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August Month Articles
- The Hockey Stick Man
- by Outlook
Ramrao Patil's empire included garbage collection and disposal contracts,
real estate development and vehicle distribution agencies all across Maharashtra.
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- A Carrion Crow
- by Smruti Koppikar
"Hang him, he has cheated the poorest of the poor," screams
an agitated Sanjay Thoke, taking a moment from work at the garbage dump
in Saptshringi, Nashik. ....
- The Rice Diaries
- by Saikat Datta
PSUs are being made the scapegoats, but the rice scam went beyond their
ambit ....
- A Home-grown Conflict
- by Malik Siraj Akbar
When the first Baloch insurgency broke out in 1948 to resist the illegal
and forceful annexation of the Baloch- populated autonomous Kalat state
with Pakistan, Manmohan Singh - today Indian prime minister ....
- With Pak, it's better to
'verify, then trust'
- by Shankar Roychowdhury
Even as the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan were meeting at Sharm
el-Sheikh on July 16, Pakistan opened another front in its proxy war with
a sustained economic offensive on India's financial and commercial infrastructure,
with large volumes of high-quality forged currency infiltrated into the
Indian market through armies of couriers. ....
- China will be one of our
primary challenges: Navy Chief
- by The Hindu
The Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, on Monday underscored
the primacy of challenges posed by China as India draw its national security
plans to keep pace with its rise to global prominence. ....
- 207 tribals seek to reconvert
to Hinduism
- by MR Venkatesh
One may call it 'reverse Sanskritization'. As many as 207 members comprising
54 families of the 'Paliyar' hill tribe community tucked away in Tamil
Nadu's famous Kodaikanal hill-station tract, about 450 km south of Chennai,
who are Christians, have sought to come back to the Hindu-fold to help
regain the reservation and other benefits that Scheduled Tribes (ST) are
entitled to. ....
- ATS Reforms 15 trained
terrorists
- by Deeptiman Tiwary
The youths were part of two groups - one from Kandivli that had been indoctrinated
and was waiting to go to Pakistan for training and the other from south
Mumbai that had returned from Pakistan. ....
- Jihadis thrice attacked
Pakistan nuclear sites
- by Chidanand Rajghatta
Pakistan's nuclear facilities have already been attacked at least thrice
by its home-grown extremists and terrorists in little reported incidents
over the last two years, even as the world remains divided over the safety
and security of the nuclear weapons in the troubled country, according
to western analysts. ....
- Pak denies accepting bodies
of four 26/11 attackers
- by The Pioneer
Pakistan has denied it had agreed to accept the bodies of four of the
nine terrorists killed in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage as has been claimed
by the home minister of India's Maharashtra state. ....
- Trend: Learning Sanskrit
- Wax Sanskritic
- by Rachna Bisht-Rawat
The thousands enrolling for Sanskrit classes this year include young techies,
MBAs, civil servants, students of history and philosophy, as well as those
interested in ayurveda or yoga ....
- Left sees red over Sanskrit
- by Sandeep B
The arguments against the setting up of a Sanskrit university in Karnataka
are rooted in Marxist opposition to any effort to preserve and revive
India's cultural heritage ....
- Muslim gang extorting money
from minority Hindus in Bangladesh
- by William Gomes
When a family failed to pay up, the criminals began abducting young Hindu
women to get families to pay a ransom for them. Now a Muslim gang member
is threatening to marry a young Hindu woman without her consent. Human
rights activist calls on the government to intervene. ....
- The Swami of Accra
- by Tehelka
The West African nation of Ghana is an unlikely place to encounter a Hindu
monastery. Photographer Smruthi Gargi Eswar meets the eclectic cult ....
- Book Review: The Quranic
Concept of War
- by Sujit Das
It is tempting to believe that Manmohan Singh's Sharm el-Sheikh goof-up
was all his own. He certainly must take a large share of the blame. ....
- Neither war nor peace
- by R Jagannathan
It is tempting to believe that Manmohan Singh's Sharm el-Sheikh goof-up
was all his own. He certainly must take a large share of the blame. ....
