by The Indian Express
There is a “clamour” for post-retirement jobs among judges of high courts and the Supreme Court, the BJP said on Sunday, suggesting that judges have a two-year cooling-off period after retirement to become eligible for appointments to commissions or tribunals. ....
by Venky Vembu
What was Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi playing for when he waved a newspaper article at his election meetings on Monday and cited a Rs 1,880 crore figure as being the amount spent by the UPA government on Congress president Sonia Gandhi‘s foreign trips? ....
by Sharvari Patwa
Skyrocketing gold prices and a dull economy did not stop devotees from donating whole-heartedly to the elephant God this Ganeshotsav. Major mandals have received record collections of not only cash but also gold and silver. ....
by The Indian Express
Remaining defiant on his stand, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today demanded that the government make public the expenditure incurred on Congress president Sonia Gandhi's foreign trips. ....
by The Hindu
The ‘ISRO espionage case’ that shook the very foundation of the Indian Space Research Organisation in the early 1990s took a crucial turn away from public eye over a year ago when the Oommen Chandy government, just 43 days into office, decided to close a long pending file seeking action against three key police officers who probed the case, it has emerged. ....
by Abhinav Bhatt
Politicians A Raja and Suresh Kalmadi may have recently spent about a year in jail each, but both men, who are Lok Sabha MPs, have been nominated to parliamentary committees. Mr Kalmadi was suspended by the Congress last year after he was arrested for corruption; that hasn't stopped the party from picking him as its representative on Parliament's External Affairs Committee. ....
by The Times of India
At least twelve people were today injured in stone-pelting even as the angry mob damaged vehicles and shops at Dahemi village near here after the immersion procession of Lord Ganesh idol turned violent, police said. ....
by Firstpost.com
After the infamous ‘zero loss’ theory propounded by Kapil Sibal in the 2G scam and by P Chidambaram in the Coalgate scam, Congress leaders are conjuring up a half-lie to sell another ‘zero’ theory in connection with recent claims about state expenses on Sonia Gandhi’s foreign travels. ....
by Hindustan Times
The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration has suspended one student and served show cause notices to another three for planning to hold a beef and pork festival and for allegedly causing unrest in the campus. ....
by Tavleen Singh
Nobody is sure where Narendra Modi got his figure of Rs 1,880 crore from. The man from Hissar who filed an application under the Right to Information Act to find out how much Indian taxpayers have spent on Sonia Gandhi’s foreign travels has come forward to deny that he was given it. ....
by Sheela Bhatt
In front of 60 television cameras and around 100 journalists on Friday, activists-turned-politicians Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan hit at India's most powerful political family's son-in-law, Robert Vadra. Since 1998, when Sonia Gandhi became Congress president, she has never been attacked so directly, personally and so politically. ....
by IBNLive.com
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has stirred a controversy for comparing toilets to temples. Ramesh said that toilets are more important that the temples in our country also commenting on poor hygiene levels in the latter. ....
by IBNLive.com
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari has said that he will quit politics if anybody could prove his alleged business links with close aide and party MP Ajay Sancheti, currently in the midst of an irrigation scam in Maharashtra. ....
by The Times of India
An extensive fundraising campaign is being undertaken by secessionist Sikh groups in Europe and North America at the instance of Pakistan's ISI to revive terrorism in Punjab. ....
by Renu Mittal
Almost the entire Congress party and a number of ministers in the United Progressive Alliance government including Finance Minister P Chidambaram have been fielded by the leadership to defend Robert Vadra the son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi. ....
by NDTV.com
A Hindu trader was abducted and four persons, including a Shia man, were shot dead in separate incidents in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police said. ....
by Business Standard
If DLF is right in its assertion that all the flats acquired from it by Robert Vadra’s companies were at the ruling market prices – and the numbers cited with regard to prices per square foot seem to bear out the assertion – then Arvind Kejriwal and company have some explaining to do as to how and where they got their quite different sets of numbers. ....
