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June Month Articles
- Jirga labels underage
boy, minor girl karo-kari
- by M. B. Kalhoro
It is not only adults who suffer due to harsh verdicts of jirgas (private
courts held by feudal elements) but the medieval justice also forces underage
boys and minor girls to pay a heavy price for sins not committed by them.
....
- Afghan women swap burqas
for police uniforms
- by Daphne Benoit
In the heart of the violent birthplace of the Taliban movement, defying
Afghan convention and family advice, mothers Magola and Faranaze decided
to take up arms. ....
- US fears Pak's elite will
siphon-off aid
- by The Times of India
While the Obama administration prepares to start the flow of billions
of dollars to Pakistan promised under the Kerry Lugar bill, a top US official
has raised several concerns warning over misuse of a significant portion
of the aid. ....
- Pakistan govt, ISI still
supporting Taliban: Report
- by The Times of India
Pakistani military intelligence not only funds and trains Taliban fighters
in Afghanistan but is officially represented on the movement's leadership
council, giving in significant influence over operations, a report said.
....
- Bhopal shows West's double
standards
- by Swapan Dasgupta
The token punishments awarded to the Indian managers and directors of
the now defunct Union Carbide for their culpability in the world's greatest
industrial disaster in Bhopal 26 years ago would have, in the normal course,
attracted enormous global attention. ....
- Anderson freed at Rajivs
bidding: CIA
- by The Times of India
IN A damning revelation in the Bhopal gas tragedy case,declassified CIA
documents of 1984 suggest that Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson was
freed from police custody and allowed to flee to the US at the behest
of the government led by Rajiv Gandhi. ....
- Bhopal ghost haunts Cong
- by Deccan Herald
After days of shrieks and breastbeating over the Bhopal gas verdict, the
ghost of the tragedy that claimed 25,000 lives in 1984 now seems to be
closing in on the Congress. ....
- A Warren of lies surfaces
- by Deccan Chronicle
The decision not to press for the extradition of the then chairman of
Union Carbide Corporation, Mr Warren Anderson, wanted for trial in the
criminal case arising out of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster .....
- MEA advised against arrest
- by The Times of India
Sources said then foreign secretary MK Rasgotra held a meeting with Rajiv
Gandhi and the external affairs ministry advised the prime minister against
the arrest of Mr Anderson. .....
- US Double Standards
- by Navhind Times
THE statement of the All India Congress general secretary, Mr Digvijay
Singh that the then Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr Arjun Singh had
no role in helping the chief executive officer (CEO) of Union Carbide
.....
- Vaishno, Amarnath yatra
gets costlier
- by The New Indian Express
Jammu Pilgrimage to Vaishnodevi and Amarnath shrines will be costlier
from July this year. Jammu and Kashmir government today said Rs 2,000
would be charged as entry fee per vehicle carrying pilgrims to the cave
shrines of Mata Vaishnodevi and Amarnath for a period of 3 days. .....
- Did the Sarasvati river
of exist?
- by Madhusree Chatterjee
Did the mythical Sarasvati river actually exist? Eminent French non-fiction
writer and Indophile Michel Danino suggests that oral tradition, literary
testimony and now a mass of evidence could all be made to converge to
establish that it did. .....
- Criminal collusion
- by The Pioneer
La affaire Warren Anderson, who was the chairman of Union Carbide Corp,
the American parent company of Union Carbide India Ltd when deadly methyl
isocyanate gas leaked from its pesticides factory in Bhopal killing at
least 15,000 people .....
- Centre helped Anderson:
CIA
- by The Pioneer
With evidence pouring in that former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun
Singh acted on the directive of the Rajiv Gandhi Government at the Centre
to bail out former chairman of Union Carbide Corp Warren Anderson, the
Congress is desperate to paint the former MP CM as the sole villain in
the case. .....
