by Daily News & Analysis
In a horrifying disclosure that will surely give you the goose bumps, one of the accused in the Ahmedabad serial blasts case of July 2008, Mujib Shaikh, has confessed of planting a bomb near a tution class so as to kill kids and add as many figures to the casualty list. ....
by Anil Kumar M
The 11 persons arrested on terrorism charges made calls on the internet to contact the kingpins of a plot to kill high-profile individuals in Karnataka. Skype was their favoured mode. ....
by Vishwa Mohan
Vital Army, Navy and nuclear installations in south India were on the terror radar of the suspects arrested in Bangalore and Hubli for allegedly plotting to target MPs, MLAs and journalists in Karnataka. During interrogation, they apparently said Saudi Arabia-based handlers of these terrorists are Pakistanis and Indians. ....
by The Indian Express
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday hit back at Digvijay Singh for criticising party chief Nitin Gadkari, saying the people of the country have stopped taking the Congress General Secretary seriously. ....
by The Indian Express
Protesting the attacks on journalists by AAMSU during a bandh sponsored by the outfit, scribes Saturday held demonstrations across Assam demanding ban on it and security to media persons. ....
by Amol Sharma
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about malnutrition in a Wall Street Journal interview have sparked controversy in India. In the interview, Mr. Modi said Gujarat’s economic advances can be a model for the nation, discussed whether he has prime ministerial ambitions and explained his reasons for not apologizing for the 2002 communal riots in his state. ....
by Shekhar Gupta
Here are some tricky questions we need to face, even if we cannot convincingly answer them. Is UPA 2 the most entrepreneur-unfriendly government since the reform of 1991? Or, is it the most crony capitalist regime in India’s history? Or could it, indeed, be a bit of both? And, if so, how do you explain, or rationalise, that incredible contradiction? ....
by Himanshi Dhawan
Deprived of a chance to study for generations, women from Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan are now grabbing the opportunity with both hands. Of the 1.9 crore adults who enrolled for the government's adult literacy programme, Saakshar Bharat, since 2009, an overwhelming 72% were women. Over the past two years, some 1.4 crore adults have been added as "neo-literates" — and once again, nearly 72% of them were women. ....
by Minxin Pei
Roughly a decade ago, senior Chinese leaders became more acutely aware of the growing uneasiness in the international community over their country’s rapid increase of power. To allay fears of a rising China, Beijing came up with a reassuring message, encapsulated in the slogan “peaceful rise.” ....
by The Hindu
A campaign launched by a community service institution to make selected villages in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan shed the below poverty line (BPL) tag has immensely benefited the poor families in the region and facilitated creation of new employment opportunities, small entrepreneurships and income-generating ventures. ....
by G Pramod Kumar
While the coal mining scam, that plunged the Parliament and the UPA into an annoying impasse, continues to outrage the nation, emerging details of a mega scam brewing in Tamil Nadu show that the wholesale plunder of the country’s natural resources is an old practice and more widespread than what is apparent. ....
by Newstrackindia.com
A sacred lamp in a Vaishnavite monastery has put Assam's Jorhat town on the world map. The lamp has been burning continuously for the past 484 years, and has been officially recognised by the Asia Book of Records. ....
by G.Srinivasan
As the puppets start dancing on the stage – thanks to the dexterity of artistes pulling the strings from behind – the crowd at Sri Besant Lodge in Thanjavur on Sunday breaks into peals of laughter. While the old were awe struck at the speed and deftness with which the puppets danced to the tune of artistes , the children in the crowd lustily cheered the show. Some tiny tots even joined the puppets in dancing. ....
by The Indian Express
Nearly 2,000 women and girls from various minority sects were forcibly converted to Islam through rape, torture and kidnappings, and 161 people were charged with blasphemy in 2011, according to a report. ....
by Mohua Chatterjee & Josy Joseph
Even as the UPA government struggles to shrug off allegations of major scandals, a set of decisions taken by yet another ministry under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has come under fresh scrutiny. ....
by The Times of India
At a time when Pakistan is plagued by terrorism, its official academia has been unable to stop the inclusion of hate material targeting Hindus, Christians and Sikhs and fanning sectarian hatred in school curriculum. ....
by Sreenivasan Jain
The investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the coal scandal until now has focused on charges that companies with inadequate expertise and finances managed to land captive coal blocks with millions of tonnes of deposits. ....
by The Pioneer
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram is in trouble again with more than 500 fishermen from the Karikattukuppam village in the East Coast Road near Chennai complaining to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa that the former’s family members have grabbed Government land. ....
by Yoginder Sikand
He certainly isn’t the sort whom most folks would define as even remotely ‘successful’. After all, he isn’t rich and famous and doesn’t have a ‘glamorous’ job. But, as far as I am concerned, Ramesh, whom I met on a recent trip to Kerala, is definitely among the most amazingly successful people I’ve ever come across. ....
