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  • Intolerance is a two-way street
    • by Sudheendra Kulkarni
      Underground and secretly maintained Krishna temples in Iran? Yes. And I'll tell you why I am beginning this column on the raging global debate on the recent Swiss ban on the construction of new minarets by recalling a stunning personal experience in Iran. ....
  • On 26/11, Headley was in LeT control room in Pak
    • by The Times of India
      US-born terror suspect David Headley had not only actively played a role in conducting reconnaissance of targets in Mumbai but was also present in a control unit in Pakistan along with the masterminds of the attacks to guide 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists to carry out strikes in the megapolis.
      ....
  • Sadhvi was illegally interrogated and detained by ATS: lawyer
    • by Rediff.com
      The lawyer of Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has claimed that the Anti-Terrorist Squad had detained and interrogated her illegally last year, as a woman cannot be summoned to a police station for mere questioning. ....
  • Conquering Afghanistan: What the West can learn from India
    • by Rakesh Krishnan
      If there's one thing that really gets me worked up, it is this: the western media keeps peddling the fairy tale that no power - from Alexander 2300 years ago to Britain in the 19th century and Russia 30 years ago - was able to conquer Afghanistan. ....
  • Let's not absolve Rao
    • by Prafull Goradia
      P Chidambaram's reply to the debate on the Liberhan Commission's report in Parliament is short on facts. According to him, it was PV Narasimha Rao's 'wrong political judgement' that led to the demolition of the Babri structure. That's not true. Rao knew what he was doing, and his 'inaction' was not without intent ....
  • 2 months on, no breakthrough in Jammu youth's custodial killing
    • by Mohit Kandhari
      More than two months have passed since mortal remains of Rajneesh Sharma were immersed in the holy waters of Ganges on his last journey but the lethargic Omar Abdullah Government has failed to unravel the mystery behind his alleged custodial killing. ....
  • 27/ 11 & Hadley
    • by N.V.Subramanian
      India has to ask tough questions of the US on the Bombay carnage, and cannot withdraw troops from J and K, says N.V.Subramanian. ....
  • Smokers' Corner: One-unit-faith
    • by Nadeem F. Paracha
      Recently, while giving a speech to the Peshawar police, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said that no one could separate Islam from Pakistan. One wonders what prompted the army chief to digress, and start assuring his audience about Pakistan's Islamic credentials ....
  • Why is India against Israel, but for Sudan?
    • by MandeepSTiwana, Maja Daruwala
      The 61 st anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10 provides occasion to reflect on the attitude of various UN member-states towards one of the most important human rights institutions in the world ....
  • Birth of a nation
    • by Inder Malhotra
      On March 17, 1971 Indira Gandhi was sworn in as prime minister for the third time. By then she had established her supremacy in both the Congress and the country after a long ....
  • Baruah is Islamicised (Interview with G.K. Pillai)
    • by Payal Saxena
      Home Secretary G.K. Pillai is in a celebratory mood. The arrest of ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, many feel, will go a long way towards bringing peace to the troubled northeast. . ....
  • The Battle For Pakistan
    • by Stephen Brown
      In his speech at West Point last week, President Obama indicated that no amount of extra troops would offset the Afghan Taliban's ability to retreat and regroup in their Pakistani cross-border sanctuaries. ....
  • UPA now admits Saraswati existed
    • by Rajesh Singh & Santanu Banerjee
      In a significant shift from its earlier stand that probes conducted so far showed no trace of the mythical river, the Union Government has recently admitted that scientists have discovered water channels indicating "beyond doubt" the existence of the "Vedic Saraswati.". ....
  • Ahmed refuses to light lamp
    • by Deccan Chronicle
      Union minister of state for railways and Muslim League leader E. Ahmed refused to light a kuthuvilakku, a traditional Tamil custom for observing auspicious occasions, at a national seminar. ....
  • Paranormal Flexibility
    • by MV Kamath
      The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a report on Wednesday that is bound to stir conversation about the increasingly complicated cacophony of spirituality in America - a mash-up of traditional faiths, fantasy and mythology. ....
