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May Month Articles
- Pak officials know where
Laden is: Clinton
- by The Pioneer
US has said that there are elements in Pakistan's Administration who were
more informed about Al-Qaeda and Taliban than they let on, as Washington
for the first time accused Taliban for being behind the botched Times
Square bombing plot. .....
- Democracy of a high standard
- ancient example
- by Dr. R. Nagaswamy
The inscriptions on the walls of the Sundaravarada temple in Uttiramerur,
near Kanchipuram, show how democracy was practised 1,000 years ago. DR.
R. NAGASWAMY elaborates. .....
- Sena: Smear campaign on
against Hindu groups
- by The Indian Express
THE Shiv Sena is not keen on contesting the legislative council election
from Thane local bodies' constituency. Instead, it may support an independent
candidate against sitting MLC and deputy chairperson of the council Vasant
Davkhare of the NCP. .....
- Fighting Trai: Telcos
to meet next week
- by Shalini Singh
Battered stocks and the prospect of a complete reversal of their fortunes
as a result of Trai's recent recommendations on spectrum management and
licensing issues has forced the telecom top brass to convene an emergency
meeting early next week. .....
- In India, Sometimes News
Is Just a Product Placement
- by Akash Kapur
A businessman I know was approached by representatives of a leading Indian
national newspaper and offered a deal: Give us a stake in your company,
and we'll give you advertising space and favorable editorial coverage.
......
- RSS schools to counter
Madarsas on Indo-Nepal border
- by Manish chandra Pandey
The RSS, which has always demanded a check on the 'mushroom' growth of
the madarsas,specially, on the porous UP-Nepal border, has now hit upon
a novel idea to counter it -- RSS-run Vidya Bharti schools, all along
the roughly 550 kilometer-long-border, eastern UP shares with Nepal. ......
- The Clash of the Yogis
- by Lisa Miller
I don't care much for bland spirituality, so at yoga class I generally
tune out the prelude, when the teacher reads aloud-as is the custom-an
inspirational passage on which to meditate. Recently, though, I was startled
to attention when the teacher chose a paragraph on compassion from the
Dalai Lama's bestseller The Art of Happiness. ......
- Our Pak policy has failed
- by Tavleen Singh
In one of life's mysterious coincidences, a Pakistani tried to blow up
New York's legendary Times Square in the week that our most famous Pakistani
terrorist was sentenced to death in Mumbai. ......
- Shashi Tharoor: Making
A 'Difference'
- by Vinod K. Sharma
Let me say what mainstream media would have screamed had the man involved
had not been a Congressman and, more importantly, one of the many PLUs
(People Like Us - the media that is) who thrive and prosper ......
- The last chance for a
great generation
- by Zaair Hussain
Our young elite are our future leaders. They, too, must be nurtured, must
be directed and beyond all must be given hope that, with them, their country
stands a chance. Hope is the air without which patriotism cannot blaze
......
- Now a fatwa on men working
in banks
- by Piyush Srivastava
After the flip-flop over the fatwa on women working in offices, the Darul
Uloom Deoband has come out with a fresh diktat. And this time it is the
men who will be facing the heat. ......
- SIMI men kill Hyderabad
cop
- by Omer Farooq
In what appears to be a terrorist attack masterminded by SIMI and coinciding
with the third anniversary of bomb blast in Mecca Masjid, three masked
men opened fire at a police picket in old city of Hyderabad killing a
policeman. ......
- 'Next terror attack on
US: postmarked Pak'
- by The Pioneer
A former CIA analyst, who helped President Barack Obama formulate his
Pakistan-Afghanistan policy, sees "a very serious possibility that
the next mass casualty terrorist attack on the United States will be postmarked
'Pakistan.'". ......
- My caste is Indian, declares
Amitabh
- by The Economic Times
While the debate over caste census intensifies with most parties rooting
for it, Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan is clear where he stands on the
controversial issue. If ever asked to mention his caste, he says categorically,
he would be ready with the answer -- Indian. ......
- 3 Pakistanis arrested
in Times Square bomb probe
- by Mark Pratt and Glen Johnson
Three Pakistani men who authorities say supplied funds to Times Square
car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested Thursday in a series of
raids across the Northeast as the FBI followed the money trail in the
failed attack. ......
- A dangerous game
- by The Pioneer
Though it comes as a surprise, US President Barack Obama's recent comment
at a joint Press briefing with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Washington
that Pakistan has a "cancer" gnawing at its innards and it is
this, not India ......
