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  • 'India shouldn't lose its fuzzy side'
    • by The Times of India
      We live in a world increasingly dictated by divisiveness-within marriages, between brothers, in the education system. So, it's refreshing when one of the finest mind explorers this country knows pays homage to the idea of connectivity. .....
  • Deal of convenience
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      Speaking as an Indian in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi invoked the hopes of Kalawati, a struggling villager from Vidarbha. "Nuclear energy," he said, "is going to act like Kala's main crop and act as an insurance policy in times of need." There were just 22 individuals who ensured that Kalawati's dreams were not dashed last Tuesday evening. .....
  • Pak citizen contested Assembly polls in '96
    • by Assam Tribune
      Believe it or not, an infiltrator with a Pakistani passport had gone to the extent of contesting the Assam Assembly polls in 1996. This unprecedented incident was brought to the fore by the two judgements passed by the Gauhati High Court that ordered deportation of 50-odd illegal Bangladeshi settlers recently. .....
  • 'Illegal Bangla migrants aiding terrorists'
    • by Kingshuk Nag
      Four days after the Ahmedabad blasts, Bangladesh is emerging as the deadly link to the bloody affair. The connection is not only through the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islam (HuJI), the terrorist organization based in Bangladesh which is believed to have masterminded the operations in cahoots with members of the disbanded SIMI. .....
  • LeT suspect held in West Bengal
    • by Rediff.com
      The state Crime Investigation Department on Tuesday arrested a hardcore activist of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba from Murshidabad district in West Bengal along with a laptop and gelatine sticks. .....
  • Bangladeshis in Assam have become kingmakers: Court
    • by Sushanta Talukdar
      The Gauhati High Court has said that Bangladeshis in Assam had become the kingmakers and "a strong political will to free Assam from illegal Bangladeshi[s] is the need of the hour coupled with public activism in that direction." .....
  • Call a spade a spade
    • by Francois Gautier
      I have often been accused of being a 'Right-winger', a 'saffron journalist', a 'Hindu-lover'. Actually I am proud to be a lover of the Hindus -- 850 million in India, a billion in the world, one in every six humanbeings on this planet. .....
  • Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi advocates National consensus on Zero-tolerance to terrorism
    • by Gujarat Information Bureau
      Modi requests the Prime Minister for strengthening the Security and Intelligence Network across the country Narendra Modi reiterates his suggestion and insists for strong political will and national strategy to fight terrorism Gujarat will fight it out, but the centre must help and lead Gujarat's security concerns being overlooked by the Centre .....
  • IM email threatens Vilasrao, Mukesh Ambani
    • by TN Raghunatha
      After the Interpol Protocol (IP) address of an e-mail sent purportedly by Indian Mujahideen -- which claimed responsibility for Saturday's serial blasts in Ahmedabad and warned the authorities about fresh attacks in Mumbai and elsewhere in Maharashtra -- was traced to a Navi Mumbai apartment, the State Government on Sunday put the country's commercial capital and communally-sensitive towns of Bhiwandi, Malegaon and Aurangabad on a high-alert. .....
  • We Are Sitting Targets
    • by B Raman
      India continues to bleed at the hands of jehadi terrorists, indigenous as well as from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Not only has the indigenous component been on the rise, the religious dimension of the jehad has assumed predominance over the political, economic and other elements. .....
  • ULFA-HuJI combine may strike in Assam
    • by Syed Zarir Hussain
      The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) is planning to outsource terror by hiring foreign mercenaries or Islamist terrorists to carry out violent strikes in Assam ahead of Independence Day, says a top police official. .....
  • Cash-for-vote scam: Why was the sting operation foiled?
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      If ethics, morality, propriety and ordinary decencies are kept aside, the Trust vote victory last Tuesday evening was one of the most successful operations ever mounted by the Congress and its UPA allies, with a little help from intelligence agencies. In converting a 10 MP deficit into a 19-vote majority, the Manmohan Singh Government showed managerial skills of a high order. .....
  • The Deobandi Fatwa Against Terrorism Didn't Treat the Jihadi Root
    • by Walid Phares
      Many in the West and in other regions of the world were impressed by the issuing of a fatwa (Islamic theological edict) condemning Terrorism by one of the leading religious centers in the Muslim world, the Darool-Uloom Deoband in India. An Islamic seminary said to have 'inspired' the Taliban has, according to the said document denounced "terrorism" as against Islam, calling it an "unpardonable sin." .....
  • Time to question
    • by The Indian Express
      Terror is pathology. But so it seems, in India, is the government's response to terror. The one score and some serial bombs in Bangalore and Ahmedabad were met with cringe-inducing official harrumphs from Delhi that warnings had been given. It is time to ask what the Union government means when it says warnings were available. .....
  • Proper Hubli probe could have deterred blasts, say police
    • by The Indian Express
      Investigations into the blast in an empty Hubli courtroom in May this year could have been a deterrent to the recent serial blasts in Bangalore, feel experts. "Terrorism and blast-related cases need sustained investigations. Even if results are not forthcoming, the constant process of inquiry helps in many ways. .....
  • Terror module busted in Chennai, was planning attack around Aug 15
    • by The Indian Express
      Even as terror struck at soft targets across India for two successive days, the Q Branch wing of the Tamil Nadu police on Sunday claimed to have busted a terror module that was planning to orchestrate blasts in Chennai and a southern district. One person has been detained in connection with the case. .....
  • A day before blasts, trunk filled with explosives found near Bangalore
    • by Johnson T A
      A black trunk containing explosive materials and 32 live detonators, believed to have been planted by the perpetrators of the serial blasts in Bangalore, has been recovered on the Bangalore-Mysore highway nearly 60 km from Bangalore, providing more possible physical evidence for the July 25 explosions in the city. .....
  • 'Absent' Yemen students spell alarm in Goa
    • by Preetu Nair
      An institute teaching foreign students how to speak English shouldn't be a security concern. But, then again, schools teaching students how to fly planes weren't in the pre-9/11 era. The fact that there is an institute in Goa with 42 Yemenese students, all with poor attendance record, has security agencies alarmed in the wake of the consecutive serial blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. .....
