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  • Kolkata girl to be sold off to Arab rescued
    • 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. .....
  • Kingpins used us, we were told little left in life to hope for, say Gujarat blasts accused
    • 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. .....
  • Advantage BJP, All Of A Sudden
    • 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. .....
  • In Exile At Home
    • 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. .....
  • 'We will contest elections in two years'
    • 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. .....
  • PM's terror stand comes back to haunt him
    • 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. .....
  • Abdul Jabbar had close ties with LeT: Police
    • 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. .....
  • Men in uniform: A salute from the nation
    • 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. .....
  • India, Jihad's Permanent Battleground
    • 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. .....
  • Let's get top Abhinav Bharat men, NCP team tells R R Patil
    • 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. .....
  • All signs of Al Qaeda inspired attack, says expert
    • 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. .....
  • It's time India got its act together
    • 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. .....
  • It Is A Jehadi War Against India
    • 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. .....
  • Westerners welcome harems
    • 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. .....
  • Antique temple chariot returns home after 20 years
    • 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. .....
  • UPA branding army as terror outfit: Modi
    • 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. .....
  • President's brother refused to undergo lie detector test: CBI
    • 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. .....
  • 'Nobody obeys Manmohan'
    • 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". .....
  • Orissa under Attack-III
    • 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." .....
  • Orissa under Attack-II
    • 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? .....
  • Orissa under Attack-I
    • 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. .....
  • Life As The Other
    • 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. .....
  • Believe in Yoga
    • 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. .....
  • ISKCON Secunderabad Thwarts Demolition Attempt
    • 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. .....
  • Creating 'Hindu terror' to dilute fight against Jihad
    • 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. .....
  • Did Britain Just Sell Tibet?
    • 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. .....
  • Sadhvi Pragya: political pawn
    • 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. .....
  • Hindu outfits to rally in Pragya's support in Delhi
    • 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". .....
  • Chinese 'gopi' collects 20,000 Krishna idols
    • 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. .....
  • 9 NDF activists held
    • 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. .....
  • Kerala terror man held in Andhra
    • 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. .....
  • Charity guilty of funding terror
    • 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. .....
  • Malaysian cancer survivors disappointed with yoga ban
    • 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. .....
  • An Election Year- Indian Media & Sleazy Pleasure Of Baiting Hinduism
    • 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". .....
  • Kerala 'Lashkar militant' arrested in Hyderabad
    • 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. .....
  • Sec 144 in Kandhamal, tribal leader detained
    • 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. .....
  • UAE police release Shakeel's brother
    • 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. .....
  • Muslim political leader under spotlight
    • 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. .....
  • Cong projects country as one of 'Hindu Terror': BJP
    • 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. .....
  • '1972 shaheed jawan is still languishing in Pak jail'
    • 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. .....
  • The Centre abdicates
    • 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. .....
  • Time to halt this farce
    • 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. .....
  • ATS suffers major setback
    • 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. .....
  • CBI denies VHP's Togadia funded Abhinav Bharat
    • 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. .....
  • Inept Govt invented 'Hindu terror': RSS
    • 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. .....
  • Need for narco-test of Congress' brain: BJP
    • 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'. .....
  • PM sleeps well as sadhvi is tortured
    • 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. .....
  • RSS rubbishes ATS 'plot'
    • 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. .....
  • What a bunch of fools!
    • 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. .....
  • 23 Deendar Anjuman members held guilty
    • 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. .....
  • Hindu outfits to rally in Pragya's support in Delhi
    • 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". .....
  • Sena worker files petition against ATS
    • 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. .....
  • Will probe Sadhvi charges: NSA
    • 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. .....
  • ATS finds no cluein Purohit laptop
    • 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. .....
  • 'My father not involved in plot to kill RSS leaders'
    • 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. .....
  • Lt Gen Sinha is nationalist: Azad
    • 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. .....
  • Sikh body slams Congress
    • 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". .....
  • Political vendetta to defame Hindus
    • 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. .....
  • Hindutva begets ultra-Hindutva
    • 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. .....
  • Full text of Advani's statement on Sadhvi Pragya and the Maharashtra ATS
    • 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. .....
  • The mask falls off
    • 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. .....
  • Family sings praise, touts his medals
    • 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". .....
  • Pain being a Dalit priest in Delhi Catholic Archdiocese
    • 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. .....
  • A Hindu Dreyfus Affair?
    • 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 .....
  • ATS runs out of ammo
    • 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. .....
  • ISKCON's initiative for poor children
    • 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. .....
  • A Good move by Guruvayur Devaswom
    • 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. .....
  • Sangh Parivar Warns bandh if Laxmanananda killer not arrested
    • 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. .....
  • 'The RSS Training Made Me A Better Officer. There Are Many More Like Me.'
    • 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. .....
  • A River's Sutra
    • 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. .....
  • Tribal brigade vs Red brigade
    • 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. .....
  • Sadhvi alleges physical, mental torture by cops
    • 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. .....
  • Former RSS Mandal Karyavahak stabbed to death by Marxist-Jihadi Terrorists
    • 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. .....
  • Why are Hindus angry?