by The Pioneer
Massive corruption has destroyed the country’s medical education and this has led to severe shortage of doctors and para-medical staff, say south India’s leading educationists Dr G Viswanathan, Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology and Prof S P Thyagarajan, pro-chancellor (research), Ramachandra University, Chennai. ....
by Rajeev Srinivasan
Varsha had a distinct, trademark, booming greeting for me: She'd call me on the phone and positively bellow, "Raaaaj!" with that twinkle in her eye that I could almost hear over the phone. Nobody has ever called me that, but I didn't dare tell her to call me by my full name: She was not to be trifled with, and she would do things her own way, come hell or high water. ....
by Dirgha Raj Prasai
The religious structure of Nepalese society is formally Hindu; but here and only here the interplay of peoples and their religious traditions has produced a rich fusion of Hindu and Buddhist faiths. It is common for both Hindus and Buddhists to worship at the same shrine, for many gods and saints are cross-over, often known by a different name but holding the same attributes. ....
by Shovonc.wordpress.com
In news that has relieved lovers of money everywhere, legendary investment guru Warren Buffet has announced that the search for his successor is finally over. New Delhi-based entrepreneur Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Indian Supremo Sonia Gandhi, will soon be taking over as head of Berkshire Hathaway. ....
by Daniel Greenfield
Jean Francois Copé continues to upset French leftists, first by warning of anti-white racism, and now by warning about the rise of Sharia Law in France. ....
by Europe News
Ismail Okur from the mosque in Botkyrka, Sweden, assures that the Muslim prayer call can be equated with Christian church bells that have been part of Swedish and European culture for a thousand years. ....
by Deccan Herald
Millions of people prayed for the early recovery of child peace campaigner Malala Yousafzai, who a leading Pakistani daily said was "fighting the most arduous battle of her life" after the Taliban shot at her. ....
by Athira M.
Ganesha reigns in this house. Collecting images of Lord Ganesha is more than a hobby for Soorya Krishnamoorthy. The art connoisseur got hooked to the passion some two decades ago. His house at Thycaud, filled with around 1,500 Ganesha images – as idols, paintings, sculptures and curios – is now open to the public. ....
by NDTV.com
Not only has this Pakistani national been living with impunity in India after being deported back to his country in 2007, he has also been zipping about the streets in a VIP car. ....
by Arun Jaitley
The prime minister appeared concerned with the environment of cynicism in the country on the issue of corruption when he addressed anti-corruption investigators at a conference in Delhi on Wednesday. He analysed the present situation as a 'mindless environment of negativism being created in the country which is obviously not healthy for any parliamentary democracy. ....
by Raman Kirpal
The owners of DLF have strong ties with the Gandhi family that go as far back as 30 years, when Robert Vadra was nowhere in picture. ....
by Mihir S Sharma
Mihir S Sharma asks a few questions on l'affaire Vadra, and makes notes on who should answer them and why Arvind Kejriwal's new allegations against Robert Vadra, DLF, and the Haryana government make for interesting reading. But then, Kejriwal always gives journalists good copy; some might claim it's his only really useful trait. ....
by IBNLive.com
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday culminated his state-wide Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra in Pavagarh, continuing his attack on the Congress-led UPA government. Addressing a rally in Pavagarh, Modi also listed the achievements of his government over the past decade. ....
by The Times of India
Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have solved the Pune serial blasts in August and averted terror strikes in Delhi and Bihar's Bodh Gaya during upcoming festival season with the arrest of three suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists. ....
by Firstpost.com
Hitting out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said he was trying to mislead the country by stating that the “infirmity of law” was preventing the government from taking action in corruption cases. ....
by Rahul Shrivastava
As the political storm over the Robert Vadra-DLF nexus raged, the reaction of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was largely muted with senior party leaders remaining silent on the issue. ....
by R Jagannathan
From the torrent of stories now unleashed by the media after Arvind Kejriwal opened the floodgates to the DLF-Robert Vadra deals, one cannot but suspect that hidden somewhere in the folds of Vadragate is the media’s collective conspiracy of silence. ....
