by The Free Press Journal
If there is a method to this madness it is not clear. The Bush administration
opted not to attend the proceedings of the Congressional sub-committee
on terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation on May 25. Members of the sub-committee
pointedly challenged Islamabad's announcement that the A Q Khan case was
closed. .....
by Nasim Zehra
If there is a method to this madness it is not clear. The Bush administration
opted not to attend the proceedings of the Congressional sub-committee
on terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation on May 25. Members of the sub-committee
pointedly challenged Islamabad's announcement that the A Q Khan case was
closed. .....
by The Pioneer
Yet another round of confrontation between the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh
Government seems to be brewing with the Samajwadi Party Government refusing
to back the ban on Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). .....
by R Venkataraman
In a caustic remark the Supreme Court said that the proposed increase
of OBC reservation would divide the great nation on the basis of caste.
.....
by Amarnath Tewary
Maoists threaten to abduct, kill politicians and film whole process ----
After virtually dethroning the Nepal King, the Maoists have now shifted
their focus to Bihar. At a recently held meeting in Rajgir, Nepali and
Indian Maoists sat together and chalked out a blueprint to create mayhem
in Bihar. .....
by Premendra Agrawal
Secularism is a mask for Terrorist Govt. We discuss: The Da Vinci Code
Punjab Vs Gujarat Fanna, Terrorism of Religion Film Paint art Quota Scam
freedom against Hindus constitution & nationalism .....
by Premendra Agrawal
Marxist who supported emergency speaks about freedom of speech.Supporters
of armed Maoist and Naxalites praise non-violence of MahatmaGandhi. The
person whose livelihood depends on falsehood is teachingtruth. Like these
ultapulta, Somnath Chatterjee preaches about freedomof speech, constitution
and fundamental rights. .....
by The Telegraph
CPM cadre forced a Rajarhat school shut some 15 minutes after classes
began this morning so that the students could attend a felicitation for
transport minister Subhas Chakraborty and local MLA Rabin Mondal. .....
by Balagokulam.org
The remarkably successful quiz contest "Kaun Banega Ramayan Expert"
(KBRE) in the United States of America is helping to fuel the Hindu Swayamsevak
Sangh's (HSS), continuing pursuit of excellence in youth leadership, Dharmic
education and service to society as it continues along its path as one
of USA's leading Hindu youth organizations. .....
by P.N. Benjamin
Conversion has always been a sensitive and contentious issue in India.
The politics of conversion, which is pure and simple imperialism, is the
only intractable issue that divides Hindus and Christians in India. .....
by Caroline Drees
Saudi Arabia must do a better job at ferreting out major individual donors
who continue to fund terrorism abroad, including in Iraq, a top U.S. Treasury
official said on Tuesday. .....
by T R Jawahar
Welcome to the 'casteless' egalitarian world of Christianity. Or at least,
that is what the board outside Evangelists Inc claims. Then what do the
above advertisements that routinely appear in very secular newspapers
point to? Well, they reveal what really one confronts behind the facade,
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but unfortunately
kept captive by an army of lies. .....
by Expatica Communications
Germans are growing increasingly negative over Islam and concern is rising
over the country's Muslim minority, a recently released poll shows. .....
by Somit Sen
The huge haul of RDX, AK-47s and other arms and ammunition from Aurangabad
and Malegaon recently has brought into focus the mushrooming of Lashkar-e-Toiba
modules in the Marathwada region in recent years. .....
by Aaron Klein
Daniel Wultz, a Florida teenager lying in a coma after being critically
injured last week in a suicide bombing at an Israeli restaurant, is the
"best target combination we can dream of - American and Zionist,"
Abu Nasser, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, one of the groups
responsible for the deadly blast, told WorldNetDaily. .....
by Kunwar Idris
The parliamentary form of government and a permanent civil service were
the common inheritance of India and Pakistan, or their colonial legacy
as we are wont to call it. Both institutions have survived in India but
not in Pakistan. .....
by Ben Fox
A U.S.-educated Saudi accused of being part of an al-Qaida bomb-making
cell said Thursday he is proud that he fought against the United States
and doesn't want an attorney at his military trial. .....
by The Hindu
The decision of the Tamil Nadu Government to allow all qualified persons
irrespective of their caste to work as temple priests is an important
victory in the continuing fight against the social curse that is India's
caste system. In keeping with a 2002 Supreme Court ruling that non-Brahmins
(including Dalits, of course) can function as temple priests if they are
"well-versed and properly trained" in temple rituals, the Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam Government has expressly provided for the appointment
of persons from all communities as archakas. .....
by Rahimullah Yusufzai
Almost five years after being thrown out of power as a result of the US
military intervention in Afghanistan, the Taliban appear to have gained
sufficient strength in some remote parts of the country to resume public
executions of people convicted of murder by pro-Taliban Islamic courts.
.....
by Swapan Dasgupta
In his compelling critique of majoritarianism and the impending "clash
of civilisations", Amartya Sen has argued that each individual embraces
a multiplicity of identities and not merely a religious one. In short,
we are all, in some way or the other, a minority. .....
by The Indian Express
Serpentine queues and a wait for at least six hours in the sun did nothing
to deter the religious fervour of devotees· at the Siddhivinayak
Temple on Tuesday as they waited for a darshan on the occasion of Angaraki
Sankashti Chaturthi. .....
by Bulbul Roy Mishra
Driven by intense anti-monarchy hatred, the House of Representatives from
the Seven Party Alliance (SPA), headed by Premier G.P. Koirala of Nepal
Congress, unanimously passed a resolution on April 30, calling for election
to a Constituent Assembly. The NC should be cautious about whether a plot
is being hatched to finish off the achievements of the 1990 constitution.
Why must we jump for a Constituent Assembly? asked he. .....
by Francis C. Assisi
In a fictional account of a freshman year at an American State University,
author Chris Sherman tells us of an Indian-American student from the Midwest,
who is "born again" after a year of intensive prayer and prodding
by his evangelical Christian roommates. .....
by The Economic Times
Union minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal's recent admission
in Parliament that Left-wing extremists had overtaken terror outfits in
J&K both in terms of attacks and killings, underlines the stark reality
on the security front. .....
by Declan Walsh
A senior British officer accused Pakistan of allowing the Taliban to use
its territory as a "headquarters" for attacks on western troops
in Afghanistan as insurgents struck on multiple fronts yesterday. .....
by The Indian Express
When we termed Badruddin Ajmal's Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF)
a 'Frankenstein' not so long ago, we never imagined that it would replicate
itself so quickly in the country's largest state. The emergence of the
Peoples' Democratic Front (PDF) in Uttar Pradesh, sponsored by a variety
of Islamic clerics, cannot but be perceived as a disquieting development
in a state that has suffered the worst consequences of communal polarisation
over the years. .....
by Sunita Vakil
The killing of 32 Hindus in the Doda district of Jammu and the eruption
of violence in Vadodara may not be two sides of the same coin, but both
are doubtlessly reprehensible acts that demand condemnation in the strongest
terms. Yet, both have evoked starkly different responses. .....
by V Sundaram
During the last 15 years, as indeed not very different from our tragic
national history ever since the Arab conquest of Sind in the 8th century,
innocent and unarmed Hindus are being mercilessly murdered by the Mujahedins
of compassionate Islam in Jammu and Kashmir. .....
by Stratfor.com
Nepalese Maoists could be training Indian insurgent groups in eastern
Nepal, the inspector general of the Sashastra Seema Bal, Bihar Frontier
border patrol force, said May 16. The United Liberation Front of Asom
and the Kamptapura Liberation Organization have been looking for bases
from which to train and regroup since being thrown out of Bhutan and Myanmar,
respectively. .....
by Stan Goodenough
It was with dismay - though perhaps with less surprise than there would
have been, say, a year or two ago - that many in Israel heard of their
government's decision last Wednesday to approve a plan whereby the Rafah
crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt - a border the Sharon government
earlier insisted would remain closed unless Israel was able to control
who entered and left the area - could now be opened under the supervision
of the European Union. .....
by The Pioneer
Claiming to be "upset at being treated as a vote-bank by various
political parties over the years", a group of Muslim outfits launched
their own political outfit - People's Democratic Front - on Monday. .....
by K. Easwaran Nambudiri
Desecrated temples, decapitated idols, obscene graffiti on temple walls;
bulldozed houses and destroyed locality of minority Hindus; burnt pages
from sacred Vedic texts; couples being dragged to death after being tied
to a jeep and appeals by "non-communal" Muslims to surgically
remove the 'cancer' called Hindus. .....
by The Statesman
After winning 175 seats in the Assembly elections, the CPI-M is going
whole hog to establish its rule on Left Front partners again. .....
by Ayesha Khan
An Armyman on his way to get his children admitted to school, a brother
taking the short-cut home from a shop he had newly opened, a young man
about to get married, two men returning from work: the victims of yesterday's
Vadodara riots over the dargah demolition, Hindu and Muslim, were ordinary
citizens not even aware of the controversy. .....
by The Pioneer
The manufactured protest against the alleged sex racket that was recently
exposed in Srinagar is assuming an alarming dimension. This is not the
first time that a sex racket has come to light in India, nor is it surprising
that politicians and police officials were allegedly involved in Srinagar's
sex-for-money scandal. Which is not to suggest that the crime of forcing
teenaged girls into prostitution should be glossed over. .....
by Rediff.com
A 28-year-old doctor was arrested in Malegaon near Nasik early on Monday
for allegedly assisting the Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants from whose possession
a huge cache of arms was seized, police said. .....
by Andrew G. Bostom
At the close of a compelling, thoroughly documented address (delivered
April 2, 2006, at The Legatus Summit, Naples, Florida) entitled, "Islam
and Western Democracies," Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of
Sydney, posed four salient questions for his erstwhile Muslim interlocutors
wishing to engage in meaningful interfaith dialogue .....
by Stuff.co.nz
The movie salesman was selling jihad to the converted. The buyers thronging
his stall on the sidelines of a late-night rally in the Pakistani capital
belonged to a crowd organised by a sectarian Sunni Muslim group. .....
by IBNLive.com
In a dramatic development, the Taliban claimed on Sunday that it was directed
by Pakistan to kill kidnapped Indian engineer K Suryanarayana. .....
by Abdullah Rehman
I have been living in the UK since the age of 11. In this time I often
visit Pakistan or receive relatives who remain there. I am struck by the
general denial of any common history with the rest of the Indian subcontinent.