- 'Corrupt Pakistan black
hole for American aid'
- by Chidanand Rajghatta
Pakistan has been a "black hole" for US aid with a corrupt Pakistani
military squandering 90% of American taxpayer funds it received on conventional
armaments that had no relevance to the war on terror, a new study has
revealed. ....
- 'There ought to be transparency
in the church'
- by Shreya Roy Chowdhury
Battling stigma, the Catholic church and her own family, Sister Jesme,
a former principal of St Mary's College, Thrissur (Kerala), wrote Amen.
The book, she tells Shreya Roy Chowdhury, is her candid account of moral
corruption within the church: ....
- Tirupati says no to VIP
darshan ban
- by The Times of India
It's ultimately the money power which lords over Tirumala as the Andhra
government and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams' efforts to cancel the VIP
sevas of Lord Venkateswara to provide longer darshan hours for common
pilgrims came a cropper. ....
- Tandav of political violence
in Bengal: Guv
- by Sabyasachi Bandopadhyay
With political violence claiming over 50 lives in the state since the
Lok Sabha elections, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Thursday came down
heavily on all political parties. ....
- The slow trudge to normalcy
- by RK Vij
The gruesome incident of July 12 instant was shattering. We lost a superintendent
of police and 28 others, fighting to their last breath in a Naxalite ambush
on a black tar road near Maanpur of Rajnandgaon district (Chhattisgarh)
which is supposedly partially affected by overt Maoist activities. ....
- Accountable or not?
- by Fali S. Nariman
It is not the law minister alone who was rebuffed in the Rajya Sabha on
August 3, when the House would not grant him leave to introduce the Judges
(Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Bill 2009. ....
- No fond farewell
- by Coomi Kapoor
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati invited the departing governor TV
Rajeshwar for a farewell dinner, but the governor declined. ....
- Too much trust. No verification
- by Tavleen Singh
Many puzzling things have been said about our relations with Pakistan
since the Sharm el-Sheikh engagement. Our Finance Minister told the Lok
Sabha that India's foreign policy "is embedded in our 5,000-year-old
civilisation". ....
- Jaina footprint in South
Indian tradition
- by Sandhya Jain
The unveiling of Tamil Jaina saint-poet, Thiruvalluvar's, statue in Bangalore
yesterday by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, is a virtual coup
by Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who retains the capacity
....
- DEATH OF IDEALISM - Shameful
media
- by Kuldip Nayar
When we slanted news and accepted money for putting across a point of
view during the elections, we fell from professional standards. ....
- No white flag
- by N.V.Subramanian
The Indian government should settle for no less than capital punishment
for the LeT terrorist leader, Hafeez Mohammed Sayeed, says N.V.Subramanian.
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- Will TN, Karnataka bury
hatchet at last?
- by The Pioneer
Finally, a day has come when the bonhomie between Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
and his counterpart in Karnataka seem to be working. This time, it revolves
around installation of statues of saint-poets of the two languages in
each other's lands and not water issues. ....
- Mastering the language
of strength
- by Vir Sanghvi
I am getting increasingly tired of people - well-meaning Indians and not
so well-meaning Americans mainly - telling us that we have to look at
the problem of terrorism from Pakistan's point of view. ....
- BSF hints at Jiban arrest
in Bangladesh
- by The Telegraph
Senior BSF officers today said they have "heard" that KLO leader
Jiban Singh has been arrested in Bangladesh, but refused to confirm it.
....
- Islam-o-Muslim and the
Resilience of Terrorism in Bangladesh
- by Animesh Roul
After a relatively long period of calm, Islamist militancy in Bangladesh
is showing new signs of life, even in the face of continuous crackdowns
on terrorist infrastructure and activity by counterterrorism forces in
the country. ....
- Guj Assembly rejects Prez
suggestion, passes GUJCOC again
- by The Indian Express
Rejecting suggestions by President Pratibha Patil to modify Gujarat Control
of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) Bill, the Modi government on Tuesday re-introduced
the bill which was passed by the State Assembly. ....
- A Losing Crusade?