by J. Srinivasan
Robert Vadra, we must reluctantly admit, is right. He was trying to be funny with mango, or aam, aadmi. In English, it may sound a bit outlandish, though fruitcake is close. But it is spot on in Tamil slang, for ‘maanga’ (for mango) is an idiot or a fool by another name called. ....
by Khalid Akhter
As the allegations against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi cause embarrassment to the party and country’s first political family, few would be aware that another son-in-law of the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty, Feroze Gandhi (September 12, 1912 – September 8, 1960), was instrumental in exposing independent India’s first corruption scam. ....
by Sudhanshu Mishra
Among the revelations made by anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal against Robert Vadra is that Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law bought large tracts of land in Bikaner between 2007 and 2010. ....
by Samarth Moray
They say a picture speaks a thousand words, so one wonders what the photographs of Home Minister RR Patil with deported Pakistani national Sayyed Waseem-ur-Rehman Shah must mean. ....
by Swati Mathur
Despite denials of wrongdoing in a trust for disabled people that Union law minister Salman Khurshid and his wife operate, it now appears that there was a letter with the forged signature of a senior UP government official that allowed the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment to release the second tranche of funds in March 2011 — Rs 68 lakh — to the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust. ....
by Alok Tiwari
Last month much of the Muslim world was outraged over an insane movie targeting Islam. Now it must rise again. Not in violence but certainly in anger and protest. This time to protest shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the picturesque Pakistan town of Swat by Taliban. ....
by A Jillani
Malala Yusufzai was shot in Mingora, Swat, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, while returning home from her school. She is only 14 years old. ....
by The Times of India
On any given day, at least 10 new patients diagnosed with cancer are lining up at HCG to get that deadly tumour out of their system. ....
by The Times of India
The Indian military on Saturday bade farewell to the man who led one of its most daunting operations in recent memory, at a snow peak over 21,000 feet high and across frozen bodies of his fallen comrades, to evict enemy soldiers occupying a post named after the founder of their nation. ....
by IBNLive.com
Taking on the UP government on allegations of corruption against Salman Khurshid, Arvind Kejriwal said, "Akhilesh Yadav now says that they will carry out more investigations. Now, investigations will not be carried out but evidences will be wiped out." ....
by IBNLive.com
Arvind Kejriwal rejected the photographic evidence produced by Salman Khurshid on Sunday and said that he will present more evidence against the Union Minister on Monday. "JB Singh is saying he didn't visit the camps in 2009-10. All that Khurshid has managed to show for evidence is one photograph. ....
by Farahanaz Ispahani
The attack on the teenager is the latest reason the country has become paralysed with fear of the Taliban's medieval minds. Has the time finally come to stand up to the extremists? ....
by Dailytimes.com
After a sabbatical of 15 years, Sridevi has returned to do a meaty role in 'English Vinglish' and post watching the film, I have just one word for the actress - flawless! Gauri Shinde has donned the director's hat to tell the story of Sashi (Sridevi), a middle-aged Maharashtrian housewife who earns her own money by making sumptuous ladoos (which happens to be her passion too) and selling them to the connoisseurs. ....
by Alok Tiwari
Last month much of the Muslim world was outraged over an insane movie targeting Islam. Now it must rise again. Not in violence but certainly in anger and protest. This time to protest shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the picturesque Pakistan town of Swat by Taliban. ....
by The Times of India
There was more trouble for Congress ahead of the Himachal Pradesh election with party veteran Virbhadra Singh in the midst of a controversy over payments adding up to Rs 2.28 crore allegedly made to the leader by a private firm when he was steel minister. ....
by India Today
This is with the reference to the “papers” made available to my office by you pertaining to the story about the Dr. Zakir Husain Memorial Trust. Following your letter and telephone calls, I personally got involved in the story and have gone through the official letters, documents and also your clarifications. I have a high regard for Salman and wish there were more people like him in politics. ....
by The Indian Express
Fidel Castro recruited former Nazis to train Cuban troops at the height of the Cold War, according to newly released German secret service files. ....
