by The Times of India
The violence against Reliance group, allegedly provoked by a news telecast
claiming the business giant got Y S Rajasekhara Reddy killed in a helicopter
crash, has triggered unrest in the Congress with fingers pointing at YSR's
son Jaganmohan Reddy. ....
by Somit Sen
BJP state spokesperson Madhav Bhandari has demanded action against a "senior
politician" from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for allegedly
sheltering Joseph Paulson in Nashik when the latter was on the run. ....
by ExpressIndia.com
Voicing serious concern over rise in infiltration from Pakistan, Defence
Minister A K Antony on Wednesday attributed it to forces across the border
which are "jittery" over return of normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir.
....
by R Vaidyanathan
First the elected lawmakers were involved in governance, then it shifted
to civil servants and from them the judiciary took over governance of
our country and now the NGOs are trying to take the slot. Can jholawalas
who are the self-proclaimed civil society be involved in governance and
if so, with what implications? ....
by Nadeem F. Paracha
On the day of the devastating terrorist attack on the Ashura procession
in Karachi, the MQM chief, Altaf Hussain, pleaded for a complete boycott
of those political parties and personnel who he believed were supporting
the Taliban. ....
by Hari Om
Congress minister and former diplomat Mani Shanker Aiyar is a peacenik.
Why? Because he believes that the "bureaucrats and political wrangling
on both sides" (India and Pakistan) are creating hurdles so that
the relations between the two countries continue to remain strained and
the Kashmir problem remains unresolved. ....
by R. Samarasinghe
Religious conversion has to be examined in its global context, because
coerced conversion is not a spiritual but a political act with economic
motives. So was colonization; though they said they came to civilize us!
The so-called religious wars such as the Crusades were about wealth and
dominance. ....
by Leow Si Wan & Chuang Bing Han
FAST-FOOD giant McDonald's has stirred up a controversy by omitting pig
characters from its latest toy promotions. ....
by The Pioneer
The area along Line of Actual Control with China has "shrunk"
over a period of time and India has lost "substantial" amount
of land in the last two decades, says an official report. ....
by Jayanta Gupta
Bangladesh local government minister Syed Ashraful Islam has said Islamabad
used his country for terrorism in India and that former Pakistan President
Pervez Musharraf had met Ulfa founder Anup Chetia at a Dhaka hotel in
July 2002 during the previous BNP-Jamaat regime. He said Chetia was brought
out of prison for the clandestine meeting. ....
by The Indian Express
Five relatives of a Congress MLA who allegedly paid a local tantrik to
kill a sitting BJP MP through black magic have been arrested. ....
by The Indian Express
Five relatives of a Congress MLA who allegedly paid a local tantrik to
kill a sitting BJP MP through black magic have been arrested. ...
by Pranab Dhal Samanta
Transcripts of telephone conversations between militants holed up in a
hotel near Lal Chowk in Srinagar and their Pakistan-based handlers have
revealed that the attack was intended to bring Kashmir back into focus
following a relatively peaceful phase last year. ...
by Asif Alvi
"Cultivating brevity and calmness" is yet another masterpiece
by Ayaz Amir (January 8). The response to the Indian army chief's statement
by various functionaries of the state was in poor taste. ...
by Swapan Dasgupta
For an emerging international player, the Ministry of External Affairs
should have an iconic status. In the past weeks, the MEA has, unfortunately
...
by Ian Buruma
For China, 2009 was a good year. The Chinese economy still roared ahead
in the midst of a worldwide recession. U.S. President Barack Obama visited
China, more in the spirit of a supplicant to an imperial court than the
leader of the world's greatest superpower. ...
by Adrian Blomfield
Yemeni officials have admitted they are losing the battle against al-Qaeda
and the terror group is extending its reach into remote regions where
state control has all but disappeared ...
by Adrian Blomfield
Yemeni officials have admitted they are losing the battle against al-Qaeda
and the terror group is extending its reach into remote regions where
state control has all but disappeared ...
by Yamini Nair
Making a difference to the underprivileged by providing food for both
body and mind is what Dhyan Foundation, a spiritual and charitable organization,
does. ...
by DNA India
A major study conducted by Britain's National Centre for Social Research
has found that only a quarter of the locals feel positive towards Muslims.
