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July Month Article
- 5 years of 7/11 attacks,
victims await justice
- by Yogita Limaye
It has been five years since the 7/11 train attacks in Mumbai that killed
188 people, but it's ironic that the accused have still not been brought
to the justice. .....
- The Baba and Neo-Mayos
- by S Gurumurthy
To his faithful millions, he was God; to his disbelievers he was a fake;
to his detractors he was a fraud. .....
- Temple, not Court, is Supreme
in Bharat
- by B R Haran
Shame on us! I mean, shame on Hindus! Something outrageous has been happening
since the first of this month in one of the most sacred places on our
bhumi .....
- 2G scam: Maran resigns
from Union cabinet
- by The Pioneer
Pushed to the wall after CBI named him in the 2G spectrum allocation case,
high-profile Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran today resigned from the
Union Cabinet, becoming the second DMK casualty in the scam .....
- No leads but method and
timing point to IM
- by The Indian Express
Even as police teams were gathering vital forensic evidence from the three
blast sites in Mumbai tonight, investigators revealed that the needle
of suspicion pointed towards the Indian Mujahideen (IM) .....
- MK Alagiri lied to PM,
lands in row
- by Shabbir Ahmed and Priyamvatha
Trouble has been hounding the DMK first family. First it was A. Raja,
then M.K. Kanimozhi and Dayanidhi Maran and now Union Minister for Chemicals
and Fertilizers M.K. Alagiri, who is the elder son of party chief M. Karunanidhi.
.....
- Governance is nobody's
baby
- by Nirmala sitharaman
If there has been a near unanimity on any subject across the political
spectrum it is this: India is in the throes of a governance deficit. .....
- Supreme Court as Supreme
Vandal
- by Radha Rajan
Judges of our High Courts and the Supreme Court have sent an unambiguous
signal to the people of the country that there is nothing sacred about
Hindu Gods. .....
- Get political, not voluble
- by CL Manoj
"The Prime Minister speaks, shows he is in control," thus went
the helpful pontification by some pundits after Dr Manmohan Singh met
a group of editors last week. .....
- Cash-for-votes scam: Delhi
Police asked to submit report
- by The Pioneer
The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi Police to place before it the
status report on the probe conducted by it in the "cash-for-vote"
scam during the trust vote faced by the UPA government in July 2008. .....
- The lungi gets a CREATIVE
TWIST
- by Shalini Umachandran
A European Fashion Brand Is Picking Up Handloom From Tamil Nadu &
Turning It Into Haute Couture .....
- Look ma, no veils in Pune!
- by Nitin Brahme
That is what delegates from Afghanistan and Pakistan observed during their
stay in the city for a human rights workshop organised by the National
Centre for Advocacy Studies .....
- China Inc: In India and
Loving It
- by Binoy Prabhakar
Chinese companies' expanding India operations have meant a growing number
of Chinese business executives now live and work here. Their stories are
happy and quirky. Some don't want to go back .....
- Postcards from rural India
- by Anuradha Mascarenhas
For the past 17 years, Praeep Lokhande has been posting questionnaires
to village. The result: a mine of information on rural India .....
- God's own kingdom
- by M.G.S. Narayanan
How, over the centuries, the Sree Pandmanabhaswamy temple became central
to Travancore. .....
- Maniben's diary reopens
Sardar's rift with Nehru
- by Rathin Das
The Congress had always sought to underplay the differences between Nehru
and 'Iron Man' Sardar Patel whose legacy gradually diminished with increasing
stranglehold of one family in the party since Independence. .....
- An order that hurts
- by The Indian Express
The Supreme Court's judgment on Salwa Judum and Special Police Officers
(SPOs) stated: "The state of Chhattisgarh shall take all appropriate
measures to prevent the operation of any group .....
- Panchayat polls in Kashmir:
Yes, we did
- by Swarup R Das, IBNLive Specials
The recent successful Panchayat (local bodies) election in Jammu and Kashmir
was a real turning point and a much awaited good dose of good news in
this otherwise long suffering region. .....