by The Indian Express
BJP National Secretary Kirit Somaiya fired a fresh salvo at Public Works Department (PWD) minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Monday claiming several PWD officers and engineers received kickbacks in the form of flats in Hex World, a residential project of the Bhujbal family in Kharghar. ....
by A Surya Prakash
Union Minister for Finance P Chidambaram has dismissed the demand for a probe into the controversial business dealings of Mr Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Ms Sonia Gandhi, who is the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance. He has emphatically declared that the transactions between two private individuals (Mr Vadra and DLF) cannot be questioned on the basis of “certain imputed or implied act of corruption”. ....
by Ananya Banerjee & Santosh Singh
A Bihar teenager, presumed dead after the recovery of a decapitated body sparked violence that claimed three lives in police firing and had the opposition enforcing a Bihar bandh Monday, was traced to New Delhi along with a girl with whom he had eloped. ....
by Tavleen Singh
Ever since Arvind Kejriwal launched his attack on Robert Vadra I have found myself running into a lot of very nervous politicians in Delhi’s corridors of power. This nervousness crosses party lines and is caused by the fear that if someone as politically well connected as Vadra can get caught for shady business dealings with a company as powerful as DLF, then what will happen to those who are not well connected? ....
by Dr. Vijaya Rajiva
In a previous article ' Should Hindus worry about the Dragon in Nepal?' (at kalyanbharat97blogspot and sooktasumana blogspot and with a change in title at Vijayvaani) I had spoken about one of the threats facing Bharat: the Dragon (short for Chinese great power ambitions). ....
by The Indian Express
Porbandar MP Vitthal Radadia was recently caught on camera, pointing his gun and threatening a toll booth attendant who asked him to present an original ID document. Though he later claimed that the gun-waving was only a piece of theatre, it was obviously an attempt to intimidate those who had not shown him the deference that he considered his due. ....
by Fahd Husain
When people say you are a breath of fresh air in the suffocating Pakistani political environment, I do not disagree. When people say you can smash the moth-eaten status quo in this country of ours, I do not disagree. When people say you can vanquish the demigods perched on our Mount Olympus and send them tumbling down, I do not disagree. You can do all this because you are sincere, honest and a doer. ....
by Jahanzaib
In order for terrorists to flourish, they need more than guns, funding and a geographical location to operate in – they also need an ideological space to occupy and work inside. ....
by Bhupinder Sharma
Whistleblowers in Haryana have faced the indifference of the Haryana Government, be it Sanjiv Chaturvedi, an IFS officer or Ashok Khemka, an IAS officer. Both had to pay the price for exposing wrongdoings in the Government. ....
by Shantanu Bhagwat
Events of the last few weeks have once again thrown into sharp relief why numerous commentators across the political divide, ideologies & cultures worry greatly about Islam. Some do not just worry; they fear. ....
by Vivek Kaul
Salman Khurshid must be a relieved man today. Robert Vadra is back in the news. And this has happened thanks to three special stories that have appeared today in The Hindu, Business Standard and Financial Express. Read together these stories throw up some several interesting questions that need to be answered. ....
by Firstpost.com
The war of words between Law Minister Salman Khurshid and IAC activist Arvind Kejriwal grew louder and bitterer on Monday, with the activist-turned-politician rubbishing Khurshid’s ‘evidence’ that he never misappropriated funds from an NGO run by him and his wife. ....
by Vivek Kaul
“Roti tawa par, janta party hawa main,” was one of the slogans going around in the Lok Sabha elections that happened after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Riding on the honest image of Rajiv Gandhi (Indira’s son and a former Indian Airlines pilot) and a sympathy wave after the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards, the Congress party won more than 400 seats in the lower house of Indian parliament. ....
by Neeraj Chauhan
Intelligence agencies have established that the bombs used in both Zaveri Bazaar blasts in Mumbai (July 13, 2011) and Pune serial blasts (August 1, 2012) were made by two Pakistani nationals, who owed their allegiance to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), in what marks a new turn in the investigations into terrorist acts across the country. ....
