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April Month Articles
- Ignore the 'idiots', fight
the war
- by Chandan Mitra
The Goebbelsian propaganda of Maoist sympathisers posing as 'intellectuals'
should not deter the state from launching an all-out offensive against
the guerrillas .....
- Yasin Bhatkal mastermind
of German Bakery blast
- by The Economic Times
Bhatkal, 27-year-old inner-circle member of Indian Mujahideen (IM) founder
Riyaz Bhatkal, as the mastermind of the Pune attack. IM, floated by Pakistan's
Lashkar-e-Toiba to mask its role in the terror campaign in India, had
used its southern brigade to carry out the attack. .....
- Crisis in Indian media
- by Shyam Khosla
Everybody is talking it about these days -- bogus news, feel-good news,
advertisements passing as news. It's time to scrap the toothless Press
Council and replace it with a wider, 'media council' with the powers to
punish .....
- Coping with Maoists
- by Hiranmay Karlekar
In their article, "This is War" in The Pioneer of April 7, 2010,
Ajai Sahni and Ajit Kumar Singh have rightly regretted the absence of
a societal consensus and a coherent strategy in dealing with Maoists.
.....
- Dinakaran's transfer
- by The Pioneer
Is Justice PD Dinakaran, till yesterday the Chief Justice of the Karnataka
High Court, guilty of corruption charges or is he not? .....
- Dantewada Massacre: Raw
face of Central incompetence
- by Niranjan Singh Malik
A terrible tragedy occurred on April 6 when we lost 75 CRPF jawans, and
one district police officer, in the Dantewada forests of Chattisgarh,
in a horrendous ambush, possibly the worst single episode in independent
India. .....
- Europe's Roma say woes
deepen amid economic crisis
- by Daniel Woolls
For many of Europe's estimated 12 million Gypsies, daily life is getting
even worse and tens of thousands of children face shocking discrimination
by authorities who shunt them off into schools for the mentally disabled,
activists said Friday. .....
- Qatar diplomat was to meet
jailed terrorist
- by Matthew Lee and P. Solomon Banda
A Qatari diplomat was on his way to an official visit with an imprisoned
al-Qaida sleeper agent when he touched off a bomb scare by slipping into
an airline bathroom for a smoke, officials said Thursday as the diplomat
prepared to leave the U.S. .....
- Unchoose this man
- by Ashok Malik
Public discourse in India tends to be over-the-top. But the debate around
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been extraordinarily excessive.
.....
- Kashmir's Unceasing Secessionist
Moves
- by Dr TH Chowdary
India has lost over 40,000 civilians, soldiers and para military personnel,
trying to prevent Kashmir from seceding from India; India has given over
Rs. 2,00,000 crore in "packages" and otherwise to J&K in
the last decade alone .....
- As 'maharajin buas', these
women perform last rites
- by Asit Srivastava
They are called 'maharajin buas'. Hindu women from several families have
defied tradition in Maniaya village of Uttar Pradesh to take up the profession
of priests who perform the last rites. .....
- Pune RTI activist murder
case handed to CBI
- by TN Raghunatha
Nearly three months after an RTI activist Satish Shetty was brutally murdered
by assailants at Talegaon near Pune, the Maharashtra government formally
announced its decision to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI). .....
- Apex court unhappy with
NREG implementation
- by The Pioneer
Five years into operation, the Supreme Court on Wednesday raised concerns
over the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act (MGNREGA), the UPA Governmen's pilot project. .....
- Stop passing the buck
- by Shikha Mukerjee
The Maoist problem is not about the competence of any particular State
administration. It is about dealing with the gravest threat to internal
security. .....
- Wage relentless war on
Maoists
- by Kanchan Gupta
The reaction to Tuesday's ghastly Maoist attack on CRPF jawans deep in
the densely forested Abujhmad region of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh has
been predictable. .....
