by Nitasha Natu
Seventeen-year-old Ria Das (name changed) thought she had seen the worst
when her father, a retired militaryman from Kolkata, started having an
affair with her friend, leaving her mother badly disturbed. .....
by D K Singh
Putting Terror at the centrestage in the last lap of the BJP's poll campaign
in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today accused
the Congress-led Government at the Centre of playing "votebank politics"
by maligning the image of the Army and demoralizing the security forces.
.....
by Kamaal Saiyed
A software professional, a computer graduate, a mechanical engineer, an
MNC data entry clerk, an air-conditioner mechanic - they are all in Surat
police custody for their alleged roles in the Ahmedabad Terror strikes
and the failed Surat bombs. Speaking to The Indian Express, these men
claimed they were "emotionally blackmailed", "brainwashed"
and "used" by the serial blasts kingpins. .....
by Swapan Dasgupta
In November 2003, shortly after the BJP was exultant over its triumphs
in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and, most surprisingly, Rajasthan, the-then
Deputy Prime Minister, LK Advani, admitted to me that he had unsuccessfully
pressed for the Lok Sabha election to be held simultaneously with the
five state assembly polls. .....
by Vijay Simha
Bullets Slay the flesh. Thoughts can erase a race. Sure, there were bullets
as the 1990s began with the separatist Kashmir movement. But there were
even more of the normal things, stuff that is not often associated with
menace. .....
by Tehelka
Q.: Why did you say that Sadhvi Pragya Thakur is innocent?
A.: I never said Pragya Thakur is innocent or guilty. Who am I to give
such a certificate? I've always said that when the matter is in court,
or under investigation, one must not pronounce anyone guilty or innocent.
.....
by The Times of India
Of all his formulations, the one that has returned most often to haunt
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the assertion that Pakistan too, like
India, was a victim of terrorism. The macabre irony embedded in the peculiar
hypenation plays itself out in a ghastly re-run with every terror strike.
.....
by The Pioneer
Abdul Jabbar alias Sattar (34) of Malappuram, arrested in Hyderabad on
Saturday in a joint operation by the special anti-terror squads of Kerala
Police and Andhra Pradesh Police, had close connections with Pakistan-based
dreaded terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, the police said. The Kerala Police's
special squad brought Jabbar to Edakkad police station, Kannur, on Monday
evening for thorough interrogation on transit remand from a Hyderabad
court. .....
by Sandhya Jain
Commando operations to free hostages and capture or kill the remaining
terrorists are still going on in Mumbai at the time of writing this piece,
hence it would be difficult to comment upon the terror attack with accuracy.
.....
by Srdja Trifkovic
Teams of heavily armed terrorists carried out seven coordinated attacks
in India's financial capital "Mumbai" (Bombay) on Wednesday
evening and early Thursday morning. Over 120 people were reported killed
by Friday morning and over 300 wounded, with the final toll likely to
rise once the ongoing hostage crisis is ended. .....
by The Indian Express
A delegation of ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders met Deputy
Chief Minister and Home Minister R R Patil today and demanded the
arrest of office-bearers of the Pune-based Abhinav Bharat (AB), some of
whose members have been nabbed for alleged involvement in the Malegaon
bomb blasts. .....
by Augustine Anthuvan
International terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna said the multiple assaults
on Mumbai late Wednesday are "watershed attacks". .....
by Aziz Haniffa
Professor Deepa Ollapally, whose new book The Politics of Extremism in
South Asia published by Cambridge University Press has just been released,
has said the scale and sophistication of the Mumbai terrorist attacks
leave one with the impression that it has all of the hallmarks of an Al
Qaeda inspired attack, probably well-financed by outside forces. .....
by Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi
(retired)
News reports and visuals of the terrorist assault on the commercial capital
of India on November 26, 2008, make it abundantly clear that detailed
reconnaissance and even a few dry runs with local guides must have preceded
this coordinated attack. .....
by Vishva Hindu Parishad
Condemning the gruesome Jehadi attack on India's Commercial Hub Mumbai
on 26th November, 2008, VHP International President Ashok ji Singhal and
General Secretary Dr Pravin Togadia said, "It is not just a one off
attack; but this is Jehadi war against India & Indians. .....
by IBNLive.com
The police are under siege in Lalgarh, the Maoist stronghold in West Bengal's
West Midnapore district. But it's not just the Maoists who are causing
them trouble. .....
by Daniel Pipes
A Scottish judge recently bent the law to benefit a polygamous household.
The case involved a Muslim male who drove 64 miles per hour in a 30 mph
zone - usually grounds for an automatic loss of one's driving license.
The defendant's lawyer explained his client's need to speed: "He
has one wife in Motherwell and another in Glasgow and sleeps with one
one night and stays with the other the next on an alternate basis. .....
by Sibte Husain Bukhari
The two-decade long wait of the people of Madhavpura for the lost chariot
belonging to Madhavrai Temple, finally ended on Friday. The chariot was
installed in its original place in the temple with great pomp. .....
by The Pioneer
Raising pitch on terrorism in poll-bound Delhi, BJP today accused the
Congress-led Government of "branding" the army as a "terrorist"
outfit in a veiled reference to the arrest of a serving army officer in
the Malegaon blasts case. .....
by The Times of India
The CBI has informed the Bombay High Court that G N Patil, brother of
President Pratibha Patil, and two others had refused to undergo a lie
detector test during the agency's probe in the three-year-old murder of
a Congress leader of Jalgaon in Maharashtra. .....
by New Indian Express
Attacking the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government
for throwing the country into "disarray", senior Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh Wednesday said that "nobody obeys
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh". .....
by Balbir K. Punj
"...Well funded, superbly networked, backed by the highest of the
land, seized up its moral supremacy, it has India as arc of its key targets".
Talking about the findings of its countrywide investigations, the Tehelka
report says "the conversion drive was more than just a numbers game;
it was an unabashed exercise." .....
by Balbir K. Punj
If missionary "preaching" could leave such deep scars for so
long a period on Gandhiji's psyche, an evolved soul, how do you expect
a common man to react to such a provocation? .....
by Balbir K. Punj
Kandhamal district has a population of 6.48 lakh as per 2001 census. Scheduled
Tribes constitute 51.96 per cent, Scheduled Caste-16.89 per cent. In religious
terms Christians are 18.20 per cent and Muslims 0.3 per cent of population.
.....
by Sagnik Chowdhury
One month after attacks on churches in different parts of Karnataka sparked
off angry protests, a group of about 60 people gather discreetly in a
large rented hall on the top floor of a commercial complex in the heart
of Mangalore on a Sunday morning. The sound of the group singing to the
beat of drums and a synthesizer is clearly audible from the road outside,
though the group itself has been taking great pains to maintain a low
profile. .....
by The Jakarta Post
Once again the venerable members of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI)
are engaged in things which need not be of concern. Instead of bringing
serenity, they are squandering their time and attention on issues that
serve only to unsettle a finely balanced society. .....
by Sahadeva Dasa
In a bid to turn the twin Indian cities of Secunderabad and Hyderabad
into a London or New York overnight, the Andhra Pradesh Government invoked
the Land Acquisition Act on ISKCON Secunderabad this November 5th. .....
by B R Haran
The latest 'spin' by the Anti Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra Police
that the Malegon accused have conspired to kill RSS leaders can be described
as a 'self-goal'. In its over-avaricious attempt, rather on the instructions
of its political masters, to paint the Hindu organisations as 'radical'
and 'warring', the ATS has discredited itself further. .....
by Robert Barnett
The financial crisis is going to do more than increase unemployment, bankruptcy
and homelessness. It is also likely to reshape international alignments,
sometimes in ways that we would not expect. .....
by Sandhya Jain
As terrorist charges against Sadhvi Pragya, Lt. Col. Purohit, and an endless
list of others become increasingly surreal, the possibility of their being
substantiated in a court of law also appears more remote. Rather than
struggle daily with new sub-plots, the Mumbai Anti Terror Squad (ATS)
would do well to release the accused and abort its nascent career as a
thriller-writer. .....
by Yahoo News
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Tuesday announced a 'huge agitation' here
Nov 26 against the "indiscriminate arrests" of Hindu religious
activists in the name of terrorism, saying it was meant "to fight
against the atrocities being done on the majority community". .....
by Sreya Basu
You could call Wen Kunrong, a 54-year-old Chinese woman, a devotee of
Hindu God Krishna, but she would rather be called his 'gopi' (consort).