- Combating Maoist terror
- by The Pioneer
Maoists kill three people every second day, and their casualty rate is
less than half of what was the number of terrorists killed at the height
of militancy in Jammu & Kashmir. Yet, our policy-makers and 'liberal'
intelligentsia are busy looking out for an ever elusive 'root cause'.
.....
- Pakistani Hindus demand
protection from government
- by The Indian Express
The Pakistan Hindu Council has asked authorities to ensure the protection
of the minority community and its temples even as lawmakers walked out
of the Balochistan assembly to protest the killing of a Hindu trader.
.....
- Dubai sends Mumbai blasts
accused to India
- by Aman Sharma
The CBI on Tuesday succeeded in extraditing underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's
key aide Taher Mohammed Merchant, who had played a pivotal role in the
1993 Mumbai bomb blasts .....
- Sharif's statement on Ahmadis
angers clerics
- by The Express Tribune
Top leaders of an organisation representing Deobandi madrassas across
the country have reprimanded PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif for calling members
of the Ahmadiyya community as "brothers" of Muslims. .....
- 'ISI guided LeT at every
step for 26/11'
- by Diwakar & Vishwa Mohan
Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley has confirmed that Lashkar-e-Taiba
terrorists carried out the Mumbai attack under the "guidance"
of Pakistan's ISI. .....
- Thousands Protest Mega-Mosque
on D-Day!
- by Pamela Geller
Despite weather forecasts of thunderstorms, the skies were clear and beautiful
Sunday afternoon for our Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) rally
against the Ground Zero mega-mosque .....
- India under eclipse: the
political folly - 1
- by Nancy Kaul
The strength of the nation is with its people, its policies, its armed
forces and most importantly, the politicians and leaders who guide the
people and policies at the national and international level .....
- A self-defeating zeal
- by Barbara O'Brien
In the words of Ashoka, whoever praises his own religion and condemns
others only harms his cause .....
- Heavenly Match
- by Smruti Koppikar
ANecessity, in this case, is the mother of reinvention. Hindu almanacs,
popularly called panchangs across the country, are headed for fundamental
changes .....
- Wretched of The Land
- by Amir Mir
As the international media frenetically reported the simultaneous terror
attacks on the two mosques of the Ahmadi community in Lahore .....
- Prisoners convert to Islam
for jail perks
- by Richard Ford
Inmates are converting to Islam in order to gain perks and the protection
of powerful Muslim gangs, the Chief Inspector of Prisons warns today.
.....
- Public lives are public
property
- by Tavleen Singh
If the attitude of the Indian media to Sonia Gandhi were to be summed
up in one word, that word would be reverence. .....
- 57 Pakistani Hindus convert
to Islam 'under pressure'
- by Amir Mir
Over 50 Pakistani Hindus have converted to Islam in the Sialkot district
of Punjab within a week (between May 14 and May 19) under pressure from
their Muslim employers in a bid to retain their jobs and survive in the
Muslim-dominated society. .....
- Headley case: US pats its
own back
- by The Pioneer
Hinting that a key Mumbai terror attack plotter, Pakistani American David
Headley, may be cooperating with Indian investigators, the US says India
would have been very pleased with the US cooperation in the case. .....
- US to Pak: Stop India infiltration,
try 26/11 suspects
- by The Times of India
Underlining its hands off policy on the Kashmir issue, the US has asked
Pakistan to first show progress in stopping cross-border infiltration
into India and the trial of the Mumbai terror attack suspects. .....
- Two Arrested at Kennedy
Airport on Terror Charges
- by William K. Rashbaum
Two New Jersey men who were bound for Somalia with the stated intention
of joining an Islamic extremist group to kill American troops were arrested
at Kennedy International Airport late Saturday, federal and local authorities
said on Sunday. .....
- 7 semesters for terror
trainees
- by Anshuman G Dutta
Recruitment camps in Pakistan prepare tougher courses for spreading hate.
Devise commando training manual to take on Indian security forces .....
