by Krista Mahr
Nobody in Gah Can Quite remember when the village’s most famous house was torn down. Today, only a canopy of acacia trees and a patch of garbage mark the spot where Manmohan Singh grew up, destined to become Prime Minister of India. ....
by The Indian Express
An unidentified person donated two diamonds worth Rs 1.18 crore at Sri Saibaba temple here, Saibaba trust officials said here today. ....
by A. L. Bardach
By the late 1960s, the most famous writer in America had become a recluse, having forsaken his dazzling career. Nevertheless, J.D. Salinger often came to Manhattan, staying at his parents' sprawling apartment on Park Avenue and 91st Street. ....
by Matthew Hilburn
Hindu-Americans have the highest socioeconomic levels among all religions in the United States, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life. ....
by BBC.co.uk
Three international aid agencies in Bangladesh have been told to stop providing aid to Muslim Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Burma. ....
by Presi Mandari
For Beringin Kusuma whose living quarters are only a short distance from a mosque, the Muslim month of Ramadan is not only a time for fasting, but also for plugging his ears before bed every night. ....
by The Times of India
It was festival time in the city on Thursday as families celebrated Raksha Bandhan with great fervour. Most schools and colleges remained closed on the occasion while sweet shops and gift stores cashed in on the festive boom to report 25%-40% increase in sales. Special mithais and gift boxes of assorted chocolates sold like hotcakes this year according to some store managers. ....
by Anant Zanane
After Mayawati's controversial parks and memorials, the Akhilesh Yadav government has commissioned a park of its own. While the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has not announced the cost of the park, the government says it will fund the project. ....
by Ananth Krishnan
A 26-year-old Tibetan woman and a 21-year-old monk were reported to have set themselves on fire in the Gansu and Sichuan provinces of western China this week, overseas groups said on Tuesday.This raises the number of self-immolations in Tibetan areas to at least 46 since the wave of protests began in March 2011. ....
by Virendra Parekh
India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was united for the first time by the British. says Virendra Parekh in his maiden column to Folks Magazine. ....
by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz with Irfan Al-Alawi
To many non-Muslims, the existence of an Islamic community on the island of Sri Lanka may be surprising. Sri Lanka has been known for the past three decades as the scene of an atrocious civil war. ....
by IBNLive.com
Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab and key 26/11 handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal were on Thursday questioned together by the police at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. ....
by The Assam Tribune
The Union Government was today severely pulled up by a Delhi Court for its failure to act against three crore illegal Bangladeshi migrants, staying here and enjoying the privileges meant for Indian citizens, reports PTI. ....
by The Indian Express
In yet another shocking statement emerging from supremo Mulayam Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP) stables, a senior leader has virtually given official sanction to administrators to steal. ....
by The Indian Express
Pakistan is increasingly being cornered with proof that the Mumbai attack was planned on its territory and links with 'state actors' is being brought into the public sphere. ....
by IBNLive.com
The Indian High Commission in Islamabad and Pakistan's Interior Ministry has denied media reports that 250 Hindus were planning to flee the country. However, some Pakistan Hindus who have come to India as pilgrims say they do not want to return to Pakistan. ....
by The Hindu
The TDP on Friday demanded that Andhra Pradesh Labour Minister Danam Nagender be immediately removed from the state Cabinet, against whom, a criminal case has been filed for allegedly abusing police officers on duty and locking up the main gate of a temple at Banjara Hills here on Thursday. ....
by The Indian Express
Tibet is among the most sensitive issues in US-China relations, a Congressional report has said, claiming that Beijing lobbies strenuously to prevent world leaders from meeting the Dalai Lama. ....
by Rashmi Rajput
Abu Jundal, the 26/11 handler who is in jail in Mumbai, has made some startling revelations to the Mumbai Police. Sources say Jundal has told his interrogators that terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba is planning to carry out aerial attacks on Indian cities and has trained 150 paragliders for this. ....
by Presi Mandari
For Beringin Kusuma whose living quarters are only a short distance from a mosque, the Muslim month of Ramadan is not only a time for fasting, but also for plugging his ears before bed every night. ....
by IBNLive.com
BJP on Saturday refused to get drawn into the issue of whether Rahul Gandhi should be inducted into Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet, saying this is a prerogative of the government and the opposition is not concerned with it. ....
