by Sunanda K Datta – Ray
Today's successful media teaches people what they should want. That is a perversion of the purpose of newspapers, but it's a profitable perversion for the owners of the media ....
by Kanchan Gupta
At 9.30 am on October 31, 1984, Mrs Indira Gandhi, iron-willed and iron-fisted Prime Minister of India, famously described by her aunt Vijayalakshmi Pandit as “the only man in her Cabinet”, was assassinated at her 1, Safdarjung Road residence. The assassins, both Sikhs, were Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, two of the guards who were meant to protect her. Satwant Singh was arrested; Beant Singh was shot dead by the other guards. ....
by Radha Rajan
If Karnad sounded like Salman Khurshid (which if Sonia Gandhi has taken note of him, augers well for Karnad) and unabashedly playing intellectual terrorist, the Director of Mumbai's LitFest, Anil Dharkar's outraged response to Karnad's hysteria borders on the imbecilic. Karnad accused Naipaul of being anti-Muslim and the Director of LitFest who gave an anti-Muslim the lifetime award of not being secular. ....
by Subha J Rao
It’s eight a.m. and there’s a steady trickle of students to the PSG College of Technology canteen. Among them is a bunch of school kids who walk in, mark their attendance, and eat a hot, filling breakfast of idli, sambar, chutney and a pongal or khichdi. Then, they cross the overbridge into their school and their respective classes. ....
by The Indian Express
CAG Vinod Rai, whose reports on irregularities in coal block allocations and 2G telecom spectrum had created a major political storm, today deprecated the "brazenness" with which the decisions were being taken, calling it "appalling". ....
by Rsschennai.blogspot.in
A person of your caliber, who is a disciple of great sons & daughters of BHARAT like P.P. Dr. Hedgewar ji & P. P. Guruji, Van. Laxmibai Kelkar to name a few. A person whose role model is a great son of Bharat, Swami Vivekananda ji. ....
by Vishwa Mohan
Gujarat, which faced one of the worst anti-Muslim riots in the country barely 10 years ago, has emerged as the state with the largest number of Muslim cops posted in police stations, beating states with a higher proportion of the community in their population. ....
by Priyadarshi Dutta
Sikh Scholar Birendra Kaur has dragged the judiciary and Government of India into a Constitutional and legal dispute over the scope of the word ‘Hindu’. She objects to the use of the word in the Constitution of India and jurisprudence as covering Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains. She feels it is a denial of identity to the last three minor religious groups. ....
by Dr Pravin Togadia
“Maa. Balasaheb Thakrey has been our inspiration & strength while taking up various Hindu causes. With his departure from this world, a fatherly support is gone for all Hindus.” – Said Dr Pravin Togadia, VHP International Working President while paying tribute to Shivsena Supreemo Shri Balasaheb Thakrey. ....
by Virendra Kapoor
The reshuffle has come and gone. If the idea was to change the conversation in the bazaars and village chaupals, it failed. People do not care. A Government that has lost credibility cannot win back the public trust by moving a few square pegs from one set of round holes to another set of round holes. ....
by NDTV.com
Rahul Gandhi and the BJP sparred today with the Congress general secretary reminding the latter that while in opposition, the Congress had supported the ruling NDA on the Kargil issue but with the roles reversed, it was not reciprocating on national issues. ....
by Raman Kirpal
On 3 November, Congress General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi claimed that the Rs 90 crore loan given to Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) — now a subsidiary of a non-profit company owned by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul — was to enable AJL to pay off its liabilities and revive its defunct newspapers, including National Herald and Qaumi Awaaz. ....
by Shashi Shekhar
In many ways, the battle for 2014 could end up becoming an electoral game of numbers on who matters more — the UPA's aam aadmi that cares only for the safety net of entitlements or the ‘neo aspirational’ class that is impatient to climb the ladder of opportunity while enjoying the comfort of the safety net. ....
by Firstpost.com
Blaming Assam Police for being spineless in the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts, the All Bodo Students Union today said that security measures should not be cosmetic and criminals should not allowed to go scot-free under political pressure. ....
by Vivek Gumaste
Karnad's invective is not a fact based logical rebuttal of Naipaul's ideological variance. It lacks the grace or elements of an intellectual discourse, says Vivek Gumaste. ....