by Shyamlal Yadav
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting S Jagathrakshakan, who is facing heat for alleged involvement in a company allotted a coal block, has one distinction among Union ministers. Since he took oath, the DMK leader has made 24 personal foreign trips and spent 253 days abroad — the highest among the 49 Union ministers to have made personal trips. ....
by Gopu Mohan
If the DMK says S Jagathrakshakan was not a minister or even party member when his company, JR Power Gen Pvt Ltd, got a coal block in Orissa in 2007, they may have a point. ....
by Pranab Bora and Daulat Rahman
It was in the forties, peering through his round-rimmed glasses, that poet Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, he the Rajasthani Assamese, so defined the Assamese collective, the race that walked his motherland, for which he wrote and sang, casting in gold his treasure trove for the patriot. ....
by Rediff.com
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hansraj Ahir, who has been at the forefront in exposing the scandalous free allotment of coal blocks by the United Progressive Alliance, explains the modus operandi of the coal scam in the second and final part of his interview with rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt. ....
by Rediff.com
Hansraj Ahir, the man who wrote more than 15 letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one of the most learned Indians, to alert him about the glaring irregularities in allotment of coal blocks, is an undergraduate. ....
by Karan Thapar
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi kicked off a fresh controversy by blaming the high illiteracy level among the Muslims for their growing population in the state. ....
by Dr. MMS
Let us presume there are two people named Samar and Frances. Below I am going to reproduce, verbatim, some extracts from an article each wrote at different times and in different publications. The extracts from article by Samar will be followed by extracts from article of Frances. ....
by Makarand Gadgil, Aniek Paul & Cordelia Jenkins
On the third floor of Insignia Towers, an almost abandoned eight-storey building in Kolkata’s information technology hub, Salt Lake Sector V, the curtains are drawn and the lights switched off. ....
by P Chengal Reddy
The parliamentary committee report on genetically modified (GM) organisms is an attempt to give a quiet burial to biotechnology in India. On behalf of the farmers of India, let me say that this report totally fails to reflect farmers' aspirations, and distorts the scientific significance of biotechnology - including genetic engineering - for the national economy. Instead, it echoes persistent canards by some environmental NGOs. ....
by Sandeep Joshi
The Centre on Monday blamed foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for aiding protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu and reiterated that the government was committed to producing “clean and cheap” nuclear energy in the country. ....
by The Hindu
Award-winning political cartoonist and anti-corruption and Internet freedom crusader Aseem Trivedi on Monday said he would not apply for bail till police dropped the sedition charge against him. ....
by A. Devarajan
Come the annual Brahmothsavams of Lord Venkateswara and a draper-cum-tailor shop located in the crammed Theerthakatta street of Tirupati gets busy as its owner and workers pour themselves over the huge and exquisite ‘pardhas’ (curtains) to be hemmed and offered to the temple of Lord Venkateswara, ahead of the annual festival. ....
by The Indian Express
Dissident Chinese author Liao Yiwu, who famously escaped to Germany last year after several stints in prison in his homeland for his controversial writings, is in India and met the 17th Karmapa in Dharamshala in an effort to get him leader to visit Berlin. ....
by The Indian Express
Girish Kuber: In the changing, modern world, what relevance does the RSS hold? How do you view problems such as the recent violence in Assam or the long-standing Kashmir dispute? ....
by Tavleen Singh
Ever since his second term in office began, there have been many, many moments when the Prime Minister looked pathetic. He looked pathetic every time one of his ministers defied his orders publicly. He looked pathetic when his own economic ideas were abandoned because of pressure from the jholawallahs in Sonia Gandhi’s kitchen cabinet. ....
by Michael Grunwald
Claire Broido Johnson was the kind of private-sector go-getter you don’t expect to find in middle management at a federal agency. After graduating from Harvard and Harvard Business School, then structuring energy deals for major banks and other corporations, she helped found the pathbreaking solar firm SunEdison. ....
by The Indian Express
BJP today said it is time Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed his views on crucial issues like the coal mines allocation scam and poverty and wondered that if he is not "fit" for a bigger role at 42 how can he be so at the age of 52. ....
by Rohit Pradhan
A response to Sagarika Ghose: We don't need government committees to control the internet. Countering malicious rumour-mongering and using the ‘block’ tool is enough. ....
by The Pioneer
There was a move by the anti-nuclear brigade to attack and kidnap policemen who were deployed to ensure the security of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, according to a top official in the police. ....
by Sidharth Pandey
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee may be advocating austerity measures but the government, whether it is the Centre or the states, seem far from frugal when it comes to spending. ....