  • Politics and the art of making money
    • by MV Kamath
      Andhra Pradesh has been liberally spending government money for construction of churches and mosques and subsidies to Christian and Muslim pilgrimages and grants for marriages among the 'minority communities. ....
  • Nobody killed three men who were murdered
    • by Arun Ram
      On May 9, 2007, a mob attacked the Madurai office of Tamil Daily 'Dinakaran' owned by Kalanidhi Maran. They smashed windows, computers and furniture, and set fire to the building. ....
  • Why their IT hates our IT
    • by Ashok Malik
      Speaking at a conference in Delhi this past week, Home Secretary GK Pillai warned of the threat from terrorism to India's flagship Information Technology companies. ....
  • Ties that bind: Lashkar and the global jihad
    • by Praveen Swami
      The Lashkar-e-Taiba, it is asserted, is a product of the India-Pakistan contestation in Jammu and Kashmir and has little interest in targeting the West. Both claims are ill-founded. ....
  • New Incidents Test Immunity to Terrorism on U.S. Soil
    • by Scott Shane
      As the years passed after Sept. 11, 2001, without another major attack on American soil and with no sign of hidden terrorist cells, many counterterrorism specialists reached a comforting conclusion: Muslims in the United States were not very vulnerable to radicalization. ....
  • Every Word For A Price
    • by Neelabh Mishra
      It was during the Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh assembly elections of 2007 that the blatant sale of news space by some Hindi and Gujarati newspapers to political parties and candidates in the form of election coverage packages came to be noticed. ....
  • News You Can Abuse
    • by Anuradha Raman
      In the cynical times that we live in, rumours of an MP or an MLA paying money to a newspaper or a television channel to elicit favourable news coverage might perhaps raise no more than an eyebrow. ....
  • Please Do Not Sell
    • by Vinod Mehta
      Indian media doesn't do introspection. We recommend it to others-MPs, political parties, militants, judges, scientists.... They are all advised to look deep inside their own trade and clean up the rot. ....
  • Sarkozy to Muslims in France: Will protect you, but...
    • by Edward Cody
      Faced with swelling unease over the place of Muslim immigrants in France, President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Tuesday for tolerance among native French people, but warned that arriving Muslims must embrace Europe's historical values and avoid "ostentation or provocation" in the practice of their religion. ....
  • Fast food for the soul
    • by Justine Hardy
      It is a staggering irony that we are now in the age of gigabyte gurus. The way of the Gurukul, the long pupillage of a child with a guru to establish if the child was even a worthy vessel of Vedic learning, has now been usurped by the Coca Cola factor. ....
  • Terror has new name: Jama'at-ul-Mujahideen
    • by Mateen Hafeez
      Intelligence agencies are working on inputs that members of the Jama'at-ul-Mujahideen (Bangladesh) may be in Mumbai and Hyderabad to work on terror plots in these two cities. ....
  • Obama's Second Af-Pak policy: A Fallacy in Composition
    • by Ramtanu Maitra
      On Dec.1 at West Point Academy, US President Barack Obama presented his latest Afghanistan-Pakistan policy - the result of an extensive review and a policy that would lead to the "end of Afghanistan war," he promised. ....
  • Will Europe put its foot down?
    • by Hege Storhaug
      The Swiss vote against the construction of any more Islamic minarets has forced Europe, increasingly awash with Muslim immigrants, to ask itself some difficult questions: How many minarets can Europe tolerate before its strong sense of communal connection is dissolved? What will happen, then, to democracy's liberal values? ....
  • HC calls for law to check 'love jehad'
    • by Shaju Philip
      Calling the state government to enact a legislation to prevent forceful conversions, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that such incidents under the pretext of love were rampant in certain parts of the state. ....
  • Want Press Coverage? Give Me Some Money
    • by Paul Beckett
      Ajay Goyal is a serious, independent candidate contesting for a Lok Sabha seat in Chandigarh.