by Bibek Debroy
Angus Maddison (1926-2010) accomplished the impossible. He dragged estimates for population, GDP, GDP and per capita GDP back to 1 CE. ....
by Rahul Tripathi & Manu Pubby
Arms dealer Abhishek Verma may have claimed in a Delhi court that Congress leader Jagdish Tytler was using his political connections to keep him in jail, but it turns out that Verma introduced the Congress leader to his foreign contacts as “Indian VVIP” and “General Secretary”. ....
by Madhav Nalapat
Selvarasa Pathmanathan or "KP" (56) was LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's oldest and most trusted associate, first coming in contact with him in 1976. In 1982, Prabhakaran sent him to Chennai in India to coordinate funding for the group as well as procurement of weapons, explosives and other materiel needed for LTTE operations in Sri Lanka. ....
by Rashmi Rajput
24 people have been arrested in Mumbai for Saturday's violence near Azad Maidan. Two people were killed and 55 others were injured after a protest over ethnic clashes in Assam turned violent there. Investigation is now on to determine if the violence was planned and the protesters were armed. ....
by India Today
Kasab told the Mumbai Police on November 29, 2008, that he was trained by LeT and had met its chief Hafiz Saeed as well as military commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. He~so detailed the entire Journey of the attack team from Karachi to Mumbai. The LeT brass asked them to kill as many people as they could, he added. ....
by India Today
Then - “There is more to it than meets the eye. There should be a probe into Hemant Karkare's killing during 26/11. I have done India proud by raising the question.”
Now - That was a genuine mistake. Multiple theories were floating in the aftermath of the attack, especially the one revolving around Hemant Karkare's death. ....
by Yudhvir Rana
Amidst confusion over the travel plans of 223 Pakistani Hindus who arrived in India in two batches on Friday and Saturday following reports of their persecution, another Hindu family - husband, wife and four children from Sibi district in Balochistan (Pakistan) said goodbye to their friends, relatives and their country with the intent to settle in India. ....
by The Pioneer
The influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants into the North-Eastern States has not only changed the demographic profile of a number of districts in the region, but has also led to proliferation of Islamist fundamentalist outfits that have a long-term aspiration of creating an exclusive homeland for their community. ....
by MD Nalapat
Gurgaon and Kokhrajar represent "Maino Bharat", a country that has significantly degenerated after undiluted Sonia Gandhi rule was established in 2004. Of course, her influence on matters of governance has been present from the 1980s, since the passing away of Sanjay Gandhi. ....
by Dr R Balashankar
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has made corruption a way of life with government in the last eight years. UndPer him India has witnessed loot of public wealth, unprecedented in history. International agencies on financial integrity like Global Financial Integrity and Asymmetric Threat Contingency Alliance (ATCA) claim that India ranks first in the money stolen and parked in tax havens abroad. ....
by Aseem Bassi
Tears were streaming down Mukesh Kumar Ahuja’s face as he stepped off the Samjhauta Express here on Monday with his wife and four children. Whether they were tears of relief on feeling safe on Indian soil or pain on being compelled to leave what was once his homeland, one couldn’t tell. ....
by Saroj Pathirana
The monk in charge of the Buddhist shrine inside the Olympic Village says it is a privilege to look after the psychological well-being of more than 500 Buddhists in the Village. ....
by Devdutt Pattanaik
Tantra uses geometrical patterns to communicate wisdom. A dot, the most elemental geometrical pattern, like a woman’s bindi, represents potential. Lines swept horizontally, seen on Shiva’s forehead represents death and destruction. A vertical line stretched upwards, the tilak, as on Vishnu’s forehead, represents growth. ....
by Debabrata Mohanty
Days before the CPI(Maoist) central committee expelled top Orissa leader Sabyasachi Panda for “betraying the party and the revolution”, he had written to the leadership about mindless killings by cadres, harassment from seniors and general disenchantment. ....
by Mohammed Wajihuddin
A host of Sunni groups have come under sharp criticism from community leaders for collaborating with a fringe organization which took lead in organizing Saturday's protest rally at Azad Maidan. Madinat-ul-Ilm (House of Knowledge), a little-known socio-religious outfit which is not even registered and runs from a rented room at Kurla, had secured police permission for the protest meeting which turned violent. ....