by The Statesman
MIND-BOGGLING is the brazenness at the core of a series of gaffes committed by stalwarts of the ruling party. Sushil Kumar Shinde’s quip that the furore over coal block allocation would dissipate like the Bofors controversy is rooted in the same belief that mantrijis are above the law that prompted Beni Prasad Verma to assert that Rs 71 lakh was too trifling an amount for a central minister to siphon off. ....
by Venky Vembu
Last night, Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka broke down on primetime television. Appearing on Headlines Today’s panel to discuss the controversy surrounding Sonia Gandhi‘s son-in-law Robert Vadra‘s shadowy real estate dealings with DLF, Khemka, who had cancelled the mutation order relating to a plot of land that Vadra sold DLF on the ground that it was irregular, was accused of “scandalous” conduct “unbecoming of an officer.” ....
by The Indian Express
Salman Khurshid waded into another controversy by daring Arvind Kejriwal to protest in his constituency in Farrukhabad and suggesting it would be hard to return from there, which was seen as a murder threat by the activist. ....
by Dailybhaskar.com
Trouble doesn't seem to be ending for Law Minister Salman Khurshid as he battles allegations of financial bungling of over Rs 71 lakh in his Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, run by the minister and his wife Louise. ....
by Arvind Panagariya
Perhaps the most powerful argument used by the proponents of the so-called Food Security Bill to further expand the highly inefficient, corrupt and leaky public distribution system (PDS) is adult hunger and malnutrition. Serious flaws exist, however, in both the diagnosis and prescription the proponents offer. ....
by Seema Chishti
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has an eclectic mailing list as Convenor of the National Committee to Honour the Foreign Friends of the Bangladesh War of Liberation. Writing to the 140-odd guests Bangladesh wants to honour this weekend in Dhaka, and again in December, she speaks of the “omission” of there being a lag of 40 years in formally recognizing the “contribution” of foreign friends of Bangladesh. ....
by Firstpost.com
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today defended BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who has been accused of receiving illegal favours in land allotment from Maharashtra’s Congress-NCP government. ....
by Pavan Dahat
The farmer named by Arvind Kejrwal in his press conference, who went missing on Thursday, came back to his home on Friday and blamed IAC member Anajli Damania for “all the drama”. ....
by The Indian Express
Gajanan Ghadge, former deputy sarpanch of Khursapur who was named by Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday as someone whose land was given away to BJP president Nitin Gadkari’s firms, has gone missing since Wednesday evening. Durga, his wife, said, “If he doesn’t come back by Friday morning, we will lodge a police complaint.” ....
by Baba Umar
IT ISN’T every day that you meet a man who has donned the hat of a militant, an uncompromising protest-organiser for separatist groups, a goldsmith and a reform-minded sarpanch. Abdul Rashid Zargar (55) of Daraha Sangla village in Poonch district’s Surankote area is such a man. ....
by Tehelka
Can a poverty-ridden village where alcoholism and crime are rampant turn into a showpiece of change and prosperity? Seems highly unlikely. In Hiware Bazar in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, however, you will see such a miracle in progress. ....
by Sudhanshu Mishra
What is significant about Vadra's land dealings in Bikaner is that he was among the first to buy property there when Bikaner's Gajner town of Kolayat tehsil was hardly seen as an investment destination because of its aridness and lack of infrastructure. ....
by The Times of India
Accusing Pakistan of fomenting trouble in India, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said it was helping terrorists to infiltrate into the country. ....
by Swapan Dasgupta
In normal times, in an environment not so replete with competitive denunciations of the ‘corrupt’, it is entirely possible that the sting organised by officials of Jindal Power & Steel Limited (JSPL) on some editors of Zee TV would have got greater attention. ....