    • 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. .....
  • Congress pressurising ATS probe: BJP
    • 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. .....
  • Support for Pragya swells
    • 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. .....
  • Sadhvi alleges torture in custody
    • 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. .....
  • Courage under fire
    • 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. .....
  • ATS charge backfires
    • 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 .....
  • ATS makes U-turn
    • 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. .....
  • Pulverizing pillars of State: Police, Army and Judiciary
    • 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. .....
  • Purohit did not filch RDX
    • 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. .....
  • Indo-Bangladesh border threatens India's security
    • 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. .....
  • Fatwa against Harivanshrai's Madhushala
    • 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". .....
  • Turn of Seasons
    • 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. .....
  • Kashmiris ignore poll boycott call, 55 pct turnout
    • 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. .....
  • Muslims mastermind all acts of terror, Hindu action a mere retaliation: Dhule cops on riot
    • 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." .....
  • ATS shooting in the dark?
    • 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. .....
  • Army debunks ATS claim that Purohit sourced RDX
    • 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. .....
  • BJP returns fire, says Cong behind many terror acts
    • 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. .....
  • VHP Demands Immediate Action By Supreme Court
    • 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. .....
  • Can we please nail the truth?
    • by Meenakshi Rao
      Something new has come up on the Indian spectrum - something called "Hindu terror." Besides sounding alien, it also sounds alarming. .....
  • Sangh Parivar reunites, backs Malegaon suspects
    • 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. .....
  • Who's the new Mogambo?
    • 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. .....
  • Politics of 'Hindu terror'
    • 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". .....
  • Vatican owes us an apology
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      His Majesty the king has ordered that there shall be no Brahmins in his land and that they should be banished." .....
  • Thousands attend Sangh rally in Orissa
    • 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. .....
  • VHP to launch campaign to protest Malegaon blast arrests
    • 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. .....
  • Catholic Nun, Hindu Swami and the politics of identity
    • 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. .....
  • SIMI camp: Kerala cops failed to take MP police help
    • 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. .....
  • Ramdev, Parivar rally against Centre on 'Hindu terror'
    • 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. .....
  • Saint Exportable
    • 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. .....
  • Hostel girls under siege
    • by Meghdeep Bhattacharyya
      Fourteen students of Loreto College and five Anglo-Indian families are under siege at their 38 Elliot Road home. .....
  • Spit and scoot
    • 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? .....
  • Rs 10 lakh help for Jamia suspects, announces Amar Singh
    • 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. .....
  • I was forced to leave India once again: Taslima
    • 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. .....
  • Emulate AP on quota: Ulema
    • 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. .....
  • Purohit being tortured, says father-in-law
    • 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. .....
  • Pakistan Is Big Test for Obama
    • 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." .....
  • From 'Haj' subsidy to'Bethlehem' subsidy!
    • 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. .....
  • Haj officials want 5-star facilities
    • 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. .....
  • Time to skim off the creamy layer
    • 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. .....
  • HUJI'S Political Incarnation Unmasks Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
    • 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. .....
  • More propaganda than intent
    • 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. .....
  • Online support pours in for 'idol' sadhvi
    • 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. .....
  • The invention of a Hindu terrorist, Hindu Terrorism
    • 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. .....
  • UPA framing Hindu leaders to win polls: BJP Prez
    • 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. .....
  • Mainstream Western Media Handle Islamism Superficially
    • 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. .....
  • Eternal Vigilance against Islam and its Useful Idiots
    • 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. .....
  • Law Commission moots establishing institutions to train 'Purohits'
    • 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. .....
  • Witch hunt
    • 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. .....
  • Why Obama is not an American Mayawati
    • 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. .....
  • One more arrested as terror hunt continues
    • 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'. .....
  • Blasphemous distortions
    • 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! .....
  • For clarity's sake
    • 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. .....
  • VHP threatens to launch agitation against Sadhvi's 'harassment'
    • 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. .....
  • Wagamon - The Epicentre of Terrorist Conspiracies
    • 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 .....
  • Lawyers for London Al Qaeda bomb plot gang cost taxpayer £5 million
    • 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. .....
  • Could be a frame-up
    • 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. .....
  • Press Release by Hindu Jagaran Sammukhya on Killing of Dhanu Pradhani
    • 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. .....
  • Inculturation: Fooling Hindus - Christian India is the Goal
    • 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. .....
  • The Indian Jihadi Net-International Terrorism Monitor
    • 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. .....
  • Malegaon: Adityanath dares Cong, ATS
    • 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. .....
  • Nomenclature terrorism
    • 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". .....
  • Competitive populism
    • 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. .....
  • UPA's sinister shenanigans
    • 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. .....
  • 'Sacred thread' that matters in the 'holy-Dravidian' land!
    • 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'. .....
  • Adeeb Khan is Cong-SP's RS candidate in UP
    • 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. .....
  • After Assam blasts, congratulations from Bangladesh to 'planner' in Agartala
    • 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. .....
  • Ramadoss forces 'reservation agenda' on AIIMS, eyes 95 posts
    • 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. .....
  • Malegaon Blast investigation: UPA's sinister shenanigans
    • 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. .....