- New Delhi-Lahore bus brings
fake currency
- by The Pioneer
For the first time since the start of New Delhi-Lahore bus service, fake
Indian currency with a face value of Rs 2.85 lakh was seized on Wednesday
from an elderly lady passenger at the border here. .....
- VHP protests CPM's stranglehold
on temples
- by S Chandrasekhar
TEMPLES have always been a milking cow for politicians in Kerala, especially
CPM. Unlike in most states, Kerala temples are governed by State government
through Devaswom Board (Temple Boards). .....
- Funny men at home in office
- by Dr Jay Dubashi
The trouble with men like Chidambaram and Manmohan Singh is that they
are pen-pushers, taking hours to draft letters in Oxford English, which
even the Britishers have forgotten. .....
- Encyclopedia of Hinduism
launched
- by Pramod Kumar
THE much awaited Encyclopedia of Hinduism is finally out. After the deep
research conducted by about 2000 eminent scholars for about 20 years,
it came in 6,600 multi-colour pages divided into 11 volumes. .....
- This is war
- by Editorial
Maoists have struck again, this time in Dantewada. At least 76 CRPF jawans
have died in the attack, the highest toll till now. . .....
- Don't treat soldiers like
beggars: Supreme Court
- by NDTV.com
The Supreme Court has slammed the union government for treating army personnel
like "beggars" in respect of emoluments and pension and asked
the authorities to adopt a more "humane approach" towards those
bravely defending the country's borders. .....
- SC relief to Lalu in assets
case
- by The Pioneer
In a major relief to RJD leader Lalu Prasad, the Supreme Court on Thursday
held that Bihar Government does not have the authority to file an appeal
in the Patna High Court against him and his wife in a disproportionate
assets case, which was prosecuted by the CBI. .....
- The naked secularist
- by R Jagannathan
Recent media coverage of Narendra Modi's interrogation by the Special
Investigation Team (SIT) and the Amitabh Bachchan controversy constitute
further evidence of the emptiness of Indian secularism. .....
- NO ALIBI - Weak W. Bengal
Has Become A Soft Target For The Maoists
- by Pratik Kanjilal
West Bengal has become a soft target where State authority is at its weakest
ebb in decades. The Left will almost certainly lose power in the Assembly
elections next year, now that Jyoti Basu is gone and no leader of comparable
standing remains. .....
- Why India is a Nation?
- by Sankrant Sanu
The root of all movements to break India are ultimately found in denying
the religious and cultural unity of the Indian people - whether it be
found in movements inspired by colonial scholarship, communism, pan-Islamism
or evangelical Christianity. .....
- Could Goa steal 1857's
thunder?
- by Mayabhushan
So we all know - an enraged catalyst in Mangal Pandey, cattle and pig
lard smeared on cartridges and a hurt national conscience triggered India's
first officially recognised war of Independence in 1857. .....
- Govt may have to revisit
mandate on use of AF against naxals
- by The Pioneer
Cautioning against any "knee-jerk" reactions to Tuesday's "savage"
attack by the Maoists, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the
government may have to "revisit" the mandate on use of Air Force
in the offensive against Naxalites. .....
- Gogoi rules out ULFA leaders'
safe passage
- by The Pioneer
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday virtually ruled out any
offer for safe passage to ULFA leaders who wish to visit their families
during the forthcoming Rongali Bihu festival in the state. .....
- In Orissa, a village of
Sanskrit pundits
- by Rediff News
Sanskrit may have ceased to be spoken by people, but there is a remote
village in this coastal district of Orissa where every home has a pundit
of the ancient language. .....
- BJP team barred from visiting
riot-hit Hyderabad
- by NDTV.com
A five-member fact-finding team of BJP national leaders, led by Rajya
Sabha member and party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar, was taken into
preventive custody when they tried to proceed towards riot-hit areas in
Hyderabad on Wednesday. .....
- Let Congress explain 1984
- by A Surya Prakash
The Congress is unhappy that Amitabh Bachchan was invited to the inauguration
of the second carriageway of the Bandra-Worli sea link. .....