by Venky Vembu
In India to address a keynote session of the HT Leadership Summit, Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf was all sweetness and sunshine. Peace between their two countries, said the man who had waged war in Kargil in 1999 as part of a ‘salami slice’ tactic, stood a fair chance, but for it to be consummated, India should be “big-hearted” towards Pakistan. ....
by Hindu Help Line
Conveners, Coordinators & Representatives of Hindu Help Line from over 25 states & many districts of Bharat including the HHL Call Center gathered in Pune for a one day meeting in Ashwamedh Hall at Kothrud Pune. The meeting was presided over by VHP International Working President Dr Pravin Togadia & organized by HHL National President Ranjeet Natu. ....
by Anant R Zanane
The Allahabad High Court has ticked off the Uttar Pradesh government for seeking to withdraw cases against two suspects in the March 2006 Varanasi serial blasts, which claimed 25 lives, and asked if this would not encourage terrorism. ....
by IBNLive.com
The plight of Hindus continues in Pakistan. On Friday, a pro-Hindu peace activist Marvi Sirmed was shot at by unidentified gunmen in Islamabad. Although, the activist escaped unharmed, the attack once again raises questions of the state of constant fear for Pakistani Hindus. ....
by The Indian Express
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Saturday moved the Election Commission to derecognise the Congress, alleging the party violated laws by providing a R90-crore loan to a company that published the National Herald newspaper. ....
by Kumar Chellappan
All illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India should be detected and deported back to their country immediately, demanded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. “The illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are the forces behind the turmoil in Assam and elsewhere in the North-East. ....
by Abhay Vaidya
The Gandhi dynasty’s dominance over Indian politics has to end some day and what we are witnessing today is perhaps a turning point in history. ....
by Venky Vembu
Yesterday’s bluster has already given way to today’s retreat. Barely hours after Subramanian Swamy went public with his allegations of financial impropriety and other assorted malpractices in the National Herald case, directly implicating Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, the Congress appeared momentarily to rise to his challenge. ....
by Sandhya Jain
The controversy over the transfer of shares and ownership of the properties and assets of The Associated Journals Ltd to Young Indian, a private firm owned mainly by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, raises several questions of legality and morality in the conduct of affairs of the Jawaharlal Nehru-founded company from its inception to its recent contentious dissolution. ....
by Smita Gupta
A day after the Congress admitted it had given a Rs. 90-crore interest-free loan to Associated Journals Limited (AJL) to help it revive the now-defunct National Herald, it found itself forced to explain the relationship between AJL and Young Indian, the Section 25 company, now at the heart of the controversy stirred up by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy. ....
by The Indian Express
Rahul Gandhi invited Opposition ire on Sunday by raising the Kargil war to illustrate that while the Congress supported the Opposition on issues of national importance, the BJP opposed the government on everything it was doing for the poor and the backward classes. ....
by N Sundaresha Subramanian & Kavita Chowdhury
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has, in effect, paid Rs 89.5 crore to Young Indian, a Section 25 company (meaning a not-for-profit one) controlled by party president Sonia Gandhi and her son, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi. ....
by Sandeep
So Girish Karnad is back again. In style. And with a fury I scarcely expected he was capable of. It’s really a monumental pity that a fine actor like Girish Karnad can nary control his itch to mouth inanities. ....
by Kavitha Iyer
Amid allegations that the Congress party gave an interest-free loan to Associated Journals Ltd with an eye on the company’s real estate assets, it now emerges that the company that publishes National Herald and Quami Awaz was allotted a prime plot of land by the government of Maharashtra in suburban Mumbai, ostensibly for a press and a Nehru memorial library, neither of which was built. ....
by Faisal Kidwai
'Politicians make hundreds of promises, many of them false, to trap Muslims,' Abusaleh Shariff, member, Rajinder Sachar Committee, tells Rediff.com's Faisal Kidwai. ....
by Sandhya Jain
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has unwisely joined a body supporting the secession of Kashmir, because she loves rubbing shoulders with the international glitterati. As chairperson of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Ms Gandhi is co-president of the Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific, an organisation promoting democracy (sic) in this region. ....
