Agarwals, Dixits and Hussains left on the campus. The surnames that denote caste have been dropped like leaves in the autumn, and all that remains is a feeling of oneness. .....
  • Temple demolitions stoke Malaysian tensions
    • by Zari Bukhari
      Police in riot gear and shouting through megaphones recently arrived to move out devotees and pave the way for demolition of a Hindu temple on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, which local ethnic Indians say has stood in the area for more than three generations. A group of angry worshippers who refused to obey orders were doused with water cannons and beaten by baton-wielding security forces. .....
  • Muslim team against bullet-proofing Ayodhya temple
    • by The Hindu
      Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told a delegation that plans to protect the makeshift Ram temple in Ayodhya with a bulletproof shield cannot be shelved, Delhi Assembly Deputy Speaker Shoaib Iqbal, leader of the delegation, said. .....
  • Demolishing Hindu institutions Congress style
    • by Organiser
      Samuel Reddy, the Andhra CM, works very methodically and ceaselessly to do the real damage to Hindu infrastructure. His focus is unparalleled. His cronies are on the job of occupying huge tracts of lands in Tirupathi town through force and fear. That the management of the Holy Shrine is in the hands of crypto xtians is an evident for a casual visitor. .....
  • The Litmus Test of Whether Your History is Secular
    • by Arun Shourie
      The pattern of NCERT History textbooks is set in stone : concoct a picture of pre-Islamic society of Indian history as a period riddled by discord, tensions, inequity and oppression -- evidence or no evidence; on the other side, concoct a picture of the Islamic period as one in which a "composite culture" flowered, one in which, in spite of the errors of few who acted out of normal, non-religious motives, there was peace and harmony -- evidence or no evidence! .....
  • To be comfortable in your second skin
    • by Jerry Pinto
      I wonder why all of us men of the East have no confidence in our own traditions as far as dress codes go. Japanese men won't wear kimonos to work and Indian men won't wear kurtas. As soon as a young man earns his MBA, he retires all his Indian clothes and gets himself a wardrobe of suits. Never mind that the suit is completely unsuitable for tropical climates. .....
  • Washed up rhetoric
    • by Anil Patel
      The Supreme Court hears the Narmada case on July 10. The Shunglu Committee's report on resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) will be part of the government's submission. Certain familiar arguments by those against the dam will be heard again, primary among them that this monsoon will see the ruin of thousands when the dam's height is raised to 121.92 m. This is gross exaggeration. No such thing is likely to happen even when the dam is fully constructed up to 138.64 m. .....
  • Simi regrouping in UP
    • by Rajesh N Singh
      Lack of political will to enforce the ban imposed by Centre on the Students' Islamic Movement of India (Simi) by Uttar Pradesh government might play havoc with the state's security as the organisation is regrouping under a different name and could trigger yet another series of destructive activities. .....
  • George! this is not funny
    • by Nabanita Sircar
      All England hopes in the World Cup and Wimbledon have been dashed. And following the World Cup defeat many angry British football fans threw away the St George flags that adorned their cars before the start of the World Cup. .....
  • Shiite Gunmen Kill 41 Sunnis in Baghdad
    • by Robert H. Reid
      Masked Shiite gunmen rampaged through a tense neighborhood of west Baghdad on Sunday, dragging Sunnis from their cars, picking them out on the street and killing at least 41 in a dramatic escalation of sectarian violence. .....
  • Pro-US Kurds eye nascent Islamic parties
    • by James Brandon
      The creation of a new constitution for Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region was meant to be relatively straightforward. But instead, Kurdish Islamic parties have courted controversy by calling a greater role for sharia, or Islamic law. .....
  • Playboy's life: Girls & booze
    • by James Gordon Meek
      The alleged ringleader of the tunnel terror plot lived the life of an international playboy - on orders from Al Qaeda. .....