  • I am waiting to be arrested: Bal Thackeray dares Kamat
    • 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. .....
  • Death in the Nunnery
    • 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. .....
  • Modi flays ATS for booking army officials in blast case
    • 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. .....
  • Women who took on the Taliban - and lost
    • 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 .....
  • Bali bombers executed in Indonesia
    • 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. .....
  • Speech by Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha
    • 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. .....
  • 'Muslims must not wear poppies'
    • by The Times of India
      Anjem Choudary, a hate preacher, has created a furore in the UK after he urged British Muslims not to wear poppies. .....
  • Elephanta and Banganga festivals back on song
    • 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. .....
  • SIMI activist found with Sir Geelani CDs: Police
    • 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. .....
  • Religious Conversion is a Serious Threat to Peace
    • 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." .....
  • Moulavi from Waynad- Ideological instructor of LeT in Kerala
    • 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. .....
  • Being 'Anti-Muslim'
    • 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'! .....
  • Are you scared of the Hindus, Comrade Brinda Karat?
    • 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. .....
  • Enough evidence to go for terror's jugular in Bangla
    • 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. .....
  • Hunt for top LeT recruiter continues
    • 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. .....
  • In city of tolerance, shadow of the Taliban
    • 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. .....
  • Barack Obama's Kashmir thesis!
    • 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. .....
  • Politics of Muslim disenchantment
    • 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. .....
  • Angry mob try to storm state secretariat in Assam
    • 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. .....
  • Pak-based outfits may have recruited more youth in Kerala, feel police
    • 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. .....
  • Notice out for two NRIs for helping IM
    • 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. .....
  • What is this all about saving souls?
    • 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. .....
  • The way to peace in Kandhamal
    • 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. .....
  • Education (not) for all
    • 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 .....
  • Pope gets Gandhi wrong
    • 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 .....
  • We will fight injustice against Hindus: Abhinav Bharat
    • 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. .....
  • Sangh Parivar closes ranks to tackle Sadhvi arrest fallout
    • 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. .....
  • Disturbing course
    • 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'. .....
  • A fresh look at conversion
    • 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. .....
  • Meghalaya pushes out 257 Bangla migrants
    • 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. .....
  • SMS drive against terror gathers steam
    • 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. .....
  • The trial of Sadhvi Pragya
    • 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. .....
  • Fire of discontent from Indus to Brahmaputra
    • 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. .....
  • Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur is a Patriot; not a Terrorist
    • 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. .....
  • Legal experts counter Shivraj's stand on rejecting GUJCOCA
    • 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. .....
  • When defence is linked to terror
    • 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. .....
  • Forensic tests on sadhvi Pragya draw a blank
    • 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. .....
  • HuJI hand suspected in blasts
    • 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. .....
  • Assam blasts were planned in Nepal
    • 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. .....
  • Malaysian edict against yoga to be announced
    • 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. .....
  • Licensed to make a killing
    • 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. .....
  • Indian minorities: Exterminatory zeal
    • 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. .....
  • Church now touts 'casuist' Gandhi!
    • 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. .....
  • Karachi, Kansas, and Kurukshetra
    • 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. .....
  • The Hindu Rate Of Wrath
    • 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! .....
  • Anti-Brahmanism: A Case Study to Indian Muslims
    • 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. .....
  • Kerala points north, makes terror arrest: There's a Valley link
    • 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. .....
  • Crocodile Tears for Kashmir
    • 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. .....
  • It's Hindu anger not terror
    • 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 .....
  • Fingers crossed in Virginia
    • 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. .....
  • Your sindhur is 3,000 years old
    • 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. .....
  • ISF-IM claims responsibility for Assam blasts
    • 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. .....
  • Tests on Sadhvi may prove blank
    • 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. .....
  • The Hindu Rate of Wrath
    • 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! .....
  • To Sir, with love
    • 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. .....
  • Bal Thackeray backs Malegaon blasts accused
    • 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. .....
  • No sympathy for terrorists, hang Afzal: Congress
    • 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. .....
  • Forensic tests on sadhvi Pragya draw a blank
    • 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. .....
  • A New Threat
    • 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). .....
  • School aim: All-rounder students
    • 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. .....
  • Sadhvi comes clean in brain mapping test
    • 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. .....
  • Terror tentacles grip God's own country
    • 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. .....
  • Threat of vigilantism
    • 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. .....
  • SIMI men at Pune ammo unit under watch
    • 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). .....
  • Village women bar cops with sticks and chappals
    • 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. .....
  • 'We're not into training terrorists'
    • 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. .....
  • Wave of hardline Islam spreads across Mideast
    • 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. .....
  • Atif took orders from Pakistan terror chief
    • 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. .....
  • Plantation Blues
    • 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. .....
  • Tripura CM asks Centre to take up issue of ISI presence in Bangladesh
    • 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. .....
  • Guwahati was on jehadi priority list for long: Police
    • 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. .....
  • Orissa Govt blames violence on Kandhas-Panas discord
    • 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". .....
  • Kerala points north, makes terror arrest: There's a Valley link
    • 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. .....


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