  • 'Attempt to Indianise jihad'
    • by The Times of India
      Intelligence officials says that Tamil-Nadu based Al Umma, which was behind the 1998 Coimbatore blasts, also known to have a presence in Bangalore, shares the same ideology, purpose and motive like the SIMI. .....
  • A hard day's work for bomb squad hero
    • by Prashant Dayal
      The job offer came when his father, a cop himself, died with his boots on. That was in 1995 when Rakesh Yadav had barely entered the Gujarat police force. His family told him to reject the offer to join the bomb disposal squad. .....
  • Children bear the brunt of terror
    • by The Times of India
      Yash Vyas is nine and cannot comprehend what terrorism is. But, Yash now lies in hospital, critically ill, a victim of the gruesome terror attacks in the city on Saturday. And he is still unaware that his father died in the blast and his older brother, all of 12, is fighting with death. .....
  • Jihadis dump RDX for TNT blend
    • by The Times of India
      Recent terror attacks have marked a significant change in the modus operandi of jihadis where they have shelved the use of RDX and replaced it with locally available fertilisers and TNT, intended to mask Pakistan's signature on the explosives. .....
  • Surat too was on blast list
    • by The Times of India
      Saturday could easily have been much darker for Gujarat had terrorists managed to carry out their entire plan to wreak havoc in the state. A day after the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, the Surat police found two WagonRs, abandoned in different parts of the city, loaded with enough explosives and devices to make bombs double the number of those that went off on Saturday. .....
  • He went to give blood, lost his life
    • by Ashish Vashi
      He was among those who wanted to save the blast victims, but Paresh Panchal (38) didn't know that death was waiting for him at the Civil Hospital where he voluntarily went to donate blood. .....
  • Security fears worry Pakistani Hindus
    • by ExpressIndia.com
      The Hindu community in Pakistan has expressed concerns at the increase in incidents targeting the life and properties, including places of worship, of the Hindus in the Islamic nation. .....
  • Cong most communal as minorities have more rights
    • by Dina Nath Mishra
      The track record of Hindus in the country is exemplary as far as its secular history is concerned. Here, Dr Manmohan Singh is Prime Minister; his community is hardly two per cent of the total population. A Muslim gentleman, Hamid Ansari, is Vice-President. He, too, comes from a minority community which is 13.5 per cent of the population. .....
  • India: A weakening civilisation
    • by Francois Gautier
      Since time immemorial smaller nations without a strong soul, or which are on the decline, have copied -- - and often blindly aped -- the strong prevailing civilisations of that moment. In that manner, when Rome was at its peak satellite nations copied the Roman style of democracy, clothes, food, mannerisms .....
  • Incubus of Indian Mujahideen
    • by B S Raghavan
      There is no need for any fumbling guesswork as to who were behind the lethally orchestrated Bengaluru and Ahmedabad blasts that have taken place on successive days. The perpetrators, calling themselves the Indian Mujahideen, have declared a no-holds-barred war on the Indian State by brazenly sending e-mails to that effect to the security establishment and the media. .....
  • Which Singh was King?
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      Last Tuesday, the Lok Sabha was adjourned shortly after 4 pm when three BJP members made their dramatic charge that the UPA Government had used cash to break the Opposition. Around 5.30 pm, when it was still unclear how the rest of the proceedings would be conducted, a senior BJP leader got an unusual message from a senior Cabinet Minister. .....
  • Jaya slams Centre on Ram Setu
    • by Swati Das
      Experts on Ramayana denying the claim of the Centre that Lord Ram had destroyed the Setu, have stated that nowhere in Ramayana is such a thing mentioned .....
  • An Out-and-Out Sell Out
    • by Dr. Joginder Singh
      'Making hey while the sun shines' is an old saying. But in the present climate of raging corruption in the country, not only the powers-that-be make a lot of hey (or money) but are not hesitant to distribute a part of it, to stay out of trouble. .....
  • Assault on Faith
    • by Bharat Putra
      Jeevan's parents came to school seeking admission to him. The parents were seated on the chairs and the Headmaster started to fill up the application form. .....
  • Christian Children in India - III
    • by Joseph Gathia
      The goodwill and determination of poor Christians constitute limitless resources that cannot be suppressed by highhanded manners. They cannot be treated as slaves by following politics of a Church turned an empire. .....
  • Christian Children in India - II
    • by Joseph Gathia
      As per 2001 Census, there are 24 million Christians in India which is 2.3 per cent of the total population of 1.2 billion. Among the Christians, 16 million are Catholics and the rest belongs to other denominations. In eastern India, nearly 80% people of Nagaland and Mizoram are Christians. They belong to different tribes. .....
  • Christian Children in India - I
    • by Joseph Gathia
      The poor tribal Christian woman was crying. I could hear it on the phone. Reason: Her daughter did not get admission in any Christian school including the one run by Catholic Church. The only place she got admission was Saraswati Sisu Mandir, a kindergarten school run by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. .....
  • 30 hurt in Jammu violence
    • by Mumbai Mirror
      Violence flared up in Srinagar on Saturday as 30 people, including a dozen policemen, were injured as protesters demanding allotment of land in the Kashmir valley to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) pelted stones and threw arson. .....
  • Nephew uses D-link to scare rival cable operators
    • by Mateen Hafeez
      Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's nephew, Sajid Wagle, has been targeting cable operators in several areas of south Mumbai including, Mohammed Ali Road, Null Bazar and Dongri. .....
  • SIMI now Indian Mujahideen?
    • by Pradeep Thakur
      With the Indian Mujahideen claiming responsibility for the Ahmedabad blasts - its third "success" after the UP court blasts and the Jaipur mayhem - questions are being asked about its pedigree. .....