- Enemies of the Republic
- by R Vaidyanathan
Assume that Kasab and other terrorists attacked only the Chhatrapati Shivaji
Train station and, say, Dharavi slums. The reaction of the elites would
have been one of commiseration. .....
- German firm insults AP,
won't sell guns
- by Deccan Chronicle
Stating that the Andhra Pradesh state police have a bad human rights record,
the German firm Heckler & Koch, which manufactures small arms and
assault guns, has decided not to supply 9mm pistols and MP5 submachine
guns to the state police. .....
- Why the downfall: Left
plays blind man's buff
- by Bidyut Roy
For the last one year - ever since the bloodbath in the Lok Sabha elections
- CPI(M) bosses in Delhi and Kolkata have hunted desperately for the witches
that have brought the party at the door of political reckoning .....
- 350-crore bribe for power
deal rocks state
- by Santosh Andhale & Sudhir Suryavanshi
Chief Secy summoned by PMO after US authorities name nine MAHAGENCO officials
who received kickbacks from California-based CCI Inc last year .....
- Probing role of 2 in custody,
Italy seeks city update
- by Sagnik Chowdhury
The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has received a request from the Italian
anti-terror police, routed through the Ministry of Home Affairs, seeking
an update on the 26/11 probe so that they can investigate the suspected
involvement of a Pakistani father-son duo arrested in Brescia last November.
.....
- ULFA leader arrested in
Bangladesh
- by The Times of India
Bangladesh has arrested ULFA leader Ranju Chowdhury from a northern district,
months after the chief of the separatist outfit Arbinda Rajkhowa was handed
over to Indian authorities. .....
- Patil wanted delay on Afzal,
hints Sheila
- by Abantika Ghosh
The mystery over why it took four years for the Delhi government to clear
a file related to Afzal Guru's mercy petition finally seems to be unravelling.
.....
- J&K terror outfits
get hawala push
- by Rahul Datta/Mohit Kandhari
Hawala has emerged as a major way of transferring money to terrorist tanzeems
(organisations) like the Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
that are spending big money to keep the militancy pot boiling. .....
- Headley dodges Indian investigators
with law
- by IBN Live.com
Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, who allegedly
acted as a scout for militants who plotted the Mumbai terror attacks,
is not cooperating with Indian authorities interrogating him in Chicago.
.....
- Imam unmosqued
- by Andy Soltis
The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member
of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed
violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week. .....
- Combating Maoist terror
- by SK Sinha
Maoists kill three people every second day, and their casualty rate is
less than half of what was the number of terrorists killed at the height
of militancy in Jammu & Kashmir. .....
- Growth for some, handout
for many
- by Swapan Dasgupta
If economic indicators are any indication, India is a success story in
an otherwise turbulent world. The Finance Minister has revealed that the
GDP rose by 7.4 per cent in 2009-10 and, touch wood, will grow by another
8.5 per cent in this fiscal year. .....
- Did K'taka Guv jump the
gun?
- by Abraham Thomas
The Karnataka Governor's action to pre-decide on the disqualification
of three Ministers - including the Reddy brothers - of the BS Yeddyurappa
Government without referring it first to the Election Commission has raised
questions among legal experts who said the Governor clearly exceeded his
brief. .....
- BOOK EXCERPT: Mass upsurge
in Jammu - 2
- by Hari Om
The BJP was the first to react to the opposition in Kashmir to the land
transfer order. On June 18, 2008, the state unit of BJP denounced Deputy
Chief Minister Muzzaffar Hussain Beig for his stand .....
- India under eclipse: the
political folly - 2
- by Nancy Kaul
For a Nation the people, the constitution, the armed forces and sovereignty
along with territorial integrity are non-negotiable; the political leadership
with its policies and decisions must abide by this. .....
- Pre-Empting An Yenan In
Dantewada
- by B. Raman
The current attrition rate in our counter-insurgency operations against
the Maoists favours the Maoists. The State is on the defensive and is
not making headway in its operations against them. .....