by The Hindu
Six more Amarnath pilgrims died en route to the holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, taking the toll during this year’s pilgrimage to 67, officials said on Wednesday. ....
by Raman Kirpal
“Is Shaadi mein hum ladke wale hain,’’ (We represent the bridegroom’s side in this marriage), said former Communications Minister and noted journalist Arun Shourie on 25 February 2012, when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had questioned him in 2G scam case. ....
by The Indian Express
India topped a list of 17-nation on best sustainable behaviour, with consumers in the US last on the list, according to a new survey. ....
by The Hindu
A Sattriya dance troupe from Majuli river-island will perform an innovative dance drama in France and Switzerland based on the tales depicted on Vrindavani Vastra. ....
by The Indian Express
Three prominent Hindu businessmen were kidnapped along with their driver by unidentified armed men in Sindh province of southern Pakistan today. ....
by Nayanjot Lahiri
There is no doubt that for every scholar whose talent and work gets recognised, there are many more who have either been forgotten or ignored — not only by posterity but also by their own contemporaries. In the arena of archaeological scholarship, this is something that I am constantly reminded of when reading Alexander Cunningham’s reports. ....
by Twocircles.net
A Bharatiya Janata Party legislator in Goa Monday said that the Mangal Pandey-inspired 1857 uprising was not India's first rebellion against foreign rule. ....
by N. K. Singh
The Supreme Court order quashing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s FIR in the assets case against former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati, has come as a jolt. Yes, the Supreme Court’s order is binding and must be respected but, equally, it is important to record honest opinions on such an important matter that affects the fight against corruption in high places. ....
by Mohan Krishen Teng
The purpose of this paper is to identify the structural faultlines in the report on Jammu and Kashmir that the Group of Interlocutors has submitted to the Government of India. Written in carefully chosen words, the report has a hidden agenda. ....
by Mike Pflanz
Days after her husband blew himself up in a Tube carriage beneath King’s Cross station on July 7, 2005, killing 26 people, Samantha Lewthwaite professed complete “incomprehension” at his “horrific” act. Within weeks, the soldier’s daughter and teenage Muslim convert from Aylesbury disappeared from view, with the two children she had by bomber Jermaine Lindsay, one of them the couple’s weeks-old newborn. ....
by Viju Sidhwani
Ever since we were young we attended the annual Diwali mela at South Street Seaport. Each year our family drove in to downtown Manhattan from the surrounding suburbs. Breathing in the panoramic views of the Big Apple, with the backdrop of a glorious sunset, we knew an evening of live dance performances, puppet shows and a display of exquisite fireworks bursting on a blanket of stars was soon to follow. This was our idea of Diwali. ....
by Arshad Alam
What is in a name? Perhaps much if we listen in carefully. A couple of years ago, some Muslims in Malaysia objected to Christians using the name of Allah to denote God. Almost as if they had a copyright over the usage of the name Allah, these Muslims argued that since Allah was the name of their God, only they (the Muslims) could use this word. ....
by The Indian Express
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday said Pranab Mukherjee should begin his tenure as the President by rejecting the mercy plea of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and create history. ....
by Economic Times
If the expectation is that the younger generation of Pakistanis, those far removed from the shadow of Partition, would help author a more amicable relation with India, then that hope is in vain. Pakistan’s educational system continues to encourage anti-India sentiments and radical Islamic views. ....
by Balbir K Punj
The recent construction of an illegal mosque in Delhi is symptomatic of the crass politics of minorityism played by the Congress which is desperate to win Muslim votes. ....
by BJP.org
All India General Secretary of BJP Vijay Goel lead a high-level delegation consisting of All India General Secretary Smt. Kiran Maheshwari, Bijoy Chakrabarty National Vice President, Dilip Moran and Ranit Dass, Fanindra Dass MLAs from Assam, Ajit kumar Bhattacharya Organisation general secretary from Assam and Debashish Sur senior Advocate to Kokrajhar and Chirang districts along with their surrounding areas to find the facts on 24-25 July. ....
by The Hindu
Blaming largescale migration from Bangladesh for the clashes in lower Assam, BJP leader L.K. Advani on Tuesday said government’s “inaction” in dealing with the problem has resulted in indigenous communities feeling threatened. ....
by V Mahalingam
The recent ethnic clashes and the response of the state government to a developing anarchy in state of Assam have once again exposed the hollowness of the state of governance in our country. "We had requisitioned the Army on the very first day. But it took four-five days for the forces to reach the state," Gogoi told reporters. ....
by M T Saju
Alagappasamy has been living in Mamallapuram for the past 45 years. But the carpenter has visited the monuments at the UNESCO world heritage site only rarely. “I don’t find them interesting as I don’t know anything about them,” he says. ....