  • Group Claims India Blasts That Killed 45
    • by Matthew Rosenberg
      An obscure Islamic militant group warning of "the terror of Death" claimed responsibility for bombings that killed at least 45 people and authorities stepped up security Sunday after India's second series of blasts in two days. .....
  • BJP-ruled states incur wrath of terrorists
    • by The Times of India
      The deadly serial bomb blasts on consecutive days in Bangalore and Ahmedabad have shown that the terrorists are confident of striking at will. But what's the message they are trying to send? .....
  • Another step in ISI-sponsored Indianisation of jihad
    • by B Raman
      Thirty-eight innocent civilians are reported to have been killed and over 100 injured in 16 serial blasts which struck Ahmedabad on the evening of July 26. This is the third state ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party to be struck by jihadi terrorists, who have remained unidentified by the police and intelligence agencies so far. .....
  • Release the tape - Advani to Shri Somnath
    • by BJP.org
      Shri L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha) has written the following letter today to Shri Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, in connection with the whistle-blowing operation by three BJP MPs to expose the "Cash-for-Votes" scandal .....
  • Was PM asleep as terror struck?
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      There's something obnoxious about the anchors of 24x7 news channels, headquartered in Delhi, that makes you feel nauseated and infuriated at once. Apart from pretending to know all and being disdainful of those with a contrarian (and substantive) point of view, they also try to impose their tuppence worth of opinion and vacuous concern on viewers. .....
  • Bangalore blasts remind cops of failure in Hyderabad probe
    • by Sify.com
      The serial blasts in Bangalore may bring back to focus the probe into three bomb explosions that rocked the Andhra Pradesh capital last year killing over 50 people. The investigators into the terror acts are yet to make any breakthrough. .....
  • 'The blasts are a proclamation by terrorists'
    • by Sheela Bhatt
      One of India's highly experienced sleuths who is an expert on Pakistan, told rediff.com that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has strengthened its bases in Nepal and Bangladesh after General Kiyani took over as Army chief. .....
  • Terrorists waging a war against India, says Modi
    • by The Indian Express
      Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said there is one mastermind terrorist organization or nation triggering the blasts in different parts of the country. .....
  • Can Britain Survive Multiculturalism?
    • by Dale Hurd
      Britain's top judge says the nation should allow Islamic Sharia law. The head of the Church of England said something similar. .....
  • Third deadly strike by Indian Mujahideen
    • by Sify.com
      Little known terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, which claimed responsibility for the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, is behind the earlier serial bombings in Jaipur and in three towns of Uttar Pradesh and had even sent out prior warnings on all three occasions. .....
  • Respect Faith!
    • by News Today
      Government's counsel Fali Nariman while arguing the case has claimed that Bhagwan Rama himself, after defeating Ravana and rescuing Seetha, had destroyed the bridge constructed by the Vanara Sena, so that, no one could come from Lanka. .....
  • It's a privilege to give & take!
    • by T R Jawahar
      The MPs are quite a privileged lot. Ayes or nays, they have it good either way. And choosing the middle path of abstinence is even more rewarding, as some of them would have discovered on 22 July. The post of an MP, intended to be an office of service to the people, had long back morphed into an office of profit (CTC -- Cost to Country per MP per Year is Rs 32 lakh, by a conservative estimate); but now it is an office of fortune, thanks to newer opportunities. .....
  • VHP accuses UPA of insulting Hindus
    • by The Hindu
      Attacking the Centre for its recent affidavit filed in the Supreme Court saying Lord Ram himself destroyed the Ramsethu, VHP on Thursday accused the Congress-led UPA government of insulting the feelings of crores of Hindus. .....
  • Not in Ram's name
    • by The Pioneer
      Soon after winning the trust vote the UPA Government seems to be in a hurry to reward those who voted in its favour. Nothing else can explain the remarkable absurdity of the latest stand of the Government in the case of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project, at present before the Supreme Court, other than an attempt to please ally DMK. .....
  • Stinging issues
    • by News Today
      The Speaker of Lok Sabha was summarily dismissed by his party for going against its diktat. When Somnath Chatterjee celebrated his 80th birthday, in normal circumstances it would not have been reason enough for the visit of high profile politicians particularly from the UPA to his house. .....
  • Treat With Caution
    • by Ashok Ganguly
      It was certainly not diplomatic, but it was spot on. At the time it was said, it was felt that George Fernandes, India's defence minister in the National Democratic Alliance government, had committed a diplomatic faux pas. He had declared that China was India's biggest enemy. Considerable embarrassment and indignation followed. .....
  • Track every vote
    • by The Indian Express
      By every account, July 22 has been one of the most dramatic days in the 50-odd years of our Parliament. The tabling of bundles of cash on the floor of the Lok Sabha was so predictably unexpected that it simultaneously invited revulsion and suspicion. .....
  • A pyrrhic victory
    • by The Pioneer
      The Congress has reason to celebrate, as has the Prime Minister. Having accomplished the task of mustering a majority in Parliament after being reduced to a minority, the UPA Government can now continue to be in office. It has overcome the immediate threat of losing power following the Left's decision to withdraw support over the surreptitious manner in which the contentious India-US civilian nuclear cooperation agreement is being foisted on the nation. .....
  • BJP acts tough, expels 8 MPs
    • by The Times of India
      Speaking a day after the trust vote, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha L K Advani said that cross-votings and abstentions helped the UPA government win the trust vote in Lok Sabha. .....
  • Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh is Contribution in Solving Naga Problem
    • by Jagdamba Mall
      The revolutionary leaders of China dared western countries. They challenged the foreign rule. Finally, they attained independence. When the rule of China came into the hands of national revolutionary leaders, they paused for a while and over-hauled complete administrative set-up and evolved such a system which was best suited to them. .....
  • The Power Puff Girls
    • by Mini Pant Zachariah
      On July 1 this year, despite the heavy downpour, some girls from the Dharavi slum trudged to the Kishori Project, a Federation of Gynaecologists Society of India (FOGSI) initiative, to participate in a painting competition. The theme was close to their heart: Save the girl child. .....