- Towards reducing trust
deficit
- by Chinmaya R. Gharekhan
The people of India are not against talking to Pakistan. What they do
not want is India going into the talks with its eyes closed. ......
- Testing times for US-Pak
relations
- by Swarn Kumar Anand
The bomb may have failed to go off in New York's Times Square, but the
episode blasted the bottom out of the tacit understanding between Washington
and Islamabad to keep Pakistani terror to the world beyond the Atlantic.
......
- 'Hawala' used to fund
terror-plot
- by The Pioneer
South Asians often use an informal network of brokers, called an "hawala,"
to transfer money over long distances when it is too inconvenient or dangerous
to send cash by courier. ......
- Bihar's Super 30 in Time
Magazine best list
- by The Pioneer
Super 30, Bihar's free coaching centre which helps economically backward
students crack the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination
(IIT-JEE), has been selected by The Time Magazine in the list of The Best
of Asia 2010. ......
- Phone call nailed IM role
in Pune blast
- by Sagnik Chowdhury
German bakery blast shortly after blast, Riyaz Bhatkal called a young
IM operative hiding in Nepal to congratulate on the outfit's latest work,
asked him to watch it on TV. ......
- A tale of two calls
- by A tale of two calls
A month before Benazir Bhutto decided to return from exile in 1986 to
challenge the Ziaul Haq dictatorship, I was an 18-year-old student at
a local college in Karachi. Studying economics and commerce, I had also
joined the Pakistan Peoples Party's student-wing, the Peoples Students
Federation (PSF). ......
- Let Pakistan prove its
credibility before talks: BJP
- by IndiaTalkies.com
The Bharatiya Janata Party Thursday questioned the basis on which India
agreed to hold the foreign ministerial level talks with Pakistan, saying
Islamabad should first prove its credibility before any talks are held.
......
- Antony: dialogue fine,
but shut down terror camps
- by The Hindu
While expressing himself in favour of a dialogue with Pakistan, Defence
Minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday called upon it to authenticate its sincerity
in curbing terrorism from its soil by shutting down the terror camps operating
on its eastern borders. ......
- '40 terror camps near
Af-Pak border'
- by Sachin Parashar
The latest authentication of Pakistan's reluctance to rein in terrorists
operating out of its territory has come from Russian ambassador to India
Alexander M Kadakin: around 40 terror camps are still active in the Pakistan-Afghanistan
border areas and Islamabad is yet to dismantle them. ......
- Catharsis of a Non-Muslim
Indian as impressions of Islam fade away!
- by Catharsisofindian.Freedombulwark.net
Like most of the Indians, I too had a non-violent upbringing. My perception
of Mr. Bush's war on Iraq was that it was a blatant act of aggression
in a sense that the Muslim population was paying for the greed of the
rich to convert the Oil rich countries into consumer markets. ......
- How Bam's losing India
- by Arthur Herman
Some people weren't at all surprised to see a Pakistani- American trained
in Paki stan terrorist camps trying to blow up Times Square. These are
the families of the 173 killed in the Mumbai bombing two years ago --
and those of a Pakistan-linked bombing in Puna that killed 17 in February.
......
- Chilean police detain
Pakistani in US Embassy
- by Federico Quilodran
Traces of explosives were found on a Pakistani man who was summoned to
the U.S. Embassy because his U.S. visa had been revoked, authorities said
Tuesday, and a Chilean judge ordered him held in a high-security prison
under anti-terrorism laws. ......
- Jairam's taunting bluster
- by The Pioneer
The Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh,
is suffering from a serious attack of foot-in-mouth disease. ......
- Shahzad has links to Pak
Taliban: US
- by The Pioneer
The US has turned up independent evidence that ties Faisal Shahzad, the
Pakistani-American suspect in the attempted bombing in New York's Times
Square, to the Pakistani Taliban militant group, according to a media
report. ......
- Why Karunanidhi can't
ditch 'Spectrum Raja'
- by Shekhar Iyer
When DMK chief M. Karunanidhi invoked the Dalit card to brush off the
demand for Telecom Minister Andimuthu Raja's resignation, no one in the
DMK expected him to act otherwise - even if controversies relating to
the 2G spectrum allocations were hitting the ceiling. ......