...
by Rajesh Singh
While it is only now that the Union Government has admitted to the existence
of the Vedic river Saraswati after being in a denial mode for five years
...
by B.Ramana
The US will continue to be a pre-eminent power of the world. Despite its
growing economic and military strength, China will not be able to challenge
the pre-eminence of the US. ...
by Chidanand Rajghatta
The wheels seem to be coming off US-Pakistan relations with the once close
allies squabbling publicly even as Islamabad is whipping up hysteria over
the so-called Indian threats and American machinations to weasel out of
its obligation to combat home-grown terrorism. ...
by The Times of India
Spain has said it won't pay any ransom for three of its aid workers kidnapped
in Mauritania by the al-Qaida group in Islamic Maghreb. ....
by David Gauthier-Villars
French authorities said Thursday that they have arrested and deported
an Egyptian imam described as "a radical Islamist" and suspected
of having issued calls to violence. ....
by The Times of India
Three churches in Malaysia were attacked with firebombs, causing extensive
damage to one, as Muslims pledged yesterday to prevent Christians from
using the word "Allah, " escalating religious tensions in the
multiracial country. ....
by The Times of India
Even as India gets ready to welcome Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, the Assam
Rifles on Friday said around 50% of the `lower cadre' of banned militant
outfit Ulfa was from Bangladesh. ....
by The Pioneer
The Government on Friday said the country, especially Jammu and Kashmir,
remains vulnerable to militant attacks sponsored by forces from across
the border. ....
by Editorial
It is astounding that Canberra should ask New Delhi to refrain from "whipping
up hysteria" over the brutal attacks on Indian students in Australia.
....
by Editorial
After spending the first year of his presidency toeing the line of least
resistance to Islamist terrorism and pretending that jihadis no longer
pose a threat to America, apart from pitilessly mocking at his predecessor
for putting in place a tough anti-terror regime ....
by Chidanand Rajghatta
Nearly 17 years after Dawood Ibrahim's infamous D-company fled to Karachi
after devastating Mumbai with serial bomb attacks that killed 258 people,
the United States has highlighted Pakistan's patronage of the underworld
don and said the "criminal-terrorism fusion model" he represents
is "a credible threat to US interests in South Asia." ....
by Editorial
The impressive conclave of former and present MPs and MLAs of Gujarat
held on the first day of the year to mark the beginning of year-long celebrations
in honour of the State completing 50 years since its creation in 1960
....
by Editorial
The clear, present and continuing danger posed to Western civilization
by the worldwide Islamist terror network cannot be overcome while the
American, European and other freedom-loving peoples are neither mobilized
nor steeled for the sacrifices ahead. ....
by Tunku Varadarajan
The new policy requiring stepped-up security for some countries is a start.
But Tunku Varadarajan argues we won't be safe until Obama cuts the political
correctness-and takes far tougher steps. ....
by V. Sundaram
I proudly assert my inalienable, indivisible, immutable, and inexorable
constitutional right to be a practicing Hindu. Yet, seeing the conduct
of E Ahmed, Union Minister of State for Railways, at a recent public function
organised by the Indo-Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Chennai,
I am constrained to raise these questions. ....
by Thaindian News
The Tehreeke-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has taken responsibility for Friday's
ghastly suicide attack on the Parade Lane mosque here, saying the mosque
was "demolished on the orders of Prophet Muhammad". ....
by Kamran Shafi
There was the usual and quite absurd story on the Internet the other day,
one that amply demonstrates the in-your-face attitudes of those who would
use 'militant' Islam to further their own political agendas in foreign
countries. ....
by Henryk M. Broder
The attack on illustrator Kurt Westergaard wasn't the first attempt to
carry out a deadly fatwa. When Muslims tried to murder Salman Rushdie
20 years ago, the protests among intellectuals were loud. Today, though,
Western writers and thinkers would rather take cover than defend basic
rights. ....