  • Netherlands NGO, Kolkatta Prof set to face action
    • by Sanjeev Pargal
      Intelligence agencies were reported to have written to External Affairs Ministry seeking action against a Netherlands based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), a Kolkatta based female Professor, an Ahmedabad based Advocate and a host of "anti-India Indians" who have joined hands not only to carry out strong anti-India propaganda in Europe but were also found in raising funds for terror outfits operating in Kashmir. .....
  • Kidnapped Christian girls, judge ratifies marriage and conversion
    • by Qaiser Felix
      The district of Muzaffargarh rules in favour of the Muslims, rejecting the request from the family that wants to bring home the two sisters - 13 and 10 years old - kidnapped last June 26. Christian associations charge that they could end up as prostitutes. .....
  • Waari - millions walk for God, yet no stampede
    • by Vasundhara Sanger
      It's a vision that would melt the heart of the staunchest atheist. And it must be one of its kinds in the world; at one time, millions of people walk in Waari- a holy pilgrimage in Maharashtra. It's perhaps, the world's longest pilgrimage. Remarkable, in over 700 years of Waari tradition, no stampede or chaos has ever taken place. .....
  • Wisdom from Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
    • by News Today
      'Narada Gana Sabha' was jam-packed and overflowing on Sunday, with the religious elite of Chennai that had poured in to listen to Swami Dayananda Saraswathi's luminous eloquence on a subject of imperative importance: Do all religions have the same goal? .....
  • Satyarth Prakash not for banning
    • by Sandhya Jain
      As Delhi courts grapple with a petition seeking a ban on the publication and distribution of Arya Samaj founder Swami Dayanand Saraswati's magnum opus, Satyarth Prakash, it may be pertinent to recall Sri Aurobindo's tribute: "In the matter of Vedic interpretation I am convinced that whatever may be the final complete interpretation, Dayananda will be honoured as the first discoverer of the right clues. .....
  • Breaking the silence on Pakistan and terrorism
    • by Con Coughlin
      The biggest threat to the West is not al-Qa'eda, Afghanistan or Iran, but the country that, thanks to its laxity, has become the terrorists' chief hideout and breeding ground .....
  • Militants ready for a war without borders
    • by Syed Saleem Shahzad
      From thinly disguised insinuations against Pakistan following the suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul this month to outright accusations against Islamabad by the Afghan government over the unrelenting Taliban-led insurgency, the blame game has entered a critical time: a major regional battle could erupt in a matter of days. .....
  • Let them eat nuclear bijli
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      Addressing a large public rally - hordes still turn out to gawk at her, marvelling at her high-pitched English and stilted Hindi, pallu firmly in place a la Mrs Indira Gandhi, amma to millions south of the Vindhyas - in the boondocks of Nellore last week, Congress president Sonia Gandhi made a solemn promise to the unwashed masses of India. .....
  • East Pakistan: Even the Skies Weep
    • by Times
      In New Delhi last week, one member of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Cabinet was heard to remark: "War is inevitable." In Islamabad, President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan spent the better part of a 40-minute television speech railing against the Indians, whom he accused of "whipping up a war frenzy." .....
  • Leave national interest alonez
    • by Free Press Journal
      A few months before the Emergency, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi put the dreaded Maintenance of Internal Security Act in the statute book. She said that it was required in the national interest. .....
  • A world without joyA nation brutalized
    • by Irfan Husain
      Imagine a world without joy: a world in which music, dancing and art are prohibited; where women have been declared non-persons and banished from public view; and where games and sports of all kinds have been banned. .....
  • A nation brutalized
    • by M.V. Kamath
      Can't we for once behave like decent human beings respecting each other's rights and elementary needs? Kashmiri Muslims and their political parties must be ashamed of themselves, if, that is, they have any conscience. Recent events have shown that they have none. .....
  • Those days in Noakhali…
    • by Ashoka Gupta
      Ashoka Gupta, who passed away on July 8, 2008 at 95 years age, was engaged in intensive relief work in riot-scarred Noakhali in 1946. She and many others like Sucheta Kripalini, Renuka Roy and Sneharani Kanjilal took instructions from Mahatma Gandhi and tried their utmost to help the persecuted and ravaged minority community. .....
  • Yoga makes headway in business schools
    • by Andrea Castillo
      Walk through the halls of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business during the school year, and along with students cramming facts for macroeconomics and operating strategy you may encounter some students stretching their bodies and doing something really unusual for business school students: relaxing. .....
  • Aryan race did not exist, says Suryanath Kamath
    • by The Hindu
      "Indus Valley civilisation and Vedic civilisation are not two different civilisations but the former was only an urbanised version of the latter," historian Suryanath U. Kamath said here on Sunday. .....
  • Selling India Better Than Signing Nuclear Deal
    • by Saurav Basu
      So, Manmohan Singh has finally cast the die which has stumped both the NDA and the left. The Samajwadi party which in 1998 refused to support the congress coalition has proved the old adage that in politics there are no permanent friends and enemies. Dwindling electoral returns in UP has forced it to commit compromise and retain its identity in Indian politics. .....
  • CPM's high ground: My criminal MP more moral than your criminal MP
    • by Manoj C G
      Trust the Left to take the moral high ground and not let facts get in the way. A year ago, jailed RJD MPs Pappu Yadav and Mohammed Shahabuddin helped the UPA-Left nominee Pratibha Patil become the first woman President by casting their votes in a crunch situation. .....
  • Islamism shakes Kashmir
    • by Sreeram Chaulia
      After two decades of calm in large-scale popular movements, Indian-administered Kashmir recently witnessed mass demonstrations and protests against the state government's decision to transfer forest land to facilitate a Hindu pilgrimage. .....