- Islam's Nowhere Men
- by Fouad Ajami
Millions like Faisal Shahzad are unsettled by a modern world they can
neither master nor reject. ......
- Made for each other
- by The Pioneer
The US has once again demonstrated how weak-kneed it can be while dealing
with Pakistan and its global enterprise of exporting terror. ......
- Tharoor attends Rendezvous
Sports World meet
- by The Pioneer
Shashi Tharoor who had to resign as Union Minister in the wake of IPL
controversy on Tuesday attended a meeting of the Rendezvous Sports World
which owns the competition's latest team Kochi. ......
- How much sleaze can you
spare, brother?
- by M. J. Akbar
"My case is cleared, na?" said the politician who wanted to
be telecom minister to the lobbyist for a telecom major four days before
the present Union Cabinet was sworn in last summer. The middle-woman,
Nira Radia, was coy and comforting in her first-name-basis response: "Your
case was cleared last night only." .....
- Pakistan's New Generation
of Terrorists
- by Jayshree Bajoria
As an increasing number of suicide attacks rock Pakistan's major cities,
concerns for the country's security are rising. In recent years, many
new terrorist groups have emerged .....
- Pakistan-Based Terrorism:
Diminishing Us Options
- by B. Raman
The US is faced with diminishing options in its efforts to neutralise
Al Qaeda, the Talibans and other terrorist organisations operating from
North Waziristan in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of
Pakistan. .....
- Mumbai's forsaken probe
- by Sandhya Jain
Judge M.L. Tahaliyani's decision to acquit the alleged Indian collaborators
of Ajmal Amir Kasab for lack of evidence reveals serious lacunas in the
investigations into the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008. .....
- Root cause is political
Islam
- by Kanchan Gupta
Those who abhor instant coffee, even if it's a designer brand with a fancy
prize tag marketed by Nescafe, would also have a distaste for instant
news analysis. .....
- Stink rises from Ambani
gas deal
- by Chintu Jaipuria
The Indian media has again missed the woods for the trees. When it includes
the mainstream financial newspapers, the miss appears deliberate. .....
- A letter Full of Agony
- by Narendra Modi
Few days back, a book named "Saamajik Samrasata", based on my
speeches and articles was dedicated to people. .....
- The follies of Hindu denial
- by Vamsee Juluri
I wonder if the followers of any other faith in America have to live with
the absurdity of hearing constantly that their religion does not exist.
Add to that an irony .....
- India, UK united in self-destruction
- by Swapan Dasgupta
Those who followed the enthralling uncertainties of last week's British
politics may have been struck by the lengths to which Prime Minister Gordon
Brown and his colleagues were willing to go to stay on in power. .....
- UP-born Pak national funding
Al Qaeda, Taliban: US
- by Rediff News
The Obama Administration has slapped sanctions on two Karachi-based Pakistani
nationals, one of them was born in India, for allegedly providing financial
support to terrorist activities of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. .....
- Terrorism's Supermarket
- Why Pakistan keeps exporting jihad.
- by News Week
Faisal Shahzad, the would-be terrorist of Times Square, seems to have
followed a familiar path. Like many earlier recruits to jihad, he was
middle-class, educated, seemingly assimilated-and then something happened
that radicalized him. ......
- Obama's good luck terrorism
strategy
- by Arjun Sharma
Militants operating in the far- flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir have
apparently turned love into a currency to build their network, again.
......
- J& K ultras building
network with love
- by Arjun Sharma
Militants operating in the far- flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir have
apparently turned love into a currency to build their network, again.
......
- Our Pak policy has failed
- by Tavleen Singh
In one of life's mysterious coincidences, a Pakistani tried to blow up
New York's legendary Times Square in the week that our most famous Pakistani
terrorist was sentenced to death in Mumbai.
......
- Maoists run for cover
- by The Pioneer
It is fast becoming clear that Nepal's Maoists no longer have the clout
they once had. That they have been marginalised, both politically and
socially was evident when tens of thousands of ordinary Nepalis came out
onto the streets of Kathmandu in defiance of the indefinite strike called
by the Maoists. ......
- Twisted mind of a jihadi
- by Balbir K Punj
The guilty verdict - followed by the death sentence - that was handed
down to 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab coincided with the failed car
bomb plot targeting New York's Times Square.
......