by R Jagannathan
Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party president, set the cat among the pigeons when he alleged on 1 November that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul managed to secure access to Rs 1,600 crore of property by getting the Congress party to give Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), publisher of defunct newspapers National Herald and Qaumi Awaaz, a Rs 90 crore, interest-free loan. ....
by Sandhya Jain
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has unwisely joined a body supporting Kashmir secession because she loves rubbing shoulders with international glitterati. As chairperson, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Ms. Gandhi is co-president of the Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific (FDL-AP), an organization promoting democracy (sic) in this region. ....
by The Times of India
Pointing to terror funds being routed through stock markets by way of spurious companies, home minister Sushil Shinde has urged Interpol to work on a cooperative mechanism that facilitates speedy sharing of internet addresses and subscriber details. ....
by Vishwa Mohan
India on Monday chose the ongoing Interpol General Assembly in Rome to obliquely hit out at Pakistan for giving shelter to underworld don and 1993 Mumbai blast mastermind Dawood Ibrahim, despite a pending Interpol Red Corner Notice (RCN) and "credible evidence" against the UN-designated "global terrorist". ....
by The Pioneer
The Election Commission on Tuesday refused to de-recognise the Congress over allegation that it loaned party fund worth over Rs90 crore to a commercial entity, thus setting the stage for a showdown in court. ....
by The Times of India
The Supreme Court today said the CBI probe into the allegations in Aircel-Maxis deal involving former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran and a Malaysian business tycoon "prima facie indicates a nexus". ....
by S Gurumurthy
The bare facts exposed by Dr Subramanian Swamy on the National Herald affair this month are eloquent, needing very little prose. The fraud is explicit without exposition. Here are the basic facts. Financial crisis forced Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the publishers of National Herald newspaper founded by Pandit Nehru, to close down the paper in 2008. ....
by The Times of India
In what was described by a frequent flyer as the "scariest flight of his life", a passenger on board a Mumbai-Delhi IndiGo flight suddenly turned violent mid-air on Wednesday and started raising Islamic slogans while threatening to harm the aircraft. ....
by Anil Kumar M
A small-time Bangalore-based rowdy arrested in Hyderabad spilled the beans, helping the police crack the terror module in Karnataka. The tip-off given by Hyderabad police to Karnataka police about six months ago on a large terror-module operating in Bangalore and other parts of the state made City Crime Branch (CCB) cops of Bangalore act on it. ....
by The Hindu
Even as the CBI on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that unless it proved a quid pro quo in the case of bribery in the Aircel-Maxis deal allegedly involving the former Telecom Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, it might have to file a closure report, the court asked the Indian High Commission in Malaysia to extend full cooperation to the investigating agency in getting the required information. ....
by The Indian Express
Hindu outfits in Kerala have come down heavily on CPI(M) for opposing the proposals submitted in the Supreme Court by amicus curiae in the Padmanabhaswamy temple case on dealing with the riches found in its vaults. ....
by Shankara
Actor Girish Karnad’s attack against V.S Naipaul,a Nobel laureate and celebrated author, at the Tata Literature Live festival was totally undeserving and in bad taste. It smacked of deep-seated prejudice and ignorance. ....
by S Gurumurthy
The bare facts exposed by Dr Subramanian Swamy on the National Herald affair this month are eloquent, needing very little prose. The fraud is explicit without exposition. Here are the basic facts. Financial crisis forced Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the publishers of National Herald newspaper founded by Pandit Nehru, to close down the paper in 2008. ....
by Neha Thirani and Heather Timmons
Subramanian Swamy, chief of the Janata Party, on Thursday accused Sonia Gandhi, the Congress Party president, and Rahul Gandhi, the Congress general secretary, of illegally purchasing a publishing company to gain ownership over land that it held, and loaning it money from party coffers. ....
by Ajay Vir Jakhar
Farmers welcome the stand of the government of India on the outright rejection of the recommendations of the technical expert committee to the Supreme Court, which suggested that a moratorium be imposed on field trials of GM crops. ....
by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Supreme Court on Friday warned the Union government not to play with its order mandating auction of all 2G spectrum licences and said prima facie it found that the entire range of spectrum available after cancellation of the licences had not been put up for public auction. ....
by The Times of India
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed all proceedings before the Delhi High Court relating to 20 petitions by 2G spectrum scam accused, including former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others who had challenged the trial court's decision to frame charges against them. ....
