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June Month Articles
- Terminal Turbulence
- by Shantanu Guha Ray and Bhavna Vij-Aurora
The CAG's report, to be tabled in Parliament, says Delhi's new airport
is a huge hit on the exchequer. ......
- Land Without Sunshine
- by S. Prasannarajan
Today it's Ai Weiwei, and his ordeal is the other story China doesn't
want to tell the world. In the People's Republic of eternal bliss, only
the enemy of the state asks questions. ......
- The Family's Silver
- by Lola Nayar
A lack of sincerity is evident in the Centre's overtures on black money
......
- Peace in sight, ULFA victims
speak up
- by Ratnadip Choudhury
As the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) prepares for peace talks
with the Centre, the victims of its terror demand a say in the process.
Ratnadip Choudhury reports. ......
- At Ramlila, Rajghat: Unseen,
Unheard
- by Vandita Mishra
While the spotlight was on Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare, the men and women
who came from all over India to Participate in their satyagraha went unnoticed.
......
- Hyperbole and Hypocrisy
- by Meghnad Desai
Truth, they say, is the first casualty of war. In Indian politics, truth
is never involved so we need not worry about that. ......
- A difficult balancing
- by Philip Bowring
Appropriately, the meeting straddled the anniversary of the Tiananmen
massacre. Defence ministers and top brass from the US .......
- Cash may yet be king
- by Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
For years there has been a growing debate in India about replacing hugely
inefficient subsidies with cash .......
- Kerala's Basheer may replace
Ilyas Kashmiri
- by Arun Lakshman
The Indian intelligence agencies are in a sigh of relief mode over the
killing of the head of the 313 Brigade Ilyas Kashmiri by a United States
drone attack .......
- The Fifth Columnists
- by RSN Singh
The recent episode concerning the life sentence by the Chhattisgarh High
Court and subsequent bail by the Supreme Court throws many questions.
.......
- British queen decorates
Nepali for Afghanistan heroics
- by Channelnewsasia.com
A Nepalese soldier in the British army was given a top bravery award by
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday for his heroics in Afghanistan, where
he single-handedly saw off more than 30 Taliban fighters. .......
- Media is showing bias
against Baba Ramdev
- by Rajesh Prabhu-Salgaonkar
Baba Ramdev is set to sit on indefinite Fast in Delhi's Ramleela Ground
. Entire country, eager to see corruption wiped out, is now standing in
support of Baba Ramdev. .......
- Welcome Mr Dayanidhi Maran
- by S Gurumurthy
The article "Minister steals a telephone exchange, loots BSNL"
(TNIE June 1, 2011) was entirely based on CBI's secret report on Dayanidhi
Maran's home telephone exchange in every respect - except one. .......
- ISI scripted 26/11: Shahzad's
book tells all
- by IBNLive.com
According to murdered Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad's book, Al Qaeda
linked Illyas Kashmiri used an old ISI plan to script the devastating
Mumbai terror attacks. .......
- Maran Must Quit
- by The Statesman
Presence in Cabinet travesty of justice .......
- A Capacity for Farce
- by M J Akbar
The next time Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Basheer wants to rubbish
any wish-list of terrorists sent by India's much-vaunted home minister
P. Chidambaram .......
- Chinese intrusions in
North-East
- by Jagdamba Mall
Our country's greatest security threat is methodically expanding its spheres
of influence into the traditionally unstable regions of troubled North-East.
.......
- China Breeds Chaos
- by Dan Blumenthal
Most countries celebrated this month's slaying of Osama bin Laden as an
unadulterated good, but two of them are reacting with ambivalence. .......
- Revealed: The offshore
links in 2G scam
- by Pradip R Sagar
The CBI team that went to Mauritius seeking to probe offshore links of
companies involved in the 2G scam has returned after giving specific inputs
to the Mauritius government on Indian .......
- Govt backtracks on giving
teeth to Lokpal
- by The Pioneer
Sharp differences came to the surface at a meeting of the drafting committee
for Lokpal bill today with the government strongly opposing proposals
for inclusion of Prime Minister .......