      Never heard of him? Neither, probably, have a lot of people in Chandigarh because when it came to getting press coverage for his campaign he was faced with a simple message: If you want press, you have to pay. ....
  • Fear of a Saffron Telangana
    • by Naresh Nunna
      Persisitent calls for a separate telangna has forced minority muslims to firmly oppose the demand, as a history of oppression haunts, says Naresh Nunna ....
  • Portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva Raya found at Kancheepuram temple
    • by T.S. Subramanian
      With the interest in the reign of Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadeva Raya reviving in the context of 2009 being the 500th year of his coronation, a small, beautiful portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva Raya (1509-1529) has come to light in the Varadaraja Swamy temple at Kancheepuram. ....
  • Secularism's rage boys
    • by Balbir K. Punj
      The dormant Ram Janmabhoomi issue is back in the limelight thanks to the Liberhan Commission's report. The report will of course be long remembered for its howlers and contradictions. But it has also brought into focus the warts that continue to distort the face of ageless, pluralistic Indian society in the name of 'secularism'. ....
  • FBI grills US men held in Pakistan for seeking 'jihad'
    • by The Times of India
      A group of detained young Americans were grilled by the FBI in Pakistan after reports that they had tried to join Islamist militant groups and travel to the northwest Taliban heartland, officials said on Friday. ....
  • Virtual darshan renders distance irrelevant to worship
    • by Ajitha Karthikeyan
      For Abhishek, a software engineer, this year's birthday was very special. Sitting in his drawing room at his apartment in Texas, he felt quite at home as he watched a special archana' being performed in his name at the city's famous Vadapalani Murugan temple, which he has frequented as a boy ....
  • Caste in a new mould
    • by Lucia Michelutti
      The New breed of cosmopolitan provincial politicians remains configured by caste lines, if only to retain existing benefits rather than gain new ones in a even more polarized nation ....
  • If you disown Rao, disown PM too: Amar
    • by The Indian Express
      During the debate on Liberhan Commission report in the Upper House, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh attacked both the BJP and the Congress and his sarcastic barbs had BJP MPs on their feet. ....
  • Musharraf bullied into supporting war on terror
    • by Dawn
      Former Chief of General staff Shahid Aziz says that Pervez Musharraf was bullied into supporting the US in the war on terror. He says the decision to support America was taken unilaterally before a crucial corps commanders meeting took place. .....
  • Terror training comes from Pak: US
    • by Deccan Chronicle
      Expressing concern over series of arrests of US nationals as terror suspects, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said much of the training and direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan. .....
  • Muslim PM only if community backs Ram temple: Bal Thackeray
    • by The Times of India
      Joining issue with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark that a Muslim can become the prime minister provided he is the most capable person for it, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday said to qualify for the top job the community will first have to support the Ram temple in Ayodhya.. .....
  • Mosques as barracks, minarets as bayonets...
    • by Kanchan Gupta
      Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was being faithful to his creed when he declared, "Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." . .....
  • Perception of reality
    • by Sunanda K Datta-Ray
      BBC radio suddenly broadcast a programme on Vande Mataram the other morning. If that was surprising, the angle the BBC chose was even more so. .....
  • Gulled by Gul
    • by Arnaud de Borchgrave
      From his former incarnation as strategic adviser to Pakistan's politico-religious parties, the one-time Pakistani intelligence chief Hamid Gul has resurfaced as de facto minister of propaganda and disinformation for the Taliban insurgents. .....
  • France follows Swiss lead. No more praying in streets.
    • by Eeyore
      Some Paris neighbourhoods have been taken over Fridays with large numbers of Muslims clearly establishing Islamic primacy by taking over huge sections of streets by 'praying' in them in such a manner that no other traffic is possible. .....
  • Backward Muslims protest denial of burial
    • by Anand Mohan Sahay
      A section of Muslims in Bihar are up in arms against the more affluent and powerful section of Muslims for denying them entry into graveyards on the grounds of lower caste status. .....