- Family Still Comes First
- by Amitabh Srivastava
Rahul promised to rid to youth congress of family, patronage and money.
He hasn't delivered on it. ......
- PMs Don't Dine on Humble
Pie
- by M J Akbar
The national has no pity to waste on a prime minister who does not assert
his legitimate authority. Instead of moving, either to assert control,
or to walk out, Manmohan Singh seems frozen ......
- Boat People
- by Christopher Hitchens
Some questions for the "activists" aboard the Gaza flotilla.
.....
- A dose of bitter medicine
- by VR Jayaraj
Street battles are raging in Kerala over admission to its private medical
colleges which attract students from all over the country. .....
- The habit of covering up
- by The Hindu
Two years into UPA-II, Sonia Gandhi made the brave statement at a celebratory
event that the Congress-led coalition would "take corruption head
on" and "demonstrate through actions .....
- Maran delayed licences
to Aircel: Former Secy
- by Bhupendra Chaubey
Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran's ex-secretary Nripendra Mishra
has told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that Maran targeted
Aircel to benefit his brother's company. .....
- Luchi In Ladakh? Check...
- by Arpita Basu
Holiday-makers now journey to destinations hitherto the province of adventure
junkies. .....
- Best Judge Himself
- by Chandrani Banerjee
The clamour rises for under-probe K.G. Balakrishnan to quit NHRC. .....
- Frozen funds leave minorities
in the lurch
- by Imran Khan
Catching the corrupt is clearly not enough - as this story shows, a sensitised
officialdom and accountable politicians are needed if the poor and the
marginalised are to get the benefits of schemes carefully crafted for
them. .....
- The Special Branch of the
Police cannot change History
- by Naragan
The secret police of Malaysia - the Police Special Branch cannot be but
observers of a change they cannot affect - they cannot change the course
of Malaysian history, they are close observers at best. ....
- Salman Khurshid has it
right
- by Prafull goradia
India's Muslims can prosper only if they join the national mainstream
and abandon the mullah-dictated path that has led them to deprivation.
....
- Krishna spent Govt money
to watch Wimbledon SF
- by Paarull
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has courted controversy after he
overstayed in England at taxpayer expense for three days after an official
visit and also watched tennis matches at Wimbledon. ....
- Major mistake
- by The Indian Express
The National Advisory Council has drafted the Prevention of Communal and
Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bil.....
- Hasina abandons secularism
- by Sanchita Bhattacharya
Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League, which had swept the last parliamentary
election in Bangladesh on the promise of restoring secularism and democracy.....
- NAC: Sonia's own cronies
- by Ravi
Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghachalak Shri Mohan Bhagwat hit
the nail .....
- Hyderabad's new bride bazaar
- by Uma Sudhir
The Old City area of Hyderabad, home to mainly poor Muslim families, was
once notorious as a hunting ground for Arab sheikhs keen to buy young
brides. .....
- Kargil cashes in on peace
- by Kargil cashes in on peace
The ripple effect of the much-cherished summer peace in Kashmir Valley
is being felt in far-off Kargil town. .....
- TiZA kids seek new schools
- by Sarah Lemagie
A day after state officials e-mailed him shutdown instructions, the director
of Tarek ibn Ziyad. .....
- Christian colleges pose
new condition
- by The Pioneer
Even before a day was out since the Kerala High Court allowed the Government
to take over 50 per cent of the post-graduate seats in private medical
colleges .....
- Cong makes stand clear on
PM
- by The Pioneer
Significantly, the Congress for the first time categorically stated that
it is against inclusion of the Prime. .....
- Killing fields of Bengal
- by Saugor Sengupta
The CPI(M)'s terror machine, the secret behind its three-decade-long electoral
success, is now on display in West Bengal thanks to daily "unearthing"
- a musket yesterday, a skeleton todayb. .....
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