by Ambarish Mishra
The Shiv Sena mouthpiece, Saamna, has slammed the Congress-led DF government for "bowing" before the "anti-national" Muslims who went on the rampage in south Mumbai. In its editorial on Monday, Saamna described the violence as a "grand rehearsal" of the infamous 26/11 attack on Mumbai. ....
by Linah Baliga
The mob that went on the rampage on Saturday didn't leave the Martyrs' Memorial outside Azad Maidan that stood a mute witness to history being ground to the dust. The rioters desecrated the monument built in memory of Syed Hussain and Mangal Gadia—two Indian soldiers who were blown apart by a canon in October 1857 by the British during what is called the first war of independence. ....
by NDTV.com
The Mumbai police is now using MiD DAY lensman Atul Kamble's photographs in its massive hunt for protestors who damaged the memorial at Azad Maidan dedicated to sepoys martyred in the 1857 mutiny. ....
by Daily Excelsior
The Supreme Court today asked Jammu and Kashmir Government to finish construction of roads and widening of passage to the Amarnath shrine before snowfall. ....
by Daily Excelsior
Fake Indian currency notes are being used by Pakistan-based terror groups for financing their activities in India, the Lok Sabha was informed today. ....
by NDTV.com
Bodies bruised and battered, bones broken, but spirits undaunted. At least 62 police personnel - three of them women - were injured in the violence at Azad Maidan on Saturday. ....
by The Telegraph
A housewife saved a man and his nine-year-old son from drowning in the swollen Kaljani river by jumping into the water and tying the sari she was wearing around the father’s waist. ....
by N. Anand
The Srirangam temple complex fulfils six out of 10 criteria for declaration as a world heritage site of UNESCO, according to an expert Roopmathi Anand. ....
by Swapan Dasgupta
It is not going to be a happy Independence Day for the many lakhs (estimates range from 2.5 to four lakhs) of people in makeshift refugee camps in the Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts of Assam. The state, chief minister Tarun Gogoi has ominously proclaimed, is “living on a volcano”, with the possibility of sectarian violence being aggravated by a bewildering array of armed groups linked to one or another ethnic group. ....
by Bibek Debroy
Angus Maddison (1926-2010) accomplished the impossible. He dragged estimates for population, GDP, GDP and per capita GDP back to 1 CE. ....
by Arun Prakash
The media flutter caused by a recent missive from Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) Admiral Nirmal Verma to the defence minister, expressing dismay about the omission of a military representative on the committee to examine the armed forces’ pay and pension anomalies, is uncalled for. ....
by The Indian Express
Mumbai was put on high alert on Saturday after two persons were killed and 54 injured when a protest by a Muslim organisation over “atrocities” against the community in Myanmar and Assam turned violent. ....
by Manasi Phadke
Policemen trying to control the rioting mob at Azad Maidan on Saturday afternoon were among the 50-odd people injured in the incident. They were mostly hit by stones protesters pelted at them and they were hit on the head, legs, back and stomach. Of the 54 injured, 45 were policemen. Eight of them suffered serious head injuries. Their condition was reported to be stable. ....
by Tavleen Singh
She spoke. Not only did she speak, she had a hissy fit in the Lok Sabha. India’s most powerful political leader speaks so rarely that I watched in wonder as she berated L K Advani for daring to call her government ‘illegitimate’. ....
by Aditya Iyer
Like nails on a blackboard, two pairs of feet squeak on the glassy wooden floor. Fluttering towards the young girl, the shuttle drops without notice. Under-developed muscles notwithstanding, she reaches for it with a racquet her size and lobs it beautifully back towards the man, four times her age and wit. ....
by N V Shoba
For the internet to really matter to Indians, it must speak to them in their own language. But this is easier said than done in a country with 22 official languages and over 1,500 mother tongues. Ram Prakash Hanumanthappa, a 34-year-old tech-entrepreneur from Bangalore, was among the first Indians to predict this problem back in his days at IIT Madras and to do something about it. ....
by Arun Shourie
A fatwa is a decree, a ruling. The mufti who is authorised to issue fatwas has to have encyclopaedic knowledge – for he will be required to pronounce on matters that range from personal hygiene, to marital relations, to the fine points on the law of inheritance ....
by Rakesh K Singh
Banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had a role in the violence at Azad Maidan in Mumbai in which two persons were killed and scores of others injured. ....