- ISI relying on women for
fresh lease of life in J&K
- by Mohit Kandhari
Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is fast multiplying and
strengthening its 'terror' network in Jammu and Kashmir to give boost
to the sagging morale of the militant cadre as several of their militant
commanders were eliminated by the security forces in clinical operations
in the recent months. ......
- More murky twists to Raja
tale
- by J Gopikrishnan
In February this year, the CBI probe unit handling the spectrum scam laid
its hands on highly incriminating evidence that indicated transfer of
scam money to secret accounts in Switzerland and other countries, but
under political pressure the 'lead' has been conveniently buried.
......
- Jihadis unite to unleash
terror
- by Hiranmay Karlekar
A report by Mark Mazetti and Scott Shane in The New York Times of May
5, 2010, stated that according to some officials, there was as yet no
"smoking gun" pointing to the involvement of the Tehreek-i-Taliban
Pakistan or the Pakistani Taliban in the attempted.
......
- Will contest next elections:
Musharraf
- by The Pioneer
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has unveiled his plans to return
to active politics, saying he would contest the next general election
in Pakistan whenever it is held.
......
- Terror sympathizers urged
to surrender
- by Sultan Al-Tamimi
The Ministry of Interior has again called on Al-Qaeda supporters and sympathizers
to hand themselves in. The call follows the surrender earlier this week
of an Al-Qaeda sympathizer who has not been named.
......
- Jhansi is the new Rani
- by Saurabh Tankha
This dust bowl town is talking IT parks, ultra-modern colonies, a golf
course and is poised on the edge of an infrastructure and education boom.
Saurabh Tankha reports on its changing face ......
- Unable to swallow, unwilling
to throw up
- by Chandan Mitra
Caught in a cusp between old and new worlds, India's interface with caste
remains schizophrenic 60 years after adopting a republican Constitution
......
- More murky twists to Raja
tale
- by J Gopikrishnan
In February this year, the CBI probe unit handling the spectrum scam laid
its hands on highly incriminating evidence that indicated transfer of
scam money to secret accounts in Switzerland and other countries, but
under political pressure the 'lead' has been conveniently buried.
......
- New Yorkers Wary Of Future
Ground Zero Mosque
- by KDKA.com
In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought
down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some
see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning,
peaceful religious population.
......
- Woman alleges capture,
threats by parents
- by Denise Dick
A Campbell woman of Yemeni descent says she was abducted by her parents
and taken to Hermitage, Pa., where they threatened to send her back to
her homeland. ....
- The cost of compromise
- by Prabhu Chawla
The Congress may have outplayed a divided Opposition in Parliament but
the victory only highlights the paralysis of governance and time for Manmohan
Singh and Sonia Gandhi to assert their political authority. ......
- The Science Crusade
- by Stephen David
It's a balmy, enervating morning as award-winning scientist Chintamani
Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, 76, explains molecular structures to a group of
young students. ......
- Pakistanis pose as Indians
after NY bomb scare
- by Walden Siew
Pakistani merchants and job seekers in the United States, still reeling
from economic hardship since the September 11 attacks of 2001, are posing
as Indians to avoid discrimination in the wake of the Times Square bomb
attempt. ......
- Noakhali's Darkest Hour
- by Andrew Whitehead
On the outskirts of the once mainly Hindu village of Jayag is a zamindar's
house, ringed by fish ponds and patrolled by monitor lizards so large
that the hens squawk in alarm at their approach. ......
- Wait, Kasab's execution
may take years
- by IBN Live.com
The death sentence given to Ajmal Amir Kasab may take years to be executed
as the lone captured terrorist of Mumbai attacks could be 30th in the
list of prisoners who are waiting to be sent to the gallows. ......
- Beyond Times Square: Pakistani
Terrorism Targets U.S.
- by Bobby Ghosh
Not long ago, a bomb attack on New York City's Times Square would have
had intelligence officials and terrorism experts checking off the usual
suspects among the sources of terrorist plots against the U.S. ......
- The many sins of A Raja
- by Mahesh Uppal
A Raja's defence on the giving away of valuable 2G mobile licences in
2008 at 2001 prices, claiming he followed established policy and regulator's
advice demonstrates the frivolousness of decision-making in the telecom
sector. ......
- Tightening of the Noose
- by Ajay Chrungoo
On May 4, BJP spokesperson Tarun Vijay astonished Kashmiri Hindus by arriving
in Srinagar and stating that the anger of the Kashmiri [read Muslim] youth
needs to be channelised into employment avenues. ......