by The Times of India
Pakistan marked "Malala Day" Saturday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, but in her home town security fears meant schoolmates could not honour her in public. ....
by Vivek Kaul
The Congress campaign in Gujarat is getting desperate. Sample this. “When it comes to GDP growth, Gujarat is lagging behind states like Bihar, Odhisa and Chhattishgarh,” the Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said while addressing a public meeting in Gandhinagar. ....
by IBNLive.com
Pakistani officials have revealed the details of training given to the 26/11 Mumbai attackers. They have admitted in an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi that the key accused including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi got training at Lashkar-e-Toiba camps in Karachi, Mansehra and Muzaffarabad. ....
by Randeep Singh Nandal
Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, the younger brother of Union minister Farooq Abdullah and the uncle of J&K CM Omar Abdullah, has sparked off a massive outrage yet again. He has slammed the country saying Kashmiris are closer to Pakistan. Calling India the enemy, Kamal alleged, "Time and again India has backtracked from its no war pact with Pakistan." ....
by Kumar Chellappan
In what is being seen as an assault on religious freedom, the management of an admittedly secular school in Chennai has suspended a teacher for reciting Hindu prayers during assembly. ....
by Jaibans Singh
There is a lot of excitement in the Hurriyat camp these days; its leaders are getting ready for their periodic sojourn to Pakistan which, after due deliberation with the Pakistani diplomatic set up in India, has been slated for December 15 onwards. ....
by Taxguru.in
Explanation 3 to section 80G(v) states that “in this section, “charitable purpose” does not include any purpose the whole or substantially the whole of which is of a religious nature.” This explanation takes note of the fact that an institution or fund shall be for a charitable purpose and may have a number of objects. ....
by Choodie Shivaram
In July 2011, the Sree Anantha Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, captured world headlines when vast wealth was discovered in its vaults, catapulting it to the position of the world's richest temple. The wealth came to light as a result of on-going litigation concerning control of the ancient temple. ....
by IBNLive.com
Kicking off its preparations for the big battle of 2014, the Congress on Thursday announced that Rahul Gandhi would be the face of the party in the Lok Sabha elections. While the Opposition mocked the decision by saying "there is no spark in Rahul Gandhi" and hopefully he won't lead the Congress to another electoral rout, a section of the Congress is also apprehensive if the Rahul magic will work for the party or not. ....
by Akshaya Mishra
After a long stint with polltime cameos, Rahul Gandhi finally gets the role that will test his mettle as a leader. These are difficult times for the Congress and the general election of 2014 is certainly going to be the hardest one for the party with all those big ticket scandals involving the government it leads and the sense of drift in the organisation itself. ....
by Subramanian Swamy
The daily explosion of scams and their nightly celebration over noisy TV shows have dulled the collective response. No wonder, the biggest of them — the Gandhi family’s illegal takeover of the properties of National Herald — has gone largely unnoticed ....
by Igor I. Solar
José Mujica, president of Uruguay, has been described as the world’s poorest and most generous political leader; he donates about 90% of his salary to charities, lives in a modest house at his wife’s flower farm, and drives a 1987 VW Beetle. ....
by C.M. Naim
Consider the following, excerpted from an article that appeared on the editorial page of the Sahāfat (Delhi), dated August 10, 2012. The author is someone named Maulana Ali Haidar Ghazi Qummi, which implies that he is a Shi’ah scholar educated at Qumm—a real heavyweight as Maulanas go. ....
by Minhaz Merchant
Question: how do you convert Rs.50 lakh into Rs.1,600 crore? You won’t get an answer from any of the learned professors at Harvard Business School. But you will if you hire a clever Indian chartered accountant. ....
by The Economist
A painted milestone marks the turn-off to Kailashpur. The slab sports a poor likeness of Gandhi and announces “The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Rural road constructed from the curve at Pansara to Kailashpur forest road. Sanctioned: 2007-08. Cost: 4.3m rupees [$80,000].” ....
by The Times of Indian
A top Pakistani parliamentary panel has expressed reservations about the government's move to grant the Most Favoured Nation-status to India, with some of its members claiming that the measure would "destroy" the domestic agriculture sector. ....
