July Month Articles

• Nadwa cleric asks Saudi govt to prepare an army of Sunni youth for Iraq
  
  • 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)..........

• India to open yoga centre in China
  
  • Ananth Krishnan
    The Indian government is planning to open up a first-ever yoga resource centre in China as part of a new move to capitalise...........

• Swami Swarupanand is an embarrassment to acharya parampara
  
  • M Pramod Kumar
    Hinduism is the only religion in the world which has the beautiful concept of Ishta Devata ............

• Text and Ride in India
  
  • Megha Bahree
    When Praveen Narayan Dusane first started driving an auto-rickshaw in this crowded college town.............

• Pakistan must know there is a limit to India's patience
  
  • Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd)
    'Kargil was Pakistan's strategic blunder. India must remain on guard against such sinister operations.............

• Why does Chandrasekhar Rao need Sania Mirza as Telangana brand ambassador?
  
  • Kakisi Rahgoed 
    On the day, we should have been discussing the tragic death of children in a schoolbus-train accident in Telangana .............

• Arun Jaitley has to do must better next year
  
  • Bibek Debroy 
    Arun Jaitley’s first Budget does not deliver on any parameter of good economic governance .............

• Bhagwat's vest side story
  
  • Sandeep Unnithan
    RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat strongly believes in Gandhian austerity to the extent that he packs only a spare kurta when he travels.............

• The Transformer
  
  • Uday Mahurkar and Jatin Gandhi 
    Amit Shah's elevation as BJP President signals a generational change and Modi's complete takeover of the party............

• Collegium system must continue with set guidelines
  
  • 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.............

• ISIS jihadists order genital mutilation of all women in Iraq
  
  • The Times of India
    Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation.............

• Strategic lessons that we need to learn
  
  • General V.P. Malik
    Operation Vijay, the Indian codename of the war, was a blend of strong and determined political.............

• Foreign Funding of NGOs
  
  • Prashant Reddy 
    Should FDI in India’s thinktank sector worry us? It is a debate long overdue.............

• Top Maoist commander killed in Jharkhand
  
  • The Times of India 
    In a pre-dawn operation, security forces on Wednesday killed a prominent Maoist commander.............

• How a corrupt judge continued in Madras high court
  
  • Markandey Katju
    This expose is by Justice Markandey Katju, who was chief justice of Madras high court before becoming a Supreme Court judge..............

• ‘It was his dream to fight alongside ISIS’
  
  • Jaya Menon
    Tamil Nadu youth joins ISIS, family recalls his journey into insurgency.............

• Exclusive: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra persuade former External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh to stall his tell-all book
  
  • 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.............

• The BJP is not rewriting history
  
  • Vivek Gumaste
    One cannot but infer that this brouhaha is a crafty ploy to create an issue out of a non-issue............

• From rites to rights
  
  • Nergish Sunavala
    A Hindu pandit who doesn't shy away from lesbian weddings, a clergyman who backs the idea of women priests...........

• In Israel's mini-India, the rockets don't scare them
  
  • Robin David
    The 80,000 Indian Jews in southern Israel are bearing the brunt of Hamas attacks...........

• Markandey Katju's allegations: In 2005, PMO had pushed to have 'corrupt' judge made permanent
  
  • Dhananjay Mahapatra
    Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had exerted pressure on the collegium headed by then Chief Justice ...........

• Disquieting disclosure
  
  • The Hindu
    The line between a whistle-blower and a motivated accuser can be very thin...........

• The BJP is not rewriting history
  
  • Vivek Gumaste
    One cannot but infer that this brouhaha is a crafty ploy to create an issue out of a non-issue...........

• Protecting Indians from the Idea of India
  
  • Sandeep Balakrishna
    Idea of India is the latest avatar of Communism...........

• Evangelical NGO Operation Mobilization’s foreign funding
  
  • 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...........

• The Hindu genocide that Hindus and the world forgot
  
  • Vivek Gumaste
    When we can rise your voice for 2,000 Muslims killed in Gujarat..........