by Tarun Vijay
From our Olympics contingent in London to Kokrajhar in Assam, India has become a free land for trespassers. If genuine sportspersons were overshadowed and embarrassed by the 'lady in the red' in London, native Bodos were killed and devastated by Bangladeshi infiltrators in Kokrajhar. ....
by Rudroneel Ghosh
Over the past week, opinions in the media have tried to explain the recent ethnic clashes in Assam. But it took senior BJP leader LK Advani to hit the nail on the head. He rightly described the "root cause" of the clashes between Bodos and Bangladeshi settlers as the unfettered illegal migration from Bangladesh. ....
by Claude Arpi
When New Delhi decided to downgrade India's relations with Tibet, the bare minimum it could have done was to have pushed the Chinese to settle the border issue. But, Prime Minister Nehru did nothing of the kind. ....
by Minhaz Merchant
Indira Gandhi introduced the term secularism in the preamble to the Constitution with the 42nd Constitution Amendment Act, 1976, during the draconian Emergency. ....
by Minhaz Merchant
On a cool spring day over 60 years ago in California, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a tall, angular man of 22, was in a garrulous mood. He told my father: “Ah, Pakistan. See what we will do with my wonderful new country.” ....
by B. Raman
Mr. Tomas Ojea Quintana, a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, completed on August 4, 2012, a six-day visit to Myanmar to study allegations of violations of the human rights of its ethnic minorities and Rohingya Muslims by the military regime that was in power for nearly five decades. He has called for the establishment of a Truth Commission to investigate these allegations. ....
by Utpal Kumar
Manmohan Singh was seen as the ‘father’ of India’s economic reforms. Eight years in office, he has all but betrayed his own baby. Utpal Kumar wonders if this man truly believes in market economy. ....
by L K Advani
Speculations are on these days as to what is likely to happen in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, ordinarily scheduled to take place in 2014. ....
by RSSChennai.blogspot.in
Assam should stand together as ONE against Bangla Deshi Muslim Infiltration. Demands immediate deportation of Bangla Deshi Muslims from all Bharat No Bangla Deshi Muslim should be allowed in National Citizen Registry Basis should be 1951. ....
by Jason Overdorf
Tweeters and bloggers have accused Indian TV news channels of ignoring the ongoing ethnic riots in Assam, due to a bias in favor of the Congress Party. ....
by Saritha Rai
There is a new buzz around a humble staple that is a ubiquitous fixture on the breakfast and evening “tiffin” in many south Indian homes and restaurants. Chefs at haute dining destinations are giving it a new spin. Street food vendors are experimenting with it. ....
by Shaju Philip
They vie with one another over who can flex the strongest muscles for their party, who can hurl the strongest verbal abuse. Each belongs to the CPM stronghold of Kannur. And they all have the same name. ....
by Niki Kitsantonis
A vast police operation here aimed at identifying illegal immigrants found that, of 6,000 people detained over the weekend, 1,400 did not have proper documentation, leading the minister of public order to say that Greece was suffering an “unprecedented invasion” that was threatening the stability of the debt-racked nation. ....
by The Indian Express
The Patna police has confiscated a three-storey building of former Bihar DGP Narayan Mishra after the Patna High Court recently upheld a special Vigilance court’s order to confiscate his property under the provisions of the Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009. ....
by Alokparna Das
Janmashtami, the festival celebrating Krishna’s birth, is only a couple of days away and Brajbhoomi is teeming with visitors. Yet, at Koile Ghat, the place where the story is said to have begun, there’s hardly anyone, barring a few local villagers. ....
by S Gurumurthy
It is the government’s official website. It celebrates the nation’s civilisational genesis in the ‘yoga’ and ‘meditation’ of Mohanjadaro and Harappa; its ancestral origins in vedic Puru and puranic Takshaka clans; its cultural roots in Takshasila and Gandhara; its historical antiquity in Mahabharata and Arthasastra; its intellectual leadership in Panini and Chanakya; and its historic political masters in Maurya and Kanishka. ....
by Dainiksanatanprabhat.blogspot.in
Illegal demand of Nazarul Islam, the fanatic additional Director General of Police from Bengal Pro-Muslim Trunamool Congress (TCP) will take no action against the fanatic Police officer for making illegal demand. In Hindu Nation, such persons will be punished as per the law ! ....
by Shyamlal Yadav
The government has, over the past one month, prohibited 4,139 NGOs from receiving contributions from sources overseas. The largest block of NGOs who have been shackled — 794, or about 19 per cent of the total — are based in Tamil Nadu, ground zero of the NGO-led protests against the Kudankulam atomic power plant. ....