- From the Editor-in-Chief
- by Aroon Purie
I once spoke to India's most wanted man, Dawood Ibrahim. It was a telephone
conversation sometime in 1994 in which he spoke to our magazine denying
.......
- Mecca Imam's Visit To
India - Some Observations
- by R. Upadhyay
Dr Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, the Chief Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca,
the holiest shrine of Muslim world visited India (March 24-28, 2011) at
the invitation arranged by Arsad Madani .......
- Jaya Sun-stroke for Marans
- by Swati Das
They had monopolised the cable television scene in Tamil Nadu and most
of the south since the skies opened up in the nineties .......
- Politics of arrogance
- by Kuldip Nayar
When corruption is being hotly debated, the Congress-led UPA government
is trying to evade the issue. ......
- Back to dark days of 1970s
- by A Surya Prakash
The Congress's fascist reaction to the anti-corruption movement shows
the party still remains unchanged. Its misdeeds remind us of the 1975-77
Emergency. ......
- The injustice of our anti-poor
schemes
- by Surjit S Bhalla
Anti-poverty schemes may come with annual corruption level greater than
once in-a-decade scams like 2G. is the Supreme Court looking? ......
- Enter the Godmen
- by Malavika Sangghvi
Here's a trick question, the answer to which lies at the end of this column.
An Indian spiritual leader said the following words. Can you guess who?.
......
- Angry Voices
- by The Times of India
It is a major blow to democracy
and an attack on the democractic rights of the people ... It is also an
attack on the fundamental rights of the citizens - BIHAR CM NITISH KUMAR
......
- Flight of the eagles
- by J Dey
When the eagles are silent, the
parrots begin to jabber, goes an old adage. ......
- Bhai-cha dhakka
- by J Dey
J Dey reports how the underworld,
unnoticed by the common man, is creeping into the mainstream ......
- Nose held high
- by The Pioneer
The Katoch royals of Kangra are
resurrecting lost glory, built over centuries of art, culture and, wonder
of wonders, plastic surgery, says Neeti Nigam ......
- Anna Hazare slams Digvijaya,
says he needs mental asylum
- by Hindustan Times
Social activist Anna Hazare came
down heavily on Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh saying he needs
to be admitted to mental asylum after the Congress leader accused him
of being RSS frontman. ......
- US lauds India's model
of engaging Africa
- by The Pioneer
The US has lauded India's model
of encouraging growth in Africa as the two countries gear up to collaborate
in the 53-nation continent's agricultural sector. ......
- 2G's next generation
- by J Gopikrishnan
Kapil Sibal thought he could deflect
public attention from the Congress' role in the 2G scam by bringing all
deals since 2001 under the scanner. Now, he has ended up trapping the
DMK all over again ......
- Dictatorship of sycophants
- by Arindam Chaudhuri
The modern day Jallianwala Bagh
at Ramlila Ground shows the demonic attitude of the Government, the weak
spine of the Opposition and the hypocrisy of the media. ......
- Let's see how many act
on PM missive
- by The Asian Age
There is not a little irony in the
fact that the Cabinet Secretary should be writing to Union ministers asking
them to do what they are required to under the rules. ......
- I am not training terrorists,
Naxals: Ramdev
- by IBNLive.com
Under attack for his proposal to
raise an armed force, Baba Ramdev on Thursday said he was not trying to
train terrorists or Maoists but only wanting to set up a "nationalist"
force. ......
- The battle of Kaliyuga
has begun
- by Francois Gautier
Previously, the Congress was able
to brazen out scandalous truth through bullying, deceit, lying and political
cunning. ......
- Intolerant Congress, angry
India
- by Rajesh Singh
While the Union Government's strong-arm
actions are designed to frighten dissenters into submission, it is equally
true that they are born of mounting panic. If the Government cracks down
further ......
- India must stand up as
a nation
- by D Suba Chandran
Have we learned any lessons from
the Headley disclosures of Pakistani involvement in the 26/11 terrorist
attack on Mumbai? .....