• The Rise of Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws
  
  • Vishal Arora
    Dr. Paul Marshall on the rise of apostasy and blasphemy laws, and the threat they represent to religious freedom..........

• Qureshi asked ex-CBI boss to help tainted firm get airport contracts
  
  • Saikat Datta and Sandeep Pai
    A global airport logistics firm, blocked from doing business in India because of its links to Pakistan.........

• Convert, pay tax, or die, Islamic State warns Christians
  • 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.........

• Al-Qaeda plans final jihad for India: Intel report points to terror recruitment drive targeting nation's Muslims
  • Abhishek Bhalla
    Al-Qaeda is at the gates, and there are enough jihadis within already.........

• `Jihadis from Pune flying to Syria, Iraq; from Chennai via Singapore'
  • The Times of India
    For years during Kashmir insurgency, commentators and politicians would never miss a chance to claim that......

• Intelligence agencies caught napping in `sensitive' Thane
  • Nitin Yeshwantrao
    Law-enforcing agencies and the intelligence department have once again been caught napping in Thane.......

• Before leaving to join terrorists in Iraq, Kalyan youths adopted a life of austerity
  • 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.......

• Indian jihadists seek `bigger global theatres of terror'
  • 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 ........

• Centre hints it’s willing to bring in Uniform Civil Code
  • The Indian Express
    The NDA government Monday indicated in Parliament that it was inclined to usher in the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), ........

• Centre hints it’s willing to bring in Uniform Civil Code
  • The Indian Express
    The NDA government Monday indicated in Parliament that it was inclined to usher in the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), .........

• Israel helped India in 1971 war, reveals book
  • 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.........

• Govt to act against NGOs aiding Maoist activities
  • Zee News
    Talking tough on the Maoist menace, the Centre on Wednesday said action would be initiated against ..........

• Bombers from the Maldives
  • Tufail Ahmad
    Societies provide oxygen for Islamists to grow in their midst................

• ‘Ramayana, Mahabharata Are True Accounts Of The Period...Not Myths’
  • Outlook
    The new chairman of ICHR argues that faith and reason can go hand in hand in the writing of history................

• Is Colonel Purohit a case study of anti-Hinduism?
  • Poulasta Chakraborthy
    Most of us are aware of the legal dictum and practice of ‘innocent till proven guilty.’...............

• The Hamas Way of War
  • 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...............

• Thane bizman radicalised Kalyan youth who joined ISIS, funded their Iraq trip
  • 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...............

• Many Asian Nations Believe That a War With China Is Looming
  • David Stout
    A majority in the Asian countries polled in a new Pew study say they fear a looming military conflict with China................

• What happens when Western fighters return from Syria?
  • Clarissa Ward
    Attorney General Eric Holder said dozens of American citizens are believed to be fighting in Syria, along with thousands of Europeans................

• Richard Branson Explains Why He Stopped Eating Beef
  • 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...............

• Narendra Modi's politics of patience and the possible
  • Swapan Dasgupta
    In the eyes of the world, the BJP is labelled in two distinct (but not always mutually exclusive) ways..............

• A Bridge Too Far
  • 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.............

• Sonia Gandhi in legal fight to ban 'fictionalised biography'
  • 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.............

• Tax Notice to Gandhis: How Herald House Gets Rent
  • Sunetra Choudhury
    At the heart of the tax case that Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi face in a Delhi court............

• UNIFORM CIVIL CODE – It is time to revisit this issue
  • 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.............

• Mumbai police denied sanction to prosecute MLA Kripashankar in assets case
  • Daily News & Analysis
    In a big relief to the once powerful Mumbai Congress chief and MLA Kripashankar Singh.............

• Congress should spare Ganga from communal politics: Uma Bharti
  • Oneindia.in
    Union Minister Uma Bharti on Monday hit back at former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.............

• 5 Things Yoga Taught Me About Succeeding in Business
  • Dina Vardouniotis
    Anyone who knows me, knows my obsession with yoga. I like to say that I started before Madonna got on the bandwagon.............

• Yes, Prime Minister
  • Sandeep Unnithan and Kumar Anshuman
    Narendra Modi empowers bureaucracy to end policy paralysis and escalate growth.............