- India to patent yoga asanas
- by Madan Jaira
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has prepared
patent formats of nearly 900 yoga asanas (postures), to prevent European
and American companies involved in fitness-related activities from claiming
them as their own. .....
- Reshuffle threat to Raja
- by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Are Andimuthu Raja's days as Union minister for communications and information
technology numbered? A pro-government newspaper recently claimed that
the controversial DMK minister would lose his portfolio in the next reshuffle
of the Cabinet and council of ministers which is expected before the monsoon
session of Parliament. .....
- Egyptian men married to
Israelis may lose citizenship
- by The Times of India
A top court here on Saturday directed the government to take necessary
steps to strip Egyptian men married to Israelis of their citizenship as
it upheld an earlier ruling over the issue amid growing resentment against
the Jewish state. .....
- Headley dodges Indian investigators
with law
- by IBNLive.com
Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, who allegedly
acted as a scout for militants who plotted the Mumbai terror attacks,
is not cooperating with Indian authorities interrogating him in Chicago.
.....
- 'Epicentre of terror in
our neighbourhood'
- by The Hindu
Without naming Pakistan, India said on Thursday the "epicentre"
of global terrorism was in its neighbourhood and asked the United States
to make sure that no particular extremist group was left out in the fight
against terrorism. ....
- Two Christian aid groups
suspended in Afghanistan
- by Hindustan Times
Afghan authorities suspended two Christian foreign aid groups today on
suspicion of proselytising in the strictly Islamic nation and said a follow-up
investigation would include whether other groups were trying to convert
Muslims. ....
- Qaeda urges Saudis to abduct
royals, Christians
- by HIndustan Times
Al-Qaeda has urged supporters in Saudi Arabia to kidnap Christians and
Saudi princes to press for the release of a female militant the group
says was nabbed north of Riyadh, in an audio message released on Thursday.
....
- Punjabi Taliban getting
more dangerous: Malik
- by The News
Interior Minister Rehman Malik believed that the Punjabi Taliban holed
up in southern Punjab had become more dangerous and were geared up for
large-scale sabotage in the country, Geo TV reported on Wednesday. ....
- No accounting for caste
- by Ravinder Kaur
The consensus of political parties and of senior Congress leaders like
Veerappa Moily and Pranab Mukherjee on including caste in the upcoming
census, is the worst kind of caving into political pressure by other parties
who see this as an opportunity to demand higher quotas for their constituencies.
.....
- Akshardham attack: HC upholds
death for three
- by The Indian Express
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday upheld the Special POTA court's verdict
handing down death sentences to three of the six accused in the 2002 terror
attack in Akshardham Temple, in which 33 people were killed. .....
- Latest target for Congress
censors: book on Sonia's life
- by Charmy Harikrishnan
The Congress's censorship goes on. After objecting to certain parts of
Prakash Jha's movie Rajneeti, the party is now up in arms against Madrid-based
writer Javier Moro's novel based on its president Sonia Gandhi's life.
.....
- LeT man sneaked in as driver
during Patil visit to AP
- by Ritu Sarin
In a startling disclosure, a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative arrested from Hyderabad
on May 3 has told interrogators that for four days in December 2008 he
had driven President Pratibha Patil's son Rajendra Shekhawat around the
city as she paid a two-week official visit to Andhra Pradesh. .....
- For US, India is just a
market
- by Shobori Ganguli
Once feted as a "natural" and "strategic" partner
of the United States, India must prepare to reconcile itself to the changed
terms of relevance that the Americans have now laid out for this partnership.
.....
- The Ahmadiyyas: Pakistan's
silent sufferers
- by Mehmal Sarfraz
The Ahmadis who were killed in a terrorist attack on two Lahore mosques
last week were innocent people and by not raising our voice for their
rights, we as a nation are collectively guilty of their murder, writes
Mehmal Sarfraz from Lahore, in the first of her despatches from across
the border .....