  • Amarnath to Gangasagar: The same story of torture upon Hindu Pilgrims
    • by Upananda Brahmachari
      One Nationalist Party and some Hindu Organisations called Nation wide Hartal on 3rd July, 2008 upon the issue of denial of lands already assigned to the Amarnath Shrine Board By the J&K Government. Upon the issue the Hurriat Conference, PDP and some other 'anti Indian' - 'anti Hindu' force created an earlier violence in the society, even upon the guest pilgrims came to Kashmir for paying homage to the holy shrine of Amarnathji. .....
  • Naxal violence in Bihar
    • by Dr. Satish Kumar
      There is fresh spurt of violence in different districts of Bihar, especially Jehanabad and Gaya. A few top leaders of Naxal Outfits have been nabbed in the state which reveals shocking revelations. .....
  • On the Making of an Unbeliever
    • by Abul Kasem
      Quite Often I Receive E-Mails asking me why I have so much dislike for religion in general and Islam, my religion at birth, in particular. This question is not easy to answer. A person's religion is the most sacred, and to some, the most valuable asset one may claim to possess. .....
  • From jail to bailing out Dr Singh!
    • by T V R Shenoy
      The Honourable Member of Parliament from Phulpur, Ateeq Ahmad (Samajwadi Party), is in jail. He stands charged with the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal. .....
  • Congress Bureau of Illegitimacy
    • by B.R.Haran
      The Central Bureau of Investigation, shortly called as 'CBI', has become a subject of ridicule in India, mainly due to the blatant abuse of the prime investigation agency by the politicians of all hues. At the drop of a hat people have started demanding a CBI investigation for even open and shut cases, resulting in the agency becoming a big joke. .....
  • Militants used cell phones of VIPs in J&K: Source
    • by The Times of India
      Militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir are using cell phones of high-profile people, including a former MLA, who work as their overground workers, to communicate and receive orders from their Pakistan-based headquarters, intelligence agencies have said. .....
  • ISI more loyal to extremists than Pakistan Govt, says report
    • by The Indian Express
      The Bush administration has shored up President Pervez Musharraf "for far too long", an American daily on Friday said, underlining the need for the US to work with the ruling alliance in Islamabad "to regain control" over the Pakistan Army and the ISI that seem "far more loyal to the extremists than their own government". .....
  • Militants using official routes to sneak into J-K
    • by Arun Sharma
      The modus operandi of militants seems to have become official. Militant commanders across the border have started using Pakistan's official channels to push in men and money in Jammu and Kashmir. .....
  • SC fumes over NHRC's clemency prod
    • by Dhananjay Mahapatra
      The Supreme Court on Monday saw red over the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommending clemency to a condemned prisoner, whose appeal as well as review petition against death penalty in a murder case was turned down by it. .....
  • Hindus lost 26 lakh acres of land from 1965 to 2006 says study
    • by Organiser
      Extract from the memorandum submitted by Shri Rabindra Ghosh, president, Human Rights Commission for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), on Atrocities Against Minorities of Bangladesh and Investigative Reports-2008 to Shri Shivraj Patil, Home Minister, Government of India, on June 26, 2008. .....
  • Nepalese Communists Showing their True Colors
    • by Dr. Richard Benkin
      A friend recently mentioned that he had been "hearing about the Communist victory in Nepal on NPR [National Public Radio]." This network, funded by US taxpayers, reports news and commentary from a generally liberal or leftist stance; although it would be incorrect to dismiss NPR as worthless or any sort of hack journalism. .....
  • Another Bangladeshi Destination
    • by M. Amarjeet Singh
      Nagaland does not share a direct land border with Bangladesh, but illegal migrants are infiltrating into the state from Assam, with which Nagaland shares a nearly 500-kilometre-long land border. .....
  • Islamism in Valley
    • by The Pioneer
      While the Congress itself has downplayed it, the statement by the former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, whose actions while in office have set him apart from his self-seeking and Islam-pandering predecessors, that the violent agitation against the transfer of land -- for temporary shelters and facilities to be used by Hindu pilgrims visiting the Amaranth shrine -- was funded by Pakistani and Saudi Arabian sources, is actually fairly noteworthy. .....
  • 'There should be a limit to appeasement' (Interview with SK Sinha)
    • by Business Standard
      Q.: You are being accused of having set Jammu & Kashmir on fire again. We haven't heard your side of the story
      A.: Before responding to these allegations, I would like to state some bare facts about the Amarnath shrine board. It was set up in 2000 on the basis of the recommendations of a judicial commission that inquired into the death of 250 pilgrims in an avalanche in 1996. .....
  • Review Finds Slurs In '06 Saudi Texts
    • by Jerry Markon and Ben Hubbard
      A Saudi-funded academy in Fairfax County used textbooks as recently as 2006 that compared Jews and Christians to apes and pigs, told eighth-graders that these groups are "the enemies of the believers" and diagrammed for high school students where to cut off the hands and feet of thieves, a Washington Post review of the books has found. .....
  • 'CPM cadres' attack Cong families
    • by The Statesman
      In an act of political vengeance, nine Congress families were allegedly attacked by Marxist cadres in a village barely one kilometre from Bishnupur town just after midnight. .....
  • 'I am Sikkimese but my desh is India'
    • by Vaihayasi Pande Daniel
      Duba is a rosy-cheeked Sikkimese lad who lives and works at Tsongmo Lake, 20 kms from Nathu La, which is India's border with China. It is at 14,140 feet through the Himalayas in eastern Sikkim, from where Lhasa, the Tibetan capital is just 525 km away. .....
  • In Kashmir, no land for Hindus
    • by A Surya Prakash
      Giving in to Muslim communalists and protesters who indulged in violence across the Kashmir Valley, the Congress-led Government in Jammu & Kashmir hastily withdrew the allotment of 100 acres of land made to the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board to provide basic amenities to Hindu pilgrims along the Amarnath Yatra route. .....
  • Labourers by day, stars in secondary
    • by Rabi Banerjee
      Samrat Duley was in Class V when he disobeyed his father for the first time. He had been told to quit school. He didn't. .....