  • DJ French Counter-terrorism Head Warns On Muslim Recruiters
    • by Dow Jones Newswires
      Recruiters for hard-line Islamist groups can turn Muslim youths with little interest in religion into extremists in a matter of weeks, the head of France's counterterrorism agency said in an interview published Friday. .....
  • No offence, imam, but we must call it Islamic terror
    • by Michael Portillo
      After the terrorist outrages of July 7, 2005, most Londoners have continued to travel by bus, train and Underground. They are more vigilant, but few seem to experience anxiety about a repeat attack during their journey. That is remarkable because objectively the chances of another massacre must be higher than a year ago. .....
  • Joking Muslim cleric mocks victims of London blasts
    • by The Sunday Times
      A speech by an extremist Muslim cleric praising the London bombers and mocking victims of suicide attacks has been broadcast on the internet to coincide with the anniversary of the July 7 attacks. .....
  • Malaysian Political Scientist Speaks Out about the Destruction of Hindu Temples
    • by Hinduism Today
      In this news piece sent by the Malaysian Hindu Voice, Dr. Farish A. Noor, a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist, speaks out against the recent demolition of Hindu temples in Malaysia. He notes that because of globalization the Hindu community is connected with others worldwide and, as a result, Hindu organizations in Europe and other parts of the world have appealed to the Malaysian government and the prime minister to do something to stop the march of the bulldozers. .....
  • Politicising Amarnath?
    • by Mohit Kandhari
      On May 23, when Shri Amarnath Shrine Board CEO Dr Arun Kumar announced the annual Amarnath pilgrimage calendar starting June 11 - it usually starts in July - hopes were raised that this time, the number of pilgrims would pass previous records. Furthermore, with Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad reputedly close to Jammu and Kashmir Governor and SASB chairman Lt-Gen (Retd) SK Sinha, people also hoped the yatra would not be politicised in the manner associated with the regime of former chief minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed. .....
  • A co-ed Sabarimala?
    • by Chandan Mitra
      Assorted secularists, self-righteous social reformists, atheists, agnostics, jholawalas, human rightswalas, rent-a-cause walas, gender busters and sundry bleeding hearts are busy these days vocally denouncing Hindu temple practices with particular reference to a certain quaint custom prevailing at the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala. .....
  • Failure in full strength
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      It has taken the Indian middle classes just over 25 months to formally terminate their honeymoon with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA Government. The point of endurance had been unacceptably stretched during the kerfuffle over reservations in April and May but the flak had largely been directed at Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh. This month, the Rubicon has been crossed. .....
  • 'Develop satsang for spiritualism'
    • by News Today
      To understand the essence of Vedanta, certain percepts have to be repeated quite often just like the way a teacher keeps repeating to din into the ears of the students, said R Seshasayee, managing director, Ashok Leyland. .....
  • Congress of Sonia is politics without ethics
    • by Organiser
      Just think of this: Reports from Dhaka that the Khaleda Zia Government is considering relocating the Bhakeshwari Kali Temple-the millennium-old shrine in the heart of the Bangladesh capital that gives the city its very name, has been conveniently suppressed by the English media. The Pioneer (June 9) alone had the courage to write an editorial on the subject. .....
  • Cloning History, Marxian Style
    • by Dr S.P. Gupta
      Romila Thapar in her book, Ancient India, for class VI writes about cow eating. She says on page 40-41, "In fact, for special guest beef was served as a mark of honour (although in later centuries Brahmanas were forbidden to eat beef). A man's life was valued as equal to that of a hundred cows. If a man killed another man, he had to give a hundred cows to the family of the dead man as a punishment." .....
  • 'Musharraf harmed Pak more than India'
    • by The Times of India
      Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has charged that President Pervez Musharraf was acting like a "terrorist" and asked the United States to sever ties with him if it really wanted to wage a war against terror. .....
  • NBA 'anti-national acts' under SC scanner
    • by The Pioneer
      Anti-dam crusader Medha Patkar received a nasty jolt on Friday when the Supreme Court admitting a plea to investigate the anti-national activities of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) issued notices to the Centre, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh Governments, to respond on actions taken against Patkar's organisation. .....