- Shahzad has done a noble
job, says Pakistan Taliban
- by Rediff News
Najibullah Zazi , a 25-year-old Afghan citizen with permanent resident
status in the US, was arrested by the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) in September 2009 on a charge of belonging to an Al Qaeda motivated
and trained cell, which was allegedly planning suicide bombings in the
New York City subway system. ......
- Terror in NY: a JeM link?
- by B. Raman
Najibullah Zazi , a 25-year-old Afghan citizen with permanent resident
status in the US, was arrested by the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) in September 2009 on a charge of belonging to an Al Qaeda motivated
and trained cell, which was allegedly planning suicide bombings in the
New York City subway system. ......
- 'Raja discussed Cabinet
berths with PR woman'
- by The New Indian Express
A television channel on Wednesday played tapes to prove that MP Kanimozhi
was also in touch with Nira Radia, the high-profile PR person who has
been in the news following reports that she had negotiated with Union
Telecom Minister A Raja in getting 2G Spectrum for her clients. ......
- HC refuses stay on airing
of Radia-Raja tapes
- by India Today
The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to put a stay on an application
filed by corporate lobbyist Nira Radia against Headlines Today over the
airing of audio tapes in which she was heard lobbying to get A. Raja a
berth as telecom minister in the UPA cabinet. ......
- Money in black & white
- by Rajinder Puri
THE most damaging weakness of India's political class is its lack of credibility.
Regardless of the truth, people at large are convinced that the entire
political class is corrupt. ......
- Capital paradoxes
- by S. Prasannarajan
The true mark of a conviction politician is his ability to defy the system.
In Delhi 2010, the distance between pretence and principle is being reduced
by the banality of power. ......
- From the editor-in-chief
- by Aroon Purie
There was a visual paradox in the Lok Sabha during the cut motions introduced
by the Opposition on rising prices. The motions were defeated comfortably
but Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
looked surprisingly grim. ......
- Pak producing 10,000 jihadists
a year: Report
- by The Indian Express
Pakistan is still producing an estimated 10,000 potential jihadis a year
despite claims made by Islamabad of taking strong action against terrorists
in the country. ......
- Tearing Away the Veil
- by Jean-François Copé
Momentum is building in Europe for laws forbidding the wearing of garments
that cover the face, like the Islamic burqa and niqab, in public. Just
last week, the lower house of the Belgian Parliament overwhelmingly passed
a ban on face coverings. ......
- UPA wins vote, loses credibility
- by Raghu Krishnan
THE Congress-led UPA coalition government has defeated the cut motion
moved on the finance bill by a majority of over 80 votes in the Lok Sabha.
......
- 1984 revisited!
- by Mythili Bhusnurmath
THE biggest test in any civilised society is, and always has been, the
question of how it balances the rights of individuals with that of the
larger society, as reflected in the authority of the State. ......
- Victims' kin seek death
penalty
- by The Pioneer
Smita, the widow of senior police officer Vijay Salaskar who was killed
while fighting the terrorists on November 26, 2008, said, "Kasab
should be hanged." ......
- Over 2200 people return
Hindu fold in Gujarat
- by The Organiser
More than 2200 people belonging to 384 families of 20 villages returned
home on March 20 at a function organised at Sutarpada village under Kapvada
teshil of Valsad district. ......
- Why Pakistan Produces Jihadists
- by Sadanand Dhume
Carved out of the Muslim-majority areas of British India in 1947, it was
the world's first modern nation based solely on Islam. ......
- The triangular tale: 'Am
I in Cabinet?'
- by The New Indian Express
Excerpted transcript of the purported conversation PR firm head Nira Radia
had with A Raja and Kanimozhi during the UPA II ministry forming exersise.
......
- Why Would Anyone Want to
Blow Up Times Square?
- by Daniel Pipes
When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, politicians, law enforcement,
and the media invariably presume that the perpetrator suffers from some
mental or emotional incapacity. ......
- Failed NY bomber admits
Pak link
- by The Pioneer
A Pakistani American suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing has
admitted he attempted to detonate a bomb at the New York landmark and
had received bomb-making training in Pakistan, according to court charges
filed against him. ......
- Surrendering to America
- by Shobori Ganguli
Maoist sympathisers in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday
night laid siege to the cavalcade of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram,
who was on the campus to address a seminar on the Maoist threat. ......