  • The Nakba, May 29, 1453
    • by Robert Spencer
      Today marks the anniversary of the real Nakba, or perhaps more precisely the ?????????? -- the Catastrophe: on this day in 1453, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II entered Constantinople, marking the end of the Eastern Roman Empire, more commonly known as the Byzantine Empire. .....
  • Excavations throw new light on Bengal's history
    • by Abhisek Roy Chowdhury
      There is a common belief among historians that the history of Bengal started from the period of Palas and Senas. But the recent excavations in South 24-Parganas have stirred up a new debate. The objects unearthed recently are dated prior to the Palas and Senas period. .....
  • UPA buying MPs, charges Bardhan
    • by Rediff.com
      With political parties bracing themselves for the trust vote, Communist Party of India general secretary A B Bardhan on Monday accused the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance of horse-trading and alleged that the going rate of a member of Parliament was Rs 25 crore. .....
  • Cartoon logic when extreme forces 'know best'
    • by Irish Independent
      In 1966, Robert Kennedy told an audience of 'a Chinese curse' that goes: "May you live in interesting (i.e. dangerous) times". He ruefully added: "Like it or not, we live in interesting times." Two years later he was gunned down. .....
  • Startling new light on jihadis
    • by B. S. Raghavan
      The passion with which academia and think-tanks in Western countries in recent years have been labouring to construct the profile of an average jihadi terrorist can only be called phenomenal. .....
  • Govt, migrants aiding each other: AASU
    • by Assam Tribune
      Lambasting the State government for its failure to drive out the illegal Bangladeshi migrants from the State boundaries even after three years of scrapping of the IM (DT) Act by the Supreme Court, the All Assam Students' Union today alleged that the Tarun Gogoi government, illegal Bangladeshis and fundamentalist forces are supporting one another's existence in Assam. .....
  • Karthik's India
    • by Tarun Vijay
      It's difficult to forget the picture of an 11-year-old Karthik leading the funeral procession of his father VV Rao, a young Indian Foreign Service officer who was killed in Kabul's fidayeen attack along with 40 others that included three Indians - Brig Mehta of the Indian army and Ajay Pathania and Roop Singh of the ITBP. What had Rao and the other 40 done to invite this sudden death? .....
  • Congress most communal as minorities have more rights
    • by Deenanath Mishra
      The track record of Hindus in the country is exemplary as far as its secular history is concerned. Here, Dr Manmohan Singh is Prime Minister; his community is hardly two per cent of the total population. A Muslim gentleman, Hamid Ansari, is Vice-President. .....
  • NSA confirms ISI role in Kabul attack
    • by The Times of India
      India on Saturday confirmed that Pakistan's infamous ISI had a definite role in the Kabul bomb attack on the Indian embassy. .....
  • Pakistan, Saudi Arabia bankrolled Amarnath agitation: Azad
    • by Yahoo News
      In his first public appearance in this border town, former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday accused Pakistan and Saudi Arabia of bankrolling the parties behind the violent agitation on the Amarnath land row. .....
  • Centre still silent on SC query on foreigner holding govt post
    • by Dhananjay Mahapatra
      More than a year ago, the Supreme Court had sought the Centre's response to a constitutional question-whether a person not born in India could be appointed to a public office-but the UPA government, given the query's natural link to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, is yet to put in its reply. .....
  • She began from scratch to fulfil her husband's dream
    • by Nitasha Natu
      Till July 11, 2006, Yogita Waghela believed that she and her husband Ashok had over come all hardships. The couple and their two school-going children had moved from a chawl to a posh highrise in Dahisar after Ashok's chartered accountancy firm expanded. But after Ashok's sudden death in the 7/11 train blasts, Yogita realised that she would have to start all over again, literally from scratch. .....
  • Gujarat emerges as 'exotic' fruit and vegetable stop
    • by The Economic Times
      The arid land of Gujarat is turning into a bowl of exotic fruit and vegetables. Taking a step aside from growing conventional crops like groundnut and cotton, a section of the farmers have opted to grow "premium" varieties to suit both the local and global pallets. .....
  • "Butcher of Pandits -Bitta Karate" released!
    • by Thekashmir.wordpress.com
      He was dreaded as the 'butcher of Pandits', and after 16 years of custody, Bitta Karatay, the dreaded militant of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is back to haunt migrant Kashmiri pandits once again. .....
  • Why India is the new target
    • by Saurabh Shukla with Danish Karokhel
      When India launched its woo Afghanistan campaign seven years ago after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, it knew that the road to Kabul would be perilous. .....
  • The M factor
    • by Farzand Ahmed and Shafi Rahman
      When in desperation, put on your skull cap. The nuclear deal hitherto debated away from its communal implications, has been gaining the good ol' Muslim angle. .....
  • Sell less to grow more
    • by Ambreesh Mishra
      In a world driven by cut-throat competition, what does one make of a publication that wants to sell less? That is the claim being made by Sameera, a Bhopal-based niche magazine. .....
  • Protecting Muslim 'wives'
    • by Neil Addison
      Sir - Both the Lord Chief Justice and the Archbishop of Canterbury have suggested that sharia courts could have a "complementary" role to Family Courts in cases such as divorce. .....
  • Revisiting Islam
    • by NS Rajaram
      Islam, we are constantly told, is a religion of peace and brotherhood. According to this view, terrorists taking innocent lives in its name are either ignorant of the true teachings of Islam or are driven to violence as a last resort because of injustices suffered at the hands of the victims -- Hindus, Jews and Christians. .....
  • Terror threat to Games: China shuts mosques
    • by Saibal Dasgupta
      Chinese authorities have replaced top police and security officials in the Muslim dominated Xinjiang province, which is the hotbed of separatism and political violence. They have also closed down 41 "illegal" places of worship. .....
  • For Hindus in America, it's an intentional choice
    • by Denise Ford-Mitchell
      With the exception of special observances, followers of Hinduism rarely worship together. Hindu worship -- or puja -- is primarily an individual activity rather than a communal service, says Midland resident Sambasiba R. Allada. .....