by A Surya Prakash
Lal Krishna Advani’s description of the United Progressive Alliance Government as “illegitimate” led to a ruckus in the Lok Sabha last week with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who is the de facto head of the Union Government, goading her party MPs to raise a loud protest and demand a retraction from the senior BJP leader. ....
by Sandhya Jain
Last month’s violence in Kokrajhar district, Assam, which resulted in 77 dead (so far) and nearly four lakh uprooted from home, their humble hearths torched to cinders, possibly to prevent them from returning to reclaim the vacated lands, was both the consequence of the sharply changing population profile in India’s eastern States, and an attempt to perpetuate and entrench the demographic shift. ....
by Mohua Chatterjee
In an unprecedented whistleblowing act, former Indian Airlines chief Sunil Arora wrote to the then cabinet secretary B K Chaturvedi in May 2005 complaining that he and the IA board were being pressured by then civil aviation minister Praful Patel and his OSD to take financially damaging and commercially unviable decisions. ....
by S Gurumurthy
The soft story of the ‘official’ Pakistan, which glorifies its pre-Islamic past, hides the terrible narrative of the ‘real’ Pakistan — the Islamic Pakistan. The ‘real’ Pakistan has emerged as a global evil. See how the West, whose pet Pakistan was, perceives it now. ....
by Sushant Kulkarni
MMS clips and text messages on the Bodo-Muslim riots in Assam may have provoked the recent spate of attacks on students from the North-East in Pune, police suspect. ....
by Shobhaa De
Thanks Rahul Baba! For once, the nation is one hundred per cent behind you. Last week, the Son of India declared he was 'seriously' not interested in what Baba Ramdev was saying or doing because he is more interested in investing his precious time doing 'serious work'. This is, seriously, the most serious thing he has ever said. ....
by Abhinandan Mishra
The activist’s former associate has alleged that she is using the money to holiday abroad. Teesta Setalvad's Sabrang Trust received an amount of US $250,000 (nearly Rs 1.40 cr) in 2009 as a grant from the Ford Foundation to help the victims of the Gujarat riots. ....
by The Indian Express
A clash within a village community over removal of encroachment on village grazing land left one dead and 13 injured at Votholi in Washim district on Saturday. ....
by The Indian Express
Days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attracted the ire of the judiciary for her remarks, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Sunday slammed the UPA saying that it was manipulating judiciary for political reasons. ....
by Nadira Naipaul
When I married V.S. Naipaul and moved to England in 1996, I thought I had left the horror behind. Pakistan had drained my resolve, and I was tired of fighting a losing battle. To me, England, for all its ills, was the promised land. ....
by Dina Temple-Raston
The FBI has conducted more than 100 investigations into suspected Islamic extremists within the military, NPR has learned. About a dozen of those cases are considered serious. ....
by The Indian Express
Lashing out at the government for its handling of the Azad Maidan violence, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today said Mumbai police have been demoralised due to commissioner Arup Patnaik. ....
by The Indian Express
Groups of jihadi outfits, seeking donations to help wage ''jihad'' against the United States in Afghanistan, have taken to the streets in Pakistan, without being deterred by the administration, who choose to turn a deaf ear to it. ....
by The Times of India
Muslim anger over the alleged incident of a Christian girl with Down's Syndrome burning pages inscribed with verses from the Quran has forced Christians to flee the Mehrabad slum, home to hundreds of Christians and 20 minutes' drive from Western embassies. ....
by A Surya Prakash
Driven by Sonia Gandhi, Congress MPs went on a rampage, slamming BJP veteran LK Advani for his remark on the ‘illegitimacy’ of the UPA regime. They convinced none with their ill-timed dramatics. ....
by The Indian Express
Over 2,000 Pakistani nationals are overstaying since 1995 in Nagpur despite the expiry of their visitors visa, a RTI query has found. ....
by Hinduism Today
New Delhi, India, August 17th, 2012 (exclusive report by Hinduism Today correspondent Rajiv Malk for HPI). " A truly dedicated and qualified priest is supposed to create a new world for his client and his family every time he performs a sanskar or conducts a puja. The job of a priest is of lot of responsibility as he is carrying forward our ancient traditions and culture. ....
by The Indian Express
Union Minister Rajiv Shukla was today caught in a controversy as he was heard telling Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien to adjourn the House after the opposition created uproar over CAG report on coal blocks allotment to private firms. ....