  • 'Philippines expert, LTTE cadres trained Indian Maoists'
    • by Vivek Deshpande
      Maoist groups in India have been known to collaborate with their counterparts across the border in Nepal and also occasionally with sympathisers elsewhere in South Asia but a senior Naxal leader who surrendered .....
  • Ayurveda cooking is new buzz in mom's kitchen
    • by Nandita Sengupta
      It's back to the spice route in more ways than one. Taking grandma's 'gharelu nuskhe' (home remedies) to a grander level, ayurvedic cooking - -all about the right mix of spices and foods-is the new buzz in the kitchen. .....
  • 'Global jihadis may target India'
    • by Political Bureau
      THE US on Friday warned that transnational jihadists, who are coordinating their terror plans, could target India. In a testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, US defence secretary Robert Gates said al Qaida is providing information and giving other logistical support to LeT to launch terror attacks in India. .....
  • 'Poor' Bihar boasts of 300 crorepati babus
    • by Faizan Ahmad
      A staggering 300 Bihar government employees-earning modest salaries-are crorepatis! If this isn't shocking enough, here's more: All but two of the 300 continue to hold on to their secure-as also lucrative-jobs despite long stints in jails. .....
  • Joint operation begins against Kuki militants
    • by Staff Reporter
      Sonai Police arrested 75-year-old village headman Seikhulian Singsong suspecting that he had links with Kuki militants who had allegedly attacked the 15th Indian Reserve Police (IRP) battalion outpost at Checkerchum recently. .....
  • Was Headley at Pushkar to plan attack on Jews?
    • by The Times of India
      Intelligence bodies, including a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, are pursuing specific leads that hint that Pakistan born American David Coeman Headley had done a recce of the Bed-chabad .....
  • Pak fabricating evidence on Balochistan: Krishna
    • by The Times of India
      India on Thursday accused Pakistan of "fabricating evidence" and rejected as "unfounded" charges of fomenting insurgency in Balochistan and ruled out composite talks till Pakistan took action against 26/11 culprits. .....
  • New faces of terror
    • by Mayank Chhaya, Sandeep Unnithan
      Apart from Mumbai, the North American duo of Pakistani origin sought other targets in India. The worry is more attacks may have been set in motion. .....
  • Claim shame
    • by Swati Mathur and Nishika Patel
      Their lives were changed forever by one terror attack. But now it is the pain of delayed compensation that prolongs the misery of Mumbai's terror victims. .....
  • The Web: Eight Legs, Nine Lives
    • by Amir Mir
      When a band of terrorists swooped down on Mumbai on the night of November 26 last year, leaving behind a trail of death and a devastated metropolis, their act of violence. .....
  • Post-26/11, no of jawans enlisting in state doubles
    • by Kartikeya
      Until now, we have seen candle-light vigils and peace marches, debates and prayer meetings. But there has been another response to the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai that has gone largely unnoticed. .....
  • Praise the LORD
    • by Anushree Majumdar
      Prayers have worked for 23-year-old Vidhi Sharma. The psychology student from Delhi University, who has been singing since she was two .....
  • Tales from modern Consumer India
    • by Rama Bijapurkar
      This columnist perpetually wrestles with the question of what the face of modern Consumer India is and will be like. .....
  • Looking forward to meeting Obama: Dalai
    • by Suresh Khatta
      The Dalai Lama on Saturday said he was hoping to meet US President Barack Obama early next year to discuss the issue of Tibet's autonomy. .....
  • Jail never a bar for terror mastermind
    • by Ritu Sarin
      On the night of November 28, 2008, as the siege on Mumbai was painfully winding to a close, a call was made to then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee from the 'President of Pakistan'. .....
  • FBI landing with details of Rana, Headley
    • by Pranab Dhal Samanta
      Armed with assurances from US President Barack Obama himself, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan today disclosed that a high-level FBI team will be in India within a week with detailed information and data on the Headley-Rana investigations. .....