It has been mentioned that school textbooks claim that Pakistan was a
`Dark Place` until the `Light` of Islam; that people were oppressed by
the rigid caste system and exploited by the Hindu Brahmins. .....
by Madhu Purnima Kishwar
NBA defines itself mainly through negative agendas - anti-dam, anti-liberalisation,
anti-globalisation, anti-WTO, anti this, anti that. The alternative development
paradigm Medha Patkar claims to represent has not yet offered any practical
and positive worldview or agenda for action. .....
by Cardinal George Pell
In the aftermath of the attack one thing was perplexing. Many commentators
and apparently the governments of the "Coalition of the Willing"
were claiming that Islam was essentially peaceful, and that the terrorist
attacks were an aberration. On the other hand one or two people I met,
who had lived in Pakistan and suffered there, claimed to me that the Koran
legitimised the killings of non-Muslims. .....
by V Sundaram
Bijamandal Temple at Vidisha is one of massive dimensions comparable with
Konarak in Orissa. It was desecrated again and again since the days of
Sultan Shamsuddeen Iltutmish who first indulged in his iconoclasm at this
site. Then followed Allaudin Kilji. His record was bettered by Bahadur
Shah of Gujarat. Finally came Aurangazeb Alamgir a renowned champion of
human compassion and deathless humanity. .....
by Rediff.com
A Bangladeshi author has accused Dhaka of "deliberately" delaying
the renewal of his passport and alleged that Islamic fundamentalists in
his country were "targetting" him for his "pro-minorities
and pro-India" writings. .....
by PR Newswire
The Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) has taken a serious view of the
terrorist actions in the Jammu & Kashmir state of India. Terrorists
have mercilessly massacred minority community members in the past few
days. .....
by SLB Pillai
Mammoty is considered to be one of the mega stars in this industry. He
not only rules the film world, but in the television, as well as the business
arenas. .....
by Haindava Keralam
Thiruvananthapuram:NDF Islamic terrorist organisation from Kerala is opening
up new ways to recruit gullible youth.It has been widely reported that
the new recruitment is via Mamooty Fans club !Mamooty the megastar in
Kerala film industy is recently showing more interest towards fundamentalist
Islam and deviating from mainstream secular nature shown by him in his
recent years. .....
by Marie Colvin
A senior member of an Islamic organisation linked to Al-Qaeda is funding
his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold
into slavery in Pakistan. .....
by Zenit.org
Persecution of Christians in Islamic countries makes the news almost daily,
and the Vatican is concerned. On May 17 Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, secretary
for relations with states in the Vatican's Secretariat of State, spoke
to participants in the plenary session of Pontifical Council for Migrants
and Travelers. The May 15-17 meeting focused on the theme of migration
and Islamic countries. .....
by J. Michael Parker
Hinduism has more influence in American culture than its relatively small
membership would suggest, said an American-born swami who visited San
Antonio's Hindu temple last week. .....
by Arun Anand
Even as the government has decided to extend 27 percent reservation in
institutions of higher education to other backward classes (OBCs) from
June 2007, it is yet to ascertain the precise population of this community.
.....
by The Indian Express
It is now ten days since the medical students of five medical colleges
in the Capital went on an indefinite hunger strike against the OBC reservations
in higher education proposed by HRD Minister Arjun Singh. While their
action has struck a chord among their cohorts and triggered a chain of
supportive campaigns by students across the country, the representatives
of the political dispensation at the Centre have chosen to display a conspicuous
imperviousness to their pliant. .....
by Prantosh Das Gupta
I recently visited a comparatively small city, located in the South-West
coast of our country, and was highly enchanted by the cleanliness, amiable
manners of the people and above all, the quality of the transport as also
of the food - their cheap rates, et al. Hindi, however, remains a far
cry and it was a difficult task to communicate. .....
by Dr. Subhash Kapila
Peace dialogue between India and Pakistan cannot take place in a vacuum.
A peace dialogue necessarily has to be governed by demonstrated actions,
events and public utterances of political leaders of both India and Pakistan
. Further, a peace dialogue can only be sustained by a two way mutual
trust which can only emerge from sincere, genuine and transparently honest
motives and a will to move towards an enduring peace. .....
by Nanditha Krishna
I was recently researching the women of ancient India when I came across
a startling piece of information. Seventeen of the seers to whom the hymns
of the Rig Veda were revealed were women - rishikas and brahmavadinis.
They were Romasa, Lopamudra, Apata, Kadru, Vishvavara, Ghosha, Juhu, Vagambhrini,
Paulomi, Jarita, Shraddha-Kamayani, Urvashi, Sharnga, Yami, Indrani, Savitri
and Devayani. .....
by The Times of India
Terming as 'highly irresponsible' Aamir Khan's attitude on the Narmada
issue, cinestar-turned-BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Friday demanded
apology for "hurting" the sentiments of the people of Gujarat.
.....
by The Hindustan Times
Minority Hindus staged a rare protest on Thursday to condemn the demolition
of temples by authorities. About 50 protesters gathered on the sidewalk
outside the headquarters of Kuala Lumpur City Hall, and threatened to
file a civil suit against the government and local councils if the destruction
of Hindu temples doesn't stop. .....
by Easwaran Nambudiri
In one of the most blatant and shameless acts of expediency in free India's
political history, the Congress-led UPA bulldozed through Parliament a
Bill purely and solely aimed at saving the coalition by exempting from
the purview of the Office of Profit several posts held by MPs of the Left
parties, on whose support it depends for survival. .....
by Sunny Verma
With 25 lakh temples spread across the country - compare this with just
15 lakh schools - religion matters most in India. And so does religious
tourism. .....
by Rajeev Ranjan Roy
As the reservation versus affirmative action debate intensifies, there
are indicators that one of the main causes of backwardness of OBCs in
education is the Government's apathy in meeting its commitment, and not
social inequality. A case in point is the failure of the Government to
even pay scholarships to the deserving OBC students to excel in studies.
.....
by Pramod Kr Singh
Interpol has issued a red corner notice for the arrest of Salim Haji Ibrahim
alias Salim Paanwala, the main accused in the Godhra train tragedy, in
which 59 passengers were burnt alive on February 27, 2002. .....
by Dr M S Jillani
The recent report of a US-based think-tank calling Pakistan is failed
state is one of those small instigations that the US establishment commits
every now to keep its lesser friends confused. In the present case, it
is the low point of the rollercoaster ride that started with the signing
of India-US nuclear deal. The cycle started with laudatory statements
indicating President Bush's admiration for President Musharraf. .....
by Arthur J Pais
If he could push a magic button, Bonny Jain, who has won the 2006 National
Geographic Bee and a $25,000 scholarship prize, would travel to Greece
tomorrow. "It is the place I really, really want to go," he
says. .....
by The Free Press Journal
The Lok Sabha Speaker, Somnath Chatterjee, clearly finds it hard to shun
his past political predilections while conducting himself in an impartial
and dignified manner as per the demands of the high constitutional office.
Indeed, a life-long Communist seeped in the party's orthodoxy, he was
a wrong choice for the Speaker's job, to begin with. .....
by The Hindu American Foundation
The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) congratulated Hindu spiritual leader
Sri Shivamurthy Murugharajendra Swami for being awarded the prestigious
B.R. Ambedkar Award by the State of Karnataka, India. He was honored in
recognition of his contributions in the upliftment of members of the Scheduled
Castes (referred to by some as "Harijans" or "untouchables")
in India. .....
by M. V. Kamath
There is one thing that nobody, not even the wisest among us can do: and
that is to re-live history. Like it or not, we have to live with it. We
have to accept the fact that a predominantly Hindu country was ruled for
some eight centuries by Islamic invaders and some of their tyrannical
successors and for another one hundred years by the British. .....
by K.P.S. Gill
Another bitter reminder of the relentless and expanding Pakistan-backed
terrorist enterprise to cause harm to India at every opportunity and in
every way possible has been delivered at Bangalore, with the attack at
the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, in which Professor MC Puri
was killed, and four others injured. .....