She has collected nearly 20,000 idols of her favourite deity, not just
from across India but from different countries. .....
by The Pioneer
Amidst allegations that Islamist organisation NDF (National Development
Front) was involved in terror-related operations, the police on Friday
arrested nine activists of the outfit for conducting physical training
from Valanchery in the district. .....
by The Pioneer
The recently formed anti-terror squad of the Kerala Police, in a joint
operation with a special wing of the Andhra Pradesh Police, has arrested
Abdul Jabbar (34), said to be one of the top operatives of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
in Kerala, from Hyderabad. .....
by BBC News
A Muslim charity and five of its former leaders have been convicted of
funding the Palestinian militant group Hamas, designated a terrorist group
in the US. .....
by Thaindian News
Malaysian Muslims who have been fighting cancer with the help of yoga
are "disappointed and confused" over last week's move by the
National Fatwa Council to ban the ancient Indian fitness regime among
Malays. "There is a need for the Fatwa Council to explain their edict
properly so that Muslims who practise yoga, including cancer survivors,
are not made to feel guilty," said National Cancer Society of Malaysia's
advisor Zuraidah Atan. .....
by renjithmn.wordpress.com
Again an election year! Six assembly elections and the general election
are on the way. There are mountains of dirty linen the politicians and
media outfits in this country to wash on this occasion. Obviously pseudo
secularism is the proven and immediate weapon to harvest the votes of
so called "Minority". .....
by Shaju Philip & Sreenivas Janyala
In a major breakthrough, the Kerala Anti-Terror Squad has arrested a suspected
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant from his relative's place in Hyderabad's
Ismail Nagar. Abdul Jebbar, a native of Thirur in Malappuram district,
had escaped in two encounters with security forces in Kupwara in early
October. .....
by Debabrata Mohanty
The Kandhamal district administration on Monday imposed Section 144 in
Daringibadi area and detained Lambodar Kanhar, a leader of Kondh tribals
to dent his plans of holding a tribal rally there. The Kui tribals, who
form 52 per cent of Kandhamal's total population, were planning to hold
a small rally at Parampanga village of Daringibadi to protest against
the indiscriminate arrest of tribals by the CRPF. But, now the imposition
of Section 144 of CrPC will prevent congregation of 5 or more people at
a place. .....
by S Ahmed Ali
Underworld don Chhota Shakeel's younger brother Anwar Babu Shaikh, who
was detained by the Abu Dhabi police for allegedly possessing narcotics
and travelling on a fake passport last week, was released three days ago,
police sources here said. .....
by M P Prashanth
The probe into the terror network in Kerala is centering around a prominent
Muslim leader of a political party and his family. Sources said most of
the accused arrested so far in the case and the suspects have strong links
with the leader. Tadiyantavide Nazeer, the suspected mastermind behind
the whole episode, had contacted him many times after the killing of four
youths in Kashmir was brought to light. .....
by The Pioneer
The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of "projecting" India
as a "Hindu terror" country in the eyes of the world and said
making Melegaon blast case an election issue showed its "divide and
rule" strategy. .....
by The Indian Express
A 'martyred' jawan's family members had the surprise of their life, when
they knew that the armyman awarded Vir Chakra 'posthumously' is still
alive and languishing in a Pakistani jail. .....
by The Pioneer
The response of the UPA Government to the terrorism challenge continues
to be tediously pedantic and bureaucratic, rather than be driven by any
political dynamism. Addressing a conference of State police chiefs and
senior police officers this past weekend, both Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and Home Minister Shivraj Patil did little more than restate the
obvious and duck the hard issues by proposing new talking shops. .....
by Sandhya Jain
As terrorist charges against Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col SP Purohit, and an
endless list of others become increasingly surreal, the possibility of
their being substantiated in a court of law also appears more remote.
Rather than struggle daily with new sub-plots, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism
Squad would do well to release the accused and abort its nascent career
as a pulp fiction-writer. .....
by TN Raghunatha
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), investigating the Malegaon blast case,
found itself in a most embarrassing situation on Monday, as a special
court dealt a moral blow to it by denying it the custody of three key
accused in the case and Sadhvi Pragya once again exposed the ATS' highhandedness
in dealing with the accused. .....
by IBNLive.com
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has denied reports of Vishwa
Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Togadia was involved in funding Abhinav
Bharat, which is being investigated for its role in the Malegaon bomb
blast case. .....
by The Pioneer
Accusing the UPA Government of politicising terrorism, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS) on Sunday said that the Centre had coined terms like "Hindu
terrorism" to cover up its failure in combating terrorism. .....
by The Indian Express
Suspecting a political conspiracy behind the repeated narco-analysis tests
on Malegaon blasts accused and 'selective leaks' by Maharashtra ATS, the
BJP said there was a need for narco-analysis of the 'conspiratorial brain
of the Congress'. .....
by Kanchan Gupta
The so-called 'investigation' by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra
into the September 29 explosion at Malegaon, in which six Muslims were
killed, continues to take strange twists and turns. .....
by The Pioneer
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Saturday defended its senior leaders
Mohan Bhagwat and Indresh Kumar, whose names have reportedly cropped up
during the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) probe into the Malegaon bomb blast,
and accused the Government of misleading people to hide its failures.
.....
by Chandan Mitra
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: Perpetrator or victim? Will the Maharashtra
Anti-Terrorism Squad please make up its mind? Till some days back, we
were informed by "sources" in the ATS, colourfully played up
in sections of the media that the alleged Malegaon bombers' links led
right up to the top of the Sangh Parivar hierarchy. .....
by Madan Das
The investigations by the Anti Terrorist Squad of the Maharashtra Police
into the bomb blast at Malegaon in Maharashtra are mired in controversy
right from day one. In view of the claims by the investigating agency
that certain Hindu groups were involved in the blasts it was expected
that the case would be handled in a professional and thorough manner.
.....
by The Pioneer
A special court, hearing cases related to serial bomb blasts in churches
in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Goa in 2000, has convicted
23 people belonging to Deendar Channabasaveshwara Anjuman group. .....
by Yahoo News
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Tuesday announced a 'huge agitation' here
Nov 26 against the "indiscriminate arrests" of Hindu religious
activists in the name of terrorism, saying it was meant "to fight
against the atrocities being done on the majority community". .....
by Rahi Gaikwad
A Shiv Sena party worker, Shilpa Sanjay Deshmukh, filed a petition at
the Bombay High Court on Thursday demanding a judicial inquiry into the
alleged ill-treatment of the Malegaon blast suspect, Pragnya Singh Thakur.