by Swapan Dasgupta
The Noughties has witnessed the most sustained strains in Indo-Pakistan
relations in living memory. The decade which began with the infamous Kandahar
hijack, has been marked by the attack on the Indian Parliament ....
by Sandhya Jain
The Government must end the doublespeak on Jammu & Kashmir and inform
the Indian people if there is a covert understanding, under American aegis,
to unravel the northern State bit by bit and surreptitiously cede it to
Pakistan. ....
by Shashi Shekhar
The unfolding Headley-Rana saga continues to expose how the Pakistani
establishment, the military-jihadi nexus and Islamists of various shades
have been working in tandem to plan and execute terrorist attacks in foreign
lands, especially India. ....
by Madhukar Shukla
Mahua Devi is a petite woman in her early twenties. She cycles through
10 to 12 villages of the Koraput district in Orissa everyday. .....
by The Indian Express
BACK home in Munich, Germany, that shade of oranje is usually reserved
for football jerseys of their northern neighbours Netherlands; while Salami
is more a sausage filling than a show-stopping manouvre after a body-twisting
climb onto a Mallakhamb pole. .....
by Sharmistha Mukherjee
The Ministry of Shipping is nearly doubling the initial cost estimates
of the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project, which aims to
dredge a navigable channel through the Palk Strait between India and Sri
Lanka. .....
by Mahendra Kumar Singh
The finance ministry has quietly initiated the process of opening up the
income tax files of politicians belonging to all parties and tallying
their income statements with the affidavits filed by them with the Election
Commission during the 2009 parliamentary polls. .....
by Damien McElroy
An underground network of Islamic extremists has recruited a new generation
of Indian-born terrorists by exploiting sectarian tensions in the fault-line
city of Hyderabad. .....
by The Times of India
Bihar is India's new miracle economy. In the five-year period between
2004-05 and 2008-09, Bihar's GDP has grown by a stunning 11.03%, way beyond
the definition of 7% growth for a ``miracle economy''. .....
by The Pioneer
Delhi's Lt. Governor Tejinder Khanna on Sunday ordered an inquiry into
the dramatic escape of three Pakistani terrorists from a hospital here
on Saturday even as police announced a reward for information leading
to their capture. .....
by The Pioneer
Security agencies have been able to get an insight into the personal life
of American terror suspect David Headley, with his estranged Moroccan
wife telling investigators about connections he had in Mumbai, including
with some socialites. .....
by Manjari Mishra
Twenty-one years isn't long enough time to forgive and forget. Salman
Rushdie, the India-born novelist whose work about ''migration, metamorphosis,
divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay'' - Satanic Verses
- raised the hackles of Islamic hardliners, has once again run into rough
weather. .....
by PTI News
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Sivaganga
District police to provide protection to a Muslim woman and her Hindu
husband, who reportedly received threats after their recent marriage.
.....
by The Times of India
The Delhi High court on Thursday restrained police from taking any action
against a Muslim girl who claimed to have married a Hindu boy against
parents' wish and embraced Hinduism. .....
by Charles Krauthammer
Janet Napolitano - former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary
of homeland security - will forever be remembered for having said of the
attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit:. .....
by Gordon Rayner
University College London, where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was recently
president of the Islamic Society, has been accused of being "complicit"
in the radicalisation of Muslim students by "failing grotesquely"
to prevent extremists from giving lectures on campus. .....
by C I Issac
Recent newspaper reports on Islamic fundamentalists' operations from Kerala
under the camouflaged stewardship of Abdul Nasser Madhani, accused in
the Coimbatore Bomb Blast case, and the ruling and opposition coalition's
hide and seek game in dealing with terrorists, reveals more obscurity
than clarity. .....
by Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan is one of the most influential Muslim figures in Europe
today, speaking and writing on Islam to a wide variety of audiences in
Arabic, French and English. .....
