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  • 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. ....
  • 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 ....
  • 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. ....
  • 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. ....
  • 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. .....
  • 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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