• J&K: Muftis need power for the country’s disintegration
  • Hari Om
    Assembly elections in the troubled Jammu & Kashmir are round the corner.............

• Jihadists Destroy Mosques And Shrines in Iraq
  • Agence France-Presse
    Jihadists who overran Mosul last month have demolished ancient shrines and mosques in and around the historic northern Iraqi city............

• ISIS jihadists demolish mosques, shrines in northern Iraq (PHOTOS)
  • RT.com
    Islamic militant sect, ISIS, which has been rampaging across the north and west of Iraq since last month............

• The Fraud of the Sachar Report Exposed
  • R.K.Ohri, IPS (Retd.)
    In a country teeming with the poor and the indigent there could be no justification for appointing ............

• Hindu Munnani leader murdered in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli
  • The Times of India 
    A 38-year old Hindu Munnani leader was murdered during wee hours on Saturday in front of his house............

• Youth who took on liquor mafia killed in Bengal, body chopped into pieces
  • Madhuparna Das
    Pradip Chakraborty, an eyewitness, told the police that he saw Sourav being murdered after he was tortured. .............

• Lata Mangeshkar wants to see Sena-BJP govt. in Maharashtra
  • The Hindu
    The veteran singer had earlier expressed her wish to see Narendra Modi Modi as India's PM .............

• PM Modi shuts out media circus, communicates directly in doses
  • Prashant Jha
    On his maiden trip abroad as Prime Minister last month, Narendra Modi chose to travel light. ..............

• Minority Appeasement, a Game That Helps No Minority. But It Can Cut Up the Country Into Communal Bits
  • 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..............

• 'The whole trajectory of Wahhabism is rooted in hatred and violence's
  • Yogi Sikand
    ased in New Delhi, Sadia Dehlvi is a noted columnist who has written extensively on Islam.............

• Nurses in Iraq - India Did a Splendid Job Says International Red Cross
  • The News Minute
    An international aid agency has said there were “very tense” moments for the Kerala nurses in Iraq and the Indian.............

• British Jihadi fighting in Syria for a year says he'll only return to Britain when 'black flag of Islam hangs over Buckingham Palace' and tells parents he will see them in the afterlife
  • 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.............

• Christian pastor gets 12 years in China prison
  • 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................

• Transcript of Media Briefing by Official Spokesperson (July 04, 2014)
  • Mea.gov.in
    Official Spokesperson (Shri Syed Akbaruddin):Good afternoon friends and thank you for coming here this afternoon...............

• Secularism and the Indian state: The way ahead
  • Surajit Dasgupta
    It has been about two years since I stopped greeting anybody on a festive occasion using a public platform..............

• Hindi gets a new fan club – A Bengali bhadralok signs up
  • Jay Bhattacharjee
    The new Modi Government, already quite adept at committing howlers, seemed to have stepped into it some days back.............

• Let's Not Forget These Hindu Voices in the World of Social Uplift
  • 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...............

• Jolted by Hindu Munnani activist killing, cops look for Al Umma sleeper cells
  • 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..............

• Bangladeshi American student arrested for conspiring jihad against Hindus
  • 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.............

• RSS man will head historical research body
  • Akshaya Mukul
    Yellapragada Sudershan Rao, the new chairperson of Indian Council of Historical Research............

• Caught in its own excesses
  • Balbir Punj
    That is the predicament of the Congress, as doubts arise within about its policy and practice of secularism............

• Every Indian wants to see J-K happy, PM Modi says after flagging off Katra rail link
  • Peerzada Ashiq
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off the inaugural train from the newly-built Katra railway station...........

• 498-A of Anti Dowry Law being used to terrorise husbands and their families
  • Nandita Thakur
    In 2005 while delivering a lecture on human relationships to women inmates of Bilodara (Nadiad)...........

• UK sends first set of ministers to Modi
  • 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 ...........

• Kashmiri Hindu community recreate the magic of Kheer Bhawani Puja in London
  • World Hindu News
    Kashmiri Pandits Cultural Society (UK) in association with Vishwa Hindu Kendra, Southall. ...........

