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  • From Kerala to Gujarat, Headley ran terror empire
    • by VR Jayaraj
      Enlarging the scope of investigation to trace the movements and designs of David Headley, a US citizen arrested by the FBI on terror charges, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has formed several teams in Mumbai and other States. The measure followed leads that David. .....
  • CIA paid millions of dollars to ISI since 9/11: Report
    • by The Times of India
      The CIA has paid millions of dollars to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) since 9/11, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency's annual budget, says a media report. .....
  • The mess and us
    • by Editorial
      Like a seasonal disorder, familiar voices in New Delhi are back in circulation demanding India somehow rescue, save or otherwise salvage Pakistan. .....
  • Trans Bengal Terrorism through Talibans. West Bengal under ISI scanner.
    • by Jaheed from Dacca & Sambuddha from Barasat
      ISI (Inter Services Intelligences), the International Spy Agency of Pakistan sent an amount of 5 Lakh Rupees to Bangladeshi King-pin Fayezullah to blow up American and Indian High Commission in Dacca within last two weeks. Fayezullah is one of the sons of Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury .....
  • The jihad factor
    • by Barry Rubin
      How do we know the attack at Fort Hood was an Islamist terrorist act? Simple, Maj Nidal Hassan told us. He gave a number of clues but nothing's more impressive than this one: Maj Hassan is the first terrorist to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. .....
  • Islamists set terms in war on jihad
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      Since every minor social trend and major political development in the US receives disproportionate attention in the Anglosphere, it is not surprising that the shooting of 13 fellow soldiers by US Army psychiatrist Maj Nidal Hasan Malik aroused considerable interest within India. .....
  • Rebel Reddy's Andhra links exposed
    • by Omer Farooq
      Troubles are piling up for powerful mine baron and Karnataka's BJP Minister Galli Janardhana Reddy over the alleged mining scam as fresh facts are coming out with each passing day. Janardhana Reddy, one of the most powerful and influential mine owners in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh .....
  • Checkmate India
    • by Brahma Chellaney
      With rising border tensions, history is in danger of repeating itself as India gets sucked into a pre-1962-style trap by the Chinese. The need for India, writes Brahma Chellaney, is to shore up its deterrent capabilities and put premium on leveraged diplomacy .....
  • An Islamist campaign
    • by Editorial
      Hamstrung by the compulsions of the identical electoral interests of the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front Government and the Congress-led United Democratic Front Opposition, the Kerala Police, understandably, is unable to put its fingers on the Islamist programme called .....
  • Interview-French magistrate details Lashkar's global role
    • by Myra MacDonald
      Pakistan's army once ran training camps for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group with the apparent knowledge of the CIA, an example of complicity that raises questions about the current state of the nuclear-armed nation. .....
  • Zhongguo China
    • by N.V.Subramanian
      13 November 2009: There is a kerfuffle over the recent Washington Post expose of Chinese proliferation to Pakistan, but contrary to expectation, this won't impair the US president, Barack Obama's meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao. .....
  • David Headley's terror mission in Mumbai
    • by Vicky Nanjappa
      The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), a principally ICSSR-funded institute for the study of social sciences and humanities, organized a day long seminar on Kashmir at the capital's prestigious Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti Bhavan .....
  • Kashmir seminar: Soz sang Abdullah, Mufti song
    • by Hari Om
      The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), a principally ICSSR-funded institute for the study of social sciences and humanities, organized a day long seminar on Kashmir at the capital's prestigious Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti Bhavan .....
  • The costs of abstraction
    • by Anthony Daniels
      One of the most extraordinary episodes in the intellectual history of the twentieth century-if, indeed, something that lasted half a century or more can properly be called an episode-is the moral and sometimes material support given by much of the western intelligentsia to the Soviet tyranny ...
  • Losing Secular Turkey to Islamic Fundamentalism
    • by Geoff Dickson
      Turkey is the much-touted outpost of secular-democracy in the Islamic world. It has been a common exercise for Islamic apologists to refer to Turkey as an example to Islam's compatibility with secular-democracy against those, who argue that Islam is incomptaible ....
  • In tricolour, Tawang ready for Dalai Lama
    • by Samudra Gupta Kashyap
      Forty-seven years ago around this time, Tawang was a ghost town. The Chinese had occupied Tawang, forcing its residents to flee. But on Saturday, the town was abuzz with life as it got ready to receive the 14th Dalai Lama. Everywhere the Indian tricolour fluttered along with the Tibet flag. ....