- Dawood aided 26/11 attackers
- by The Indian Express
Karachi-based D-Company of the fugitive Indian underworld don Dawood Ibrahim
possibly had an important role in 26/11 carnage by providing logistic
support to the LeT-operatives to carry out the deadly operation, adding
a new dimension to the Mumbai terror attacks. .....
- 'India didn't block water
even during war'
- by The Times of India
As Pakistan drums up officially-sponsored hysteria on the "water
dispute" with India, the government believes Islamabad is giving
political overtones to "technical" issues. .....
- Ahmadis slam target-killings
in Faisalabad
- by Daily Times
The Jamaat-e-Ahmadia Pakistan on Sunday condemned the target killing of
three members of its community in Faisalabad on April 1 (Thursday), Daily
Times has learnt .....
- German Jihad Colonies Sprout
Up in Waziristan
- by Yassin Musharbash, Marcel Rosenbach
and Holger Stark
A wave of Germans traveling to training camps for militant jihadists has
alarmed security officials back in Europe. The recruits are quickly becoming
radicalized and, in some cases .....
- Russia confirms bomber
nexus with Pak
- by The Pioneer
The 28-year old IT teacher Maryam Sharipova, one of the two suicide bombers
who blew herself up at a Moscow Metro station was the wife of terrorist
leader Magomedali Vagapov from the restive Daghestan region trained in
Pakistan, Russia's top anti-terror agency said on Tuesday ....
- 'Maoists have totally militarised
themselves'
- by Archana Masih
In a savage attack on security forces in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district,
Maoists have killed 75 Central Reserve Police Force personnel on Tuesday
morning. ....
- Foolproof chargesheet against
Headley
- by The Economic Times
The chargesheet to be filed by the Indian agencies against Lashkar-e-Toiba
operative David Coleman Headley in the 26/11 case will cite not only his
terror reconnaissance trips ....
- The Asset Managers
- by Saikat Datta
Headley's confessions prove a Pak role. But did the US know of 26/11 beforehand?
....
- Indus Valley east theory
challenged
- by G.S. Mudur
A study of hundreds of ancient Indus Valley civilisation sites has revealed
previously unsuspected patterns of growth and decline that challenge a
long-standing idea of a solely eastward-moving wave of Indus urbanisation.
....
- Sangam starts four-day
congress
- by Fiji Times
SOUTH Indians jam-packed the tfl National Stadium in Suva yesterday to
attend the inaugural 84th convention of one of the biggest Hindu religious
and charitable organisations in the country. ....
- Christianisation of Chennai
Doordarshan's Podhigai Channel - 1
- by Vijayvaani.com
The Church functions with the sole agenda of Christianisation of the entire
world. Christian Institutions of all denominations have the expertise
to Christianise non-Christian nations, investing their political clout
and money power for 'harvesting'. ....
- Hearts and minds
- by Sandeep Unnithan
Sixteen years ago, Padma Kumar Pillay, a wiry 27-year-old army captain,
kicked down the door of a hut in Manipur to be greeted by a burst of AK-47
fire and a grenade. ....
- US wants troop cut in Kashmir
to win Afghan war
- by S Rajagopalan
Reducing the number of Indian troops in Kashmir or pulling back forces
along the border is among the "ideas" being discussed by the
Pentagon in internal debates as part of measures to ensure that US efforts
to win Pakistani cooperation for its Afghanistan operations do not suffer.
....
- Spectacular win for BJP
- by Editorial
The handsome victory scored by the BJP in the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara
Palike election is significant for three reasons. ....
- 76 security men killed
by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh
- by The Pioneer
Ambushing policemen who were out on an operation against them in thick
forests, Naxalites carried out their deadliest attack in the early hours
on Tuesday killing 76 CRPF personnel who appeared to have walked into
their "trap". ....
- The Internet Hindus
- by Shachi Rairikar
FOR decades the English media, both print and electronic, has been dominated
by the leftist elite who by virtue of their English education, articulate
speech and degrees, scholarships and awards from abroad face little or
no competition at home. ....