Press Release
Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) International President, Shri Ashok Singhal
has strongly objected to the Pope's interference in the religious matters
of Bharat (India). Shri Singhal said: "THE RIGHT TO UPHOLD ANCESTRAL
FAITH" should be a 'Fundamental Right' for inter-religious harmony
because if everybody accepts right to uphold ancestral faith, nobody would
convert people of other faiths. There won't be inter-religious conflict.
.....
by Ritu Sarin
An Australian investigation into the Iraqi oil-for-food programme has
come up with documentary evidence to show $2.5 million (Rs 11.25 crore)
was paid as commission in a 1998 India wheat deal. .....
by Maneka Rao
If this month's arrest of 11 suspected terrorists by the Anti-Terrorist
Squad (ATS) with a huge cache of arms and ammunition firmly establishes
the clear and present danger of Mumbai becoming a destination of terror,
the trail actually began with the arrest of a former Haj House peon and
three others in January. .....
by Jayanth Jacob
The Muslim chorus for a share in the proposed OBC quota is growing louder
and the latest voice is that of the Jamiatul-Ulema-e-Hind. .....
by J P Yadav
HRD Minister Arjun Singh, whose seat reservation proposals have kicked
up a row, could look at one private training institute in Patna which
doesn't charge a penny yet ensures students from extremely poor families,
OBCs and Dalits included, make it to IITs by beating competition, not
through quota. .....
by The Economic Times
After fighting it out in India and Indonesia, Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor,
will face each other head on in the South American markets as well. In
fact, both companies are trying to position their products as those between
expensive Japanese models and cheap Chinese vehicles. .....
by The Economic Times
The BJP on Wednesday supported the government's decision to enforce 27%
OBC quota in central educational institutions, but with a rider. .....
by Premendra Agrawal
"I am a proud Indian. India is a secular country. Muslims there are
making lot of progress. Our President is a Muslim, Prime Minister a Sikh,''
Feroze told the anchor when sought for a TV byte. Feroze Khan's entry
into Pak banned. Is Amir said any word on this issue? What did Mahesh
Bhatt, Rajiv Shukla and Ambika Soni say on this issue? .....
by Shachi Rairikar
Pope's condemnation of India is uninvited and ridiculous. Isn't it ironic
that Pope, the head of the smallest independent nation in the world, which
is neither secular nor democratic and is governed by a religious head
elected by some cardinals, is advising religious freedom to one of the
largest secular democracies? .....
by IBNLive.com
Noted American expert on South Asian Affairs, Selig Harrison, has urged
the Bush Administration to withhold US aid to Islamabad until Pakistan
ceases military activity in Baluchistan. .....
by The Pioneer
The Pope has got it awfully wrong ---- No purpose is served by criticising
Pope Benedict XVI for pleading the cause of missionaries in India seeking
to harvest the souls of 'heathens'. As head of the Catholic Church the
Pontiff, variously referred to as 'Panzerkardinal' and 'God's Rotweiler'
for his ferocious commitment to promoting his faith, is within his rights
to castigate any attempts to curb the enthusiasm of missionaries. .....
by M V Kamath
So Nepal is going to be a democracy and the king has 'surrendered.' Parliament
has been resurrected and hopefully, things will work out and real peace
restored in the only 'Hindu' nation on earth. The Government of India
has been charged with not doing enough to restore normalcy in Nepal which
is professedly `Hindu,' but in past years has had a love-hate relationship
with India. .....
by Sandhya Jain
It must have come as a surprise to Information & Broadcasting Minister
Priyaranjan Das-munshi that India's supposedly small Roman Catholic community
can field two hundred organisations to protest the screening of the Hollywood
blockbuster, Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown's bestselling novel by
the same name. .....
by Carol Glatz
Pope Benedict XVI and a senior Vatican official voiced their concern over
the lack of religious freedom in some countries, including unjust restrictions
on the right to convert from one faith to another. .....
by Organiser
The roads of the historic temple city Madurai, praised in ancient Tamil
literature, have got back their original glory with civic officials pulling
down more than 800 encroachments including 250 roadside temples, some
of them century old. .....
by Arvind Lavakare
The latest carnage of 35 innocent Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir is part
of the scene that's all so deja vu since the last 20 years or so. .....
by Seema Burman
Caste has been misinterpreted as being hereditary whereas Krishna states
clearly in the Bhagavad Gita that caste is a classification of people's
potential. A single family might have children with qualities that are
suitable for Brahmins, Kshatri-yas, Vaishyas, or Shudras. .....
by S Ahmed Ali
Investigations into the recent arms haul case, in which 43 kg RDX was
seized, took a sharp turn on Wednesday when the name of foreign militant
organisations cropped up. .....
by Mateen Hafeez
The suspected terrorists who were recently arrested in Malegaon for possessing
and transporting arms and ammunition had been on the police watch-list
for the past five years. .....
by The Times of India
While the rustic farmer may avail of tax incentives while living in relative
obscurity, he's competing with actors like Hema Malini and liquor baron
Vijay Mallya, at least when it comes to offering money to God. .....
by The Free Press Journal
This had to happen. Having been wooed by various secularist outfits for
the en bloc Muslim votes, the selfstyled leaders of the community have
now turned bold and independent. And, instead of negotiating votes of
their co-religionists with various political parties at the time of elections,
they have now floated their own political party. .....
by Manashi Sarma
The institution of caste system, one of the basic pillars of the Hindu
society can be considered as old as the Hindu society itself. But over
the years, the institution has undergone a metamorphic change. .....
by Dina Nath Mishra
Recent killings of Doda Hindus are in continuation of more than half century
old systematic plan of de-Hinduisation of Kashmir Valley by Pak exported
terrorism and pan-Islamic fundamentalism. .....
by Yahoo News
"The Da Vinci Code" has broken box office records in Roman Catholic
Italy as tens of thousands of Italians ignored Vatican calls to boycott
the film. .....
by Tavleen Singh
First, let us drop the pretense that Mr Arjun 27 per cent was acting on
his own when he announced his new quotas. In the Congress party and the
Manmohan Singh Government, nothing, absolutely nothing, happens without
Sonia Gandhi's authorisation. Everyone connected to political Delhi knows
this. Second, let us drop the pretense that the new quotas have anything
to do with education. They do not. .....
by PakTribune.com
Recently, the entire cast of Akbar Khan's film 'Taj Mahal' was in Pakistan
to represent one of the first Indian films that will be screened in Pakistan
after a considerably long time. The Indian delegation consisted of many
members from the Khan clan, including Fardeen Khan and his wife Natasha.
Mahesh Bhatt was also a part of this honorable delegation along with several
other actors and government personnel. .....
by The Asian
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias of Mumbai the
prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples (CEP). He
will oversee territory spanning 64 million sq km across five continents,
in areas "where Christianity is still young". .....
by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Tony Brett's defeat in Oxford's council election was one of many small
details that passed unnoticed in the excitement over the gains that the
white supremacist British Nationalist Party made in a London suburb. But
it could mark a turning point in the reinvention of the town of dreaming
spires as a centre of Islamic piety. .....
by Outlook
Taking strong exception to certain reported comments by Pope Benedict
XVI on alleged religious intolerance in India, BJP and RSS today said
his remarks were irrelevant and exposed "ignorance" about Indian
traditions and laws. .....
by Francois Gautier
At a time when the Congress government wants to raise the quota for Other
Backward Classes to 49.5 per cent in private and public sectors, nobody
talks about the plight of the upper castes. The public image of the Brahmins,
for instance, is that of an affluent, pampered class. But is it so today?
.....
by The Times of India
Sony Pictures has rejected the censor board's notification that a disclaimer
has to be put at the start and end of the film The Do Vinci Code to clarify
that it is a work of fiction. .....
by Nidal Al-Mughrabi
Rival Palestinian forces faced off briefly at Gaza's border crossing with
Egypt on Friday after a Hamas official was caught with 639,000 euros ($804,000)
hidden in his clothing, authorities said. .....
by Afternoon Despatch & Courier
After being beaten by police at Raj Bhavan, medicos have come forward
to support their lawyer friends who were fighting their legal battle and
were arrested. Lawyers Girish Talwar and Vijay Nair were called in at
the DCP zone II office for recording their statement. .....
by Suyash Padate
In what could be an embarrassment to the ruling Democratic Front (DF)
government, two MLCs and an MLA have come under the Anti-Terrorist Squad
(ATS) scanner for allegedly providing shelter to suspected terrorists
in their rooms at the Akashvani MLA Hostel near Mantralaya. .....
by Coomi Kapoor
Protests over the movie version of Da Vinci Code have once again highlighted
the tussle between religious fanaticism and freedom of expression. It
is an old issue in India. In fact, a recently released book Enduring Legacy,
about eminent Parsis of the Twentieth Century, describes a debate on the
same subject which took place in the Parsi press 150 years ago which is
remarkably similar to the recent controversy over the publication of a
cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. .....
by Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
On the face of it, last week's state elections represented a big victory
for the Left Front, a minor victory for the Congress Party, and a huge
setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Yet, one trend suggests a gleam
of hope for the BJP. .....
