The Times of India
After hitting the headlines for greeting Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed caliph and head of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)..........
Sandeep Unnithan
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat strongly believes in Gandhian austerity to the extent that he packs only a spare kurta when he travels.............
Uday Mahurkar and Jatin Gandhi
Amit Shah's elevation as BJP President signals a generational change and Modi's complete takeover of the party............
Justice N santosh Hegde, Retd Supreme Court judge
A few years ago, a judges' panel of the Punjab & Haryana High Court found a fellow judge guilty of gross misconduct.............
Markandey Katju
This expose is by Justice Markandey Katju, who was chief justice of Madras high court before becoming a Supreme Court judge..............
India Today
The Natwar bomb is yet to be dropped, but Congress president Sonia Gandhi has already dropped in to see the former external affairs minister.............
India Facts
A feasible method to understand the operations of any Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working in India would be to study the profile of its donors...........
Dominic Evans, Isra' al-Rube'i & Hugh Lawson
Islamist insurgents have issued an ultimatum to northern Iraq's dwindling Christian population to either convert to Islam.........
Pradeep Gupta
Two of the four Kalyan youths suspected of joining terrorists in Iraq underwent drastic changes before they left for the strife-torn country.......
Deeptiman Tiwary
India is increasingly turning out to be a secondary target for Indian jihadists who are more inclined to fight in bigger terror theatres where the perception of Muslim persecution is greater ........
Saikat Datta
India may not have had diplomatic ties with Israel but New Delhi quietly sought and got arms from Tel Aviv as it prepared to go to war with Pakistan in 1971, a book has revealed.........
James Jay Carafano
Hamas starts wars it knows it can't finish. It also knows full well that wars in a very small place put innocents at risk. And Hamas is fine with that...............
Nazia Sayed & Divyesh Singh
Adil Dolare of the Islamic Guidance Centre is from the same neighbourhood as the four missing men and used to meet them every day...............
Clarissa Ward
Attorney General Eric Holder said dozens of American citizens are believed to be fighting in Syria, along with thousands of Europeans................
Madeline Stone
Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson took to his blog last week to announce he's decided to cut out red meat from his diet...............
Ratnadip Choudhury
Sanctioned more than 16 years ago, the Bogibeel Bridge on the Brahmaputra has only pillars to show. Ratnadip Choudhury reports on a pipe dream.............
Dean Nelson
Sonia Gandhi, the Italian head of India's ruling Congress Party, has launched a legal campaign to stop the publication of a damaging "fictionalised biography" based on her life.............
R. Upadhyay
With the recent Supreme Court Judgement that Fatwas are not legally binding, the question of a uniform civil code is again being debated.............
Agence France-Presse
Jihadists who overran Mosul last month have demolished ancient shrines and mosques in and around the historic northern Iraqi city............
T J S George
A K Antony is a politician who never ruffles a feather. His style is to speak through silences and to act through suspended animation..............
Richard Spillett A British Jihadi who claims he is fighting alongside militants in Syria has said he will return to the UK when he sees 'the black flag of Islam' hanging over Buckingham Palace.............
Cbsnews.com
The pastor of a Christian church in central China was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday in what supporters say is a crackdown aimed at curbing fast-growing religious activity, his lawyer said................
Murali Balaji
One of the great things about The Huffington Post is its willingness to provide a forum for open discourse about the role religion can play in social uplift...............
World Hindu News
Sleuths of CID’s special investigation division (SID) are working on a detailed plan to locate and dismantle terror group Al Umma’s sleeper cells in the state..............
WHN Reporter
A young man of Bangladeshi origin has been arrested in Austin, Texas under allegations that he has been consorting with foreign terrorist networks to help plan attacks on US soil.............
India Inc News
Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will be among the first high-level UK delegation to meet Prime Minister NarendraModi during a visit to India next week ...........
The Washington Post
A young, red-bearded ethnic Chechen has rapidly become one of the most prominent commanders in the breakaway al-Qaida group that has overrun swaths of Iraq and Syria.........
S. Gurumurthy
The National Herald affair involving the Congress party, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi is not just a political scandal but a fraudulent and possibly criminal enterprise.........
Prof R Vaidyanathan
It is speculated that a big portion of this money goes to politicians and bureaucracy as a large number of institutes are owned.........
Ravi Shanker Kapoor
Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has rightly highlighted the “Emergency mindset” of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.........
Vicky Nanjappa
A shocking report by the Intelligence Bureau suggests that last year 25000 Islamic scholars preaching the extremely ultra conservative form of Wahabi Islam had visited India..............
Vijaita Singh
The government is planning to deploy young IPS officers who would lead assault teams against the armed rebels in the affected states.............
Shaju Philip & Manoj C G
‘Congress policy is equal justice but doubts have surfaced… created by party’s proximity towards minorities… this will open entry to communal forces in Kerala’............
Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary
Disturbed by the mass exodus of Hindus engineered by the Muslim League government in east Pakistan in 1949, Sardar Patel went to Calcutta............
Tavleen Singh
Most political pundits ike to think they are guardians of India’s ‘pluralism’ and cannot believe that voters rejected this fine ideal............
Meghnad Desai
'Good governance' promised by the PM entails tough decisions. It is only when a lot of the toxic stuff has been eradicated that ‘achche din aayenge’..............
Johnson T A
Bhardwaj’s term comes to an end on June 29 and he is set to be temporarily replaced by Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah, who will be sworn in on Sunday at Raj Bhavan............
Santosh Singh
67-year-old Siwan trader Chandrakeshwar Prasad’s eldest son was shot dead this month. He blames Bihar’s notorious criminal-politician for the murder, and for the murders of his two other sons earlier...........
R Jagannathan
Over the last two days, we have seen a flurry of media articles on the 30-day performance scorecard of the Narendra Modi government..........
R Jagannathan
When Narendra Modi talked about the “empty coffers” left behind by the UPA, P Chidambaram, who was in charge of the coffers till 26 May 2014.........