The petition also demands that the case be transferred from the Maharashtra
Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to the State CID in Pune. .....
by The Pioneer
National Security Adviser (NSA) MK Narayanan on Friday assured leader
of Opposition LK Advani that the Government would inquire into the 'atrocities'
against Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur by the Mumbai ATS. .....
by TN Raghunatha
On a day when a Nashik court transferred the Malegaon blast case to the
Mumbai-based special Maharashtra Control for Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)
court, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) formally arrested Abhinav Bharat's
national coordinator Sudhakar Chaturvedi, whom a city court remanded to
ATS custody till December 3. Chaturvedi is the eleventh accused in Malegaon
blast case against whom the ATS has invoked MCOCA. .....
by Prasanna D Zore
Shivram Apte, son of Shyam Hari Apte, has strongly refuted allegations
that his father had given self-styled religious guru and Malegaon blast
accused Dayanand Pandey Rs 10 lakh to kill Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
General Secretary Mohan Bhagwat and RSS communications director Indraeesh,
as reported by a national daily on Friday. .....
by The Pioneer
A war of words has broken out between the Congress and the PDP over allegations
made against former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Lt Gen SK Sinha, according
to Times Now TV channel. .....
by Hindustan Times
A day after Rahul Gandhi termed the 1984 anti-sikh riots "wrong"
and advocated punishment to the guilty, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)
has launched a scathing attack on the Congress' "crocodile tears".
.....
by Deepak Kumar Rath
"Has any other politician found accused in criminal cases been put
through either narco or brain mapping," asked revered Swamiji in
a specially arranged press conference in the national capital. .....
by The Hindustan Times
Nothing is confirmed yet. But theory may have already turned into practice
if one goes by what an Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) probe into the Malegaon
blasts has stated: the members of an ultra-rightwing organisation, Abhinav
Bharat, were plotting to assassinate senior RSS leaders whom they thought
"were not doing enough for Hindutva". At the very onset, one
should be very careful of matching perceptions with facts. .....
by Bhagwat Swarup
The late Hansraj Gupta had once said about Pandit Premnath Dogra that
like Ajatshatru, he gave his every atom and every moment of his life to
the service of the society. .....
by Sheela Bhat
On the flight from Delhi to Raipur today, I read the full text of Sadhvi
Pragya's affidavit before the Nashik court. I cannot believe that such
barbaric treatment has been meted out to a spiritual person, that too,
a woman in a country that prides itself on its democracy and rule of law.
.....
by The Pioneer
There is now further evidence, if at all it is needed, to suggest that
the so-called investigation by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad into
the Malegaon explosion on September 29 is fast turning out to be a sinister
conspiracy. .....
by The Pioneer
Terming the ATS investigations "juvenile", the BJP on Wednesday
claimed that the "selective revelations" in the probe would
encourage pro-jehadi forces in Pakistan and may influence the ongoing
Indo-Pak talks. .....
by Expressindia.com
Pune, November 19 Family members and the lawyer of Lt Col Prasad Shirkant
Purohit have produced documents to show that the Army man was "instrumental
in killing several dreaded terrorists". .....
by R.L. Francis
The leaders of the Indian Church are being accused of not giving equal
status and opportunity to Dalits in the Catholic Church to this day. The
scheduled castes and tribals fought against religion, an unjust society,
and unequal economic distribution, and accepted Christianity, only to
later realize that in Christianity also there was/is no equal justice
and place for them. .....
by Ashok Malik
Has a rogue operation by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad ended up
undermining a Military Intelligence network and thus severely discomfited
the Army? The implications of the 'Hindu terror' fiasco could be far-reaching
.....
by TN Raghunatha
Shrikant Shivde, defence counsel for key Malegaon blast accused Lt Col
Prasad Purohit, on Wednesday alleged that by seeking custody in different
cases, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) was desperately trying to invoke
the provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against
his client. .....
by The New Indian Express Group
While parents of children studying in good private schools pack lunch
boxes according to their kids' choice, there are many others who can barely
afford daily provisions for their family, let alone the additional burden
of paying for their children's education. .....
by Haindavakeralam.com
The Guruvayur Devaswom has decided to initiate a proposal for a destitute
home at Guruvayur in the coming days, said Devaswom administrator V Ratheesan.
The land acquisition for the project has been cleared by the Guruvayur
Devaswom commissioner and the Devaswom Managing Committee is expected
to initiate the project soon. .....
by The Indian Express
Undeterred by the un-seasonal rains, Sarigh Parivar activists held a 'Sradhanjali'
rally here on Saturday demanding immediate arrest of the conspirators
and culprits behind the killing of VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda and threatened
to observe a statewide bandh on Christmas if the Government failed. .....
by Outlook
When Col Sabyasachi Bagchi (retd) was inducted in 1963 as an emergency
commission officer into the Jat regiment at the age of 23, he had already
been a member of the RSS for 10 years. Having served the army for 27 years,
he sought voluntary retirement in April 1990, went back to Calcutta and
joined the BJP a few years later. .....
by Debarshi Dasgupta
When the BJP-led NDA government launched a project to revive the ancient-some
say mythical-river Saraswati in 2002, it attracted much flak for wasting
public money in an attempt to rewrite history. But six years later the
Saraswati project has sprung back-this time with the blessings of the
Haryana government, now run by the Congress which was once critical of
it. .....
by The Statesman
Some members of a local club backed by CPI-M workers allegedly molested
a santhal woman and later cut her hair off Burdwan town today. .....
by Biswabrata Goswami
Thirty years have changed little in the tribal-dominated areas of Midnapore
West. Only this time, a section of tribals who are allegedly close to
the ultra-Left CPI-Maoists have come out on the streets, refusing to be
victimised any more. .....
by Mateen Hafeez
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, arrested in the Malegaon blast case, has filed
an affidavit in a Nashik court saying she was physically and verbally
abused and traumatised to the extent that she wanted to commit suicide.
She also demanded ATS officers, who questioned and allegedly beat her
in custody, be subjected to narco analysis and polygraph tests to establish
the truth. The ATS, however, has denied the allegations. .....
by The Pioneer
Sadhwi Pragyan Chandrapal Singh Thakur, Age 38 years, Occupation - Nil,
residing at 7, Ganga Sagar Apartment, Katodara Road, Surat, Gujarat State
do hereby state on solemn affirmation as under .....
by Haindava Keralam
One more swayamsevak sacrificed his life to the swords of CPM blood thirsty
thugs. Former RSS Mandal Karyavahak of Vengitangu Vinod (34) was brutally
stabbed to death by Marxist murder squad here at Vengidangu near Pavaratty
in Thrissur district. Incident was reported by 7 pm Tuesday night.CPM
thugs are hand in glove with Jihadi terrorists in the area. .....
by The Hindu
Accusing Congress of trying to pit "Hindu terrorism" against
"Islamic terrorism", the BJP on Tuesday warned rpt warned such
a move would push the country to brink of a civil war. .....
by Tarun Vijay
In Srinagar, a Muslim women's organization - the Dukhtaran-e-Millat -
vows to impose the strict Islamic code on women through violence and declares
that it is in the interests of women. The leader of this outfit, Asiyah
Andrabi, was jailed several times for working against the nation and for
being a conduit for money to jihadi groups who used that help to kill
Hindus and create disaffection among people against India. .....
by The Pioneer
Taking a critical view of "selective leaks" by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist
Squad probing the Malegaon blast in which some Hindu religious leaders
and an army official are suspects, BJP on Monday accused the Congress
Government in that State of "pressurising and directing" the
investigation. .....
by TN Raghunatha
Support for Sadhvi Pragya and other Hindu activists arrested in connection
with the Malegaon blasts swelled in Maharashtra on Monday, as a large
number of Shiv Sena and BJP activists staged a vociferous demonstration
in front of the Nashik court expressing their solidarity with them and
the Pune-based Hindu organisations, including Abhinav Bharat, began raising
funds from citizens for fighting their legal battle. .....
by TN Raghunatha
Maintaining that she was "totally innocent" of the charges made
against her in connection with the Malegaon blasts, Sadhvi Pragya on Monday
alleged that the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) officials had tortured her
and mentally harassed her to such an extent that she wanted to commit
suicide at one stage while she was in their "illegal" detention.