by The Economic Times
One of India's leading news-magazines came up with a rather revealing
statistic the other day in its cover-story on the reservation issue. In
the 2005 medical entrance system in Tamil Nadu, out of a total of 1,445
seats in 12 medical colleges, 430 seats were available in open competition,
with the remaining 1,015 seats being reserved. Only 38 students from the
so-called 'forward' communities qualified in the open competition, as
compared to 321 BC, 57 MBC and 14 SC students. .....
by R K Nandan
On May 14, while inaugurating in Delhi the complex of the Defence Research
& Development Organisation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for
the creating of a favourable working environment to retain within the
country the best talent in cutting edge departments. .....
by The Economic Times
The Vatican's stand that the fundamental right to practice and propagate
religion includes the right to convert was an issue considered and rejected
by the Supreme Court. .....
by Stavan Desai
Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officials suspect that the consignment of arms
and RDX seized from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives in Aurangabad and
Malegaon last week came from Hyderabad. They also said that they now know
''precisely where the consignment had first landed in Maharashtra and
where it was to be stocked''. .....
by Pradeep Kaushal
The VHP has offered to team up with Pope Benedict XVI to fight their ''common''
adversary of Islamic terrorism. VHP president Ashok Singhal made this
offer to the Pope today, two days after the latter expressed serious reservations
about moves to ban conversions in certain parts of India. .....
by Muzamil Jaleel / Mir Ehsan
A senior Congress legislator who was a minister in the former Mufti-led
coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir and his brother have helped
finance and smuggle into the Valley the biggest ever haul of explosives
last year, according to a confidential report of the Army's Counter Intelligence
Unit. .....
by Ashwani Sharma
This summer when many parts of the country are facing a water crisis,
Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh appears to have put its parched past firmly
behind it. Small and marginal farmers of the drought-prone Hamirpur district
are managing their water resources and launching water harvesting projects
with much success. .....
by Prerana Thakurdesai
The battle against terrorism continues to throw up grim reminders of just
how serious the threat really is and the ever-changing geography of the
networks. That was rudely brought home in Maharashtra last week. A succession
of intercepts on the national highways that pass through the state revealed
that enough explosives, arms and ammunition were being transported to
bring back horrifying reminders of the 1993 serial Mumbai bomb blasts.
.....
by Namrata Joshi
It's an old family story. Years ago, when a grand-uncle decided to go
on a pilgrimage to Gangotri-Yamunotri, he was given a tearful farewell
by the entire community, as though he might never return home. .....
by Anuradha Raman and Sugata Srinivasaraju
Affirmative action (AA) in the US is universally considered a great success.
No wonder then that supporters of reservation in India ask: why can't
the country emulate America, arguably the ultimate paragon of meritocracy?
Why can't the private sector, instead of mulishly opposing reservation,
think of creative ways to satisfy the aspirations of groups at the bottom
of the social hierarchy? .....
by The News International
Al-Qaeda-linked guerrillas executed 11 men at a roadside in southern Iran
and strung a wounded 12-year-old boy from an electricity pylon before
fleeing to mountain hideouts, police said on Sunday. .....
by Mohit Kandhari
Two Bharatiya Janata Party workers were killed and at least 35 injured
when terrorists hurled a powerful grenade on a party procession near the
Doda bus stand on Saturday. .....
by Sumer Kaul
The Hurriyat Conference, which calls itself the true representative of
the people of Kashmir, refused to attend the round table called by the
prime minister in February. Unfazed by the rebuff, Dr Manmohan Singh invited
the Hurriyatists for exclusive bilateral talks last week, thus further
pandering to their foreign-tutored egos. .....
by Vincent Moss
Terrorists from al-Qaeda have infiltrated Britain's security services,
the Sunday Mirror can reveal. Bosses at M15 believe they unwittingly recruited
the Muslim extremists after the July 7 suicide bombings in London last
year which killed 52 people. .....
by The Free Press Journal
Even the chief minister had to admit it. From what he saw on TV, the Mumbai
police used brutal force on the striking junior doctors and medical students
for holding a protest satyagraha near Raj Bhavan. The beating was so merciless
that policemen seemed to attack the doctors to settle some old scores.
.....
by V Sundaram
Recently the Vadodara Municipal authorities removed some unauthorised
structures like many temples and one Dargah, on the orders of the Gujarat
High Court, in Vadodara City. There were no communal clashes when the
temples were removed as per Court orders. Only when a particular Dargah
was removed, there were violent protests from many Muslims of the area
and subsequently it led to communal clashes resulting in the loss of many
lives and property. .....
by Sandhya Jain
The Union Minister for Minority Affairs' determination to impose minority
status upon Jainas has come as a shock to a community that has long regarded
itself as the cream of Hindu society. Obviously, Mr AR Antulay is only
continuing the UPA policy of fragmenting the nation by offering reservations
to Muslims in Congress-ruled states and extending 27 per cent reservations
to OBCs in higher education. .....
by India Monitor
Doda killings rocked both the Houses of Parliament on Monday, with the
BJP-led Opposition accusing the UPA Government of being indifferent to
the campaign for "ethnic cleansing" in the Jammu and warning
it against 'delimilitarisation' of J&K. .....
by Avijit Ghosh
Brazil is widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation. But since
the 90s, Buddhism in general and Zen in particular, were adopted by its
national elite, media and popular culture as a set of humanistic values
to counter rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. .....
by Varun Gandhi
The Hurriyat is a bunch of wily non-representatives self-styling themselves
as leaders and refusing to participate in the electoral process. They
are completely anti-India. Yet one wonders why the government pays for
their security and permits them to dine with the Pakistanis? .....
by Radha Rajan
For comic relief, the Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Prakash
Jaiswal offered gratuitous advise to the Gujarat DGP, instructing him
to "act professional". Shri Narendra Modi did not bat an eyelid
and declared again that the law will take its own course against the offenders
"irrespective of their religion", calmly sent the strong signal
that he reposed confidence in his police to act correctly and came to
Mumbai for Mahajan's funeral. .....
by Soumyajit Pattnaik
Christians are barred from entering the Jagannath temple at Puri but a
Geneva-based Christian lawyer has donated nearly $400,000 (Rs 1.78 crore)
to the shrine - the amount is more than the total donation received last
year. .....
by Khuzaima Fatima Haque
Fifty-Nine years down the road and the story of partition is still a political
ideological dilemma for many. Numerous views abound when westerners, Indians
or even Pakistanis write about this political event. Objectivity stands
to be an 11 letter word guarded by nationalistic endeavour. In this environment
of political disdain, a historian, Kamran Shahid, who is rather young
for the title, manages to create a niche for his individualistic thinking.
.....
by V Sundaram
The Supreme Court while granting bail to Kanchi Sankaracharya indicted
the then Tamilnadu Government for having foisted a case on Kanchi Sankaracharya
in gross violation of the established tenets and spirit of criminal law.
When Kanchi Sankaracharya was arrested in November 2004 on Deepavali Day,
the UPA Government in New Delhi maintained an attitude of 'strategic',
'suave' and 'secular' silence. .....
by BBC News
Malaysia is considering its multi-cultural credentials after a crowd of
Muslims on Sunday broke up a meeting called to defend the rights of religious
minorities. .....
by Chandragupta Amritkar
How would you like to spend a week in Lonavala for Rs 2,500? Add to this
breakfast, lunch and dinner at no additional cost. For relaxing how about
some yoga exercises, again at no additional cost. Seems unbelievable.
But it is true. "Yes, we do provide this facility at this price.
But it's meant for only those who genuinely interested in yoga and meditation.
.....
by Ajay Kumar
A Major seam to the tune of over Rs 1,400 crore, relating to the alleged
misuse of subsidised rations and short supply of foodgrains meant for
people below the poverty line during the erstwhile RJD rule in Bihar,
has come to light. .....
by The Times of India
Apart from the RDX, ten AK47 assault rifles and 2,000 bullets were seized
from the Tata Sumo that the three men had abandoned while fleeing. Addressing
journalists at the state police headquarters in Mumbai, deputy CM R R
Patil said it was the biggest ever seizure by the anti-terrorism squad
(ATS) in the state. "The source of the consignment and its destination
is being investigated," he added. .....
by Mateen Hafeez
Officers of the antiterrorism squad (ATS) in the city have said the three
suspected terrorists arrested in Aurangabad on Wednesday were carriers
transferring firearms and ammunition from one place to another. The police
are now on the lookout for a man from Beed who was supervising the delivery.