by Arvind Kumar
The role of British socialist policies in the destruction of India’s economy was well known in the nineteenth century, but this angle has been ignored in recent times. These policies caused widespread poverty and created caste inequality in the country. ....
by VHP.org
In Maharashtra Mumbai, a big mob of 50,000 Muslims gathered in a main area of crowd like CST (Train Station) & Azad Maidan to protest against violence in Assam & in Myanmar. Many Muslim organizations organized it after afternoon Namaz. ....
by TN Raghunatha
Having arrested 23 miscreants — all belonging to the communally sensitive areas of the city — in connection with Saturday’s rioting at Azad Maidan and its vicinity, the city crime branch sleuths have strong reasons to suspect that the disturbances were “premeditated”. ....
by Kanchan Gupta
This month in 1908 Khudiram Bose embraced martyrdom. This month in 1946 Jinnah let loose murderous thugs of Muslim League. This month in 1947 he pretended to be secular! ....
by Bhim Singh
The latest disturbances shaking the north-east, particularly the conflict-torn Bodo territorial areas of Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Chirang, etc., are a reminder to the powers that be in New Delhi and the rest of the country that the hidden volcanoes in the North-East need to be defused with wisdom and courage by the Central leadership while taking the regional leadership into confidence. ....
by Haindavakeralam.com
There are umpteen incidents of Muslims attacking & threatening all North Eastern students / working people / professionals staying in other states of Bharat. There is a Fatwa by many Muslim organizations threatening these Indians from North Eastern states to leave all states of Bharat & go back. ....
by Uday Mahurkar
In the hills and valleys of the Aravalli ranges on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border lies buried a brutal tribal massacre committed nearly a century ago, on November 17, 1913. ....
by The Times of India
Six months into his term as chief minister, an overwhelming majority of urbanites in Uttar Pradesh feel that while Akhilesh Yadav may be the man in the hot seat, his father is a 'super chief minister' and 'powerful uncles' are spiking many of his decisions. That's the key finding from a five-city poll, which also found a marked dissatisfaction with the government's performance. ....
by Justice V R Krishna Iyer
The New Indian Express has disclosed alarming news by a well-known commentator S Gurumurthy on Wednesday. What is well-known is that there is a sublime lady Mata Amritanandamayi whose Ashram is near Kollam, lovely and near the backwaters. ....
by Twocircles.net
The Thrissur Vigilance court ordered an investigation against Wakf board CEO BM Jamal, as a petitioner named TM Abdussalam from the Ernakulum Padamugal Mahal, accused him of forging documents while lending out the property associated with the Padamugal Juma Masjid, thus causing serious economic loss to the institution. ....
by Livemint.com
It was advertising legend David Ogilvy who said: “The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife.” Someone should have paraphrased that for India’s coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, replacing consumer with voter. No one seems to have done that. ....
by Claude Arpi
As the 50th anniversary of the debacle of 1962 approaches, it is necessary to have a fresh look into some of the events which led to the Himalayan Blunder. The Sino-Indian conflict is usually associated with the Henderson-Brooks Report prepared in 1963 by Lt Gen Henderson-Brooks and Brig Prem Bhagat. Today, this file is the most secret of the Indian Republic. ....
by R Jagannathan
Muslims in India and elsewhere have a right to feel concerned for their co-religionists anywhere in the world if they are targeted and discriminated against – whether in Myanmar or Assam is immaterial. ....
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 Kiran Kumar S
Yes, we will tell you what exactly happened. But before that, whatever happened in Mumbai was nothing but the latest episode of shameless “secularism” practiced in India. Majority of those who gathered there thanks to “peaceful” Sufi organization, Raza Academy, had no clue what happened in Myanmar or Asom. We bet 95% wouldn’t have a clue where Kokrajhar district is in Asom. ....
by Team Folks
Narendra Modi after Godhra and Mahatma Gandhi after the Khilafat were forced to deal with the violent aftermath. But there are striking differences between the way the two dealt with them. Also, Modi had nothing to do with the Godhra train burning that triggered the riots while Gandhi was the leader of the Khilafat that was the cause of the Moplah Rebellion. ....
by IBNLive.in.com
Two Bodo groups including the National Democratic Front of Bodoland's (NDFB) pro-talk faction on Saturday demanded that the Assam government verify the citizenship status of the Bengali-speaking Muslims, displaced during last month's clashes, before rehabilitating them. ....
by Sandhya Jain
The disproportionate increase in the Muslim population in eastern India, both on account of continuing migration and higher fertility vis-à-vis other communities, has triggered major demographic distortions. ....