- Karzai threatens to join
Taliban
- by Dawn.com
Irritated by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's anti-Western outbursts, the
Obama administration is expecting some fallout in the U.S. Congress and
further erosion of public support for the war. ....
- U.S. faces domestic fallout
from Karzai outburst
- by Sue Pleming and Susan Cornwell
Irritated by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's anti-Western outbursts, the
Obama administration is expecting some fallout in the U.S. Congress and
further erosion of public support for the war. ....
- Indo-Pak ties: A reality
check
- by G. Parthasarathy
It is hard to hold meaningful talks, given the Pakistan military's support
for infiltration and cross-border terrorism. India should insist on concrete
action as a pre-requisite for so-called composite dialogue, says G. Parthasarathy.
....
- Poor Muslims enjoy quotas
in four states
- by The Times of India
While the SC order on Muslim quotas will open doors for many poor deserving
Muslims in AP, reservation for backward Muslims in government jobs has
long existed in Kerala ....
- Maoists are cowards: Chidambaram
- by The Pioneer
Maoist guerrillas are cowards as they hide in the forests and the campaign
against them will be long drawn, Home Minister P. Chidamabaram said in
this rebel bastion Sunday. ....
- The Headley scandal
- by N. V. Subramanian
This should be a lesson to Manmohan Singh that the US can never be India's
"natural ally", says N.V.Subramanian. ....
- America's Wounded Ally
- by Sumit Ganguly
Barack Obama is in danger of reversing all the progress his predecessors,
including George W. Bush, made in forging closer U.S. ties with India.
....
- Top brass behind bars,
rifts hit Maoists
- by Vishwa Mohan
Though the arrest of six out of 14 politburo members of CPI (Maoist) in
the past three years had already made a heavy dent, recent reports indicating
differences between chief Ganapathi and senior leader Koteswar Rao alias
Kishenji has made ripples down to the lower cadre. ....
- Yoga becoming lifestyle
trend in urban Nepal
- by Sify.com
Yoga has almost become a lifestyle trend among the urban middle class
in this country, courtesy the Indian television channels which telecast
holistic health and lifestyle programmes. ....
- No reaching out to Taliban:
India
- by The Pioneer
Unfazed by the Feb 25 attacks in Kabul, India is scaling up the security
of around 3,500 Indians working in Afghanistan and has made it clear that
there is no question of India reaching out to the Taliban. ....
- Heavy Duty
- by Editorial
One is a bulldozer operator, another a train driver and yet another an
ambulance woman, not to mention pipe-fitters, A/C mechanics, senior technicians
and even crane operators. ....
- Top court bans entry over
cap
- by Satya Prakash
Mansoor Ahmad, a law student from Aligarh Muslim University, has been
barred from entering the courtrooms of the country's top court because
he wears a cap. ....
- Inhuman rights
- by Uday Mahurkar
For eight long years, Gujarat 2002 has stood out as one of the worst episodes
in our calendar of atrocity. ....
- Godhra riot witnesses got
Rs 1 lakh each
- by Navin Upadhyay
A controversial Gujarat-based NGO was instrumental in organising payment
of Rs 1 lakh each to as many as ten witnesses in various post-Godhra riot
cases. ....
- Teesta Setalvad's former
confidant files FIR against her
- by Newstrackindia.com
Raees Khan, who has been accused of distorting facts in the affidavits
of six Naroda Gam witnesses, alleged Friday that activist Teesta Setalvad
has been threatening him and said he has filed a police complaint against
her. ....
- SC affidavit wrong, didn't
know what we signed: riot victim
- by The Indian Express
In her new home in a narrow bylane of Ahmedabad, Madina Pathan (25) has
no idea she has kicked up a storm with her deposition before the Supreme
Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat
riot cases. ....
- MIM suspected for riots
- by Andhracafe.com
The situation in the old city is slowly coming back to normal and now
the police department has decided to fold their sleeves and crack down
upon those responsible for the arson. Incidentally, the spotlight has
fallen on the two leaders of MIM party. ....