- Chidambaram heckled at
JNU before anti-Naxal meet
- by The Pioneer
Maoist sympathisers in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday
night laid siege to the cavalcade of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram,
who was on the campus to address a seminar on the Maoist threat. ......
- Shahzad trained at Pak
terror camp
- by S Rajagopalan
Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad has admitted to receiving bomb-making
training in a terrorist camp in Waziristan before he embarked on his failed
mission to detonate a crudely assembled car bomb in New York's Times Square
last Saturday. ......
- The Path Rarely Taken
- by Dola Mitra
Officially, Lalgarh town has three schools-a primary, a secondary and
a higher secondary school. It also boasts one rural hospital and, according
to the official in charge ......
- The State At The Doorstep
- by Smita Gupta
Development is all. In Jehanabad district, the Nitish government's efforts
pushes the Maoists to the margins. ......
- Centre, Pawar dragged into
PIL on IPL
- by The Pioneer
The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed that Union of India be made
a party to the PIL filed by Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai regarding levy
of entertainment tax on Indian Premier League (IPL). ......
- On hire, a Floridian leveller
- by Anju Agnihotri Chaba
Shingara Singh owns around six acres in a village in Kapurthala district.
Over the years, he had seen the productivity of his field decrease drastically.
......
- Astrology is 4,000-yr science:
Centre
- by Shibu Thomas
Coming out in support of astrology, palmistry and vaastu shastra, the
Union government on Wednesday told the Bombay high court that these were
ancient and "time-tested science'' and there was no reason to ban
their practice. ......
- We, The Eavesdropped
- by Saikat Datta
The government has been tapping the cellphone conversations of these prominent
political leaders ......
- Daylight at The Thousand-Star
Hotel
- by B.G. Verghese
The CRPF massacre in Dantewada was brutal though avoidable, with two beheadings
thrown in for bestiality. The Rammohan inquiry will tell us more about
what happened. ......
- Coalition dharma or double
standards?
- by The Pioneer
The whispers in the corridors of Parliament are getting louder. As the
Government shows no signs of sacking scam-tainted Telecom Minister A Raja,
Congress MPs feel that party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh would never have given a Congress Minister such a long
rope. ......
- The West is rooting for
the Gandhis
- by Dr Jay Dubashi
The tie between the Western establishment and the Nehru-Gandhis is very
strong and goes back almost a century. It is not merely a coincidence
that all the Nehru-Gandhis studied in England, though, we should say,
spent their time than studied. ......
- Government not for caste
census
- by Sujay Mehdudia and Siddharth Varadarajan
Despite the growing demand for collection of caste-wise data during the
ongoing Census exercise, the Union government has decided there will be
no change in the way the population is being enumerated. ......
- Ban the burqa in India
too
- by BK Verma
This refers to the editorial, "Belgium's bold step" (May 3).
Indeed, Belgium's initiative towards banning the antediluvian symbol of
a perverse social order that is the burqa is laudatory. ......
- A Pakistani, again!
- by The Pioneer
The arrest of a Pakistan-born American man over Saturday's failed car
bomb plot in New York's Times Square should be ample motivation for the
US Government to rethink Pakistan's position in its anti-terrorism policy.
......
- New car, wife after each
heist
- by The Pioneer
There is a new 'super thief' in the Capital's crime horizon. Ikramul Sheikh
aka Minta, the 37-year-old Bangladeshi national, has left behind a unique
trail for cops across the four northern States ......
- Pakistan's footprint, Mumbai
to Manhattan
- by S Rajagopalan
In a dramatic breakthrough in the failed Times Square bomb plot investigation,
the US authorities arrested a Pakistani American just as he was trying
to flee the country by boarding a flight to Dubai from New York's JFK
Airport in the wee hours of Tuesday. ......
- CBI wants trial against
Sajjan Kumar
- by The Pioneer
CBI on Tuesday sought initiation of trial of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar
and others in a Delhi court in 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases, alleging the
members of a particular community were targeted by them during the carnage.
......
- Hyderabad HITEC city on
LeT radar
- by The Pioneer
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba was planning bomb attacks on the HITEC
City, a major IT township here, and the office of a multinational auditing
firm. ......
- Times Square bomb suspect
admits he was trained in Pakistan
- by The Pioneer
A Pakistani American suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing has
admitted he attempted to detonate a bomb at the New York landmark and
had received bomb-making training in Pakistan, according to court charges
filed against him. .....