.....
by Aijaz Hussain
Sex rings, politicians, policemen, prostitution, scandal. It is encounters
of a different kind that have dominated the headlines in Srinagar, and
even though no active militants were involved, the issue is explosive
enough. That is mainly due to the cast of characters involved: underage
girls, bureaucrats, politicians, police officers and security officials,
all caught, literally, with their pants down, on CDs circulating in the
Kashmir Valley. .....
by Sheokesh Mishra
Round the corner, rundown cinema halls offer B movies at Rs 10 a pop per
patron. Here, unbelievably, a 104-seat state-of-the-art auditorium screens
films by auteurs like De Sica, Godard, Fellini, Kurosawa, Truffaut, Bergman,
Antonioni, Welles and Chaplin to people who, when they aren't watching
1920s classics, lap up recent masterpieces like Zhang Yimou's The Hero
while clustered on a sofa. .....
by Mahesh Mhatre
Three of the alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants connected with the
recent arms and RDX seizure in Aurangabad and Malegaon have strong links
with a Maharashtra legislator, according to police sources. .....
by The Times of India
The five Malegaon men arrested on Saturday in the Aurangabad arms case
include Afzal Khan, Mushtaque Ahmed, Riyaz Ahmed alias Raju and Javed
Ahmed, besides the homoeopathic doctor Shareef Shabbir. Sources said they
are alleged synipathisers of the banned organisation Students' Islamic
Movement of India. .....
by The Indian Express
A Taliban commander has claimed that Pakistan intelligence had a hand
in the recent killing of Indian engineer K Suryanarayan in Afghanistan,
a Kabul-based private TV channel reported. .....
by S Balakrishnan
The recent seizure of several kilos of RDX and AK-47 rifles by the anti-terrorist
squad (ATS) of the state police was the result of superb surveillance
of terrorist activities by the intelligence bureau (IB). .....
by The Times of India
In a major breakthrough in the Aurangabad terrorists' case, the anti-terrorism
squad (ATS) on Saturday recovered 50 hand grenades, one AK47 rifle and
200 bullets hidden under a culvert, five kilometres from Manmad on the
Manmad-Ahmednagar highway The cache is believed to be part of the consignment
which was seized from a Tata Sumo in Aurangabad on Tuesday. .....
by The Indian Express
The Delhi police say Muhammed Ali Chippa was a Laskhar-e-Toiba terrorist
trained in Pakistan. But to his family members, he was the responsible
son - quiet and dutiful, taking good care of his six sisters and mentally-retarded
elder brother. He recently asked one of sisters, recently widowed, to
come and stay with the family again. .....
by The Indian Express
Barely 13 days after having killed 19 Hindus in Kulhand area, militants
struck once again killing two more Hindus and injuring 39 others when
they lobbed a grenade on a BJP's protest rally, which was demanding adequate
security for minority community members in the region. .....
by The Indian Express
After a high-speed chase in Aurangabd, the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the
Maharashtra Police intercepted a vehicle carrying arms and explosives-including
30 kg of RDX and 10 AK-47 rifles-and arrested three people. .....
by The Indian Express
Four days after three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives were arrested with
a huge cache of arms and explosives in Aurangabad, the state Anti-Terrorist
Squad (ATS) in a joint operation with the Nashik (rural) Police on Saturday
morning recovered an AK-47 rifle with two magazines, 50 hand grenades
and 200 cartridges in the Ankai fort area. .....
by Husain Haqqani
Official Pakistan has reacted angrily, as it always does, to two recent
suggestions that the situation in the country might not be as rosy as
painted by General Musharraf and his cohorts. Pakistan was rated as ninth
on the 2006 Failed States Index developed by the U.S. Non-governmental
Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy magazine. .....
by The Indian Express
As the stir launched by medical students over quotas threatens to spread-with
junior doctors having joined in, and the Indian Medical Association calling
for a nationwide medical shut-down today-an intriguing question raises
its head: why are Left parties, usually so very eloquent about police
brutality and high-handedness, maintaining a discreet silence over what
was clearly a gross over-reaction on the part of the police in its handling
of striking medical students in Delhi and Mumbai? .....
by Kit Collier and Malcolm Cook
The presence of insurgent or terrorist sanctuaries in non-belligerent
countries is one of the most intractable, explosive issues in international
relations. .....
by Anirban Banerjee
The Sardar Sarovar Dam on river Narmada will be generating 1450 Megawatts
of electricity and irrigate 1.8 million hectares of agricultural land.
The Narmada project once completed will boost the economy of Gujarat,
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharastra. .....
by Prakriiti Gupta
Thirty-eight-year old Gilo Devi is fighting a battle for survival at Jammu
hospital ignorant of the fact that she is a widow and also lost her daughter.
Her three-month old son cries bitterly looking for mother piercing the
deadly silence of ICU unit of hospital. She is one of the victims who
fell to the bullets of Islamic terrorists who perpetuated a naked dance
of death killing at least 38 Hindus at two separate places in Jammu and
Kashmir. .....
by Shyam Khosla
UPA Government's response to Muslim mob violence over the demolition of
a Sufi dargah at Vadodra is most disconcerting. Sri Prakash Jaiswal, Union
MoS for Home who rushed to the town to garner Muslim votes under the garb
of having a first hand assessment of the law and order situation in the
disturbed town, had no word to deplore violence against officials and
policemen performing their duties, not to talk of innocent Hindus who
had nothing to do with the demolition work. .....
by Balbir K. Punj
The Marxists of India are running with the hare, and hunting with the
hounds. At a time the Maoist guerillas are wreaking havoc across central
India, a CPI leader, Atul Kumar Anjaan, advises government of India to
release 60-70 Nepali Maoists leaders lodged in Indian jails. Sitaram Yechuri,
who attended the opening session of the Nepali Mahapanchayat, has also
said that the CPI (M) would pressurise the Indian government to release
the Nepali Maoists languishing in jails of India. .....
by Ravleen Kaur
It was twenty-one years ago. Munshi Ram's servant found a transistor in
neighbouring Yamuna Pushta and got it home. Munshi Ram's wife Sundari
switched it on. The next thing he knew Sundari, their four-year-old son
Dinesh and a neighbour were dead. .....
by The Hindu
Recently I saw a programme on one of the Indian TV news channels relating
to the so-called imperative public need for Government of India to reciprocate
the warm and friendly overtures of Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan. The interviewer
went so far as to say that why should the Government of India be under
the impression that every act of terrorism in India emanates from Pakistan.
.....
by V Sundaram
Recently I saw a programme on one of the Indian TV news channels relating
to the so-called imperative public need for Government of India to reciprocate
the warm and friendly overtures of Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan. The interviewer
went so far as to say that why should the Government of India be under
the impression that every act of terrorism in India emanates from Pakistan.
.....
by Vishwa Samvad Kendra Kerala
In the early hours of Tuesday, RSS Karyakartha and Chirayankeezhu Taluk
Kaaryavaha, Sunil Kumar(36)was brutally murdered by a group of assailants.
They came in a Qualis van and stabbed to death. while he was on his way
to take the bundle of Janmabhumi papers. .....
by James "Ace" Lyons Jr.
Among the most important priorities of U.S. global policy is combating
the international traffic in drugs and in persons (often a euphemism for
women and children forced into prostitution). .....
by Sumer Kaul
The Hurriyat Conference, which calls itself the true representative of
the people of Kashmir, refused to attend the round table called by the
prime minister in February. Unfazed by the rebuff, Dr Manmohan Singh invited
the Hurriyatists for exclusive bilateral talks last week, thus further
pandering to their foreign-tutored egos. .....
by Vikram Sood
The story doing the rounds in Delhi is that in another exhibition of generosity,
India is about to withdraw from the Saltoro Ridge (commonly referred to
as the Siachen Glacier) in the interest of peace, but without securing
the country's strategic interests. .....
by T S Sreenivasa Raghavan
Senior Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra Saraswathi
can now breath easy, with DMK deciding not to follow the "repressive"
policies of the Jayalalitha government. .....
by The Times of India
The high court here on Thursday, while dismissing a habeas-corpus petition,
has directed SSP Lucknow and Allahabad to conduct investigation into the
whole episode of conversion of a minor Hindu girl into Islam and thereafter
solemnising her nikah. .....
by Rediff.com
London will play host to a two-stage exposition on the benefits of traditional
Indian medicine on May 15, when an official team of experts will make
a presentation on Ayurveda to the European Medicines Agency. The aim is
to present evidence relating to the scientific basis of Ayurveda and the
potential it holds for global health care. .....
by Antony Barnett, Jamie Doward and
Mark Townsend
The number of Islamic terror suspects in Britain being targeted by the
security service MI5 has soared to 1,200, a 50 per cent rise since the
London suicide bombings last July. .....
by Prashant Rupera
Three days after the communal riots took away her only son, Indu Shah
(55), a widow, is still wondering what forced the rioters to kill the
only earning member of her family Shah's son Biren (27) was stabbed to
death on May 1 and now she is demanding that the culprits should be punished.
.....
by Rajeev Srinivasan
The recent fuss about caste-based admission quotas to educational institutions,
as well as the threat to force industry to adopt mandatory quotas, inflames
people's passions. But considered in context, reservations a. are needed
only because of poverty perpetuated by the establishment, and b. have
become principally a tool to divide and rule Hindus. .....
by IBNLive.com
The anti-terrorist squad of the Mumbai police seized a huge cache of explosives
and weapons in raids conducted at various places in the Aurangabad district
late on Tuesday night. .....
by Seema Mustafa
A group of British parliamentarians have come together to set up a "Parliamentarians
for National Self-Determination" body that will seek to get international
recognition of self-determination as a fundamental human right. India
is a clear target, with the organisers listing "Punjab, Nagas, Manipur,
Tamils and Kashmiris" in their list of movements seeking self-determination.