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 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 S Aravindan Neelakandan
“Our enemies, the Brahmins, should tremble in fear.” When DMK supremo M Karunanidhi made this public statement early this year as part of the centenary of celebrations of the Dravidian movement, Bishop Robert Caldwell of the Society for the Propagation of Gospel (SPG) would have had rolled over in ecstasy in his grave. ....
by Hinduhumanrights.info
I grew up in fear – every face around me depicted nothing but fear. I am sure that the first expression on my parent’s face on my birth as a female child born to Hindu parents living in Kandhkot would have been that of fear also. ....
by Dr Pravin Togadia
For the last around one month, Assam is burning. The heat has reached all states in Bharat. In Assam & in Bharat around 5,00,000 North Eastern Indians are displaced – Some in violence in Assam & some in other states in mass exodus. ....
by Rakhi Chakrabarty
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JuH), the largest body of imams, on Saturday sought social boycott of Qadyani, also known as Ahmadiyas, a sect who call themselves Muslims but are not accepted as such by the community. ....
by S K Sinha
The ethnic-cum-communal violence in Kokrajhar, resulting in 100 people brutally killed and four lakh rendered homeless, has been a great humanitarian tragedy. The root cause for this mayhem is the changing demographic profile of the region. ....
by S N Ganesh
Watching the burning vehicles on television, the mind raced back to December 1992 when Muslims went on the rampage after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Then, as now, their strategy was broadly the same: protest violently, provoke, take a small incident and use it as a reason to make a point. ....
by Sweta Dutta
Ten days ago when Trishla Singh was anointed the head of the family after her father’s death in Bundi district, Singh set a trend for other women in Rajasthan. In what is being counted as the second reported case of a woman donning the ceremonial ‘pagdi’, Jyoti Mathur, a native of Churu, was declared the head of the family in a ‘pagdi rasam’ on Tuesday. ....
by Madhu Trehan
The first paragraph describes the violence in Azad Maidan: “...a Muslim mob behaved in despicable fashion — torching OB vans, attacking media persons and the police, molesting women constables, snatching arms from the police....” ....
by Anand Soondas
Bedlangmari is a stunningly beautiful patch of land on the periphery of Kokrajhar, populated by Bengali-speaking Muslims. And almost all of them are today in refugee camps, accused of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. ....
by NDTV.com
Find Bangladeshis, get Rs. 2 crore. That was Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Asim Azmi's singular challenge to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray yesterday. ....
by Nibedita HazarikaThere was widespread uproar when Sonia Gandhi handpicked Pratibha Patil to be elected President of India because of the rather inglorious track record of Patil and other key members of her family. These included major allegations of financial frauds and scams, allegations of involvement in murder cases, driving employees to suicide and much else. ....
by VHP.Org
Taking a jibe on Govt for an order by Telecom Dept to Internet Service Providers to BLOCK selected Twitter accounts & other web pages, VHP International Working President Dr Pravin Togadia said, “From media I came to know about such a draconian order for BLOCKING Twitter accounts of Sangh Pariwar, Sangh’s magazine Panchjanya, Dr Pravin Togadia, a few veteran journalists & others holding all these responsible for alleged Assam violence! ....
by Sandhya Jain
When a resolute MP chaperones Rohingya Muslims from far eastern Myanmar to Hyderabad in the south without a hitch en route, it is obvious the Centre has consented to compromise nationality. ....
by Suhas Chakma
The exodus of about 20,000 Indian citizens from various parts of the country to their homeland in the North-East and the failure of the Government of India to book the rumour-mongers will remain as shameful episodes for those who value the bonding between India and its citizens who are of Tibeto-Mongoloid origin. ....
by Sandhya Jain
The steady trickle of Pakistani Hindus coming to India for pilgrimage and refusing to return has shattered the secular pretensions of our political elite, bringing out the truth that India is the civilisational homeland and legitimate refuge of Hindus of the undivided sub-continent. ....
by Dr Radhasyam Brahmachari
This author has tried to expose how the Muslim boys and men reportedly target school and college girls belonging to non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning love, called “Love-Jihad”, mainly in the southern Indian state of Kerala and the adjoining state of Karnataka. ....
by Kanchan Gupta
Many years ago, while I was still with The Statesman, I met Vinod Mehta for the first time. In those days he was something of a hero for young starry-eyed journalists, having fought with newspaper owners and walked out of jobs. Actually, till then he had walked out of only one job – that of the editor of The Indian Post. ....
by Raj Kadyan
India has great cultural wealth. A multi-religion, multi-language population comprising several ethnic groups makes us rich. We can truly boast of enjoying the unity in diversity. However, this uniqueness in composition also carries its own problems. ....
by Shrisuryanarayanmandir.org
Over 350 adult and youth delegates representing over 102 Mandirs (Temples) and Hindu organizations, from across the world, attended the seventh annual Hindu Mandir Executives' Conference (HMEC), from August 17 through 18, 2012 in San Jose, CA. ....