  • Fanatics to the fore again
    • by Balbir K Punj
      The face of 'change' that was seen at Deoband when the 30th annual session of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind attracted an impressive gathering of several thousand Islamic clerics and other religious leaders was soon exposed to be nothing more than cosmetic. ....
  • India's honoured guest
    • by Editorial
      In clearing the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh on November 8, the Government of India has acted correctly and wisely. The spiritual leader is scheduled to travel to the Tawang Monastery - one of the most revered seats of Tibetan Buddhism ....
  • Egypt: Mob Attacks Christian Man for Visiting Muslim Brothel
    • by Mary Abdelmassih
      A Muslim driver drove a Christian man to a Muslim brothel, then went out to call a Muslim mob that broke into the brothel, dragged out the Christian and stabbed 16 times after pouring acid over him. As the victim was rushed to hospital in critical condition, the mob started attacking and looting Christian properties ....
  • Young Bangladeshi Apostate: 'Happy to Have Left Islam'
    • by Shoikot Chawdhury
      When I was a boy of six years old, it was a great surprise to me that how I came in being as this matter was unknown to me. I asked my father about my origin. My father explained that he found me in a pond where I was swimming for saving my life. .....
  • India just can't read Pakistan
    • by G Parthasarathy
      Developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan will figure prominently when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the Obama White House on November 24. The Obama Administration has handled events related to the recent re-election of Mr Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan in a crude and insensitive manner. .....
  • ISI holds sway on all terrorist groups, admits Musharraf
    • by The Times of India
      Pakistan's ISI has influence over every terrorist group and it uses these contacts to its "advantage", former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said in a rare admission that corroborates India's allegations of Pakistan's hand in cross-border terrorist acts. .....
  • PIO girl suspended for piercing nose
    • by The Times of India
      Governor S C Jamir, who is holding additional responsibility of Gujarat, has given his assent to the Guj-COC bill, which had seen a confrontation between the Centre and state government, even as he referred to the Union government another legislation brought in after the hooch tragedy in the state. .....
  • GujCOC bill set for Delhi again
    • by The Times of India
      Governor S C Jamir, who is holding additional responsibility of Gujarat, has given his assent to the Guj-COC bill, which had seen a confrontation between the Centre and state government, even as he referred to the Union government another legislation brought in after the hooch tragedy in the state. .....
  • The man who injured Kasab's partner
    • by Mateen Hafeez
      Assistant inspector Hemant Bhawdhankar says he cannot forget the midnight of November 26 last year, when the country's most high-profile prisoner, Ajmal Kasab, was captured alive. .....
  • Learn by wire
    • by Nandini Vaish
      The class of 38 students of construction engineering and management at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia hums in anticipation. As the professor enters the class, the students rise to greet him. The class begins. Nothing's missing in this picture, except that the professor is 4,500 km away. .....
  • A nuclear power's act of proliferation
    • by R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick
      In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The Washington Post. .....
  • 'Mighty Mouse' who laid US gunman low
    • by The Times of India
      The police officer who brought down US army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hassan after he went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood army base on Friday was on her way to get her car repaired when she responded to a police radio report of the gunfire. .....
  • Headley made several Mum recces
    • by Vishwa Mohan
      FBI Docus Suggest Nat'l Def College Wasn't Main Target, A City Close To Mumbai Was
      The documents submitted by the FBI in an Illinois court against Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley .....
  • India just can't read Pakistan
    • by G Parthasarathy
      Developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan will figure prominently when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the Obama White House on November 24. The Obama Administration has handled events related to the recent re-election of Mr Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan in a crude and insensitive manner. ....
  • It Isn't Political Correctness; It's Shariah
    • by Pamela Geller
      In surveying the cultural carnage in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on a military installation in U.S. history, it bears noting that there have been seismic shifts in America. When America was free of the shackles of Islam, say, fifty years ago, the current response to such an attack by an enemy faction would have been unthinkable. ....
  • We don't bomb the country we adopt
    • by Tarun Vijay
      Mr. Tarun Vijay, a former editor of Panchjanya, the official publication of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is an old Hindu nationalist organisation, made a telling distinction between India and some of its neighbours at the last meeting of the Club. ....
  • 'Peace process a tactic, armed rebellion to follow'
    • by Yubaraj Ghimire
      Participation of the United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-M) in the peace process in Nepal is just a "tactic" and another round of armed clash to capture state power is not far away, Baburam Bhattarai, key ideologue of the movement, said. ....