.....
by The Pioneer
The people of Chhattisgarh deserve to be saluted. Close to 60 per cent
of voters turned up in polling booths for the first phase of the State's
Assembly election, rejecting Maoist calls for a boycott. .....
by The Pioneer
The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Mumbai Police has virtually ended up with
egg on its face. After planting stories in those sections of the media
which are only too happy to publish and broadcast any cockamamie tale
that portrays Hindu spiritual leaders as ogres, denigrates Hindu society
and defames Hindu organisations, and claiming in a Nashik court that Lt
Col Srikant Prasad Purohit had used RDX stolen from the Army for the terrorist
attack on Samjhauta Express in February 2007 .....
by The Pioneer
Fresh questions have surfaced on the Malegaon blast probe with Mumbai
ATS failing to produce any new evidence before a local court at Nashik
on Monday even as it backtracked on its earlier stance that Lt Col Srikant
Prasad Purohit had used pilfered RDX to blow up Samjhauta Express in February
2007. .....
by Sandhya Jain
There is now little doubt that the bizarre Malegaon Hindu Conspiracy Case
is fast fizzling out, if ever it had any steam. This may be a relief for
the individuals caught in the dragnet of "Hindu Terror," but
it is no consolation for the Institutions of State diminished in this
contrived controversy - the Police, the Army, and the Judiciary. .....
by Deccan Chronicle
Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit, in the custody of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist
Squad in connection with the Malegaon blasts, did not obtain any RDX from
Jammu and Kashmir during his stint in the Military Intelligence, the Anti-Terror
Squad and sources in the Forensic Science Laboratory, Bengaluru, said.
.....
by Rupam Banerjee
The reports point out that with easy availability of arms, ammunition
and explosives from China via Myanmar and the unholy alliance of terrorists
are set to wreak havoc in India as evident from the recent blasts in North
India, Tripura and Assam. .....
by The Times of India
Harivanshrai Bachchan's magnum opus Madhushala, which made him an overnight
celebrity, has ruffled holy feathers here for "its potential for
promoting moral depravity and licentiousness in society, particularly
among youth". .....
by Tanvi Salkar
Till a couple of years ago, after the kharif season, Dhangarwadi would
turn into a ghost village. Its natives, a hundred-odd shepherd families,
would pack their belongings, tie them on to horses and disappear with
their goats into the nearby forests for the rest of the year. .....
by Expressindia.com
Braving freezing temperatures and ignoring separatists' boycott call,
Voters came out in large numbers in some towns with an average 55 per
cent turnout recorded in the first phase of the Assembly elections in
Jammu and Kashmir held amid unprecedented security. .....
by Sukanya Shetty
While the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad questions suspected radical
Hindus who it alleges masterminded the September 29 Malegaon blast, policemen
probing the October 5 riots in Dhule, while seeking remand of one of the
riot accused, have stated: "It is an established fact that Muslims
are the masterminds behind all terrorist activities across India."
.....
by The Pioneer
The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) seems to be on a wild-goose chase
as it seeks to establish the use of RDX explosives and the involvement
of so-called Hindu terror outfits in the Samjhauta Express explosions.
.....
by IBNLive.com
While the ATS may be declaring victory over alleged confessions of Lt
Col Purohit, the Indian Army insiders point out that the ATS version of
events has several holes. .....
by The Pioneer
Soon after the Congress accused the RSS of having links with SIMI, the
BJP returned fire, claiming the ruling party was behind many terror activities
and communal riots that took place in the country. .....
by Vishva Hindu Parishad
Today when 8 Hindus (Whom Mumbai ATS has been politically framing in various
blasts cases as accused) were presented before the Hon. Nasik court, one
of the accused- a retired senior Army man had to request the Hon. Court
to kindly help stop Human Rights Violation by ATS. .....
by Meenakshi Rao
Something new has come up on the Indian spectrum - something called "Hindu
terror." Besides sounding alien, it also sounds alarming. .....
by Ashok Bagriya
The entire Sangh Parivar, from its political party to its religious and
cultural wings, reunited at one place on Sunday in a show of solidarity
they last flaunted during the Ram Janambhoomi agitation 20 years ago.
.....
by Swapan Dasgupta
There are seasons when the media's perception of national priorities bear
little relation to the average middle-class (I cannot presume to speak
for the much-invoked aam aadmi) concerns. My own impression is that there
is one overriding preoccupation: The economic downturn and the threat
of recession. The insecurity fuelled by jihadi terror comes second. .....
by Chandan Mitra
Ab Tak Chhappan! The title of this Ram Gopal Varma film easily comes to
mind observing the manner in which the Maharashtra ATS is going about
picking up people all over India and slapping them into the cooler on
a daily basis, ostensibly in a bid to unearth dimensions of "Hindu
terror". .....
by Sampad Mahapatra
Despite a heavy downpour on Saturday morning, thousands of people from
across Orissa gathered in Bhubaneswar for a rally called by the Sangh
Parivar in honour of the slain VHP leader Swami Laxmananand Saraswati,
whose death had triggered communal violence in Kandhmal. Saraswati had
allegedly been shot by the Maoists. .....
by Hindustan Times
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Saturday said it would launch a campaign
to counter what it termed as the government's conspiracy against 'sadhus,
sadhvis and sena' (mendicants and military) and to express solidarity
with those arrested for the Malegaon blast. .....
by Saurav Basu
The rape of a Catholic Nun in Kandhmal by suspected Kandh tribals has
intensified the Congress-led UPA government"s fascist intention to
dismiss the popularly elected, two term chief minister Naveen Patnaik
heading the BJD-BJP coalition, hypocritically disowning their own legacy
of failure under Congress Chief Minister J B Patnaik when Graham Staines
was burnt to death by Dara Singh, a lone tribal ranger. .....
by The Pioneer
Amidst allegations about the lack of alertness of the Kerala Police in
follwing up on the cases relating to terrorist operations, the Madhya
Pradesh Police on Saturday said that the Kerala Police had not so far
contacted them even after they had arrested three SIMI leaders who had
participated in the training camp the extremists had held at Vagamon hill
resort in Idukki district in December last. .....
by Suman K Jha
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Sangh Parivar leaders like Ashok Singhal and
Sadhvi Ritambhara on Sunday made a strong pitch for "regime change
at the Centre when the country goes to elections in the coming months".
They, however, stopped short of endorsing the BJP. .....
by Sanal Edamaruku
Even in her wildest dreams, Annakutty from Bharananganam village near
Kottayam in Kerala may not have imagined that one fine day more than hundred
thousand people would throng her tiny village to honour her. Sixty-two
years after her death, this unknown village girl has suddenly become the
center of the world's attention - at least of the Roman Catholic part
of it. .....
by The Pioneer
Is the Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra Police a rogue organisation
whose personnel see themselves as accountable to none and above the law
of the land? Or is its brazen targeting of Hindu religious leaders and
shocking attempt to tar the Army's image part of a command performance?
.....
by The Times of India
The Samajwadi Party has announced that the party will give Rs1 million
(10 lakh) to the Jamia Millia Islamia students who were arrested on the
charge of being allegedly involved in Sep 13 blasts in Delhi. .....
by The Indian Express
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has again been 'forced' to leave
India after her brief stay India, prompting the controversial writer to
question the country's alleged secular credentials. .....
by The Times of India
The Jamiat Ulamae-Hind on Sunday said the UPA government had not yet fulfiled
its promised bill on communal riots. "The recent spate of communal
violence in Adilabad, Bhainsa (both in AP), Burhanpur (MP), Dhule, Malegaon
(both in Maharashtra), Orissa and Karnataka has further accentuated its
need. .....
by Rediff.com
Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit, arrested for his alleged involvement in
Malegaon blast, is being tortured in police custody, his father-in-law
alleged today. .....
by Gerald F. Seib
A senior American official was asked a few days ago whether there were
places where the global economic mess could aggravate security problems.