- Subba nationality back
in focus
- by Abraham Thomas
Congress general secretary Digvijay
Singh has questioned the nationality of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's right
hand .....
- 'I can't visit Pak as I
am an army deserter'
- by Rediff.com
Rana also told the FBI the Headley
was affiliated with both ISI and LeT and also met Ilyas Kashmiri who was
the leader of another terror group Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami. .....
- Muzzling The Media
- by Ravindra Dhariwal
What better way to control the Press
than to decide the salary of newspaper employees? .....
- The UPA's political bankruptcy
- by The Hindu
The midnight police swoop on yoga
exponent and telestar 'Baba' Ramdev and his supporters was arbitrary,
brutal, and anti-democratic. .....
- Crackdown naked fascism,
says Advani
- by Express News Service
Reacting strongly to the midnight
crackdown on Baba Ramdev, BJP leader L K Advani on Sunday urged President
Pratibha Patil to convene an emergency session of the Parliament to debate
it, besides discussing .....
- PM responsible for police
action on Baba Ramdev: Modi
- by The Economic Times
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi today alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was responsible
for the police action on Baba Ramdev and his followers at the Ramlila
ground in New Delhi. .....
- PM should resign: VHP
- by Hindustan Times
Describing the crackdown on Baba
Ramdev and his followers as an "attack on Hinduism", Vishwa
Hindu Parishad's (VHP) .....
- Karunanidhi blames Centre
for Kanimozhi arrest
- by Sam Daniel
The arrest of Kanimozhi is pushing
her father's alliance with the Congress further down a slippery slope.
The recent elections delivered a body blow to M Karunanidhi .....
- Mulayam deplores midnight
swoop
- by Atiq Khan
Samajwadi Party president Mulayam
Singh on Sunday condemned the midnight action against the yoga guru Baba
Ramdev and his subsequent arrest and deportation by the Union government.
.....
- Tiananmen anniversary brings
new China detentions
- by NDTV.com
Chinese security forces rounded
up more government critics ahead of Saturday's anniversary of the crushing
of the 1989 pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square
.....
- Don't intimidate me: Ramdev
hits back at Cong
- by IBNLive.com
The dramatic reversal of events
on Saturday evening led to a stalemate between the government of India
and Baba Ramdev and his followers - just when it seemed a deal had been
reached. .....
- Not the way to fight graft
- by Kanchan Gupta
Soon after accepting the demand
of Anna Hazare that he and his nominees should be included in an official
.....
- Power of the Middle Indian
- by Chandan Mitra
Baba Ramdev has energised India's
small towns into vocally demanding equality of opportunity with the metropolitan
elite: It's a genie that won't go back into the bottle .....
- India can't be ruled by
NGOs
- by Swapan Dasgupta
The emergence of Baba Ramdev as
the newest anti-corruption crusader, after Anna Hazare, has unsettled
the midsummer complacency of the Congress-inclined Establishment. ....
- The communal polarisation
of Kerala's voters
- by T V R Shenoy
There was a clear polarisation of
Christian and (especially) Muslim votes in favour of the UDF. This caused
enough misgivings to start a consolidation of Hindu votes behind the LDF.
....
- Where nobody is safe, and
nobody talks
- by Murtaza Razvi
Free for all" and "killing
fields" are the clichés that best describe Pakistan today.
From a former prime minister to a sitting governor and a cabinet minister;
......
- Queen decorates Nepali
for Afghanistan heroics
- by Channelnewsasia.com
A Nepalese soldier in the British
army was given a top bravery award by Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday
for his heroics in Afghanistan, where he single-handedly saw off more
than 30 Taliban fighters. ......
- Headley surveyed German
Bakery
- by Himani Kumar
Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David
Coleman Headley on Wednesday told a US court that he had conducted a surveillance
of the German Bakery ......
- Jihad finds a Lebensraum
- by Ashok Malik
The number one global nightmare
is an Islamist occupation of Pakistan's heartland with ISI-LeT and the
Taliban competing for supremacy. ......