  • The Home Minister needs enlightenment
    • by Tavleen Singh
      First, let me say that in my humble opinion the Home Minister is right to reach out to Muslims. With the Taliban at our doorstep, it is very important for India's Muslims to understand that the way of the Taliban is not their way. .....
  • Taming Pakistan Army
    • by B G Verghese
      Is Pakistan's rogue army in the process of being tamed at last? Hopefully so. A few 'nationalist' commentators and angry men in khaki have suddenly voiced anxiety and anger over the Kerry-Lugar Bill adopted by the US Congress last month .....
  • CPM targets Mamata over hijack
    • by Tanmay Chatterjee & Nagendar Sharma
      The CPI(M) on Wednesday capitalised on the Trinamool Congress's change of stance on Maoists and alleged that Mamata Banerjee's party had a hand in Tuesday's train hijacking. .......
  • 26/11: 'Local angle needed greater attention'
    • by Rediff.com
      India should not have high expectations from Pakistan in investigating and prosecuting the 26/11 case," says rediff.com columnist and renowned expert on terrorism Bahukutumbi Raman. .......
  • RSS service projects multiply ten-fold
    • by The Times of India
      Its political offshoot, Bharatiya Janata Party, may be in a disarray and desperately trying to get out of the
      knots it has tied for itself. But the parent organisation and Hindutva fountainhead Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) can take immense pride in having spread .......
  • Naga rebels' parallel govt pockets taxes
    • by Prasanta Mazumdar
      The collection of taxes by various separatist groups appears to have become legitimate in Nagaland, a state ravaged by insurgency over the years. .......
  • A legacy best forgottenv
    • by Tavleen Singh
      As a dutiful daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi always remembers the late Mrs Gandhi on her death anniversary. She takes flowers to her samadhi, listens to religious hymns on nationwide television and makes a special effort to attend commemorative events. .......
  • The dangers of divide and rule
    • by Meghnad Desai
      There is a famous observation by Sherlock Holmes in one of his cases about the dog that did not bark. That was the clue to the criminal's identity. .......
  • 'Kishenji & Nepal's Maoists met secretly in India last month'
    • by Yubaraj Ghimire
      Despite repeated denials by top Nepali Maoist leaders that they have no "working relationship" with Maoists in India, there's information that the two parties did meet - as recently as early this month. This has significant implications at a time when New Delhi is planning a concerted campaign against the Maoists. .......
  • US fly in China's India ointment
    • by Brahma Chellaney
      The India-China relationship has entered choppy waters because of a perceptible hardening in the Chinese stance. Anti-India rhetoric in the state-run Chinese media has intensified, even as China has stepped up military pressure along the disputed Himalayan frontier through frequent cross-border incursions. .......
  • Jamiat's insidious agenda
    • by Editorial
      The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has not done the Muslims of India any favour by adopting a clutch of resolutions that not only reflect the regressive agenda of the ulema but also strengthen the stereotyping of the community as backward-looking and refusing to change with the times. .......
  • 'Pakistan has no more control on its rogue army'
    • by Trak.in
      Pakistan has no more control on its army and the Inter-Services Intelligence officers, who are aiding militants in the country, according to a French investigative magistrate. .......
  • Maoists killed Saraswati to get support from Christians
    • by The Times of India
      Maoists might have killed VHP leader Laxamananda Saraswati for securing support of the minority Christians and expand their network in Orissa's Kandhamal district, the Commission probing the murder was informed here today. .......
  • Brave Iranians ruin hate-U.S. fest
    • by Amir Taheri
      Yesterday marked the 30th anniver sary of the capture by Khomeinist "stu dents" of the US Embassy in Tehran, triggering the 444-day hostage crisis. .......
  • Medieval trap
    • by Tarun Vijay
      When the nation is facing grave threats from the Maoists and the Lashkar-e-Taiba's Islamist mad-heads, and discussing how to counter the Chinese arrogance, suddenly mullahs living in a frozen Arabian time zone have cried that they won't sing "Vande Mataram". .......
  • A fascinating perspective on the role of Indian women in science
    • by Organiser
      Social scientists are engaged in studying the gender bias and unequal position of women in various spheres of social life. The book under review is a compilation of articles on women in the sciences and examines the marginal position of women engaged in science. .......