- Two Female Priests Buried
as Church Outsiders
- by Claire Bushey
Female Catholic priests, deemed excommunicate by Rome, buried two of their
own this month, neither one in a Catholic cemetery. "They threw us
away," says a surviving member of Roman Catholic Womenpriests, which
marked its first deaths ......
- 3 flotilla fatalities 'dreamt
of martyrdom'
- by Aviel Magnezi
Before boarding the Marmara, Ali Khaider Benginin told his family he dreamt
of becoming a shahid. Turkish press reports two other slain flotilla participants
expressed similar wish. A Dutch activist arrested on flotilla suspected
of ties with Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood .....
- This Swami is no sex Swami
- by Madhusudan Maney
Four arrested for making a sex CD with a look-alike of Swami Raghaveshwara
Bharathi in order to defame him. .....
- Suspected naxal Nandakumar
arrested
- by The Hindu
N. Nandakumar, alias Rangappa (38), suspected to have been involved in
naxal activity in the border villages of Raichur taluk in the 1990s and
who later was active in the Western Ghats region, has been arrested, the
Shimoga Police announced on Tuesday. ......
- Needed, some clarity
- by Editorial
The debate over whether or not the Maoists were responsible for the attack
on the Gyaneswari Express in West Bengal's West Midnapore district should
end with Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement on the subject. .....
- Pakistan's lie is cast
- by Anil Bhat
Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old US citizen of Pakistani origin, who enjoyed
all the benefits of modern education and a Westernised lifestyle, converted
to Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and attempted a bomb attack at Times Square
......
- Dhanvantri, the divine
doctor
- by Prof AV Narasimha Murthy
SOME years ago I was in Tokyo (Japan) to attend an international conference
on oriental studies which included archaeology and other related subjects
and Ayurveda also. ......
- Muslim preacher of hate
is let into Britain
- by David Leppard
THE home secretary, Theresa May, is facing a stiff test of the Conservative
party's claims to oppose radical Islam after her officials chose to allow
a misogynist Muslim preacher into Britain. ......
- Bleeding Lahore
- by B. Raman
You are right that the "Afghan mission can still be made a worthwhile
one, but not if it is left to drift rudderless". However, it is not
the goals that need to be debated but rather the strategy ......
- The problem lies in Pakistan
- by Aymenn Jawad
You are right that the "Afghan mission can still be made a worthwhile
one, but not if it is left to drift rudderless". However, it is not
the goals that need to be debated but rather the strategy. ......
- Rs 5cr for Nehru, Rajaji
books diverted to Sonia trust
- by Akshaya Mukul
A special audit has found that Rs 5 crore released for special publication
of works on Jawaharlal Nehru and C Rajagopalachari was illegally diverted
to a trust, which is headed by Sonia Gandhi and has the PM and Karan Singh
as trustees. ......
- Ranganath Misra Report:
Boon or Bane for Indian Christians?
- by R L Francis & Joseph G Anthony
The Report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities
(NCRLM), also known as Ranganath Misra Commission Report, has triggered
off bitter controversy in general and fear among the Hindu Scheduled Castes.
......
- Julio Rebeiro accuses 4
top cops of corruption
- by Ravikiran Deshmukh and Deeptiman
Tiwary
A secret letter levelling serious allegations of corruption against some
senior officers in the city police has sent the department into a tizzy.
......
- The ISI plot to depict India
unsafe
- by MD Nalapat
Unless the US understands that the military in Pakistan is part of the
problem, and begins to support moderates in civil society and in the administration,
Pakistan will soon evolve into what Taliban Afghanistan was .....
- Pakistan versus Pakistan
- by The Pioneer
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik never ceases to amaze. Even
before those killed in the massacre perpetrated by suicide bombers and
terrorists affiliated to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan .....
- Felled by terrorists, failed
by State
- by Khursheed Wani
He might have been the 'king of counter-insurgency' in Kashmir, but seven-and-a-half
years after his killing by Lashkar-e-Tayyeba militants, his family continues
to run from pillar to post to get his pension case settled. .....
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