- by The Pioneer
Although Islam is today described as Europe's second religion, it is likely
in the foreseeable future to become the first. This book, write KR Phanda
and Prafull Goradia, is an objective, masterly exposition of a rather
worrying demographic revolution taking place in the continent. ....
- Cultural nationalism is
not anti-Muslim
- by L K Advani
Excerpts from a speech by Leader of the Opposition L K Advani at the launch
of the Urdu edition of his autobiography 'My Country My Life' in New Delhi.
....
- Taslima set for India in
visa bid
- by The Telegraph
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen is expected reach Delhi tomorrow to
apply for the renewal of her Indian visa, which expires on August 17.
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- India's battle to seal
porous borders
- by Chris Morris
It doesn't look like much. The only outward sign that the long land border
between India and Bangladesh has begun is a small white post in the middle
of a field, next to the banks of the Ichamati river. ....
- Better know, before talking
- by S Gurumurthy
We have in our country a long but uneven tradition of philanthropy'. Thus
lamented Sonia Gandhi at the function in Delhi to give the Indira Gandhi
Prize to the American philanthropist Bill Gates. ....
- 26/11 trial: Kasab changes
mind on pleading guilty
- by The Times of India
Hours after informing a court that he wanted to plead guilty to all the
charges framed against him in connection with the 26/11 blasts, prime
accused Ajmal Kasab changed his mind and said he did not want to say anything.
.....
- India scoring own goals
against Pakistan
- by Vikram Sood
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani must have gone home chuckling,
for never in his wildest imagination would he have assumed that the Indians
would score so many own goals in less than an hour especially after the
drubbing his President Asif Ali Zardari received at Yekaterinburg, barely
two months ago. .....
- Two Hizbul militants arrested
in Delhi
- by Zeenews.com
Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants, who were allegedly planning
terror strikes here ahead of Independence Day, were arrested tonight,
a senior Delhi police official said. .....
- Pakistan's army: living
in a state of strategic denial
- by C. Uday Bhaskar
A two-day international conference on genocide that concluded in Dhaka
July 31 exhorted the UN to recognise the mass killings and rape that the
Pakistan Army had unleashed in the torturous and tumultuous events that
preceded the birth of Bangladesh in December 1971. .....
- They want to destroy Christians
- by Joshua Partlow
By nightfall Sunday, hundreds of residents of the Christian enclave here
stood in defiant vigil around seven particleboard coffins neatly aligned
on the train tracks that run through town. .....
- Kasab refuses food in Jail,
says he wants 'Mutton Biryani'
- by The Times of India
Jail authorities on Thursday complained to a special court that prime
accused in 26/11 terror attack case Mohammed Ajmal Kasab has refused to
eat food and thrown away utensils in his cell saying that he wants to
have 'Mutton Biryani'. .....
- Foolish expectations
- by The Pioneer
In what can be best described as yet another ploy by the Pakistani authorities
to ensure that Hafiz Mohammad Saeed. .....
- Pak bans 25 organisations,
including JuD and LeT
- by Rediff.com
The Pakistan government has banned 25 religious and other organisations,
including the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashker-e-Tayiba,
the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. .....
- Backfoot on Balochistan
- by Chandan Mitra
Almost every Indian Prime Minister (barring Charan Singh, Chandra Shekhar
and Mr HD Deve Gowda) has been possessed by a desire to be ranked in the
league of world statesmen. .....
- India to execute 2003 bomb
trio
- by BBC News
A court in India has sentenced to death three people for carrying out
bombings that killed more than 50 people in Mumbai (Bombay) in 2003. .....
- A question of allegiance
for British Muslims
- by Shaaz Mahboob
Yesterday's coverage about the repatriation of the eight British soldiers
killed in Afghanistan and the welcome accorded to them by the British
public has filled me with pride for our brave armed forces and instilled
respect for the ordinary people who turned out to show their support.
.....
- Fear of offending minorities
keeps West shamefully quiet
- by Naomi Lakritz
In June, I got a cellphone and used it on a trip to British Columbia to
talk to a man who's unrelated to me. To think that this might upset my
two brothers who then might start plotting to kill me for it is laughable--
in the safe confines of western society. .....