by Michel Danin
The riddle of the Saraswati river never goes long out of public view. The fascination the lost river has exerted on Indian minds is understandable: Praised in the Rig Veda’s hymns as a “mighty” river flowing “from the mountain to the sea” somewhere between the Yamuna and the Sutlej, it is reported a few centuries later by the Brahmanas (commentaries on the Vedas) as disappearing in the desert at a point called Vinashana, which was then a highly revered pilgrimage site. ....
by Robert R. Reilly
By now, everyone is familiar with how upset many Muslims were by the 14-minute amateur video, released on YouTube, called “The Innocence of Muslims.” The new president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, advised from the podium at the U.N. General Assembly that, “insults against the prophet of Islam, Mohammed, are not acceptable. We will not allow anyone to do this by word or by deed.” ....
by Lokayat3.blogspot.in
Archana Bhagat, a 21-year old Vanvasi woman from Jashpur Nagar district of Chhattisgarh, made her way to Delhi to give her testimony before a Tribunal comprising of eminent bureaucrats, retired judges, ambassadors, academicians and journalists on September 5. ....
by Kanchan Gupta
First, some trivia for history buffs. James Tod joined the Bengal Army as a cadet in 1799, presumably looking for a life of adventure in the heat and dust of India. He swiftly rose through the ranks and, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, the records of the times tell us, provided valuable service to the East India Company. ....
by Priya Adhyaru Majithia & Runa Mukherjee Parikh
The longest dance festival on the globe is fast becoming global. The increased popularity has ensured that the days for Navratri celebrations are stretched from two to six days in the US and UK. Other destinations like the UAE and Australia have also stretched garba events from one to three nights. ....
by Abhay Singh
The doubts that the Bihar BJP top guns had been 'debarred' from campaigning in Gujarat got cleared on Sunday, as Bihar BJP chief Dr C P Thakur said the state party leaders would campaign there. ....
by The Economic Times
The number of US high-tech startups founded by immigrants, which has long been a source of growth for the American economy, has begun to slip, according to a study released Tuesday. ....
by Ishani Duttagupta
When Atul Shah travelled to the US for a year in 1983 he was just 17. But he had no interest in a formal higher education in America and didn't head for a fancy B-School. Instead, he spent the 12 months studying the retail sector and working in supermarkets. He was developing a business strategy for his own family business back in Kenya. ....
by The Times of India
Even as the Haryana government formed a three-member committee to probe into the charges levelled by whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka against Robert Vadra-DLF land deal in Gurgaon, the state government has shied away from naming either 'Vadra' or 'DLF' in the order. ....
by Firstpost.com
Fasih Mohammed, a suspected Indian Mujahideen operator and a key accused in the Delhi and Bangalore blasts, was today arrested after he was deported from Saudi Arabia. ....
by Sandhya Jain
In the brief span of a year, the Supreme Court has established different norms for granting bail to minorities and other privileged members of society vis-à-vis Hindus arrested under draconian laws. The new Chief Justice Altamas Kabir reinforced this trend on October 19 when he headed a Bench that granted bail to journalist Syed Mohammad Ahmed Kazmi, arrested on March 6 in the Israeli diplomat car attack case. ....
by Sandipan Deb
First, a recap. Last year, Raj Rajaratnam, Sri Lankan-born hedge fund manager, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in the biggest insider-trading case in US history. Many of his associates are also serving time. Rajat Gupta, former head of McKinsey, has been convicted. He awaits sentencing. ....
by The Times of India
Congress's pick for the chief ministership of Himachal Pradesh, Virbhadra Singh, got further embroiled in corruption charges with rival BJP producing what it called evidence of the disproportionate assets allegedly amassed by the veteran leader. ....
by NDTV.com
U.S. President Barack Obama, in some of his most blunt remarks to date, said on Monday that Osama bin Laden would have escaped if the United States had sought Pakistan's permission ahead of the raid on the al Qaeda leader's compound. ....
by The Indian Express
Virbhadra Singh, prime Congress contender in the chief ministerial race in Himachal Pradesh, on Tuesday came under fresh attack from BJP on charges of forgery, money-laundering, bribe taking and income tax evasion. ....