  • Destruction of Hindu Temples by Aurangzeb
    • by Rajiv Varma
      Islamic literary sources provide far more extensive evidence of temple destruction by the Muslim invaders of India in medieval times. They also cover a large area, from Sinkiang and Transoxiana in the North to Tamil Nadu in the South, and from Siestan province of present day Iran in the West to Assam in the East. .....
  • Europe's Largest Hindu Temple to Open in August
    • by Jammi Rao
      Europe's largest Hindu temple, near Birmingham, is set to open in August with great fanfare and elaborate rituals performed by priests especially brought from India. The US$12 million temple, funded in part by a grant from the Millennium Fund, stands on 12.5 acres of former waste land. In 1992, the then Black Country Development Corporation made the site available for this unique project. .....
  • Our World: After Londonistan
    • by Caroline Glick
      In the wake of last year's terror attacks on London, the people of Britain seemed muster the will to rally around their flag. After years of denial, the country that gave Israel the British jihad bombers who blew up Mike's Place in 2003; gave Pakistan and America Daniel Pearl's British jihadist executioner; and gave America the British jihadist shoe bomber finally acknowledged that British jihadists were a problem for Britain. .....
  • A tragedy foretold
    • by Praveen Swami
      Tuesday's murderous terror bombing in Mumbai was a tragedy foretold. A least half-a-dozen Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat ul-Jihad Islami cells planning major operations in western India had been interdicted since January: one, sooner or later, was certain to penetrate India's police and intelligence defences. .....
  • Running Amok
    • by The Times of India
      Along with HRD minister Arjun Singh, health minister Anbumani Ramadoss appears to have donned the mantle of Don Quixote in the Union cabinet. Ramadoss led the double-barrelled charge against smoking in films. .....
  • The facts speak
    • by The Indian Express
      One of the major concerns voiced by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in their extended agitation earlier this year has been seriously pursued. The report of the V.K. Shunglu Committee to look into the relief and rehabilitation provided to those displaced by the Sardar Sarovar project has been supported not just by the inquiries conducted done by the three persons comprising the committee, but by teams from the National Sample Survey Organisation. .....
  • Kerala has women's Sabarimala too
    • by The Pioneer
      The raging controversy over women between puberty and menopause not being allowed inside the sanctum sanctorum of the all-men hill shrine of Lord Ayyappa at Sabarimala in Kerala overlooks the fact that there are temples that are meant only for women devotees. .....
  • Pandering to Muslims
    • by KR Phanda
      Mr KPS Gill in his article, "Misadventures will fire back" (June 24) blames the Congress for the rise of a communal organisation like the Assam United Democratic Front. He goes on to say that "the transient success of communal formations in India has historically not been a consequence of factors integral to their own nature, profile or agenda, but rather arises essentially from the failures, miscalculations, and rank and habitual folly of secular formations". .....
  • Conversion: court hears writ petition by jail inmates
    • by The Hindu
      A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday expressed serious concern at the allegation made by inmates of Central Jail, Kadapa, that officers of the Jail Department were forcing them to convert to Christianity. .....
  • Heralding the second freedom movement
    • by V Sundaram
      We freed ourselves from British yoke on August 15 1947. We are yet to free ourselves from the clutches of our pseudo-secular, corrupt, communal, anti-Hindu and ANTI-INDIAN politicians not only in New Delhi but in all the states. The dastardly attack on the RSS Headquarters Office in Nagpur this morning makes it clear that Government of India cannot make love with the terrorists. .....
  • Hinduism as a Danish writer sees it
    • by Dhamu Chodavarapu
      Other day I went to buy morning bread, there a lady, said to me, "Are you not the person who writes in Nordjyske, a Danish newspaper? I could not deny. She went on, "You put words on our thoughts. Keep it on, why not write on Hinduism, we know nothing of it." I said, "If I am to write on Hinduism, the newspaper has to give special addition, but I will see if I can within the space allotted to me." .....