- Muslims Persecute Christians
- by Robert Spencer
On Saturday, a frenzied mob of three thousand Muslims stormed the tiny
Pakistani Christian village of Gojra. Enflamed by (unconfirmed) charges
that a Christian had burned pages of the Qur'an, the mob burned down fifty
homes, burned eight Christians alive, and wounded twenty others. Thousands
of Christians fled the area. .....
- Australia foils terrorist
plot to attack army base
- by The Associated Press
Police in Australia foiled terrorist plans for commando-style suicide
attacks on at least one army base, arresting four men Tuesday with suspected
links to a Somali Islamist group, senior officers said. .....
- Signs of ancient port in
Kerala
- by G.S. Mudur
A village in Kerala's Periyar delta may be the site of a port that has
remained untraced for centuries although ancient Indian and Greek texts
had described it as an Indian Ocean trade hub, researchers have said.
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- India unsafe
- by N.V.Subramanian
The more Manmohan Singh covers up his Sharm-el-Sheikh blunder, the more
he will be exposed, says N.V.Subramanian. .....
- Trinamul duo and villager
butchered
- by The Telegraph
Suspected CPM goons today hacked the heels of two Trinamul Congress supporters
and speared a villager caught in the mayhem in a Burdwan hamlet slipping
out of Left control. .....
- Manmohan deserves Nishaan-e-Pakistan
- by Swapan Dasgupta
Viewed from the perspective of India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
latest peace overture to a recalcitrant Pakistan seems bewildering and
a trifle misplaced. .....
- I have never been treated
differently: Shah Rukh
- by The Times of India
Brushing aside the Emraan Hashmi controversy as a "one-off"
episode, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Saturday said that such
incidents should not be given importance. .....
- A king-size telecom scam
- by The Pioneer
It remains an abiding mystery as to what compelled Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and the Congress to agree to the inclusion of Mr A Raja of the DMK
in the Union Cabinet after this summer's general election. .....
- Krishna reels under BJP
assault
- by The Pioneer
The Opposition on Friday grilled the Government in the Rajya Sabha on
the India-Pakistan joint statement. It said it was a "monumental
lapse" and the nation was becoming a "subordinate ally"
of the US. .....
- India gives more evidence,
asks Pak to act against Saeed
- by The Pioneer
Responding to Pakistan's queries, India on Saturday gave it more evidence
on Mumbai attacks and pressed it to prosecute Jamaat-ud Dawa chief and
prime accused Hafiz Saeed, saying there was "enough" proof to
do so. .....
- Mumbai naturopath nurses
green oasis amidst concrete jungle
- by The Hindu
For the past half a century, naturopath Raj Merchant has pursued two goals
in life - nurturing Mumbai's only nursery of herbal plants and chasing
away the avaricious land mafia eager to grab his 1.5 acre property in
a prime suburban neighbourhood. .....
- Three held guilty in 2003
Mumbai twin blasts case
- by Rediff.com
Six years after twin blasts rocked the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar
in 2003 killing 52 people, three persons, including a woman, were on Monday
convicted by a special court for the crime. .....
- The fallacies behind India's
Pakistan policy
- by Brahma Chellaney
Even though India's extended hand has been slapped again and again by
Pakistan, right-minded Indians still desire peace and stability on the
subcontinent .....
- Malegaon blast case: MCOCA
charges dropped, govt. to appeal
- by The Hindu
A special court here on Friday dropped the stringent Maharashtra Control
of Organised Crime Act invoked against Sadhvi Pragnya Singh, Lt. Col.
Prasad S.P. Purohit and nine other accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast
case saying none of them is part of an organised crime syndicate. .....
- Baluchis are Pakistan's
nemesis: They do not need India's help
- by M.V.Kamath
The Baluchis need no help from India; they are fully capable of fighting
their own battles as they have shown in the past. What that shows, irrespective
of Gilani's charges against India, is that in the matter of the Two Nation
Theory based on which Pakistan was created, it has no leg to stand on.
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