by Jaibans Singh
The government of Jammu and Kashmir has been quick to shoot down a request by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to move two battalions (2000 troops) out of the State. “We have written to the Jammu and Kashmir government requesting them to relieve the two battalions, but they are not willing to let them go. ....
by G Pramod Kumar
While the coal mining scam, that plunged the Parliament and the UPA into an annoying impasse, continues to outrage the nation, emerging details of a mega scam brewing in Tamil Nadu show that the wholesale plunder of the country’s natural resources is an old practice and more widespread than what is apparent. ....
by The Indian Express
Girish Kuber: In the changing, modern world, what relevance does the RSS hold? How do you view problems such as the recent violence in Assam or the long-standing Kashmir dispute? ....
by S Gurumurthy
Indeed a disgusting story — a concerted, converging attempt to tarnish Mata Amritanandamayi Ashram in Kerala by demonstrable lies and falsehoods. “Amma” as Mata Amritanandamayi is affectionately known is not just a Hindu spiritual lighthouse. She is a power house of service to people that has grown to unbelievable heights. ....
by Vishwa Mohan
Calling Indian Mujahideen (IM) a "start to finish jihad factory", security agencies have asked the country's police brass to watch out for the banned terror outfit, which continues to be on a "talent scouting" spree, emboldened by tacit support of Pakistan's ISI and its labyrinthine networks in various cities of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Delhi. ....
by The Indian Express
Over a century year ago on this very day, Swami Vivekananda received a standing ovation at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago after he had introduced Hinduism and propagated world peace. ....
by Kaipullai
Generally our Prime Minister rarely opens his mouth and, even then, he speaks little. When it came to Kudankulam our Prime Minister went back to the 1980s vintage, ‘Foreign Hand’ theory when he railed against the protest. This time however, for a change, he made sense. ....
by Rajib Chatterjee
The Bodoland People’s Front, the party in control of the Bodoland Territorial Council, says over 39,000 non-tribal people, mainly illegal immigrants, have settled on 2.32 lakh bighas of government khas land in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts area. ...
by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to explain in eight weeks its policy guidelines on coal block allocation and the actual process adopted for 194 coal mines which have been faulted by the Comptroller and Auditor General for causing undue gains to private players. ...
by Arun Agrawal
Is the role of Omita Paul, India’s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee’s confidant over long years and the de facto No 2 in every Ministry that the latter has occupied in the last eight years, that of a fixer? ...
by R Dutta choudhury
If a Government, which is not friendly to India, manages to assume power in Bangladesh, the situation in Assam will be just like that of Kashmir, warned former Assam Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) SK Sinha. ....
by The Times of India
Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has claimed that he had transfered nuclear technology to 'two countries' on the orders of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto. ....
by Subhajit Sengupta
Akhilesh Yadav has completed six months as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. But the initial euphoria has been replaced by a fear of the return of 'gunda raj' and the Chief Minister has himself admitted that the state's law and order is in a mess. ....
by Praful Shankar
The past few months have been witness to the alarmingly quick unraveling of the India growth story. Vicious riots have been unleashed in Assam that had equally revolting repercussions in regions as far of as Mumbai and Bangalore. ....
by Kiran Kumar
Rahul Gandhi. This name evokes highly varied reactions from educated Indians today. On one hand this ‘destined to be PM’ scion of a highly influential politically dynasty has loyal followers. On the other, some truly heavyweight critics lash out at his inexperience and non-capabilities. ....
by Kiran Kumar
What is the parliamentary performance of Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty, MP who represents Amethi in the Lok Sabha, and general secretary of the Congress? We dealt with the details of this aspect of his taxpayer-funded job on Sunday – Let’s appraise Rahul Gandhi’s performance. ....
by The Times of India
Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde's remarks that the coal issue will soon fade away from public memory like Bofors has drawn sharp reactions with Opposition parties reminding him that Congress lost power after that controversy and could never get a majority on its own since then. ....
by Kumar Chellappan
Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the DMP chief, has an aversion to anything connected with epics of Hinduism. He does not lose a single opportunity to ridicule and taunt the Hindu Gods. ....
by The Indian Express
Evangelist Brother Anil Kumar, son-in-law of late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, is embroiled in a real estate settlement controversy that also involves Marketing and Warehousing Minister Mukesh Goud's son Vikram. Surprisingly, while the police have registered a complaint against Vikram, they have not taken any action against Anil Kumar. ....
by The Hindu
The Opposition has taken strong exception to Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s remark that people would soon forget the coal scam like the Bofors case, with the BJP pointing to the Congress’ massive loss in the general election after that episode. ....
by Manas Dasgupta
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took a swipe at the ancestral roots of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi while ridiculing another Congress leader Digvijay Singh’s comment that he (Mr. Modi) was a mere “leader of Gujarat” whereas Mr. Gandhi was a “national leader.” ....