.....
by The Indian Express
A former Army man allegedly working for the Pakistan's ISI was arrested
from Jogbani in Bihar on the Indo-Nepal border leading to busting of an
espionage ring involved in passing country's defence documents. .....
by Darius Nakhoonwala
The more I read editorials, the more I wonder why those who write them
are paid so much. Any blogger would do just as well. .....
by Helena Spongenberg
The leader of the British liberals in the European Parliament, Chris Davies,
resigned under pressure last night after it was revealed he had exchanged
insulting emails with a Jewish constituent in the UK. Mr Davies will stay
on as an MEP however. .....
by Rediff.com
Bollywood star Aamir Khan, who had to face the ire of the Bharatiya Janata
Party and the Congress workers in Gujarat when he had joined the protest
against Narmada Dam last month, has slammed the Narendra Modi government
for its alleged failure to control violence in Vadodara recently. .....
by Sify.com
Criticising the Centre's "weak policies" to deal with terrorism
in Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader L K Advani on Sunday said there
was a conspiracy to engineer the ethnic cleansing of Hindus in the Jammu
region. .....
by Vivek Gumaste
Despite the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Hindus from Kashmir - the massacre
in Doda being the most recent - we, like ostriches, have ducked from making
a conscious effort to ignore the tragic reality. The Kashmiri Pandits,
who constitute a minority in the Muslim majority State, are the original
inhabitants with a culture and tradition that dates back to 5,000 years.
.....
by S R Ramanujan
While commenting on the Vadodara violence consequent on the demolition
of the mazaar of the sufi saint Chisthi Rasheed-ud-din, both the Home
Minister Shivraj Patil and Union Home Secretary V K Duggal, besides the
predictable rhetoric on such occasions, made a cryptic comment on the
media,that it should be restrained in its reporting (words to that effect).
.....
by The News International
British and Pakistani investigators are focusing on almost 200 phone calls
made from Pakistan to one of the London bombers in a bid to uncover his
links to al-Qaeda, security officials here said on Thursday. .....
by Leo McKinstry
Mr Justice Sullivan is lucky he is not facing a prosecution for perverting
the course of justice after his extraordinary decision to give a bunch
of Afghan hijackers the right to settle in Britain. The High Court judge's
ludicrous ruling makes a mockery of the law, treats the public with contempt
and sends out the message that our country is a haven for gun-toting hostage-takers.
.....
by Pradip Kumar Maitra
After terrorising the participants of Salwa Judam (peace campaign) in
neighbouring Chhattisgarh, Naxalites of the CPI (Maoist) faction have
threatened peace march activists in Gadchiroli district with dire consequences.
.....
by Tavleen Singh
Sonia Gandhi's campaign for re-election from Rae Bareilli brought back
for me memories of why, ever since I became a political journalist, I
have opposed dynastic democracy. Back then there was only one dynastic
political family at the national level so I was accused of being anti
the Nehru-Gandhi parivar. There are still those in the media who call
me a Sonia-baiter', something I have never understood the meaning of.
.....
by Barbara J. Stock
There are people in America who still do not realize that our country
is at war. This is astounding considering all of the threats that Islamic
terrorists and leaders have been issuing lately. These unenlightened folks
consider President Bush the enemy, so Bush is actually fighting a war
on two fronts. .....
by Subramania Swamy
The Janata Party advocates cell in Uttar Pradesh will seek the rejection
of Ms.Sonia Gandhi's nomination for contesting as a candidate in the Rae
Bareli Lok Sabha by-poll on the ground of admitted perjury. .....
by Premendra Agrawal
Is Actor Feroze communal? Why brutally murdered of Kashmiri Pandits? Who
forced to drink urine? Can Police be divided as secular and non-secular?
Stop headcount of Muslims in Army. .....
by The Pioneer
Congress panders to fanatics ---- The Supreme Court's stay order on Thursday,
putting on hold further demolition of illegal structures described as
"places of worship", may have fetched a temporary reprieve for
fanatics in Vadodara who have nothing but contempt for authority. .....
by Subramanian Swamy
A virile Hindu Agenda must have two components: [1] What Hindus should
believe in and do, to qualify to be a good Hindu; [2] What Hindus, being
the overwhelming majority of the nation's population, should be obliged
to do for the religious minorities and what Hindus have a right to expect
from them in the national interest. .....
by Vrindavan Das
India and Pakistan, Taiwan and China, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Three multi-ethnic
Democracies and three tyrannical Dictatorships. Who does America Support?
Pakistan instead of India, China instead of Taiwan, and Saudi Arabia above
and beyond Israel. .....
by V Sundaram
The Supreme Court yesterday has stayed the Gujarat High Court order which
directed authorities to take immediate steps to remove all religious structures
encroaching on public space without any discrimination. This order has
been passed by the Supreme Court after a petition was moved by the Government
of India seeking an immediate stay of the ongoing demolition drive in
the State on the ground that it feared that the Vadodara conflagration
would spill over into other States as well. .....
by Robert Spencer
Can you feel the gloom? I can. The President insists that "we are
winning the war on terror," but as Americans are becoming more informed
about Islam, and about the nature of the global jihad, and with that knowledge
comes the realization that in the face of various aspects of this immense,
life-and-death challenge, our leaders are responding either improperly
or not at all. .....
by MSNBC.com
A top U.S. counterterrorism official said Saturday that parts of Pakistan
are a "safe haven" for militants and Osama bin Laden was more
likely to be hiding there than in Afghanistan. .....
by NewKerala.com
Hindus in violence-hit Vadodara on Saturday criticised a Supreme Court's
order putting a stay on the demolitions of a Muslim shrine encroaching
public place. .....
by JG Arora
It is shocking that though through its well-planned terrorist attacks
and demographic aggression, Pak-Bangla combine is waging a unilateral
war against India, Indian government is treating the same as a routine
law and order problem, and not responding to it. .....
by Webindia123.com
The day long festival that honours the Goddess ''Lairai Mata'', is a night
when Goa does not sleep. After offering prayers to the Goddess, devotees
walk over smouldering embers to wash away their sins. And it is said that
only those who are pure, have no burnt feet. .....
by NewKerala.com
Sachin Tendulkar's private visit to the famous Kukke Subramanya temple
in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka has stirred up a wave of interest
in the temple and its rituals. .....
by ExpressIndia.com
Accusing the Congress of 'completely surrendering itself to the politics
of minorityism', senior BJP leader L K Advani on Friday said the policy
of religion-based reservations was an assault on the 'basic spirit' of
the Constitution and reflected a 'dangerous new mindset' in the ruling
party. .....
by The Hindustan Times
In a pluralistic society like India with various religious, cultural and
ethnic groups inhabiting the country from time immemorial, the RSS stands
for unity and integrity of India. .....
by Premendra Agrawal
Teesta Setalwad writes in the times of india 'Murder of Sufi Soul'; after
that Javed Anand writes in the Hindustan Times "There's a Taliban
in Gujarat". They write to evoke minority sentiments and to cover
America's statement: laden is in Pakistan. .....
by Sujoy Dhar
Some time during the sixth century BC, a wandering ascetic sat to meditate
under a tree in the vast plains of northern India, resolving not to rise
until he had attained the ultimate knowledge of spiritual enlightenment.
.....
by Jayanth Jacob
Despite the Supreme Court's direction against any addition to the list
of "notified minorities," the Centre is drawing plans to give
Jains the status of a religious minority. .....
by The Pioneer
A day after losing the legal battle to stop the construction work of Sardar
Sarovar Project (SSP), the Narmada Bachao Andolan on Tuesday gave a call
for a "fight to finish" and launched a vicious campaign against
the Supreme Court, the Union Government and the media." .....
by V Sundaram
At the instance of the Congress party playing its usual wicked game of
petty chicanery behind the curtain, Jaya Bachchan was disqualified in
a huff by the President of India on the advice of the Election Commission.
In order to avoid the fate of Jaya Bachchan, Sonia Gandhi made the so-
called "supreme sacrifice" of resigning her seat in the Lok
Sabha. .....
by Robert Spencer
Brandeis University began in 1948, according to its mission statement,
"under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community" in
order to "embody its highest ethical and cultural values." In
this age of the ascendancy of the academic Left, it is in danger of becoming
the polar opposite of those noble aspirations: a useful idiot of the global
jihad. .....
by Los Angeles Times
Osama Bin Laden's ratings are falling. His latest pronouncement was a
yawn. His scripts could use a rewrite. "Infidels" this, "crusaders"
that. Blah, blah, blah. We've heard it all before. .....
by Chris Patten
Four and a half years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan is still
highly unstable. And it seems to be getting worse rather than better.
Every few days now, the resurgent Taliban carry out another deadly attack
on school children, aid workers, or local or international security forces.
It is a grim return on the outside world's huge investment in Afghanistan.