He answered without hesitation: "Pakistan." .....
by V. Sundaram
Make no mistake. Y Samuel Rajasekara Reddy is a known Seventh Day Adventist
Christian committed to the cause of evangelical destruction of Hinduism,
Hindu Society and Hindu Culture. He has been using the ever dying and
transitory power of his high office with low evangelical motives ever
since he assumed office as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh 4 years ago.
.....
by Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
The government has taken a serious note of the Central Haj Committee's
letter to the Indian consulate in Jeddah, seeking five-star accommodation
and separate facilities for its 100-member delegation, comprising officials
and their family members, during the pilgrimage. .....
by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The time has come to think about the creamy layer among Scheduled Castes
and Scheduled Tribes and their gradual exclusion from quota benefits,
said Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan, the first dalit judge to
occupy the highest post in the judiciary. .....
by Dr. Anand Kumar
The decision of the Bangladesh caretaker government to allow the most
notorious terror outfit of that country to register as a political party
has brought out a very different dimension of its character. The Fakharuddin
Ahmed led interim government has remained in power for nearly two years
claiming to be working for political reforms. .....
by Kumar Uttam
The Mumbai Police call themselves "custodians of your trust".
But its probe in this year's Malegaon blast belies the claim. The Anti-Terrorism
Squad's "investigation" into the Malegaon blasts has not only
raised more questions than it answers, but, increasingly, has also begun
to look like a witch-hunt that revives the memories of Jain Hawala scandal.
.....
by Mateen Hafeez
The ATS may have accused sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur of engineering the
Malegaon blast, but she has thousands of well-wishers on social networking
sites. These supporters justify her act in no uncertain terms. .....
by Saurav Basu
I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance
and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration,
but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation
which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and
all nations of the earth. .....
by IBNLive.com
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Wednesday accused
the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre
of framing Hindu leaders in the September 26 Malegaon blast case in an
attempt to win the upcoming Assembly polls. .....
by Dr. Sami Alrabaa
As I recently opened my email-inbox I saw an email under the subject:
"Wall Street Journal Question". I thought, "I don't know
anybody in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)". "Is it spam?"
But finally I decided to open the email. It was from Andrew Higgins, a
journalist with the WSJ. .....
by Denis Schulz
November 14 is Day of Respect Day in Holland. It's a kind of cultural
diversity thing got up by the Day of Respect Foundation, a leftwing group
subsidized by the Dutch government. On November 14, students in two thousand
Dutch schools were to be told that Geert Wilders was comparable to Adolph
Hitler and Wilder's film Fitna would be the worst thing to happen to the
Netherlands since the Nazis went 'klompen' across the land the Little
Dutch Boy saved from the North Sea. .....
by NewKerala.com
Kerala Law Reforms Commission Chairman Justice V R Krishna Iyer in a draft
bill for the 'Secular Norms for Administration of Places of Public Worship
Bill' mooted that the State Government should establish one or more institutions
for imparting training to candidates on Vedas and other teachings of Hindu
theology to qualify them as 'Purohithans' or priests. .....
by Daniel Golden
Joe Leigh Simpson, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston, is a church-going Presbyterian. .....
by S R Ramanujan
In all probability the wild goose chase that has been undertaken by the
Mumbai Police in the Malegaon blast case would continue till April next
year. More and more people would be interrogated, many more nacro tests
or truth serum tests would be conducted, re-conducted, never mind even
if nothing tangible comes out of it. After all, the purpose is to establish
that right wing extremism is no different from jihadi terrorism. .....
by Swapan Dasgupta
What's in a name, you may well ask. however, one of the most interesting
sidelights of the TV coverage of the US election results was the difference
between how the American and English-language Indian channels invoked
the name of the new President-elect. .....
by The Pioneer
The Kerala Police on Tuesday formally arrested yet another terror operative,
Muhammad Navas (30) of Rahmania House, Neerchal, Marakkarkandi, Kannur,
who, the police said, was a close associate of Nazeer, said to be the
head of recruitments to Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. Nazeer, who had gone underground
with the launch of the police hunt for him, also hailed from the same
place as Navas'. .....
by B R Haran
'On Friday 24 October, the devotees of the world famous 'Sri Kapalishwarar
Temple' Mylapore, Chennai were literally shocked when they were given
five booklets each containing defamatory write-ups about Hinduism, Vedas,
Vedic heritage, Hindu Shastras, Hindu culture & tradition, Sabarimala
Ayyappan and denigrating articles on Sage Thirumoolar, Nayanmars and others,
by a bunch of mean-minded Christian evangelists just in front of the Temple
entrance! .....
by Arif Mohammed Khan
The announcement by Jamiat Ulama-e- Hind to issue a new declaration against
terrorism signed by around 6,000 muftis at its conference at Hyderabad
is a welcome decision. Still more important and ambitious is its proposed
plan to redefine 'jihad' so as to enjoin the terrorists from hijacking
Islam by misquoting the Quran. .....
by Rediff.com
Accusing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government of conspiring
against Hindu religion, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Tuesday warned that
it would launch an agitation soon if the Maharashtra police did not stop
'harassing' Sadhvi Pragya. .....
by HaindavaKeralam.com
Arrested terrorist, Qayamudin Kapadia who is one of the key conspirators
in Ahmedabad blast admitted that he took part in the SIMI training camp
held at Wagamon in Kerala. Kapadia is arrested by MP Police yesterday
.....
by Shekhar Bhatia
Lawyers defending a terror gang cost the taxpayer £5 million in
legal aid, it was revealed today. Ringleader Dhiren Barot intended to
murder thousands by detonating bombs on the Heathrow Express, under the
Thames and in US buildings including the New York Stock Exchange. .....
by Anuradha Dutt
The main accused in the Malegaon blast case, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur,
is reported to have told her lawyer Ganesh Sovani that she has been framed.
Her allegation may well be true in the light of unfolding events. For,
the sudden emergence of 'Hindu terrorists' in the wake of the nationwide
outcry over serial bombings, orchestrated by jihadi groups in major cities,
is certainly suspicious. .....
by
"One Dhanu Pradhani (35 years) was killed on 5/11/2008 (Wednesday)
in Jhinjiriguda village under Brahmanigaon P.S. while working in Kumbharigaon
School by three militant Christians belonging to the same area. The incident
occurred at about 12.30 p.m. in the afternoon while other co-workers had
gone for mid-day food and Dhanu Pradhani, a mason by profession was about
to leave for the same purpose. .....
by Nithin Sridhar
In early 1982, Father Joseph Parekatil of the Catholic Church of Parasahi,
Madhya Pradesh, destroyed the sacred murthi of the Goddess Visweshwari
Siddheswari enshrined on the nearby Nawain Tekdi hill and erected a small
wooden cross. .....
by B. Raman
The number of fatalities in the serial explosions in Assam on the forenoon
of October 30,2008, has since gone up to 75, with the death of some of
the injured in the hospitals. Another about 300 persons are undergoing
treatment in the hospitals and some of them are stated to be in a serious
condition. .....
by Malaysia Sun
Malaysian Muslims will be barred from practising or propagating yoga from
next Friday when the National Fatwa Council will issue a ruling. .....
by Expressindia.com
Names of three senior state leaders did the rounds in Uttar Pradesh a
day after a Nashik court allowed the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad
(ATS) to question a "very very high profile" person from UP
in connection with the September 29 Malegaon blast probe. .....
by Rediff.com
Major General Afsir Karim, who retired from the Indian Army in 1989, now
edits Akrosh, a strategic affairs magazine that analysis internal disturbances,
conflicts and insurgencies in and around India. .....
by Haindavakeralam.com
The recent fuss about alleged "Hindu terrorists" has entertained
me hugely because all the usual suspects played their expected roles to
perfection. The pseudo-secular media had a field day insinuating that
Hindu terrorism is as major a problem in India as is Mohammedan and Christist
terrorism. The UPA forgot its axiom that "terrorism has no religion",
and joyously crowed about "Hindu terrorists". The BJP was apoplectic
in its attempts to distance itself from the alleged "Hindu terrorists".