by Apurva & Dipankar Ghose
The man who filed the FIR in Friday’s Ghaziabad violence has disowned the document, saying he did not write it, and that he was misled on its contents. ....
by Kumar Chellappan
Move over extremists, terrorists and anti-social activists. Dhaksha, born in the Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai could spell doom. The power and the mighty in Tamil Nadu are on the run from the probing eyes of Dhaksha, a mini un-manned aerial vehicle (UAV), conceived and develop-ed by the Department of Aerodynamics, MIT. ....
by Faiza Mirza
I have never before addressed a person of your stature so do forgive me for my casual style of speech. Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to you and your government for considering over 900 Pakistani Hindu citizens eligible for Indian nationality. ....
by NDTV.com
While remaining largely unknown in their own country, some Indian soldiers will now become household names in Haifa in northern Israel after figuring in the history textbooks taught at schools for their contribution in liberating this city in 1918. ....
by Firstpost.com
The two faces of Pakistan were on stark display last week, one with a good make over showing signs of a somewhat healthy diet and the other darkened with twisted logic spouting old falsehoods. ....
by Neha Khanna
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to the nation on Friday, explaining why his government had to take some tough decisions on fuel hike and foreign direct investment or FDI in retail, an image makeover exercise for the UPA government is set to begin. ....
by Swapan Dasgupta
Reflecting on the spread of the British Empire to which he was passionately committed, Lord Curzon once remarked that "we have often blundered into many of our greatest triumphs." ....
by The Indian Express
A social worker, who had barely left the CST railway station when Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab and his accomplices wreaked havoc on November 26, 2008, has been sending letters every day to the Prime Minister and President since then, praying that he must be hanged immediately. ....
by Gauree Malkarnekar
With its long stretch of white sands, and hills covered with cashew, coconut, jackfruit and mango groves lies the pristine and beautiful town of Vengurla, just a two-hour drive from Goa. ....
by The Times of India
The Enforcement Directorate's (ED) case against Baba Ramdev' s close aide Balkrishna under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has raised eyebrows within the department itself. ....
by P Parameswaran
Justice Krishna Iyer has hit the nail on the head when he described the attempted assault on Mata Amritanandamayi as "lunatic theology becoming rabid pathology". He has effectively pointed out how a fanatic intruder, shouting Jihadi slogans dashed to the dais where Amma was, as usual, giving darshan to hundreds of devotees from all over the world. ....
by The Indian Express
Terming the Prime Minister's address to the nation on September 21 as “most laughable”, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today said Manmohan Singh has “shamelessly” defended Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail and rise in diesel prices. ....
by Reflectionsvvk.blogspot.in
Shashi Tharoor has covered the ground with these 2 brutally frank lines that indict the british; Jaswant Singh far more detailed, as he examined in scholarly detail the divide and rule policy and the eyewash of governance ....
by L.K. Advani
Gen. Krish Seth, a close friend, and former Governor of Chhattisgarh has written to me a brief note commenting on my blog of last Sunday, July 15, based on Will Durant’s book A Case for India. ....
by L.K. Advani
I was a school boy in Karachi when I first heard the name of Katherine Mayo, notorious author of a viciously anti-India book, titled Mother India. Mahatma Gandhi had condemned the book as a “gutter inspector’s report”! ....
by Movies.ndtv.com
BJP leader L K Advani, once a film critic, has lauded Dev Anand for his opposition to the Emergency rule imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. ....
by The Times of India
Launching a month-long campaign ahead of assembly elections, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday raised the coal issue, accusing the Congress of whipping up an atmosphere of anger against the CAG like it did against the Supreme Court in the 2G case. ....
by The Times of India
A church in Britain has banned yoga classes from its premises as the ancient Indian system of physical exercise was "not compatible" with the Catholic faith, according to a media report here on Wednesday. ....
by Milind Murugkar
Who doesn't like simple stories? Wouldn't it be nice if we could toss out villains and live happily ever after? Unfortunately, this happens only in fairy tales. ....
by Niticentral.com
Reaffirming its commitment to economic reforms that serve to revive growth and development of the country, the BJP on Thursday regretted that the Prime Minister, despite seeking and securing the main opposition party’s support on crucial policy issues, never acted on them. ....
by Damian Carrington
Plants engineered to repel pests use less pesticides, allowing natural insect predators to thrive and spread to non-GM fields ....
by Shobha Warrier
Dr Suresh Moses Lee is the Raja Ramanna Fellow, Department of Atomic Energy, Safety Research Centre, Kalpakkam. He was the former director of safety research, health physics, information services, instrumentation and electronics group at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic research, Kalpakkam. ....