by Vijaya Rajiva
Outlookindia has done great damage to historian/cricketologist/enivironmentalist and man of many parts, Ramachandra Guha. It has published an advance preview of his forthcoming book 'Patriots and Partisans' (Penguin) by printing excerpts from it. ....
by S Gurumurthy
You should reveal who’s that big shot who foolishly asked you to probe Nitin Gadkari, risking your reputation,” asked one on twitter. I replied “Gurumurthy”. What made me probe Gadkari? Here is the story. ....
by Radhakrishnan Kuttoor
The devotees, staff on duty, and every person visiting Sabarimala is bound to keep the hillock clean and protect the serene forest environs of the sacred grove, says P. Vijayan, City Police Commissioner of Thrissur, who has been posted as the Police Special Officer at Sabarimala. ....
by Firstpost.com
A small scale industrialist in Puducherry was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly posting ‘offensive’ messages on Twitter targeting Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram. ....
by Sanjay Singh
Around January-February, an angry Rahul Gandhi seemed omnipresent as the face of the Congress campaign in Uttar Pradesh. Even if he was not physically seen in all constituencies, he invaded every household through TV and print ads that ended with two words: Zara sochiye (Just think). ....
by Venky Vembu
In India to address a keynote session of the HT Leadership Summit, Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf was all sweetness and sunshine. Peace between their two countries, said the man who had waged war in Kargil in 1999 as part of a ‘salami slice’ tactic, stood a fair chance, but for it to be consummated, India should be “big-hearted” towards Pakistan. ....
by Tavleen Singh
On Diwali day I was in a small Maharashtrian village by the sea. There was festivity in the air and the bazaar was filled with shoppers buying colourful paper lanterns, traditional clay diyas and sweets. ....
by Claude Arpi
The ‘unacknowledged' brave men of the Tibetan Army’s Special Frontier Forces fought well in wars which were not theirs. They remain ready to defend India. The least one can do is remember them next November 14 ....
by Vijaya Rajiva
A deep personal animosity, symptomatic of a deeper anti-Hindu bias, was reflected in some recent, very heated, television debates centered round the writings of Nobel Laureate Sir Vidia Naipaul. ....
by Dr Pravin Togadia
Ajmal Aamir Kasab, a convict of November 26, 2008 Jehadi attack on Mumbai has been hanged to death today morning. Giving credit of such an accurate & speedy trial & punishment to Mumbai Police & especially to Advocate Ujjwal Nikam, Dr Pravin Togadia, International Working President of VHP said, "Hanging Kasab is a welcome beginning for war on terror that the Indian PM promises only on the foreign soils but back in Bharat, gets Hindus arrested & jailed. ....
by Col Tej Kumar Tikoo
On Jan, 04, 1990, a local Urdu newspaper, Aftab, published a press release issued by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, asking all Pandits to leave the Valley immediately. Al Safa, another local daily repeated the warning.These warnings were followed by Kalashnikov-wielding masked Jehadis carrying out military-type marches openly. ....
by Utpal
At first glance, Ladakh would appear to be nothing less than the last Shangri-la. Inhabited by people who often greet you with a genuine smile, and whose warmth more than compensates for the sub-zero temperature of the region, it’s the ideal retreat for those willing to escape the rough and tumble of a city life. ....
by Sandhya Jain
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, who reportedly beat a discreet retreat to Dubai after India Against Corruption activists Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan exposed his real estate deals in Delhi-NCR, Haryana and Rajasthan last month, made a surprise appearance at The Hindustan Times’ annual Leadership Summit on November 17, 2012. ....
by Little Yadav
Taj-Ul Islam Kazi, the alleged main conspirator behind the 2002 Ghatkopar blasts, who was arrested from Hyderabad on Friday, was so confident about his freedom, that he was active on a social networking site. Kazi had uploaded his profile and even a photograph on LinkedIn, a professional networking site, under the name he had assumed while staying in Hyderabad for the past 10 years. ....
by Dippy Vankani
One of the alleged conspirators of the 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast, who was working as a software engineer with a software firm in Hyderabad under a fake name, was arrested by the crime branch on Friday. The police said that the accused had fled Mumbai after the blasts and was living with his wife and five children. ....
by Firstpost.com
A small scale industrialist in Puducherry was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly posting ‘offensive’ messages on Twitter targeting Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram. ....