  • Curb proselytism in Andhra Pradesh
    • by V Sundaram
      In Andhra Pradesh we have a Congress gvernment under a Christian Chief Minister who takes instructions from an effete UPA Government in New Delhi which is under the stranglehold of International Roman Catholicism. The Andhra Pradesh government has been using its official agencies for purposes of State-sponsored, State-aided and State-abetted proselytism in Andhra Pradesh in a shamelessly flagrant manner during the last two years. .....
  • The centre of east and west
    • by Gautam Siddharth
      Speaking to Rainer Kellers, a German journalist on a short stint with this newspaper, was edifying. He was pleasantly surprised to see that Indians, even after letting in the winds of globalisation, had not lost their strong cultural moorings - something that wasn't true of many other places he had seen even in his own native Germany. .....
  • Londonistan : The Consequences of Appeasement
    • by Thierry Gattuso
      The term Londonistan was coined by the French embassy in London in the late 1990s, as a result of their frustration over the lack of co-operation from the British security establishment. In December 1994, the Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA), an Algerian Moslem terrorist organization, hijacked an Air France flight, number 8969 and threatened to fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower. .....
  • Hindus persecuted in India's neighbourhood
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      September 14, 2005. Four Muslim men force their way into a Hindu house in Sindh, grab the young daughter of the family, carry her away, forcibly convert her to Islam and is made to marry one of them. Two of the kidnappers are arrested, the case comes up in a local Pakistani court but the judge dismisses the charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion after the terrorised girl is forced to give a statement that she "wilfully married and converted". .....
  • Washed up rhetoric
    • by Anil Patel
      The Supreme Court hears the Narmada case on July 10. The Shunglu Committee's report on resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) will be part of the government's submission. Certain familiar arguments by those against the dam will be heard again, primary among them that this monsoon will see the ruin of thousands when the dam's height is raised to 121.92 m. This is gross exaggeration. No such thing is likely to happen even when the dam is fully constructed up to 138.64 m. .....
  • Plea on CPM jail terror: HC raps govt
    • by Rajeev PI
      The Kerala High Court has asked the Left government in the state to inform what it proposed to do about the Kannur Central Jail, where convicted comrades attack and torture other prisoners. .....
  • Deshmukh under fire for ties with suicide belt's moneylender-MLA
    • by The Indian Express
      With the monsoon session of Maharashtra Assembly starting tomorrow, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is under Opposition fire for asking the state to go easy on Vidarbha's most influential money-lender, Congress MLA Dilip Sananda, and his family. .....
  • Hindus persecuted in India's neighbourhood
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      September 14, 2005. Four Muslim men force their way into a Hindu house in Sindh, grab the young daughter of the family, carry her away, forcibly convert her to Islam and is made to marry one of them. Two of the kidnappers are arrested, the case comes up in a local Pakistani court but the judge dismisses the charges of kidnapping and forcible conversion after the terrorised girl is forced to give a statement that she "wilfully married and converted". .....
  • Are we heading towards a Christian India?
    • by François Gautier
      I am a westerner and a born Christian. I was mainly brought up in catholic schools, my uncle, Father Guy Gautier, a gem of a man, was the parish head of the beautiful Saint Jean de Montmartre church in Paris ; my father, Jacques Gautier, a famous artist in France, and a truly good person if there ever was one, was a fervent catholic all his life, went to church nearly every day and lived by his Christian values. .....
  • NCF-2005 against the psyche of the nation
    • by Rajendra Dixit
      National Curriculum Framework-2005 (NCF-2005) is against the wisdom and psyche of the nation. It imposes an outdated materialist ideology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries behind the facade of rational and scientific approach on a nation that aims to send its 21-century generation to moon and stars of beyond. .....
