by The Pioneer
A day after Union Home Secretary GK Pillai said Maoists had plans to overthrow
the Indian state by 2050, top Naxal leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji
tonight claimed it would be achieved much before that date. ....
by The Pioneer
Defence Minister AK Antony on Saturday asked Pakistan to shut down 42
terrorist camps he said were functioning in its territory if India-Pakistan
talks were to succeed. ....
by The Hindu
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the U.P. police arrested an Indian Mujahideen
operative and accused in the Delhi serial bomb blasts, Salman alias Chhotu,
in Siddhartnagar district on Friday night. ....
by Dhruba Adhikary
Nepal's transition from a Hindu monarchy to a secular republic is not
going smoothly, and not just over the fast-approaching May 28 deadline
for the nation's new constitution. ....
by Prem Shankar Jha, Senior Journalist
Last Week, relations between India and Pakistan touched a nadir not seen
since Operation Parakram, launched eight years ago following the attack
on Parliament. ....
by The Indian Express
Describing the UPA government's approach to Indo-Pak talks as a "self-inflicted
insult," chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party L K Advani on Tuesday
reiterated that India's U-turn on the issue of "dialogue with Pakistan
seemed to be the upshot of Washington's nudge". ....
by Khajuria S Kant in Jammu
The Government should have a clear policy on the rehabilitation of Kashmiri
Hindu migrants, PoK, West Pak refugees and migrants from other parts of
Jammu region. ....
by Dr Pravin Togadia
RECENTLY, there was a jehadi attack on Pune and the same cliché
word was used to describe places like Pune, Bengaluru, Jaipur etc-that
is "soft target". ....
by Ravi Varma
The newly created statutory bodies-Travancore Devaswom Board, Cochin Devaswom
Board, Religious Endowment Board and Guruvayoor Temple Committee-mainly
and only consist of those nominated by the elected legislators and ministers
having Hindu names. ....
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" ....
by Prof Dilip K Chakrabarti
The whole hype about handing over the leadership of the Archaeological
Survey of India to a professional was nothing but a charade. ....
by Behroz Khan
It's February 21, Sunday, and an impenetrable fog of sorrow seems to have
enveloped Mohala Jogan Shah, in the heart of Peshawar's old city. ....
by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Whatever we see in nature has a perfect mathematical structure. The rotation
of the Earth, the movement of the stars, the growth of trees, etc, all
have perfect underlying mathematical structures. ....
by Anuradha Dutt
The news that painter in exile MF Husain has been given Qatar nationality
by that nation's ruling family has triggered sentimental pleas from his
admirers here to return home. ....
by Rudroneel Ghosh
Over the last week or so a lot has been said regarding MF Husain's acceptance
of Qatari citizenship. In effect, this would mean that the 95-year-old
artist would be surrendering his Indian passport. ....
by Editorial
The US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr Richard
Holbrooke, has come up with the preposterous idea that this past week's
terror attacks in Kabul were not directed at Indians. ....
by The Pioneer
Indian missions in Afghanistan are under fresh threat from terror outfits
as intelligence inputs suggest that such groups are planning new attacks.
....
by Swapan Dasgupta
A controversy centred on the human rights body Amnesty International is
raging in Britain and it could be instructive for India. ....
by M J Akbar
Delhi lost its own plot one day before foreign secretaries Nirupama Rao
and Salman Bashir sat down at Hyderabad House to reopen the dialogue between
India and Pakistan. ....
by Ayesha Arvind
A day after the attack on Indians in Kabul, the government has the Lashkar-e-Toiba
on its radar of prime suspects given that the previous attempt on the
embassy last October was eventually traced to this outfit. ....
by Pranab Dhal Samanta
A day after the attack on Indians in Kabul, the government has the Lashkar-e-Toiba
on its radar of prime suspects given that the previous attempt on the
embassy last October was eventually traced to this outfit. ....
by Fareed Khan
Munir Masih and Ruqqiya Bibi are convicted on the basis of the blasphemy
law. In January, they were released on bail; now they are in two separate
prison facilities. ....
by Neeraj Chauhan
Alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Shahzad Ahmad, who is in the
custody of Delhi Police for the past 20 days now, has reportedly told
the Special Cell officers that his another accomplice, Ariz Khan alias
Junaid, who had escaped along with him from Batla House on September 19,
2008, is in touch with the IM bosses in Pakistan. ....
by Ptinews.com
The contention by US Special Envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard
Holbrooke that Indians were not the target of the latest Kabul attack
has come as a surprise to the government here. ....
by The Indian Express
Bombers in Kabul blow a hole in India's largest overseas aid programme.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the country that provides most of
India's imported petroleum. ....
by The Hindustan Times
Bombers in Kabul blow a hole in India's largest overseas aid programme.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the country that provides most of
India's imported petroleum. ....
by New-Diaspora.com
Aurangzeb's successor, Bahadur Shah I, died in 1712. Wars of succession
followed and culminated in the accession of Mohammed Shah. ....
by Jeremy Kahn
While the U.S. remains focused on hunting down Al Qaeda's original leadership
along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a lesser-known Islamic militant
group has emerged as potentially the most dangerous terrorist outfit on
the planet. ....
by B. Raman
Is the Indian government growing increasingly frustrated over the Obama
administration's policy of reconciliation with the so called good Taliban?
....
by The Pioneer
A woman military officer has been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for
one year after an army court held her guilty of corruption, indiscipline
and professional impropriety. ....
by Omer Farooq Khan
But for his blue turban and flowing beard there's almost nothing to distinguish
Charanjit Singh, 78, from other residents of this northwestern Pakistani
city. ....
by The Pioneer
India on Sunday said 42 terror camps are "still active" in Pakistan
and that lack of a serious attempt or effort by that country to dismantle
them is the "main cause of concern for us." ....
by USA Today
Authorities have dismantled a six-member terror cell that was planning
attacks in the North African kingdom, Morocco's official news agency says.
....
by Weeklyblitz.net
Golam Minhaz, an inspector with Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police
at Rangpur district [northern part of the country] detained 19 women in
various areas in the city for 'not wearing veils'. ....
by David Frum
Next week, York University will once again open its halls and classrooms
to "Israel Apartheid Week," so-called. This year as every year,
militants and activists will use the taxpayer-funded facilities of York
to vilify the Jewish state. ....
by Robert
Here are translations of two letters that Misunderstanders of Islam sent
to the family of the imprisoned Pakistani Christian human rights activist
Hector Aleem. Background of the case here. ....
by Ishaq Tanoli
A blasphemy accused was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday by
a sessions court for outraging religious feelings of Muslims while a co-accused
was acquitted for want of evidence. ....
by Miranda Devine
The latest headache for NSW prison authorities is how to safely house
the five terrorists convicted this month of plotting bomb attacks in Sydney.
....
by Farah Zia
My son's birthday that falls on February 4 is like a weekend every year,
because the next day - February 5 - is a national holiday, declared as
"Kashmir Day" (instituted by Nawaz Sharif when he was the prime
minister of Pakistan) ostensibly in support of the Kashmiris. ....
by IBN Live.com
Opposition parties criticized Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi
Tharoor for saying Saudi Arabia could be a potential interlocutor in India's
ties with Pakistan and the Congress tried to explain his statement. ....
by Rediff News
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday condemned as 'utterly irresponsible'
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's remark that Saudi
Arabia could act as an interlocutor between India and Pakistan, saying
it will seek a clarification from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Parliament.
.....
by The Pioneer
Notwithstanding the recent Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level meeting for
which India took initiative, JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed has said Pakistan
will have to "fight a war at all costs" if New Delhi is not
prepared to hold talks. .....