.....
by Sandhya Jain
Reprehensible as the attacks on north Indians by hooligans owing allegiance
to Mr Raj Thackeray and his Maharashtra Navnirman Sena are, the response
of Bihar's politicians leaves much to be desired. There is no doubt that
the Congress-NCP Government in Maharashtra has miserably failed in fulfilling
its constitutional obligations by refusing to act against the hooligans
in a determined manner. .....
by Sandhya Jain
In a move fraught with danger to India's sovereignty and territorial integrity,
the Congress-dominated Central and Maharashtra governments have unleashed
a sinister plot to undermine the institutions of the police and the defence
forces. These two grids literally hold the nation together, particularly
in these troubled times when internal and external threats savage the
citizenry so remorselessly. .....
by B R Haran
'Why scared ash and sacred thread in this holy land where all religions
coexist in harmony?' asked the Tamilnadu Chief Minister Karunandhi through
one of his 'poems', which he writes everyday in his party organ 'Murasoli'.
.....
by The Times of India
In a surprise decision, the Congress has decided to team up with the Samajwadi
Party to support Mohammad Adeeb Khan's candidature for a Rajya Sabha berth
from Uttar Pradesh in the coming biennial elections to the Upper House.
.....
by Pranab Dhal Samanta
A congratulatory message from Bangladesh, intercepted a day after the
serial blasts in Assam, holds the key to the investigation into the bombings.
The intercept suggests the main planner was in Agartala and adds to evidence
against the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami, which New Delhi will soon take
up with Dhaka. .....
by Melanie Phillips
With all eyes fixed upon the political excitements in the U.S, few have
paid much attention to a trip made by the Prime Minister several thousand
miles in the opposite direction. .....
by The Pioneer
Nation's premier hospital of excellence, the All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS), has opened a floodgate of controversy by initiating
a special recruitment drive under SC, ST and OBC category that would cover
all the 95 posts lying vacant for the past five years. .....
by PTI News
The BJP today accused Congress of raising the bogey of 'Hindu terrorsim'
in the country to divert people's attention from the core issues of terrorism
and rising inflation. .....
by Sandhya Jain
In a move fraught with danger, the Congress-dominated Central and Maharashtra
Governments have unleashed a sinister plot to undermine the institutions
of the police and the defence forces. These two grids literally hold the
nation together, particularly in these troubled times when internal and
external threats savage the citizenry so remorselessly. .....
by The Times of India
Stating that Shiv Sena was ready to provide the best lawyers to defend
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, arrested in connection with Malegaon blast,
Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday ridiculed Congress MP Gurudas Kamat
who has demanded his arrest for backing her. .....
by KA Shaji
After three decades of service, Sister Jesmi decided to leave the Congregation
of the Mother of Carmel (CMC), an order of nuns under the Catholic Church
in Kerala. Citing mental harassment from her superiors as the reason,
she also took voluntary retirement from the principal's post she held
at St Mary's College in Thrissur, one of the state's best institutions
of higher education. .....
by The Economic Times
Defending the Indian Army in the Malegaon blast case, Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, on Saturday said the UPA government is dampening the morale
of the armed forces by suspecting them of terrorist activities. .....
by The Independent
Three years ago, Kim Sengupta interviewed five women who wanted to build
a new Afghanistan. Today, three are dead and a fourth has fled .....
by ChennaiOnline.com
In a proposal which could spark strong reactions, the Kerala Law Reforms
Commission has mooted a legislation to restrict polygamy among Muslims
and impose curbs to check misuse of divorce by 'talaq'. .....
by Reuters
Hundreds of hardline Muslims gathered under tight security for the funerals
of three Indonesian militants executed on Sunday for the 2002 Bali nightclub
bombings that killed 202 people. .....
by
I feel privileged to be invited to address this conference on two important
issues, with which I have a very long association. These are emoluments
of Army officers and the violence in Assam. .....
by Bella Jaisinghani
The state government on Thursday revoked its decision to close down the
Elephanta and Banganga festivals which are signature events on the state's
cultural calendar. However, three others, the Mumbai, Ellora and Kalidas
festivals may not be revived in a hurry. .....
by VR Jayaraj
The Kerala Police on Friday submitted in the Kerala High Court that it
had recovered DVDs featuring SAR Geelani, one of the accused in the Parliament
attack, case from the homes of some of the youth who had participated
in the SIMI camp at Panayikkulam near Aluva off Kochi, held on August
15, 2006. .....
by Deosaran
While driving to a meeting today I heard, on the radio, a Seven-Day Adventist
preacher proclaiming his right to convert Hindus - as if it was his duty
and obligation to convert Hindus as espoused in his Bible and by his religion.
He also said he was obligated to attack any religion if such religion
was against the principles of his Bible and the "teachings of the
Lord Jesus Christ." .....
by The Pioneer
The police held searches in the houses of the relatives of Ibrahim Moulvi
of Vellamunda, Wayanad, believed to be one of the top ideological instructors
of the LeT in Malabar region. The houses raided included Ibrahim's ancestral
home and his sister's house in Varampatta, Wayanad. .....
by U. Mahesh Prabhu
'I wonder why you write such a column replete with hate and vengeance'
alleged a protagonist, who calls himself as a 'secularist', on reading
my previous columns. But when I asked him to aid me in finding those words
of 'hate and vengeance' he wasted no time to enjoin 'I don't have time
for that'! .....
by Bandyopadhyay Arindam
Congratulations Mrs Brinda Karat. You are the first in history of mankind
to have dubbed the entire Hindu community as Fundamentalist. Brinda Karat
raises a storm in Rajya Sabha. Not even the Pope or the Imam had the insight
to think about it before. .....
by Anil Bhat
Seventy-seven was the latest of figures of those killed and over 300 were
injured after as many as 13 bomb went off with clockwork co-ordination
in crowded areas of four districts, including the capital of Assam, on
October 30, 2008. .....
by Daily News & Analysis (DNA)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday assured Muslims
that the Governmemnt would give them preference in police jobs. .....
by The Pioneer
The special anti-terror squad of the Kerala Police on Wednesday continued
its search for top LeT recruiter Nazeer of Neerchal, Kannur amidst reports
that he had left the State. The police were seeking the help of the Intelligence
officials of Karnataka following the suspicion that Nazeer could have
escaped to Bangalore. .....
by Salman Masood
This city has long been regarded as the cultural, intellectual and artistic
heart of Pakistan, famous for its poets and writers, its gardens and historic
sites left over from the Mughal Empire. .....
by C. Raja Mohan
As Obamamania grips much of the world, including India, the man who might
become the next President of the United States has ideas on Jammu and
Kashmir that should cause some concern to New Delhi. .....
by Zia Haq
In Delhi, a coalition of Muslim organisations called the Coordination
Committee of Indian Muslims (CCIM), formed to protest the Batla House
shootout on September 19, is now scrambling for political space, trying
to attract Muslim support from across the country and become a hub around
which parties opposed to both the BJP and the Congress can coalesce. .....
by The Hindu
Angered by the Tarun Gogoi government's alleged failure to protect the
citizens, people on Thursday attempted to storm into the state secretariat
with two of the charred bodies of serial blast victims in Guwahati even
as hundreds took to the streets in protest. .....
by The Pioneer
The anti-terror squad of the Kerala Police, heading the current crackdown
on extremist elements in the State, has learnt that more Pakistan-based
terror outfits than Lashkar-e-Taiba could have been recruiting young Keralites.
This information, which is yet to be confirmed, was gathered by the police
during the course of interrogation of the arrested terror operatives.