• UP: BJP calls mahapanchayat against removal of loudspeaker from temple
  • The Indian Express
    Akbarpur Chendri village is situated near the native village of local MLA Aneesur Rahman of Peace Party. ...........

• Cong appeasing Christians more than Muslims: Sharif
  • FPJ Bureau
    In a new twist to the minority appeasement charge put forward by senior Congress leader A K Antony...........

• Foreign Funding to Indian NGOs
  • Sighbaboo.blogspot.in
    Who sets the Agenda of Foreign Fund receiving Indian NGOs? ...........

• Chennai Bomb Blast and the Islamic Psyche
  • Kalavai Venkat
    The identity of those who carried out the Chennai bomb blasts isn’t known yet. ...........

• NIA probe shows IM men tech savvy; used proxy servers, complex code to chat
  • Muzamil Jaleel
    The IP address of Nimbuzz chat, NIA claims, was traced to Pakistan Telecom Company Ltd...........

• Press Release: Only 25 Minutes of Mindfulness Meditation Alleviates Stress, According to Carnegie Mellon Researchers
  • Shilo Rea
    Mindfulness meditation has become an increasingly popular way for people to improve their mental and physical health..........

• Was Modi overstating “1200 years of slavery”?
  • Koenraad Elst
    In an opinion piece in Outlook (“Chaining 1200 years”, 7-7-2014), Hasan Suroor takes issue with PM Narendra Modi’s..........

• WHIPLASH: Modi can help India get over its US obsession
  • Utpal Kumar
    Post Narendra Modi's victory in the recent parliamentary elections, Barack Obama must have had mixed feelings..........

• Chechen in Syria a rising star in extremist group
  • 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.........

• Heraldgate: Facts of the case
  • Subramanian Swamy
    The daily explosion of scams and their nightly celebration over noisy TV shows have dulled the collective response.........

• Congress Calculus II: Expert Says It Is Criminal Fraud
  • 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.........

• Foreign funding and the Maharajas among NGOs
  • 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.........

• Time to shed Emergency legacy
  • Ravi Shanker Kapoor
    Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has rightly highlighted the “Emergency mindset” of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.........

• 25k Wahabi scholars visted India last year
  • 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..............

• Moving beyond the Panchsheel deception
  • Ram Madhav
    India and China must develop a new framework for bilateral relations, unshackled by empty rituals and symbols..............

• How history was made up at Nalanda
  • Arun Shourie
    The story behind a Marxist historian’s story of its destruction by ‘Hindu fanatics’.............

• Rajnath draws hard line on Maoists: No talks, attacks will get befitting reply
  • Vijaita Singh
    The government is planning to deploy young IPS officers who would lead assault teams against the armed rebels in the affected states.............

• Antony touches raw ‘secular’ nerve, says Cong’s ‘proximity to minority communities’ leads to ‘doubt’
  • 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’............

• Reservations for Muslims - Jawaharlal Nehru’s Failed Attempt
  • 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............

• Attack on Shirdi a political conspiracy
  • Sandhya Jain
    The spectre of a looming Congress-NCP defeat in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, due later this year............

• Ignore the pundits, PM
  • Tavleen Singh
    Most political pundits ike to think they are guardians of India’s ‘pluralism’ and cannot believe that voters rejected this fine ideal............

• Out of my Mind: Many bitter pills
  • 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’..............

• PM Modi cautions his MPs: Be careful about your aachaar, vichaar
  • The Indian Express
    Modi underlines that their role becomes more responsible on treasury benches.............

• Karnataka Governor Hans Raj Bhardwaj exits, ex-VC says good riddance
  • 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............

• ‘I stood up to Shahabuddin raj, so he set out to destroy me’
  • 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...........

• Focus on conduct, governance: Modi
  • The Times of India
    Emphasizing that the BJP must take its transition from Opposition to ruling party seriously..........

• Modi's power push: Delhi's power elite is kicking and screaming
  • 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..........

• Chidu leaves a gutted exchequer: fiscal deficit at 45% of year’s total in just 2 monthsa
  • 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.........