  • Flooring the nation
    • by News Today
      After the Prime Minister left for the G8 Summit enthused and emboldened by the inclination shown by the Samajwadi Party, the Left withdrew its support to the UPA government. .....
  • Bangla intelligence making rapid inroads into Bengal
    • by Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri
      Bangladesh's Director General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) has slowly started making its presence felt in West Bengal, with around 100 specially-trained DGFI spies operating in the state, trying to build a network. .....
  • Women vow to raise babies for 'jihad'
    • by The Indian Express
      About 2,000 Islamist women gathered at the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war, days after a suicide bomber killed 18 people after a similar rally. .....
  • And they showed there true colours
    • by Kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
      The land transfer to the SASB washed off the façade of goodness that the Kashmiri Muslims had worn on themselves over the years. It just showed that nothing has changed in the valley. They are what they were, bloodthirsty and communal zealots. Even after they had forced half a million Pandits out of the valley they could not even accept that 40 acres of land will be taken out for a pilgrimage. .....
  • Pakistan's proxy war
    • by Ashok Mehta
      For the country, and the Congress-led Government especially, it was a Black Monday: Its Government in Jammu & Kashmir fell; the Left withdrew its support; it lost a few legislators in Karnataka to the BJP; and horror of horrors, Pakistan formalised its proxy war against India in Afghanistan through a suicide attack targetting the Indian Embassy in Kabul. .....
  • Significance of the Amarnath yatra
    • by Jagmohan
      The controversy surrounding the Amarnath yatra is unwarranted. It is more a product of pride and prejudice than of any substantial issue. The forest land which had been allotted to the Amarnath shrine board was for a specific purpose - providing basic amenities and temporary shelter to the yatris in pre-fabricated structures. .....
  • "Embassy bomb has hallmarks of spy agency"
    • by The Pioneer
      The bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul has all the hallmarks of a particular Intelligence agency that has a record of attacks in Afghanistan, a Government spokesman said on Tuesday. .....
  • BJP lambasts UPA for illegal influx
    • by The Assam Tribune
      Strategising along expected lines, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to rake up the issues of Chinese intrusion into Arunachal Pradesh and illegal influx from Bangladesh and its devastating impact on the North-East, in a major way. .....
  • Amarnath pilgrims return with tales of terror
    • by NewKerala.com
      Even as the controversy over the allotment of land to Amarnath Shrine Board by the Jammu and Kashmir Government refuses to die, the pilgrims to the famous shrine have returned with tales of terror with the Jammu and Kashmir Police being a mute spectator. .....
  • Lord Amarnath Will Expose Hypocritic and Spineless Hindus
    • by Sadhu Prof. V. Rangarajan
      Amarnath Shrine, situated in the Himalayan ranges at a height of about 13,000 feet, is one of the oldest pilgrim centers of the Hindus. Its importance and antiquity were well known even by the twelfth century since Kalhana's Rajatarangini mentions it. .....
  • Gogoi dares ULFA chief to come out of ISI clutches
    • by K Anurag
      Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday called upon the fugitive commander in chief of the United Liberation Front of Asom Paresh Baruah to come out of the clutches of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence and other forces inimical to India and hold talks with the government of India instead of engineering killings of innocent people in Assam. .....
  • Feeling their homeland's pain
    • by Lobsang Sangay
      During the height of the recent protests in Tibet, a 49-year-old Tibetan American living in Massachusetts called his mother in Tibet. .....
  • Health woes? Nadi Shastra can help
    • by Shilpa Shet
      Sachin Joshi, an entrepreneur from Pune, was amazed that a mere probing of his pulse could indicate what he ate a few days ago. .....
  • Capitulation in J&K
    • by The Pioneer
      It would be erroneous to believe that the situation in Jammu & Kashmir, so severely disturbed this past week by separatists on the rampage and their political patrons of various shades, will become 'normal' now that Governor NN Vohra has 'returned' the land which had been leased to the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board. .....
  • Significance of the Amarnath yatra
    • by Jagmohan
      The controversy surrounding the Amarnath yatra is unwarranted. It is more a product of pride and prejudice than of any substantial issue. The forest land which had been allotted to the Amarnath shrine board was for a specific purpose - providing basic amenities and temporary shelter to the yatris in pre-fabricated structures. .....
  • PDP works hand in glove with terrorists: Ex-governor
    • by Rediff.com
      Lt Gen (retd) S K Sinha, till recently Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday launched a frontal attack on the state's main political parties, especially PDP and its patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, accusing him of being "hand in glove" with separatists and fundamentalists. .....
  • CPM waves 'we hate Bush' flag to woo Muslims in Bengal
    • by The Economic Times
      With its West Bengal unit finding to its dismay that it's difficult to court Muslim opinion, the CPM appears to have decided to use its opposition to the Indo-US deal for its Muslim outreach. This is a tested strategy as communalisation of the foreign policy had fetched the CPM liberal electoral dividends in Kerala. .....
  • Cancel revoked Amarnath transfer land order: BJP
    • by The Times of India
      Demanding that the Jammu and Kashmir government cancel the revoked order on land transfer to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), the BJP on Saturday asked Muslim organisations across the country to support the cause. .....
  • Secularism is mauled in Kashmir
    • by Free Press Journal
      How distorted is our theory and practice of secularism has yet again been revealed in Kashmir. Here an innocuous move to allot a temporary piece of land for the safety and convenience of tens of thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the country and abroad was seized upon by pro-Pakistani elements and their local agents and sympathizers to humiliate the entire majority community. .....
  • Azad breaks free
    • by The Pioneer
      In resigning on the floor of the Assembly even before voting could take place on a confidence motion, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, took the honourable route out of a morass not of his making. A decent man, Mr Azad has watched his Government collapse amid a fortnight's bizarre political drama. .....
  • Vedic farming practise for mangoes a hit
    • by Mumbai Mirror
      Four years ago, when a Lucknow-based horticulture institute floated the idea of homa-farming, cultivators in the mango belt of Kakori and Malihabad adopted it in droves. .....