  • A chilling narrative of the less-known aspects of Shah Jahan
    • by Dr Vaidehi Nathan
      Shah Jahan, the Mughal Emperor who was a "ruthless political operator, who only achieved power by ordering the murder of two brothers and at least six other relatives, one of them the legitimately crowned Emperor Dawar Baksh .......
  • Bhagvad Gita for supreme success
    • by JG Arora
      Bhagvad Gita, literally meaning the Divine Song, is a practical guide to day-to-day life. It is meant for them who want to achieve supreme success and excellence. It is meant also for them who wish to transcend suffering and misery .......
  • Kashmir Police killed Hindu youth for marrying a Muslim girl
    • by Khajuria S Kant
      Anchal accused her father Mohammed Yousuf Mirazi and two brothers of hatching a conspiracy with the police to eliminate her husband. "One of my brothers, a doctor, may flee to Australia. Arrest him before he leaves the country. My father had bribed the Kashmir police to kill my husband," she said. ......
  • Students, activists condemn Maoist brutality
    • by Organiser
      Staging a candlelight vigil at the high-security India Gate area on October 9, 2009, members of the civil society protested against the barbarism of Maoists, who beheaded Francis Induvar, an inspector in Jharkhand Police in the outskirts of Ranchi ......
  • Will you please define terrorism?
    • by Prakash Nanda
      Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to have a soft corner for Maoists. Like the typical "human rights jhola-wallas", he thundered at an election meeting in Maharashtra on October 11 that "Maoists are not terrorists" and that he would be happy to talk to them......
  • No proof of Indian involvement in Balochistan: Hillary to Pak
    • by The Economic Times
      THE US is not buying Pakistan's attempt to blame insurgency in Balochistan on India. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who was on a visit to Pakistan, said that there is no evidence to back up Islamabad's charge of Indian involvement in Balochistan.....
  • BJP must go back to old avatar
    • by RN Chawla
      Chandan Mitra's article, "Ekla Chalo re!" (October 25, The Cutting Ed, Foray) is a thought provoking write-up. It is a must read for the top brass of the BJP leadership. By and large the party's experience with respect to coalitions, both at the Centre and in the States, has not been very encouraging. ....
  • The Chinese view India blinded by own dazzle
    • by Kanwal Sibal
      The two recent meetings between the Indian and Chinese leaders - one between the two Prime Ministers in Thailand on the margins of the East Asia Summit and the other between the two Foreign Ministers at Bangalore on the margins of the trilateral India-Russia-China dialogue. ....
  • One for all...
    • by N.V.Subramanian
      Speaking to party workers, P.Chidambaram, the Union home minister, has delivered an unusually strong warning to Pakistan, threatening massive retaliation in case of a second 26/ 11. Chidambaram is a judicious man, a politician of long standing and a Supreme Court lawyer to boot. ....
  • Company of noble women
    • by Maura Moynihan
      Dharamsala got a shot of firepower last week as three Nobel Peace Prize winners from different corners of the world made the long trek to Himachal Pradesh to stand with the Dalai Lama after US President Barack Obama yielded to Beijing's will and declined to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader in Washington last month. ....
  • Not All Cultures Are Equal.
    • by Laina Farhat-Holzman
      I remember my first encounter with anthropology in college when we were taught that cultures are neither bad nor good-but are reasonable to their members. ....
  • Is Indian 'soft power' in Afghanistan working?
    • by Harsh V. Pant
      In the second such strike in as many years, a suicide car-bombing outside the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul recently left at least 17 dead (none of them embassy staff) and scores of others wounded. India has long been developing its ....
  • Scrap The Scheme
    • by Editorial
      Trust our MPs to come together when the issue at stake is funds to dispense patronage. In a rare case of solidarity, MPs of various parties have unanimously proposed that the allocation for the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme ....
  • The Chindia Chimeran
    • by Omkar Goswami
      It seems to me that there are two-and-a-half types of people who say that we should always try to accommodate China. The first are the uncompromising peaceniks. ....
  • Home truths from the Church
    • by Sucheta Dasgupta
      This autobiography of a nun, writes Sucheta Dasgupta, is a no-holds-barred indictment of the clergy for its malpractices and hypocrisy ....
  • The money minefields of Karnataka
    • by Neena Vyas
      Money and muscle have become part of the Indian political landscape - the growing number of multicrore-patis in Parliament and State legislatures are witness to this as are the increasing number of politicians who have had more than a brush with the law. ....