.....
by Presley Thomas
Mumbai Police's Crime Branch has issued lookout notice against two West
Asia-based NRIs for facilitating financial transactions to Riyaz Bhatkal,
cofounder of the Indian Mujahideen. .....
by The Indian Express
After a month's lull in violence ravaged Kandhamal, suspected Maoists
on Wednesday gunned down a local RSS leader sparking fresh tension in
the area. .....
by M.V. Kamath
This is silent invasion of India, invasion not by armies but by hard cash,
less obvious but more invidious and therefore worthy of condemnation.
God is sold like a piece of cake to the hungry multitude. This is not
saving souls. This is stealing stealthily, like thieves in the night and
thieves the evangelists are. .....
by Dr Indulata Das
In the recent past the Governor of Orissa Shri Murlidhar Chandrakanta
Bhandare, while addressing a meeting about the tension of Kandhamal, said
that the path of Mahatma Gandhi should be followed which will restore
peace in the area. .....
by JS Rajput
The Union Cabinet, at the fag end of the UPA Government's tenure, may
have approved the draft legislation to enshrine education as a fundamental
right in the Constitution. But this does not mean that things will change
in real life. The rot remains unaddressed .....
by The Asian Age
Deputy Chief Minister and member of the National Congress Party (NCP)
R.R. Patil on Friday said that his party's corporator from Dhule, Sabir
Shaikh is absconding. .....
by Sandeep B.
Benedict's interpretation of Gandhi's message of non-violence is false.
Gandhi's non-violence doesn't stand for a cowardly acceptance of injustice
and unprovoked violence. Gandhi viewed proselytisation as cultural invasion
and a hindrance to peace .....
by The Times of India
Abhinav Bharat (AB), a little known self-styled group, that has hit the
headlines following arrests of two of its activists including an ex-army
major, for alleged involvement in the Malegaon blasts, says it will fight
"injustice" against Hindus. .....
by The Hindu
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has questioned in the Supreme
Court the Centre's stand that Ramar Sethu is not an integral part of Hindu
religion. .....
by Mohua Chatterjee
Lashing out at "Sonia Gandhi's Congress" for trying to defame
the "Indian Army and Hindus", VHP leader Pravin Togadia on Tuesday
warned of a "Hindu backlash" at the same time clarifying that
it will be in a "democratic and political" form. .....
by News Today
It is more than three weeks since Sadvi Pragya has been arrested for allegedly
masterminding the Malegon blasts of September. Since then, the 'secular'
brigade including a section of the mainstream media has been going berserk
on 'Hindu terrorism' and 'saffron terrorism'. .....
by S Kamat
The conversion issue needs to be looked at from a different perspective.
This has been the hot topic of the day after the Kandhamal incidents and
the attacks on churches in neighbouring Karnataka. .....
by The Hindu
Overwhelmed by the presence of over 25,000 people at the recent Diwali
fest at the city's Trafalgar Square, new Mayor of London Boris Johnson
has assured henceforth Diwali would be a permanent annual feature at the
famous landmark. .....
by Tilak Rai
Ever since the Assam serial bomb blasts on October 30, as many as 257
illegal Bangladeshi migrants have been identified and pushed back to Assam
by the Meghalaya Police. .....
by Naresh Mitra
Away from newspaper headlines and the glare of cameras, a spontaneous
SMS campaign against infiltration and terror attacks is gathering momentum
in Guwahati. .....
by ExpressIndia.com
Nirav Rana, who announced the new Hindu outfit, the Vishwa Hindu Seva
Samiti (VHSS) in support of Sadhvi Pragya, here on Sunday, has turned
out to be major embarrassment for the Congress. .....
by Sandhya Jain
Sadhvi Pragya's prosecution fast resembles the farcical trial of Joseph
K, sentenced to nothingness in a tedious trial in which charges were not
even framed. .....
by Tarun Vijay
India is facing an extraordinary unrest and angst from the region of Indus
to the land of Brahmaputra. I am filing this column a bit late from Tsangtse,
on way to Chushul, where the famous battle of Rezangla took place in November
1962 under the leadership of Major Shaitan Singh. .....
by Indian-American Intellectuals Forum
We are deeply disturbed at the arrest and physical torture (as alleged
by Sadhvi's brother-in-law Bhagwan Jha) of Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur
alias Sadhvi Purnachetanand Giri who has been, allegedly, charged in the
Malegaon bomb-blast in the State of Maharashtra and is reportedly being
interrogated by the Anti Terrorist Squad in Mumbai. .....
by Vinay Sitapati
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil has said that the reason why the UPA
Cabinet has withheld permission to GUJCOCA is that the proposed state
law has the same draconian provisions as those of POTA, which the Union
Cabinet had repealed. His statement came during a recent 'Idea Exchange'
session with The Indian Express. .....
by Chandan Haygunde
Retired army officers being questioned by investigative agencies for their
alleged links with the Malegaon blasts has not come as a surprise to Col
Jayant Chitale (retd), the man who once started a commando academy to
form suicide squads for carrying out attacks in Pakistan. .....
by The Times of India
The two forensic tests-psychological profiling and polygraph tests-carried
out on sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, key accused in the Malegaon blast case,
on Saturday has failed to yield any fresh information. .....
by Mark Townsend
The security services have intercepted up to 100 suspects posing as postgraduate
students who aim to acquire weapons material and expertise .....
by The Hindu
Army sources in the eastern sector suspect the involvement in Thursday's
serial blasts in Assam of activists belonging to an "Islamic jehadi"
outfit that might have tied up with local militant groups. This view is
apparently shared by agencies investigating the explosions. .....
by Rakesh K Singh
The Assam serial bomb blasts which rocked the State on Thursday were planned
at a three-day 'terror" conclave held at Dhulikhel, 30 km north of
Kathmandu, between October 15 and October 17. .....
by HaindavaKeralam.com
Veteran Communist party leader from Tripura resigned from the party accusing
the party leadership of promoting caste based discrimination, Lack of
inner party democracy and autocracy. .....
by DNA (Daily News & Analysis)
Malaysian Muslims will be barred from practising or propagating yoga from
Friday when the National Fatwa Council will issue a ruling, a senior government
official said. .....
by The Times of India
A staggering 174 terrorist, insurgent and extremist groups, many of them
little known, are operating across India, figures compiled by a terror
watch portal show. .....
by Business Standard
Even if Communications Minister A Raja is not willing to concede that
he handed over scarce spectrum (used for mobile communications) to a few
select firms for a virtual song, the evidence is now mounting. .....
by Juhan Samuel
Believe it or not, a temple devoted to Lord Shiva in Mazhuvanchery Village
near Kechery in Kerala's Thrissur District, has a unique convention to
dispense knowledge. .....
by Sandhya Jain
Muslim leaders would do well not to push the Hindu community beyond endurance.
Hindus are willing to view jehad as an issue that can be settled by sound
police work focussed against terrorist cells, and not view the Muslim
community as a whole as villains on a murderous spree. .....
by Kanchan Gupta
Jomo Kenyatta had a sharp tongue and a sharper mind, both of which he
used to devastating effect while lashing out at the 'civilising' West.
The White man's fictional burden of taming the savage East and enlightening
the 'dark continent' was no more than a convenient cover to hide his role
as the master of the subjugated races. .....
by Sandhya Jain
Whether or not she deserved the sudden infamy thrust upon her, there is
no doubt that the hitherto unknown Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has split
the BJP into those who seek validation from Karachi and Kansas, and those
who seek legitimacy at Kurukshetra. .....
by Francois Gautier
Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya
Singh Thakur for the recent Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I
guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed
of foreign correspondents-a lover of Hindus! .....
by U. Mahesh Prabhu
The Great Uprising of 1857 unnerved the British, though for a while. Within
two or three years of quelling it, and with great ferocity, they set to
work putting together a version of the incident that would suit their
ends. .....
by Shaju Philip
Almost a fortnight after a suspected militant from Kerala was killed by
security agencies in North Kashmir, the state police today arrested Abdul
Jaleel, 38, a resident of Kannur. Jaleel, an activist of Kerala-based
right wing Muslim outfit National Development Front (NDF), is alleged
to have had close links with the suspected militant. .....
by Admiral Arun Prakash [Retd]
Recently, millions of Indians watched in anguish television footage of
Jammu and Srinagar burning, even as India's Neros continued to fiddle.