  • These kids dream about fighting terror
    • by Rediff.com
      They have dreams in their eyes -- dreams of joining army to fight militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, which has claimed lives of their near and dear ones. .....
  • 'Musharraf to rule Pak for a decade more'
    • by The Times of India
      President Pervez Musharraf is likely to be ruling Pakistan for another 10 years amid signs that the country could become more and more Islamic, according to an Indian strategic expert. .....
  • Christian Aggression In Tirumala/Tirupati
    • by S V Badri
      Christian poachers always start from a corner, the borders and outskirts of any important Hindu pilgrim town. And then slowly infiltrate cancerously into the core. Tirupati is no exception. Christianisation started at Tirupati West, while Tirupati East remained predominently Hindu. Not any longer. The cancer has spread virulently from West to East. Like the aggressive religion itself. .....
  • Stopping Santa
    • by The Wall Street Journal
      The Christmas shopping season may be months away, but Islamic clerics have already struck an early blow against the festivities in Malaysia this year. .....
  • Self-help sermon to hounded hamlet
    • by The Telegraph
      CPM state secretary Biman Bose today told villagers of Chandpur in Nadia to set up resistance groups to fight Naxalites instead of depending on police for protection. .....
  • Cong, the joker of calibration
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      Those familiar with diplomatic gobbledygook will have noticed the generous overuse of the term "calibrated" to describe a prevailing confusion or tentativeness of existing policy. Often used as a euphemism for "nuanced", a "calibrated" strategy invariably involves moving in one direction without any clear sense of purpose, and with one eye on a possible exit route. .....
  • Demolition of Hindu esteem
    • by Sunita Vakil
      Pakistan has again thrown the gauntlet at India by demolishing the only Hindu temple in Lahore. However, this was not the first instance of minority bashing in that single religion-based country. Minorities, especially Hindus, continue to be hounded in both Pakistan and Bangladesh. The latest atrocity is but one more example of religious persecution of this marginalised community in an Islamic nation. .....
  • Europe's Muslims worry bishops
    • by John L. Allen Jr.
      Catholics passing through Rome naturally gravitate toward St. Peter's square. In the shadow of the massive Bernini columns, many ruminate about where the church might be heading in the new millennium about to dawn. .....
  • Listen to me on Kashmir or else...: Musharraf
    • by Expressindia.com
      Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has stepped up rhetoric on Kashmir after a long gap by telling India that he might revert to the demand of third party intervention if his proposals of demilitarisation and self-governance in the region were not considered "positively" to resolve the issue. .....
  • Repairs, forgiveness pave way for opening of Hindu Temple
    • by Dana Thiede
      It was immediately apparent when rolling up the driveway of the new Hindu Temple of Minnesota, that there is something big going on this weekend. Landscape crews scrambled to lay sod and plant shrubs, while others hustled to set up a tent, and performed general cleanup. .....
  • Dawood's Bangladesh mission worries India
    • by Sumit Sen
      Reports of a recent secret meeting between absconding underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and two high-profile Bangladeshis - one, an extremely powerful young politician belonging to the ruling alliance and the other, a top national security intelligence officer - in Dubai have sent both Indian and Western intelligence agencies into a tizzy. .....
  • Trivia and vulgarity as media staple
    • by Organiser
      Can't the media at least once in a while prove to be serious and concerned with issues that matter and not with issues that trivialise life and make people the laughing stock of the country? .....
  • The uniqueness of Amma
    • by T P Sreenivasan
      Mata Amritanandamayi (Mother of Immortal Bliss), 'the hugging saint', grew up and attained fame in a village not far from my ancestral home. But I met her for the first time in Washington, DC with thousands of American devotees lined up to get comforted by her motherly hug. .....
  • Anti-Brahmanism should stop!
    • by Francois Gautier
      The first article published by rediff on Brahmins as an underprivileged community, brought a flurry of reactions, mostly of surprise: "What, Brahmins as toilet cleaners, coolies, rickshaw pullers, priests earning less than Rs 150 a month... How is it possible, we always thought that Brahmins were a rich, fat, arrogant community?" .....