  • Love Jihad's baby machines
    • by Ketan Ranga
      Fundamentalist Islamic body gets young recruits to allegedly lure, 'love', bed women to convert and make them breed a brood ....
  • Army Chief warns of 26/11-type attacks
    • by The Pioneer
      Army Chief Deepak Kapoor on Tuesday warned that 26/11-type Mumbai terror attacks were a possibility and that India has to take all steps to counter such strikes. ....
  • Maha Guv fails to break Congress-NCP deadlock
    • by The Pioneer
      Maharashtra Governor SC Jamir on Tuesday stepped in to inject a sense of urgency in Government formation and NCP leader Chagan Bhujbal added a new twist saying his party would support a Congress Government from outside. ....
  • Stain of corruption
    • by Editorial
      The revelations about former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda and his associates who have been accused of massive corruption do not really come as a surprise. It was common knowledge that Mr Koda had been given a 'free hand' by those who kept him in power ....
  • Travesty as tribute
    • by A Surya Prakash
      The 25th anniversary of Mrs Indira Gandhi's assassination on October 31 spawned a great deal of nostalgia about her and gave the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government yet another opportunity to tom-tom her 'achievements' ....
  • J-e-D issues fatwa against Vande Mataram
    • by The Pioneer
      A top Muslim body on Tuesday asked members of the community not to recite 'Vande Mataram' on the grounds that some verses of the national song are against the tenets of Islam, sparking condemnation from the BJP. ....
  • Is The Doctor In?
    • by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
      Andimuthu Raja has chosen to brazen it out. But are his days as Communications and IT minister numbered? The Congress-led upa today needs the support of the dmk less than it ever has since May 2004. After the cbi raids, there is no doubt that the spectrum scam ....
  • PC to Maoists: End violence, let's talk
    • by Express News Service
      Within hours, Maoists reject Chidambaram's offer to discuss land, industry, forest rights Urging the CPI(Maoist) to halt violence - rather than lay down arms - Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said that ....
  • Some Questions Are Best Buried
    • by Arvind Panagariya
      Jaswant Singh has done a great service by sensitising us to the importance of a better understanding of India's immediate pre-independence history. His book, and the controversy that surrounded it recently, have led me to undertake a closer scrutiny of this critical period. ....
  • Girl power puts Gujarati lexicon at your fingertips
    • by Ashish Vashi
      If the online Gujarati lexicon has proved to be a boon for translators or writers, a bunch of five 20-something girls ought to take the credit. Their love for their mother tongue is phenomenal and so is their passion for language.. ....
  • 'Jaganmohan link' fears coming true for BJP
    • by Kumar Uttam & Kestur Vasuki
      The drama in Karnataka BJP will now be played out in New Delhi, with the party leadership summoning the "rebel leaders" to the national Capital on Saturday to defuse the crisis, even as the BJP's worst fears about the "Andhra link" behind the turbulence seemed to be coming true.. ....
  • Jihadi terror and Hindu rightwing terror are different: Police
    • by Samachar.com
      A senior police official who is investigating the Diwali eve blast carried out by members affiliated to the Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha (SS) in Margao, a major town in South Goa 35 km from here, said that the Oct 16 blast was aimed at targeting a public function, unlike other threats by jihadi groups received by Goa in the past. ....
  • Dalai Lama Lesson
    • by The Wall Street Journal
      As President Obama prepares for his trip to Beijing next month, he'd be wise to cast an eye toward New Delhi, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is showing the rest of the world how to deal with Beijing when it gets into a bullying mood. ....
  • A big tree fell, Sikhs died
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      Twenty-five years ago yesterday, Mrs Indira Gandhi was assassinated. She was walking towards a wicket gate in the garden of 1, Safdarjung Road, which used to be the Prime Minister's residence, for an interview with Peter Ustinov who was shooting a documentary. ....
  • AP convent punishes students for speaking in mother tongue
    • by P Pavan
      Two Std III students of a missionary school in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh were made to go around the school with slates hanging around their necks, saying "I never speak Telugu" for speaking in their mother tongue. ....
  • Stay off J&K, it's ours: PM to OIC
    • by Masood Hussain
      WINDING up his two-day "productive and fruitful" visit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he is returning satisfied to Delhi as "a new chapter" was opening in the peace process in J&K .....
  • Two weeks to Patio, six months to convert
    • by Ketan Ranga
      A group called Love Jihad recruits young Muslim boys to woo Hindu and Christian girls, convert them to Islam and become baby-making machines. For the task the boys are given only. .....

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