by Sandeep
August 8, in the Indian Parliament: “I warn the Central Government; I warn the honourable Members over here… If proper rehabilitation [Of Bangladeshi Muslims] does not take place, you be ready for a third wave of radicalisation among Muslim youth.” The person who said this wasn’t some Mullah but the MP of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen, Asaduddin Owaisi. ....
by The Times of India
The city is growing, but many of its historic temple shave not kept pace with the development. While some have been demolished to allow smoother flow of traffic, a few others have disappeared from public memory. ....
by The Times of India
A colonel in the Pakistan's spy agency ISI had provided vital help to the CIA in tracing Osama bin Laden, a new book has claimed. ....
by A Surya Prakash
Having cynically pursued vote-bank politics for over 60 years at the cost of national security and India’s unity and integrity, the Congress is now once again trying to divert attention from its monstrous follies in Assam and rest of the country by blaming the ‘foreign hand’ for the sectarian violence in the north-eastern State and its consequential fallout in other parts of the country. ....
by Mid-Day
The city cops are being bombarded with questions in the aftermath of the horrific violence on August 11 in South Mumbai. That the department was caught off-guard is evident in the number of casualties — many of them cops —, including two deaths, large-scale destruction of public property, and the few arrests that have been made so far. ....
by Prasanna D Zore
Veteran journalist Kanchan Gupta woke up on Thursday morning to find that his Twitter account (@KanchanGupta) had been blocked. With about 25,319 followers "who listen to what I have to say" on the microblogging site. ....
by S Sudhir Kumar
Shockingly, the fact that every human life lost in any riot should be seen as a blot on the country is lost in the cacophony of a studio. ....
by Pritha Chatterjee
Four centuries ago, Raja Serfoji II, a Maratha ruler of the city of Thanjavur, is said to have performed eye surgeries among the various forms of medicine he practised. Chennai-based opthalmologists have now published his handwritten records of these surgeries for the first time. ....
by The Times of India
Making it clear it will not give up nuclear arms untiluniversal disarmament is achieved, India on Tuesday said the weapons had ended attempts by global powers to blackmail the country to toe a particular line. ....
by Saibal Dasgupta
An 18-feet statue of 'flying Apsara' has been demolished in the Muslim-dominated Urumqi city in western China 11 days after it was put up at a major intersection by the local municipal authorities. No reason for the demolition has been cited but it is possible that authorities faced resistance from local Muslims, sources said. ....
by The Times of India
Union minister Rajiv Shukla kicked off a controversy on Tuesday after he was heard telling Rajya Sabha deputy chairman P J Kurien to adjourn the House for the day after the opposition led by BJP created uproar over the CAG report on Coalgate. ....
by Akshaya Mukul
The grant of minority status to 71 educational institutions of Kerala by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) in a single sitting has raised hackles within the panel as well as the HRD ministry for doling out of minority certificates without due diligence. ....
by The Pioneer
Expressing his concern over the plight of the indigenous people of Assam, BJP MP Chandan Mitra said if concrete steps are not taken at once, the State will soon be under the rule of a party led by the intruders. ....
by Puja Chugh
I slowly removed my sandals and gazed at the white tables smothered in what looked like hundreds of shoes. As I approached the “sign in” table, I managed to put on an uneasy smile as I anxiously looked around for my friends. It was my first year at Hindu Camp and I had no idea what to expect. ....
by Peter Hays Gries
LAST week, anti-Japanese protests swept nearly a dozen Chinese cities. Angry demonstrators overturned Toyotas while Japanese restaurants and businesses were vandalized. In the central Chinese city of Chengdu, where thousands protested, some banners declared, “Even if China is covered with graves, we must kill all Japanese!” ....
by Arvind Panagariya
Large increases in revenues, made possible by accelerated growth, have allowed the UPA government to rapidly expand redistribution programmes — distribution of subsidised foodgrain, free elementary education, rural health and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). ....
by Lata Ganapathy
During Mahatma Gandhi's time, I volunteered with the Congress Seva Dal under the famed social worker Manjubhashini. I recall our being punished at school for our participation! Incidentally, I met some of those friends today at a reunion at Express Avenue Mall. We octogenarians meet every other year and reminisce over old times. ....