  • Olympic flame reaches Lhasa but Tibetans are kept in dark
    • by Jane Macartney
      Armed troops patrol the streets of Lhasa and Tibetan monks and Buddhist pilgrims have virtually disappeared from the sacred prayer path that surrounds Tibet's holiest temple in the heart of the capital. There is no sign that China is ready yet to loosen the security clampdown imposed after Tibetans rioted in the streets more than three months ago. .....
  • Analysis: once Olympics are over there will be a settling of accounts
    • by Jane Macartney
      Where maroon-robed Tibetan monks would clap their hands and shout in spirited Buddhist debate daily, now only birdsong can be heard. Barely a dozen tourists a day visit Sera monastery on the edge of Lhasa and the monks are nowhere to be seen. Many are confined to their quarters. Some have even been arrested. .....
  • Shutting down the race debate
    • by Rod Liddle
      The left-wing "journalist" and professional agitator Marc Wadsworth has struck the first blow against the new mayor of London, Boris Johnson - and has done so on territory upon which Boris felt himself, perhaps rightly, to be vulnerable. .....
  • Arthur Rd Jail Row: Inmates Had Raised Anti-India Slogans
    • by Prafulla Marpakwar
      Nearly a week after around 40 inmates clashed with policemen posted at the Arthur Road jail over their transfer to other prisons, the jail authorities said the accused raised pro-Pakistan slogans before attacking them while being shifted. .....
  • SP's neo-Lohiaism: Self-interest supreme
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      Ram Manohar Lohia, guru of the socialist gharana, had a simple principle for his politics: Congress bad, everything else negotiable. Some 40 years after his death, Lohia's followers have splintered and anti-Congressism no longer has the same emotional pull. .....
  • CPM demotes Muslim MP for Umrah
    • by J. Gopikrishnan
      As per the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) brand of 'secularism', backing Muslims on the Amarnath shrine land transfer issue is the order of things. But when it comes to allowing a party MP from the same community to practice his religious beliefs, the knives are brought out against him. .....
  • PDP is playing in the hands of ISI: MS Bitta
    • by The Pioneer
      Terming the People's Democratic Party (PDP) "anti-national" Chairman of All India Anti-Terrorists Front (AIATF) on Saturday alleged that PDP has raked up the issue of land transfer to Amarnath Shrine Board on instructions from ISI. .....
  • Saluting Sam Bahadur
    • by Tarun Vijay
      Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw was the name of the hero India saluted. He died at the age of 94 at Wellington early last Friday. The only Indians who didn't mourn were the people in the UPA government. .....
  • Curfew in Jammu after violent protests: Valley celebrates
    • by Mohit Kandhari/Khursheed Wani
      The protests in Jammu took a violent turn on day two of the three-day-long bandh in which three BJP workers were critically injured in police firing in Muthi area. Embattled police force fired teargas shells and cane-charged demonstrators at several places in Jammu protesting against the rescinding of land transfer to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board before imposing curfew in parts of city to prevent assembly of large groups. .....
  • Nuclear deal anti-Muslim: Mayawati
    • by The Pioneer
      Giving a new twist to the ongoing impasse on nuclear deal, UP Chief Minister Mayawati termed the proposed deal as anti-Muslim, besides ruling out any possibility of the BSP forging a pre-poll alliance with the BJP. .....
  • Progress or regress?
    • by News Today
      In the farcical fight for quotas, the Christian and Muslim minorities, instigated by the vote-chasing politicians, sought a separate quota within the BC quota without any sensible thinking and analysis and finally got what they wanted from the Tamilnadu government. .....
  • Slighting Sam
    • by The Pioneer
      Adding insult to injury, the Government has now put forward the dubious claim that the Prime Minister, the Defence Minister and three services chiefs missed the funeral of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw because he did not figure in the warrant of precedence. Apparently the Field Marshal -- a five-star General rank that has its equivalents in the Navy and the Air Force -- does not figure in the warrant of precedence. .....
  • Unbelievable or deliberate?
    • by Karan Thapar
      It's incredible the Prime Minister and Defence Minister did not attend Field Marshal Manekshaw's funeral. Their presence wasn't simply a duty, it was an obligation. And there was nothing else that could have claimed greater priority. But I'm even more amazed the President didn't go. She is, after all, the Supreme Commander of the armed forces and Manekshaw was their greatest hero. Her absence is shocking. .....
  • Deceitful Pakistan
    • by The Pioneer
      New evidence has come to light on the terrorism front in Afghanistan. Deeply sensitive information has emerged that the Taliban insurgents are being aided by a section of Pakistani forces. Documents that are a part of the 'after-action' reports compiled by US officials following clashes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border have revealed that there is a direct involvement of Pakistan's Frontier Corps troops in attacks on the Afghan Army and coalition forces. .....
  • Major issues against the majority
    • by B R Haran
      The Jammu and Kashmir government, after deliberations in the Cabinet (PDP was also a part of it), decided to transfer 40 hectares of forest land along the pilgrimage path to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) to construct tenements, toilets and other conveniences for the benefit of the yatris. .....
  • Kidnapped by the Taliban, Sean Langan kept sane by dreaming of kissing his sons goodnight
    • by Barbara Davies
      For the moment, adrenaline is the only thing keeping Sean Langan going. A week ago, he was still in the hands of the Taliban, incarcerated in a tiny room in the tribal wilderness of the Pakistan mountains, unsure if he would be beheaded. 'I thought it would be a miracle if I got out of there alive,' says the award-winning war correspondent, who was freed last Sunday morning after three months in captivity. .....
  • An Ode to America
    • by Cornel Nistorescu
      Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs. .....
  • Menacing Maoism!
    • by News Today
      The Maoists have attacked a boat ferrying the 'Greyhound' squad of Andhra Pradesh-Orissa police yesterday, when they were getting back from an operational area in Malkangiri District of Orissa, in which 31 security personnel got killed. .....


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