.....
by Aman Sharma
The interrogation of the two Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists arrested in Delhi
on Monday has revealed a new route for terrorists-from India to Pakistan
and back via Bangladesh and Iran. .....
by Cecil Victor
The latest set of selective killing of Hindus in Doda and Jammu by Pakistan-trained
terrorists underscores a continuing genocide of minorities in Jammu &
Kashmir. Human rights organisations, which are quick to attack the armed
forces for violations in the fog of war, need to understand the intent
and purpose of such cold-blooded murders. .....
by RK Ohri
Run, Hindu, Run" was the chilling message conveyed by jihadi outfits
when they killed 35 Hindus, including women and children, in Jammu &
Kashmir on May 1. These gruesome killings have been carried out for the
umpteenth time as part of the diabolical programme of ethnic cleansing
launched at the behest of the Pakistani Army's ISI. .....
by The Financial Express
The Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Shah Bukhari today met
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with demands for an economic package for
riot-hit Muslims on the line of one given to victims of 1984 anti-Sikh
riots and reservation of jobs for Muslims in central and state governments.
.....
by The Asian Age
Jama Masjid's Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari on Tuesday had an ugly scuffle
with mediapersons outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 7, Race Course
Road residence when they persisted in questioning him on the reservation
policy. A complaint has been registered at the Chanakyapuri police station.
.....
by The Pioneer
After the Centre-State spat in the courtroom over the rehabilitation of
those displaced by the Narmada Valley Project, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chauhan in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has
alleged that the Central ministerial team "lacked the objectivity"
that is expected from ministers of the Indian Government. .....
by M. V. Kamath
One never knows what goes on behind the scenes when an American President
calls on Delhi and Islamabad. What actually did transpire when President
Bush discussed matters with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh? And what
transpired when Bush held talks with General Musharraf? .....
by V Sundaram
The great nationalist and intellectual Sita Ram Goel asked the pertinent
question: Why are we not asking whether Islam believes in "secularism",
whether Islam believes in religious toleration, whether Islam believes
in the peaceful coexistence of communities? .....
by Matthias Gebauer and Charles Hawley
The investigation into the July 7 London bombings quickly revealed ties
to Pakistan. But just what role did the country run by Gen. Pervez Musharraf
play in the terror attacks? SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with Ahmed Rashid about
the country's reliance on extremist groups, radical religious schools
and the reason Osama bin Laden remains at large, very likely in Pakistan.
.....
by Padma Manian
Probably without realizing it, World History textbooks often take sides
in an ideologically charged controversy over the role of race in India's
early history. Their account of the so-called Aryan invasions may reflect
nineteenth-century Eurocentric scholarship that privileged lighter skinned
peoples over darker skinned ones. .....
by Swapan Dasgupta
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, a handful of TV channels tried their utmost
to trigger communal riots in Gujarat, if not the rest of India. I happened
to be in West Bengal on the days Vadodara was said to be burning, and
it was clear as daylight that the media was bent on stirring things up.
.....
by Deccan Herald
The demolition was carried out following a High Court order on February
3 and the demolished structures included 250 roadside temples. .....
by Hala Jaber
Even by the stupefying standards of Iraq's unspeakable violence, the murder
of Atwar Bahjat, one of the country's top television journalists, was
an act of exceptional cruelty. .....
by Dr M S Jillani
The bombing of Sunni Tehrik's Milad-e-Nabi Conference at Karachi was important
in many ways: It happened on an occasion that is sacred to all Muslims;
it took place in spite of workers who had proven their efficiency only
weeks before by holding one of the most peaceful mammoth processions in
Karachi's history .....
by A Surya Prakash
A week ago two Indian States - Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir and Hindu
majority Gujarat - were in the news for all the wrong reasons. In Jammu
and Kashmir, Islamic militants shot dead 32 members of the minority Hindu
community in cold blood. Having "cleansed" the Kashmir Valley
of Hindus, the terrorists are now hoping to achieve similar success in
other regions of the State. .....
by Lalit Koul
Wonder what these numbers refer to? Yes, these numbers refer to the innocent
people who have been massacred by Islamist terrorists in the state of
Jammu & Kashmir during last few years. And this is not a comprehensive
list by any means. .....
by IBNLive
The film version of Dan Brown's controversial bestseller, The Da Vinci
Code, was all set to hit Indian theatres on the 19th of May, simultaneously
along with its worldwide release. .....
by Subhash Kak
The supposedly liberal values that are the driving force behind politics
in India -- especially of the United Progressive Alliance government --
are shrinking the public space for autonomy and free association. .....
by Aruni Mukherjee
On April 28th, human resources development minister Arjun Singh apologised
to the students who were protesting outside his office in New Delhi, and
were manhandled by the security officers there. However, he refused to
offer any assurance that he would seriously reconsider his proposal which
he has submitted to the union cabinet of reserving 27% of seats in premier
educational institutions across India for the caste sub-groups labelled
as 'other backward castes'. .....
by Dippy Vankani
The man Mushiruddin Salauddin Siddiqui, 37, trained in handling explosives
at a terrorist camp near Karachi in Pakistan, has told Mumbai police there
are at least 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba sleeper cells in Mumbai, each comprising
10-12 members, awaiting an opportunity to strike. .....
by D. Murali
It may seem inappropriate to talk about wealth, immediately after learning
about meditation. But that's what His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar does
in Wisdom for the New Millennium, from Jaico (www.jaico books.com). The
penultimate chapter of his book is titled `What is meditation?' and the
last, `Six types of wealth and four pillars of knowledge.' .....
by Anil Bhatt
Bhod Raj and Gian Singh will never forget the night when a group of militants
herded them along with other Hindu residents of Kulhand village into two
small rooms and unleashed a volley of bullets that left 19 people dead.
.....
by M F Husain
We Indians are proud to create a civilisation of art and culture, enshrined
in the sanctity of the Ajanta and Ellora caves and temples for the last
5,000 years. Here the goddesses are pure and uncovered. Here the nudity
is not nakedness, it's a form of innocence and maturity. Take the monumental
form of Mahaveera and the carvings of Khajuraho. They evoke spirituality.
.....
by Pramod Kumar
The Centre has strengthened the security cover for the Kaiga Atomic Power
Plant in Karwai district of Karnataka following intelligence warnings
about a possible terrorist attack. .....
by Jonathan Fenby
We may find that 'the peaceful rise of China' is a phenomenon visible
only through rose-tinted spectacles. China has always demonstrated wishful
thinking, from the Great Wall, which was never quite what it was imagined
to be, to the celebration of the supposedly caring, paternal nature of
Mao Zedong. .....
by Mamta Upadhyaya
Forget human beings, even Gods have fled the Valley. Once a paradise on
Earth, as described by poet Firdaus, Kashmir today is no less than a virtual
hell and stands as a perfect picture of gore and terror. .....
by Navin Upadhyay
26 file affidavits saying NBA prevented them from accepting rehab ----
Bad news for Medha Patkar. As damaging facts begin to emerge in the media
about the arm-twisting activities adopted by the Narmada Bacaho Andolan
(NBA) activists to prevent the oustees of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP)
from accepting the rehabilitation package offered by the Madhya Pradesh
Government, even her own supporters have begun to turn against Medha Patkar.
.....
by Brahma Chellaney
This week's killing of 35 Hindu villagers in Kashmir is an ugly reminder
of how India is under siege from the forces of terror. What the country
needs is a credible counterterror campaign. Instead, its citizens get
political rhetoric and little else. .....
by Andrew G. Bostom
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors
to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan
Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American
presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare
the United States the ravages of jihad piracy-murder, enslavement (with
ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets-emanating
from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya,
known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib). .....
by P. R. Ramesh
Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize winning author and columnist for The New
York Times, has this to say in his text on Nandan Nilekani in Time magazine's
power list of 100 people who shape the world .....
by Dr. Babu Suseelan
Terrorism has existed for centuries. The world has witnessed colonialism,
slavery, crusades, inquisition, holocaust, witch burning, destruction
of ancient cultures by invading Islamic warriors and missionaries, communism,
world wars, chemical warfare, guerilla war, and the cold war. Millions
of people perished and several ancient civilizations vanished. .....
by Radha Rajan
The Congress-led anti-Hindu UPA government has cheered and participated
in a macabre game of Muslim brinkmanship in Vadodara. This game was played
out in three sessions with three players - the judiciary in the form of
the Gujarat High Court and the Supreme Court, the Muslim community, and
the Sonia Gandhi master-minded UPA government. .....
by V Sundaram
I have just finished reading a remarkably perceptive book called The Dark
Side of Christian History by Helen Ellerbe. This is simply a book that
everyone must sit down and read. Alice Walker in her review of this book
has observed: 'At a time when the so called 'religious right' asserts
that Christian values will save society from its rampant sins, the ordinary
citizen should know exactly how the Christian Church has attempted 'to
save' societies in the past. .....
by Krishen Kak
This offering, being the 100th, it seems apt to open it with a cricketing
reference. Noted film star Aamir Khan, who scored such a win with the
cricket-centred movie "Lagaan", has chosen to take his game
to a new field. Khan, from playing patriotism and secularism in films,
has now graduated from reel to real life. .....
by V Sundaram
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have rightly
criticized the reported decision of the Election Commission (EC) to drop
the Office-of-Profit Case against Mrs.Sonia Gandhi in the Office-of-Profit
Case following her resignation from the Lok Sabha. .....
by Navin Upadhyay
Battered officials, labourers register their plight against NBA's bully
boys and girls----- For an organisation that claims to spearhead a peaceful
movement to help rehabilitate persons displaced by the Sardar Sarovar
Project (SSP) on the Narmada river, the track record of the NBA is far
from flattering. .....
by The Local
Sweden's largest Muslim organisation has demanded that the country introduce
separate laws for Muslims, according to Swedish television. Sweden's equality
minister Jens Orback called the proposals "completely unacceptable".