  • 'Truth will come out one day'
    • by The Hindustan Times
      Retired bureaucrat Ram Pradhan, who probed lapses of the Mumbai police during 26/11, has said the truth about who did what during the terror attack will come out when his report is made public one day. .....
  • Explain neta-criminal nexus, Court tells Rane
    • by The Hindustan Times
      Revenue Minister Narayan Rane may have tried to wash his hands off his statement about a nexus between politicians and terrorists, but the high court wants an explanation. .....
  • Politicians mess up again
    • by Dharmendra Jore
      The only-by-invitation tribute ceremony that the state government held on Thursday evening at Gateway of India was expected to be a disciplined affair. But as the programme progressed, many attendees felt that the common citizens outside the half-empty state enclosure were far more heartfelt. .....
  • Balle Aiyyo! Mixed matches score high
    • by Saira Kurup
      Neetu P Nair, nee Pahuja, probably never thought she would one day be celebrating Karva Chauth in a Malayali household. But that's what she did this year, dressed in her festive finery. .....
  • Reds extort Rs 2k cr each year in India: C'garh DGP
    • by The Times of India
      Maoists annually extort up to Rs 2,000 crore across India, mostly targeting iron and coal mining companies, infrastructure project contractors and tendu patta businessmen, says Chhattisgarh DGP Vishwa Ranjan. .....
  • Naidu demands JPC probe into Andhra mining scam
    • by The Times of India
      Calling it the biggest scam of all times, TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday demanded a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the mining syndicate run by the Reddy brothers in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. .....
  • SIMI activist kills ATS cop, 2 others in MP
    • by Suchandana Gupta
      Sending shockwaves in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa town, a suspected SIMI activist riding a motorbike on Saturday shot dead three people, including a cop from the state's anti-terror squad. The police are yet to identify the assailant and have launched a manhunt. .....
  • Sikh advocate in Pak stripped, threatened with conversion
    • by Yudhvir Rana
      A Sikh advocate in Pakistan was reportedly thrashed and threatened with dire consequences recently if he did not convert to Islam, forcing his family to run for safety to a gurdwara in Hassanabdal near Rawalpindi. .....
  • 'I can't change Pak attitude on terror. Only pressure can work'
    • by The Times of India
      Chidambaram and defence minister A K Antony - on Friday expressed concern over Pakistan's attitude towards terror groups operating from its soil, stating that the neighbouring country was not doing enough to act against terrorists. .....
  • 'I don't regret Sandeep joining NSG'
    • by Anubha Sawhney Joshi
      His father believed he would have made a successful IT professional. For his mother, he was the best son ever. But since the age of 13, Sandeep Unnikrishnan was sure he wanted to serve the country. And he did, making the ultimate sacrifice on 26/11. .....
  • ACHC briefed on plans to rebuild North
    • by Ananth Palakidnar
      The Government has worked out extensive plans to rebuild the Western Northern Province with enhancing the educational facilities .....
  • Muslim nations seek int'l blasphemy ban
    • by The Times of India
      Four years after cartoons of Prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from .....
  • The good doc revisits Leo's
    • by Nitasha Natu
      Breaking bread at Leopold's is not what he does often. But on Thursday, Dr Akash Akinwar, a lecturer at the dental college in St George's Hospital .....
  • Congress not averse to doing biz with Koda
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      It's a great feeling to stumble upon a real gem. While browsing through a London bookshop last summer, it was chance that my eyes fell on a slim book .....
  • China has tamed India with help from Obama
    • by Swapan Dasgupta
      It's a great feeling to stumble upon a real gem. While browsing through a London bookshop last summer, it was chance that my eyes fell on a slim book .....
  • Indonesian lessons for secular India
    • by Sadanand Dhume
      If you had to pick the place in the Muslim world least susceptible to any kind of religious extremism, it would be hard to find a better candidate than Indonesia .....
  • Terror threat: We have lost the plot
    • by M J Akbar
      The ebb from outrage to rage, its decline to umbrage, and then a drift to amnesia is the narrative of the 12 months since the terrorist assault on Mumbai .....


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