- Dhaka raps to a new tune
- by Rudroneel Ghosh
The youth in Bangladesh are slowly finding their voice and some are making
it heard through Bangla rap/hip hop. That's a comment on Bangladeshi politics,
society and economy. .....
- LeT operative held: Police
Commissioner
- by The Hindu
The week-long massive hunt by Hyderabad police for a terrorist targeting
the State capital paid off on Monday when they busted a sleeper cell of
Laskhar-e-Taiba by arresting its operative Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, police
claimed on Monday. ....
- "It's a message to
Pakistan"
- by The Hindu
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday said the conviction of Pakistani
terrorist Ajmal Kasab and the acquittal of two persons in the 26/11 case
showed India is governed by rule of law. ....
- Political perversion
- by The Pioneer
Whether it is in the case of Telecom Minister A Raja or former Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and his successor, the conduct of the
Central Bureau of Investigation has evoked disquiet. ....
- Ties with Pakistan 'absolutely
vital': US
- by Thenews.com.pk
The US partnership with Pakistan is "absolutely vital" but it
extends beyond Washington's security interest in the region to wide-ranging
areas, including support for Islamabad's key energy and water requirements,
a top American official told Congress. ....
- Pakistan wastes 1/3rd of
Indus water it gets, admits Qureshi
- by The Times of India
Pakistan, which has often accused India of stealing its share of Indus
waters, has said the authorities within this country have a tendency to
"pass the buck" and exaggerate differences with New Delhi on
the issue. ....
- Mogadishu mosque blasts
kill 39
- by Abdi Guled
Two explosions at a mosque in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday
killed 39 worshippers, wounded scores more and hurt a senior member of
the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab rebels. ....
- Jamiat's hooliganism
- by Dawn
Enough is enough. The hooliganism of the Punjab chapter of the Islami
Jamiat Tulaba needs to be checked forthwith and immediate efforts are
required to rein in the elements inclined towards violence that call the
shots in that student organisation. ....
- Four Indians convicted
in Bangladesh were militants: Police
- by The Times of India
Four Indians convicted of arms smuggling and imprisoned for 17 years in
Bangladesh last week are members of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation
Council (HNLC), a militant outfit in Meghalaya, a senior police official
said on Sunday. ....
- Belgium's bold step
- by The Pioneer
The Belgian Lower House of Parliament's vote banning women from wearing
the burqa in public is a truly commendable step which deserves to be emulated.
....
- 'Minister involved in illegal
arms deal'
- by The Pioneer
A united opposition on Monday stalled proceedings in the Rajya Sabha pressing
the government to come clear on the name of a union minister alleged to
have links with a Bangladeshi arms dealer. ....
- Taliban threatens US in
new video: SITE
- by The Pioneer
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who was believed killed in
January, vowed attacks on the US in a new video dated early April, the
SITE monitoring group said on Monday. ....
- All lines on this route
are blocked
- by Chandan Mitra
Despite an open-and-shut case of massive corruption against him, Telecom
Minister A Raja survives thanks to coalition 'compulsions' .....
- Tapping is serious, not
gossip item
- by Swapan Dasgupta
It is a commentary on the state of public life that the revelations of
widespread phone interception by federal agencies, which the Home Minister
has tacitly acknowledged .....
- This exacerbates the confusion
of the Desi GenNext
- by Somanjana C. Bhattacharya
The misrepresentation of Yoga in the West as just another weight loss,
stress-busting regime burdens the young Hindu American with more stereotypes
about India and forces him to wander rootless through life .....
- Obama has his way
- by The Pioneer
They met on the sidelines of the SAARC summit and came away grinning from
ear to ear. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart
Yousuf Raza Gilani seem to be making up for the frost in India-Pakistan
relations that followed the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai. .....
- IPS officer was Sohrabuddin's
extortion partner: CBI
- by The Indian Express
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said IPS officer Abhay Chudasama,
who was arrested on Wednesday, ran an extortion racket with Sohrabuddin
Sheikh and was the prime conspirator in the abduction and murder of Sheikh
and his wife Kauserbi. .....
- Pak closer to a nation under
siege: US
- by IBNLive.com
Having pumped billions of dollars in military assistance and rushing guerrilla
warfare experts to train soldiers to shore up Pakistan's capabilities
to tackle militancy .....
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