- MIM leaders under scanner
- by The Times of India
With the BJP charging that the authorities are being lenient with the
MIM leaders and cadre with regard to the recent communal clashes in Old
City, the city police have brought under their scanner the activities
of two MIM legislators and two corporators. ....
- In defense of the Sacred
- by Dr C I Issacs
Using the pretext of the study of religious aspects of Hindus, some elements
in the American Academy of Religion [AAR] are now deliberately attempting
to tarnish Hinduism's true image through some so called 'scholarly productions'.
....
- Blog: Sharia Councils 'undermine
social cohesion'
- by Mark Pritchard
Since the 1996 Arbitration Act, Government ministers have allowed Islamic
tribunals around Britain to rule on a range of financial disputes, provided
both parties agree to accept the court's decision. ....
- All rescued kids from Zeme
tribe
- by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a thorough probe into the alleged
incidents of child trafficking from Northeastern states by missionaries.
....
- An intolerant society
- by Huma Yusuf
Coming on the heels of the Ashura tragedy, the two blasts in Karachi on
Friday are a reminder that sectarian violence poses one of the greatest
threats to Pakistani society. ....
- CM discounts 'poverty breeds
Naxal' theory
- by Express News Service
Drawing a comparison between the Maoist menace and the Khalistan movement
of the mid-80s, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said in both cases
lack of development was not the cause for the rise in insurgency. ....
- Follow the leader, for
corruption in media
- by Dina Nath Mishra
India is the fourth largest economy and is surging towards being the third
largest, leaving behind Japan. But we are also one of the most corrupt
countries. ....
- The soldier and the celebrity
- by Tarun Vijay
THE only line that makes or breaks the lifeline of your journey is the
line that you would like to tell your son or daughter-'go this way, and
not the other way'. ....
- Are we losing mother tongue?
- by Anand Soondas
By the time Shyamoli Panchal returns home each evening she has miraculously
mutated from an eight-yearold schoolgirl to a knocked-around war veteran.
....
- Questions and Answers
- by Balbir K. Punj
It seems that the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, has deprived
the so-called secularists of a golden opportunity they were looking for.
....
- Foreign tourists banned
from JK's 'Jesus' shrine
- by Rediff .com
The Russian authorities have proved to be right: Last Monday's deadly
suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro, which claimed the lives of 39 innocent
people and maimed many more ....
- Women as terrorists
- by Editorial
The Russian authorities have proved to be right: Last Monday's deadly
suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro, which claimed the lives of 39 innocent
people and maimed many more ....
- Why the US must not alienate
India
- by Raymond E Vickery
Raymond E Vickery, Jr, a former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, on
why the US must not take its eye off its relationship with India. ....
- Move beyond politics of
victimhood
- by The Pioneer
Simplistic categories of analysis and interpretation cannot help in capturing
the complexities and contradictions of BSP chief Mayawati's political
and personal qualities and angularities. She is a bundle of contradictions
which gets revealed and reflected in her personal responses in public
life. ....
- Sinister pattern emerges
- by Editorial
A pattern has begun to emerge from the incidents of communal violence
that have been witnessed at Meraj in Maharashtra, Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh
and, most recently, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. In all these places ....
- The genocide we and the
world forgot
- by Vivek Gumaste
When we can raise your voice for 2,000 Muslims killed in Gujarat, we must
cry from the rooftops for 2.4 million Hindus killed in 1971 or the 250,000
Kashmiri Pandits forced out of their homes in Kashmir. ....
- Togadia Speak: Centre is
not serious about punishing terrorists
- by Dr Pravin Togadia
With the new bill of J&K girls marrying out of J&K losing rights
in J&K and Justice Shagir Ahmed's hush-hush report-autonomy to J&K-
are taking the state back to pre-1953 status, which is absolute treason
towards Bharat. It is a political jehad and the Indian government should
pass a bill to prevent any such attempts. .....
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