As they traded charges and counter-charges, our unscrupulous and short-sighted
politicians concentrated on scoring electoral points, and achieved what
they do best - arousing the worst kind of passions for short-term gains
with elections in sight. .....
by Rakesh Sinha
Much ado over Sadhvi Pragya's tenuous links with the Sangh Parivaar glosses
over Hindu victimhood and offers left-handed justification for global
jihad in India .....
by Nikhila Natarajan
Lakshmi," the pastor said in his gospel tone, "if you were saved,
you would understand what we're talking about." Lakshmi gave her
husband a hard look and left the room. .....
by Kumar Chellappan
Sindhur, the uniq ue marking on the foreheads of Indian women, dates back
to the third millennium BC. Even during the early days of civilisation
women used to wear the sindhur or tilak on their foreheads, excavations
along the now defunct Saraswati river have proved. .....
by Rediff.com
Little-known Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujahideen on Friday claimed
responsibility for the serial blasts that killed 77 people in Assam and
warned of more such attacks. .....
by Vaidehi Sachin
There is a chance that the extensive efforts of the Mumbai Anti Terrorist
Squad (ATS) may amount to nought. If sources are to be believed, the tests
have drawn a blank. .....
by Francois Gautier
Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya
Singh Thakur for the recent Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I
guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed
of foreign correspondents-a lover of Hindus! .....
by Mahalingam Ponnusamy
When old schoolmates meet at an alumni meeting, they end up comparing
their worth. But when the batch of 1977 of the Jawahar Higher Secondary
School (JHSS), managed by the Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Tamil Nadu,
formed a Yahoo group called Jawahar World Wide (JWW), to meet and chat
online, something different happened-they ended up forming a philanthropic
group. .....
by The Economic Times
Coming out in support of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and other Malegaon blasts
accused, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray today lashed out at pro-Hindutva
elements for "disowning" them and asked the legal community
to come forward to defend the trio. .....
by Suchandana Gupta
In an apparent bid to counter the BJP's campaign over Parliament attack
convict Afzal Guru's hanging, the Congress on Sunday clarified its position
on the issue, and said it has no sympathy for terrorists. .....
by The Times of India
The two forensic tests-psychological profiling and polygraph tests-carried
out on sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, key accused in the Malegaon blast case,
on Saturday has failed to yield any fresh information. .....
by Samudra Gupta Kashyap
Islamic militant groups, including several Muslim fundamentalist organisations
(MFOs in security parlance), are fast emerging as a bigger security threat
in Assam, with officials beginning to regard them as bigger threats than
the 30-year-old United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). .....
by The Times of India
Taking a sharp turn from its tough stand against "all terrorism",
the BJP seems to be resisting calling Hindu radicals arrested in connection
with the Malegaon blasts "terrorists". .....
by Vaibhav Ganjapure
The disclosures by some of the accused in the Malegaon blasts case has
linked Bhonsala Military School with Hindu extremism. Apparently the accused
were trained by former armymen having links with the school. Its premises
were also used by Bajrang Dal for holding camps attended by some of the
suspects and the plot of the blasts was allegedly hatched in meetings
held in the school premises. .....
by Mateen Hafeez
A brain mapping test conducted on sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused
in the September 29 Malegaon blast, at the state forensic lab showed that
she was not lying during the forensic tests, said sources. The police
are now planning to subject her to another round of forensic tests. Thakur
had been subjected to a narco analysis test at the Nagpada police hospital
earlier this week but the results are not known. .....
by Ananthakrishnan G
Kerala's best kept secret is finally out: the fertile lands of 'God's
own country' have been churning out terrorists to fight and die for the
'jihad' in J&K. .....
by Swapan Dasgupta
In the sixth series of the gripping BBC tele-serial Spooks, the MI5 is
confronted by two contrasting adversaries: an Iran hell-bent on becoming
a nuclear weapons state; and the covert organisation, Yalta, that seeks
to restore global multi-polarity by bringing the US several notches down.
.....
by Manoj More
Days after one of its employees was caught selling bullets smuggled out
of the heavily-guarded Ammunition Factory, Khadki (AFK), it has now come
to light that the nation's premier arms production unit has not only been
battling regular thefts, but also tracking the movements of four employees
suspected to be associated with the banned Students Islamic Movement of
India (SIMI). .....
by Kranti Vibhute
Angry with the police for picking up their kids, all the women from Nawandhe
village, located between Karjat and Khopoli, got together on Thursday
night and stopped the police from entering their village with sticks and
chappals. The Karjat police had gone there to pick up some boys for questioning
in the murder of UP migrant Dharmdev Rai on a CST-bound local train. .....
by Vaibhav Ganjapure
The Bhonsala Military School, which claims to shape bodies and minds for
the Indian Army, admits it is managed by administrators from the saffron
fold but says that shouldn't taint it with a terror tag. .....
by The Times of India
The Muslim call to prayer fills the halls of a Cairo computer shopping
centre, followed immediately by the click of locking doors as the young,
bearded tech salesmen close up shop and line up in rows to pray together.
.....
by The Times of India
The Delhi police team which questioned techie Mohammad Sadiq Sheikh in
Mumbai last week has learnt that Mohammad Atif Ameen, described as the
man behind the September 13 serial blasts in the capital, had met Pakistan-based
terror sponsor Amir Raza Khan and then interacted with him over the internet,
taking orders from him directly. .....
by Srawan Shukla
Chronically Parched Bundelkhand, drought-dry for nearly half a decade,
could have done with some hope this year, particularly after a surprise
season of record rain. And hope indeed seemed on the way when the Mayawati
government announced an ambitious project that aimed to see a hundred
million saplings planted in two months across the region's seven - Jhansi,
Jalaun, Banda, Lalitpur, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur and Mahoba - to balance
an ecology dominated by dry, deciduous forests. .....
by Suman K Jha
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said that the Centre must take
up the issue of ISI presence in Bangladesh and their attempts to use the
Bangladeshi soil for anti-India activities. "Who doesn't know that
the ISI is very active in Bangladesh? The Bangla-deshi soil must not be
used for anti-India activities. .....
by Samudra Gupta Kashyap
As a series of explosions rocked Assam on Thursday, the Assam police pointed
the finger of suspicion at jehadi groups, with Special Branch IGP Khagen
Sharma saying there were intelligence reports that Guwahati always figured
on the 'priority list' of these groups. .....
by Tannu Sharma
Almost two months into the continuing spate of violence in Kandhamal,
the Orissa Government on Monday submitted before the Supreme Court that
the genesis of the violence lay in the "age-old ethnic divide and
discord between the Kandhas (a Scheduled Tribe) and Panas (a Scheduled
Caste) in the state". .....
by Shaju Philip
Abdul Jaleel, who was arrested by the Kerala Police on Sunday for his
alleged links with militants in Kashmir, had been involved in "remote-controlling"
a mysterious mission in Kerala, claimed state intelligence sources. .....
by Shaju Philip
Almost a fortnight after a suspected militant from Kerala was killed by
security agencies in North Kashmir, the state police today arrested Abdul
Jaleel, 38, a resident of Kannur. Jaleel, an activist of Kerala-based
right wing Muslim outfit National Development Front (NDF), is alleged
to have had close links with the suspected militant. .....