.....
by The Tribune
Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party, chief Ganeshi Lal today accused Chief
Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of pandering the Muslim community in the
Mewat district at the cost of other communities. .....
by The New Indian Express
The birthplace of Adi Sankara will wear a festive look on May 2. 'Sankara
Jayanti,' the birthday of Adi Sankara, which falls on May 2, will be celebrated
with various cultural programmes accompanied by traditional rituals at
different centres here. .....
by Kanchan Gupta
Maoists Enemy No 1, says State Deptt docket ---- The scrapping of the
Prevention of Terrorism Act by the UPA Government to gratify Islamists
and Communists has begun to reflect in international assessments of India's
capacity to combat terrorism. .....
by V Sundaram
The non-communal, non-saffronized Islam-embracing and Christianity-coveting
Congress Government of Madhya Pradesh by a notification dated April 16,
1954 appointed a Committee called 'Christian Missionary Activities Committee'
which came to be called 'The Niyogi Committee'. This committee was headed
by Dr. Bhavani Shankar Niyogi, retired Chief Justice of the Nagpur High
Court. K.C. George, a Professor in the Commerce College at Wardha, represented
the Christian Community. .....
by V Sundaram
What is very striking is that the word 'secularism' cannot be found anywhere
in Pundit Nehru's pre-independence writings and utterances. Nor was this
word used by anyone in the Constituent Assembly Debates which exist in
cold print. There is irrefutable documentary evidence to show that it
was solely due to Nehru's dishonest demagogy that this word became not
only the most fashionable but also the most profitable political term
for every enemy of India's age-old indigenous society and culture. .....
by V Sundaram
Sita Ram Goel is an indomitable intellectual Kshatriya in the line of
great warriors like Parasurama, Bhishma, Drona, Arjuna and Karna in the
history of India that is not Bharath today. I am compelled to say that
'it is not Bharath' only for the reason that India today has been taken
over by the mafia of pseudo-secularists whose only aim is to destroy Hinduism
and Hindu culture or more precisely 'Sanathana Dharma' at any cost. .....
by M. Bhaskar Sai
Last week, Chennai port welcomed MV Doulos, the world's largest floating
book fair, which has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records
as the oldest, active ocean-going passenger ship. Stocked with more than
five lakh books, the book fair was inaugurated by Governor Surjit Singh
Barnala recently. .....
by G.S. Mudur
It wasn't raiders from the north but a weakened monsoon that spelled doom
for the Indus valley civilisation, suggests a study published this week.
.....
by NewKerala.com
Taking a serious view of the marriage of a Pune girl in Uttar Pradesh
after she was allegedly converted into Islam, the Allahabad High Court
today ordered an inquiry into all such cases by the Intelligence Bureau.
.....
by Rajeev Ranjan Roy
Though divested of the minority character, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
will not implement the 49.5 per cent quota for SC/ST/OBC students as proposed
by Human Resource Development Ministry. .....
by The Free Press Journal
Back in the 70s when Mrs Gandhi was putting artificial clamps on economic
growth in the name of `garibi hatao' and implementing her own peculiar
brand of socialism, it had become second nature for her followers to dub
anyone talking economic sense as an agent of capitalists. Dhirubhai Ambani
had yet to make his first million. .....
by Brendan Bernhard
In The Force of Reason, the controversial Italian journalist and novelist
Oriana Fallaci illuminates one of the central enigmas of our time. How
did Europe become home to an estimated 20 million Muslims in a mere three
decades? .....
by Kumar Uttam
If you think violence was the only thing Naxalites are known for, visit
Jharkhand to see "farmers" in comrades. Not wheat or rice, they
cultivate opium. .....
by Hugh Fitzgerald
Why do Muslim terrorists attack in Jammu-Kashmir? Because they can. The
Muslim claim to Kashmir differs from their claim to all of India (or for
that matter to Spain (Al-Andalus), to Israel, to Sicily, to the Balkans,
to Bulgaria, to Rumania, to Hungary, and to all the areas once dominated
by Muslims) only in the ability to push that claim. .....
by Yusuf Jameel
Suspected militants abducted nine Hindu villagers at gunpoint in a remote
area of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday and soon murdered four of them. The
fate of the others is not known, the police said. .....
by Rakhi Chakrabarty
The Left has mastered it to perfection in West Bengal. According to Opposition
leaders, while Marxist veterans educate bogus voters on the use of alkali
to erase the ink mark and vote again, their musclemen create scare to
keep away genuine voters .....
by Mukhtar Ahmad
At least 22 Hindu villagers were killed and eight others critically wounded
in a militant massacre in village Kalhan in Doda district of Jammu region.
.....
by Mohit Kandhari
Early on Monday morning, heavily armed militants shot dead 19 Hindu villagers
in Doda, sending a chilling reminder that militant groups could derail
the peace process and dialogue in the State. .....
by Prabhat Varun
In March 2006 Varanasi was attacked by the Islamic terrorists, in which
more than 30 people died. Further in the holy city one of the most revered
Hindu temples, Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple was attacked. .....
by Daily India
One Madhya Pradesh village settles all its disputes in a Hindu temple.
Residents of Deshmohini village, 10 km from Hoshangabad town, have never
visited a police station. .....
by Tom Leonard
The BBC should get its "language right" and not be afraid to
use the word "terrorism" in its news coverage, an independent
report said yesterday. .....
by Aroosa Masroor Khan
The controversy over the fate of three Hindu sisters who went missing
from their home in October 2005 to reappear soon after at a Madrassah
as converts to Islam continues to haunt the Hindu community in Karachi.
.....
by Seema Sarin
A century-old Hindu temple was demolished in Malaysia despite devotees
pleading with the authorities to stop the operations. Though the Malaysian
Hindus were understandably upset, the Hindus in India did not react, which
is fine. .....
by Deccan Herald
The Venkatramana temple of Karkala is popular with the local people, many
find it irresistible to visit the temple daily and receive the Lord's
blessings, writes Amrita Nayak in 'Deccan Herald'. .....
by Stuff.co.nz
The buyers thronging his stall on the sidelines of a late-night rally
in the Pakistani capital belonged to a crowd organised by a sectarian
Sunni Muslim group. .....
by Sandhya Jain
Unknown to most Indians, the raging controversy over the California school
textbooks being challenged by Hindu American parents is rooted in the
staunch commitment of certain academics to the Biblical version of Creation.
Herr Michael Witzel, whose professional reputation is linked to the Aryan
Invasion Theory, which derives from a Biblical perspective, denies the
decisive scientific evidence to the contrary. .....
by Fox News
A 3,500-year-old stone ax engraved with an ancient northern Indian script
found in the country's south could establish a closer historical link
between the distinctive regions, an archaeologist said Monday. .....
by Rajiv Malik
"The biggest problem our country faces today is that our rulers have
become directionless. The role of Shankaracharyas and saints is to provide
direction to the rulers. In fact, the Shankaracharya tradition and the
maths were created for this very purpose. .....
by Milind Ghatwai
Of the 48 families on whose behalf the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) petitioned
the Supreme Court in February saying they have not been rehabilitated,
at least nine families have used money provided under the Madhya Pradesh
government's Special Rehabilitation Package (SRP) to buy land of their
choice. And now these families say they are being told by the NBA not
to relocate and ask for more. .....
by The Indian Express
The 'living saint' from Kerala, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, more popularly
known as "Amma", has said that love and compassion could eventually
help in overcoming the problem of poverty in food, clothing and shelter.
.....
by S Gurumurthy
Does monotheism -- belief in a single, omniscient God - impede globalism?
If it does what other kind of religion or God will be compatible with
globalism? Here is likely an interesting debate. .....
by Ashok Singhal
The "Manu Smriti" or the "Yagyavalkya Smriti" has
no connection with Adi Manu or the Sage Yagyavalkya. The "Smritis"
were written during the reign of Pushyamitra about 2200 years ago. There
is no reference of such Smritis in the Mahabharata. .....
by Peter Chalk
For several years now, the Republic of the Philippines has attracted the
attention of regional and Western authorities as an emergent hub - both
logistically and operationally - for cross-border jihadist extremism in
Southeast Asia. .....
by Ganesh S Lakshman
Just as TRS leader K Chandrasekhar Rao has begun crowing that a separate
Telangana is nigh with the passage of a bill to that effect in the forthcoming
session of Parliament, the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), the paramount
party in the Old City of Hyderabad, has raised a demand that would surprise
all parties to the dispute: should Andhra Pradesh be carved up into Telangana
and Andhra, Hyderabad should be made an Urdu-speaking state, or at least
a union territory. .....
by Rajeev PI
The judicial commission probing Kerala's worst communal massacre in Marad
in 2003 has severely indicted almost every arm of the Congress-led United
Democratic Front Government: politicians, police officers and top bureaucrats.
.....
by Balbir K. Punj
Sonia Gandhi's resignation left the bringing of an ordinance redundant,
because the ordinance was being brought to protect a particular person
from getting disqualified. The Congress was not interested in protecting
its other MPs. .....