  • Thapar Vs. P.C. in a progamme - "Devil's Advocate"
    • by
      Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. Now that the Supreme Court has asked the Government on what basis it proposes reservation for OBCs in higher education, I want to ask the Government precisely what explanation will it give. That is the key question that I should put today to one of the minister concern with the issue, Finance Minister P Chidambaram. .....
  • Undoing India through Caste Reservation
    • by Naagesh Padmanaban
      The anti-reservation protest in India has attracted wide attention and anger among most Indians. Almost all reasonable citizens and non-citizens have condemned the move to establish quotas in educational institutions. Many have written on this issue. The common theme has been to expose the attempt by Arjun Singh and his backers to divide India on caste basis under the guise of affirmative action. .....
  • Sincere quest for ancient knowledge
    • by G Ramanarayanan
      If something is considered a myth let it be myth. But do not brush aside, facts. They have to be brought out. That is the opinion of D K Hari, who does research on Hindu mythology. .....
  • Imam lynched by mob for 'blasphemy'
    • by Majeed Gill
      A mosque Imam was killed while a religious leader sustained critical injuries in violence caused reportedly by sectarian tension between two Sunni sects in Choonawala Mandi near Hasilpur, about 90km from here, on Thursday. .....
  • Zarqawi was a registered Lucknow resident
    • by Expressindia.com
      A probe has been ordered into how al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi who was killed in a US air strike in Iraq last week was allegedly certified as a resident of the state capital. .....
  • Now, call a spade a spade
    • by Abhay K Upadhyay
      Manmohan Singh would do well to reconsider his fetish for peace with Pakistan ----- All speculation over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's proposed first visit to Pakistan was finally laid to rest on Sunday when the National Security Advisor MK Narayanan declared that the visit was unlikely at least this summer. .....
  • Watchdog's dogged ways
    • by M.V. Kamath
      Media is supposed to be the watchdog of the nation. But if it behaves irresponsibly who is to be the watchdog to keep a watch on this particular dog? .....
  • Lahore temple gone, says panel
    • by IBNLive.com
      Pakistan's Minorities Welfare Council (MWC) has insisted that the only Hindu temple in Lahore has been demolished though the Government claims the structure is safe. .....
  • Brahmins lose domination over Sanskrit!
    • by Raheel Dhattiwala
      They dominate the merit list and are studying a language that has-- since the caste system took root-- been the privilege of the Brahmins. .....
  • Gandhi proclaimed himself a Buddhist
    • by PK Balachandran
      In the 1920s, Mahatma Gandhi proclaimed himself a Buddhist, saying that Buddhism was rooted in Hinduism and represented its essence. .....
  • Malaysia: Minorities wary of Islamist overtures
    • by Baradan Kuppusamy
      The opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) is making promises of "justice and equality" to the country's non-Muslims in an appeal to broaden its electoral support base in anticipation of general elections next year. .....
  • Delhi trek for minority tag
    • by Mita Mukherjee
      Schools run by Christian missionaries, deemed among the best in the city, are set to seek minority status from the Centre to pre-empt the state government's intervention in their recruitment of teachers. .....
  • Secularists on a sabbatical
    • by Anuradha Dutt
      India's western and eastern neighbours - Pakis-tan and Bangladesh - are increasingly pushing minorities, especially Hindus, into a corner. The latest outrage is the demolition of the sole temple in Lahore. .....
  • Can Islam be democratic?
    • by Balbir K Punj
      Islam supercedes nationality," says media mogul Rupert Murdoch. "You have to be careful about Muslims who have a very strong, in many ways a fine but very strong religion, which supercedes any sense of nationalism wherever they go," he told Channel Nine. Mr Murdoch was present at a function in Sydney that described him as the most influential Australian of all times. .....


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