by Anand Soondas
The memories are a bit hazy, but the blur in Mahendra Singh's mind is more than compensated by the warmth in his heart for the small Shillong locality he left many years ago. "It was in 1994 that we packed our bags," he says, talking over phone from Varanasi where he's just set up a food business. "Dad was a scientist and we lived in Bishnupur. ....
by The Indian Express
Police in East Champaran district of Bihar have found papers during a raid, which they say, show that CPI (Maoist) cadre floated a home appliances company to invest ‘levy’ — the money collected through extortion. Interrogation of a Maoist sympathiser arrested during the raid has led the police to believe that the firm is registered in New Delhi. ....
by Sharvari Patwa
Video games, television and visits to nearby malls formed the main recreation for Shubha Majumder’s two children until ‘Book Buddy’ happened. Every week she waits for a ‘reader’ sent by Book Buddy to drop in at her home and help her children read story books and novels. ....
by The Indian Express
The Shiv Sena, supporting the contention of rival Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) that there was presence of Bangladeshis in Mumbai has targeted Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Azmi describing as “a drama” his offer to give Rs 2 crore to anyone who proves presence of any Bangladeshi in his constituency. ....
by Harsha V Dehejia
Sattras are an important part of the religious life of Assam. Set up by Shankaradeva in the 16th century, Sattras are monasteries dedicated to Krishna. Besides being a monastery, the Sattra is also active in music and dance. ....
by Artdaily.org
A U.C. Berkeley Botanical Gardens visitor looks at the art installation "SOL Grotto" that was made by using glass tubes that were to be used by the now defunt solar company Solyndra on August 23, 2012 in Berkeley, California. ....
by IBNLive.com
A retired police officer has come under the scanner following the statement received from an August 11 rioter, who was arrested on August 24. ....
by The Indian Express
An Indian woman, who left her country and religion to marry a Pakistani man but was betrayed and virtually imprisoned by him for 13 years, finally has hope of returning home, with the human rights commission here taking up her case. ....
by T P Nijeesh
A group of scholars from Harvard and Howard universities is all set to conduct a detailed study on the 'Pravargya' rituals, the introductory part of Somayagam (Agnishtomam) and its impact on nature. ....
by Jibran Khan
The incident occurred in one of the city's hospitals, where the victims are now recovering in the intensive care unit. The health care facility has launched an inquiry to find out who laced the tea. ....
by The Statesman
When the Supreme Court gives a verdict we respect it. But that does not take away from us the right to seek answers to unexplained questions. ....
by Boldsky.com
There are many symbols of marriage that signify certain important facets of Hinduism. Most of these symbols are for women. We do not know why the system of Hindu marriage does not brand men as 'married'. But the symbols that are held sacred by a married woman are fascinating to explore. ....
by John Vidal
Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages. ....
by Bharti Jain
With indications increasingly suggesting the possibility of a regime change in Dhaka in early 2014, the intelligence establishment here is worried that anti-India forces could once again get a free run to use Bangladesh as a staging post for terrorism and other subversive activities. ....
by S.K. Sinha
Sparks from Assam started dangerous fires in Mumbai and some other places last week. Mercifully, these did not last long. But they have the potential to start a gigantic fire engulfing the entire nation. This is a chilling reminder of the Partition holocaust, one of the greatest human tragedies in history. ....
by Geoff Masle
Practising yoga is just ahead of Australian rules football in the list of the most popular physical activities among the citizens of this country — at least according to surveys. Researchers have also found that yoga and meditation can assist a range of health problems and medical conditions, including chronic pain, lower back pain, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, while also reducing the need for pain-relief medicines. ....
by IBNLive.com
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued notices to Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with an alleged case of police atrocity in Allahabad. ....
by The Indian Express
A junior software engineer in the Defence Research Development Organisation and a journalist working for a leading local English daily are among 11 people arrested by the Bangalore police in an alleged terror plot to attack a rightwing columnist in a prominent Kannada daily, Hindu leaders and politicians. ....
by The Times of India
An employee of a DRDO division and a journalist were among 11 men, all in their twenties, arrested by Karnataka police for alleged links with global terror outfits. A day after an operation to nab these men ended on Wednesday, police said they had been told the group had plans to assassinate MPs and MLAs from the state, a businessman and two journalists from Bangalore. ...