by Meena Menon
While the recent arrest of two young women from Palghar grabbed media attention, what was not so well known was the case of two Air India employees who were arrested under Section 66 A and 67 A of the Information Technology (IT) Act in May and jailed for 12 days. The two decided to go public with their woes after the outrage over the girls’ arrests, hoping for some justice. ....
by Shalini Singh
On a day that former Director General, CAG, R P Singh made what the Congress Party terms “explosive disclosures” which should lead to a “serious review”, other facts raise questions about not only the timing of Mr. Singh’s expose, but also about the rigour of the Rs. 2,645 crore loss which has become the basis of the Congress attack on Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Vinod Rai. ....
by Shalini Singh
A review of the statements made by former auditor-turned-critic R.P. Singh on the extent of losses from the 2010 sale of 2G spectrum reveals striking similarities with what A. Raja — the former Telecom Minister now facing trial on charges of corruption for his role in the 2G scam — has been saying to support his view that the CAG estimate of losses was inflated. ....
by Santosh Singh
Nearly a week after 18 people were killed in a stampede during Chhath festival celebrations at Adalat Ghat on the Ganga in Patna, Mahant Manohar Das is engaged in an animated discussion with fellow priests in his rest room at Thakurwari on the ghat. ....
by Tavleen Singh
Veteran journalist and Niti Central columnist Tavleen Singh’s latest book, Durbar, has just been published by Hachette. For those interested in the individuals and events that shaped India’s politics from the 1970s to the closing years of the last century, Durbar is a must read. ....
by A Surya Prakash
It all began with the loaded pronouncement by the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office that changing the composition of the Office of Comptroller and Auditor-General of India was “under active consideration” of the Government. ....
by Swapan Dasgupta
If the old Chinese saying about the finger pointing to the moon and the idiot pointing to the finger ever needed validation, it was provided by the Indian political class, cutting across parties. ....
by Raman Kirpal
On 3 November, Congress General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi claimed that the Rs 90 crore loan given to Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) — now a subsidiary of a non-profit company owned by Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul — was to enable AJL to pay off its liabilities and revive its defunct newspapers, including National Herald and Qaumi Awaaz. ....
by Michael Gonsalves
Vivek Dhupkar rises from his sleep sharp at the stroke of 4 every morning when the bell rings loud and clear. After a quick face wash, he is at his seat, immersed in the study of the ancient Vedas in Sanskrit in the stillness of the breaking dawn for two continuous hours. Between 6 am and 6:30 am, he starts milking the cows. ....
by Amit Roy
Stories abound about ministers in Delhi refusing to move out of their spacious bungalows long after losing their jobs. Now there is a variation on that theme — an ambassador who is staying put despite retiring from the diplomatic service. ....
by Vijayendra Mohanty
I am not sure if I am alone in feeling this — I think I am not — but given the nature of public discourse in matters of religion, it doesn’t strike me as surprising that more people (no matter what their religion) do not talk about this. ....
by Niticentral.com
The online version of China’s Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the “Sexiest Man Alive” — apparently unaware it is satire. ....
by Venky Vembu
They didn’t just pluck your eyes out, Capt Saurabh Kalia,
They gouged out ours too.
Or would we have been blind to your father’s agony,
His cry for ‘justice’ for all these years? ....
by Shantanu Bhagwat
There are times when words simply flow.. Writing in such moments of extreme lucidity is sheer pleasure..This happened to me last evening. The news that triggered this was one of joy but tinged with a great deal of sadness – and lots of anger too. ....
by Nauzer K Bharucha & Sandeep Ashar
The much-awaited white paper on Maharashtra's irrigation projects is finally complete, but the report is believed to be a mere data compilation of projects executed in the past decade. ....
by The Siasat Daily
PCC General Secretary G Niranjan on Thursday disputed the old photographs of historic Charminar to reiterate his claim that the Bhagyalakshmi Temple abutting the monument exists for a long time. ....
by Ram Kumar Ohri
On November 13, 2012, Mr Chandan Mitra in a thought-provoking article in The Pioneer, highlighted the rapid decline in the ‘news content’ of India’s mainstream newspapers that are extensively obsessed with the malaise called money-making through advertisements. ...