- Oprah is a Dharma Seer
- by Aseem Shukla
"I know that every thought
that I think, every thought that I have, that moves into action is going
to create an equal and opposite reaction. ......
- Berth Pangs For Chandy
- by M. G. Radhakrishnan
Overheated its poll performance, Muslim league demands an extra Ministry
and sets off speculation that a sex case involving its leader may be buried.
......
- Lost in the Maze
- by Shyamlal Yadav
The Government refused to part with information regarding the don's whereabouts
and says it is exempt under RTI.
......
- Why we can't Get Him
- by Sandeep Unnithan
Dawood Ibrahim figures at a lowly number 8 on the home ministry's now-withdrawn
dossier of the 50 most wanted fugitives from the law in India.
......
- The Sultan doesn't Live
Here Any More
- by Qaswar Abbas
Our correspondent in Karachi Qaswar Abbas braves menacing security agents
and evasive neighbours on Clifton Road where the don is believed to be
protected with a false name in a five-bungalow complex
......
- Dawood's Indian Empire
- by Shantanu Guha Ray and Kiran Tare
India's most wanted don and suspected terrorist continues to expand his
business in the country from his safe house in Karachi even has Delhi
once again shows its unwillingness to crack down on the don't network
......
- A Heap of Ash, Not Much
else
- by Sandeep Unnithan
At the centre of the twin Bhatta-Parsaul villages near Delhi lies India's
most contentious heap of ashes. Charred hay and lumps of burnt plastic
guarded by sweaty Uttar Pradesh policemen. ......
- Thackeray lashes out at
Ajit Pawar
- by The Pioneer
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Wednesday hit back at Ajit Pawar, deputy
chief minister of Maharashtra, who had attacked him Tuesday for doing
nothing for the society. ......
- Holding the heights
- by Manvendra Singh
Talks with Pakistan on resolving the Siachen dispute will never succeed
till India has a political leadership which carries credibility with the
Indian Army. ......
- Buddhadeb demands immediate
end to violence
- by Ananya Dutta
Claiming that an alarming situation had been created in West Bengal since
the results of the Assembly elections were announced on May 13, Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee ......
- Start talks, Gadkari writes
to PM
- by The Hindu
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday wrote
to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to open a "meaningful
dialogue" : . ....
- Dump NAC's communal bill
- by Sudheendra Kulkarni
In the wake of Anna Hazare's recent fast over the Jan Lokpal Bill (which
has some serious flaws), some angry critics asked: . ....
- Pak army breached
by Islamists?
- by The Times of India
Pakistani military generals are concerned that their ranks have been penetrated
by Islamists who are aiding militants in a campaign against the state.
....
- Further probe against Dinakaran
justified, Centre tells SC
- by The Pioneer
The Centre today told Supreme Court that the Rajya Sabha-appointed panel
can carry out further probe and frame definite charges against Sikkim
Chief Justice P D Dinakaran who is facing allegations of corrupt practices
and misconduct. ....
- Wrecking the Constitution
- by The Pioneer
The UPA will be making a gross miscalculation if it considers the goodness
of Kannadigas as a weakness and persists with HR Bhardwaj as Governor.
....
- CAG: estimate of spectrum
loss based on sound principles
- by The Hindu
Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) Vinod Rai on Monday asserted that
the presumptive loss of Rs. 1.76 lakh core arrived at by the organisation
vis-à-vis the 2G spectrum allocation was based on sound principles
and was within its mandate. ....
- Clarify whether Sun TV benefited
by pay-offs: BJP to Maran
- by The Times of India
Government on Tuesday faced fresh attack from the opposition on corruption
when the BJP asked textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran to answer charges
that his family-owned Sun TV Network was a beneficiary of pay-offs by
a Malaysian company which benefited from equity sold by Aircel. .....
- Zail Singh and Sanjay Gandhi
responsible for Punjab mess in
- by IBNLive.com
"Zail Singh, in complete collaboration with Sanjay, picked up a relatively
obscure young and fundamentalist lay preacher named Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
with a view to building him up as a rival to the Akali leadership. .....
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