by Prawesh Lama
Fasih Mehmood, the suspected co-founder of Indian Mujahideen who was arrested by the Delhi Police Monday, is believed to have told his interrogators that he was drawn to the terror group by the aggressive ideas of another alleged co-founder and key operative, Yasin Bhatkal. ....
by Rahul Tripathi
In 2002, Mohammed Sadiq Sheikh, 26, of Mumbai, travelled to Pakistan via the Bangladesh border and attended a terror training camp, according to a security analysis documenting the emergence and spread of the Indian Mujahideen. After he returned, Sadiq sent two others, Arif Badaruddin Sheikh and Dr Shahnawaz, to Pakistan via Dubai, says the report, compiled by a central agency. ....
by Rsschennai.blogspot.in
This day,our minds are filled with the hallowed memory of our guiding lights like Swargiya Sudarshanji. In the course of the march of victory, the memory of great heroes provides us with the inspiration to forge ahead. ....
by Veeresh Malik
One of the most unreported parts of life, observed in the course of travel through countries going through seriously unpopular regimes before being replaced by other modes of governance, is the way a form of really incisive and black humour flourishes initially in an underground sort of way and soon out there in the open. ....
by Apostlethomasindia.wordpress.com
Pope Benedict XVI’s statement on September 27, 2006 during a public audience, that the apostle St. Thomas only reached as far as North-West India — today’s Pakistan — was factually correct and reflected the statements of the Early Church Fathers and the geography of the Acts of Thomas. ....
by Sandhya Jain
Indian intellectuals are having difficulty facing two overlapping anniversaries — October 27, when Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the hurried accession by Maharaja Hari Singh after Pakistan’s invasion of Jammu and Kashmir, and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. ....
by The Telegraph
Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is thought to be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the Indonesian island, archaeologists said. ....
by Rupashree Nanda
India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal hit out at the Congress saying no Congress Chief Minister had the power to act against Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. Reacting to the CNN-IBN report on Vadra's land deals in Rajasthan, Kejriwal said, "It's a clear case of corruption, he bought land at throw-away prices. ....
by Yahoo.com
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Sunday announced its support to a call for a shutdown of Leh Monday. The civil society of Buddhist-majority Ladakh has called for a strike to protest the "forcible conversion of Buddhists by the Muslims". ....
by Sandhya Jain
A private company managed by Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Moti Lal Vora, Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey and Satyan G Pitroda, has quietly acquired the over Rs 600 crore estate and properties belonging to the Jawaharlal Nehru-founded The Associated Journals Ltd for the paltry sum of Rs 50 lakh. ....
by Shalini Singh
Robert Vadra may be the most talked about property developer in Haryana but the emergence of links between the man who sold Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law his first plot of land and Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has shone a spotlight on the crucial role played by the Congress-run government in turning realty in the State into a business worth thousands of crores of rupees. ....
by A Surya Prakash
The Congress’s blind assertion of its majority in the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is probing the 2G Spectrum scam and its stiff opposition to the demand for summoning the Prime Minister and the Union Minister for Finance has put a question mark on the efficacy of parliamentary committees. ....
by Business Standard
Demanding an impartial probe into Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari’s financial dealings, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Saturday alleged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s firm had also misappropriated funds. ....
by Kumar Chellappan
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India, whose 137th birth anniversary is on October 31, was insulted, humiliated and disgraced by the then Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, during a Cabinet meeting. ....
by Daily News & Analysis
A small scale industrialist here was today arrested on the charge of posting "offensive" messages on social media targeting Union finance minister P Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram but released on bail by a court. ....
by Ziauddin Sardar
For the last 25 years, my wife has been doing semi-voluntary work at a special school near where we live. It is a small school for pupils with physical disability or delicate health needs who need a structured and particularly supportive learning environment. ....
by The Pioneer
Incidents of communal violence continue to rock Hyderabad with alarming frequency. In the latest outbreak of violence in the communally sensitive parts of old city late on Monday night, at least 10 people including three police officers were injured and five shops were burnt by the miscreants, triggering panic and tension in several other areas. ...
