September Month Articles

• Role of MSM in Muzaffarnagar riots
  • by Smita Barooah
    Yet again, India’s mainstream media has failed in its role as the fourth pillar of democracy. .........

• Spiteful Azam Khan and why he’s loved by SP, emulated by Congress
  • by Praveen Patil
    Only one Muslim Minister (Azad) is present in the (Union) Cabinet, and that too not from India, but Kashmir. That Kashmir .........

• Karan Thapar’s ‘many’ lies exposed by Arun Jaitley
  • by S Sudhir Kumar
    At first, I wanted to scan various newspapers and news channels to understand what new points they will pick up to oppose the candidature of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India. .........

• Scores Are Killed by Suicide Bomb Attack at Historic Church in Pakistan
  • by Ismail Khan and Salman Masood
    A suicide attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years. .........

• Jesus wept … oh, it's bad plumbing. Indian rationalist targets 'miracles'
  • by Henry McDonald
    Sanal Edamaruku faces jail for revealing 'tears' trickling down a Mumbai church statue came from clogged drainage pipes .........

• Vested interests are protecting UPA, alleges Modi in fiery speech
  • by Firstpost.com
    Accusing a “vested interest group” of shielding Congress from its “misgovernance”, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today said the UPA was “running away” .........

• Sanal Edamaruku, Indian Rationalist, Proves 'Weeping Christ' Miracle A Hoax, Now Faces Years In Jail (VIDEO)
  • by Meredith Bennett-Smith
    What started with a mysterious trickle, ended in death threats, charges of blasphemy and pleas for asylum from Sanal Edamaruku. .........

• Suicide bombers kill 78 Christians outside Pakistani church
  • by Fayaz Aziz
    A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old church in Pakistan after Sunday Mass .........

• Villagers fear the worst for friends, hold on to hope
  • by Rajesh Ahuja
    Manoj Singh dived into the Ganga canal expecting to find the dead body of his neighbour, but came out with a ray of hope. .........

• India must brace for enhanced trouble in Jammu and Kashmir
  • by Ramtanu Maitra   
    It seems that violation of the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) that separates the India-held part from the Pakistan-held part of Jammu and Kashmir .........

• Indian Mujahideen is funded, managed by Pakistan's ISI, claims Bhatkal
  • by Arunima, Manoj Gupta, CNN-IBN
    Terror group Indian Mujahideen is fully funded and managed by Pakistani intelligence agency the ISI .........

• J&K's financial status grim: Omar Abdullah
  • by The Times of India
    Asserting that Jammu and Kashmir has a total annual income of only Rs 6,500 crore from all sources .........

• Vanzara: A victim of bleeding hearts
  • by Swapan Dasgupta
    The long letter of resignation from the Indian Police Service written by D.G. Vanzara from a prison in Mumbai to the Gujarat government has .........

• Muzaffarnagar communal riots and selective compassion human rights bodies
  • by Sandhya Jain
    Do statutory national bodies such as the National Commission for Women (NCW) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have only cosmetic value .........

• First ever non-Brahmin Thanthri apponited for Dewaswom Board temples in Kerala; RSS welcomes
  • by T Sathishan
    Parur Rakesh, son of the late famous Parur Sreedharan Thanthri .........

• Bikaner’s bhujia empire: How Agarwal family runs Rs 5,000 cr business covering 500 products
  • by Mitul Thakkar
    Six generations of this family have made money with their nose, by sniffing out the right combination of spices. They have a nose for bitter .........

• Gehlot gives cheap land, free laptops to journalists
  • by Navtan Kumar 
    Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of the Congress is ensuring favourable press for himself ahead of the Assembly elections by doling out sops to journalists .........

• Is a dishonest liberal still a liberal?
  • by Shashi Shekhar
    Before we get around to answering these questions, consider the below statements all of which have appeared in op-ed columns and news analysis reports across the English language media.. .........

• Why I changed my mind about Narendra Modi
  • by S Sudhir Kumar
    At his massively attended rally in Hyderabad recently, Narendra Modi told his listeners an interesting factoid. .........

• Top UP minister behind Muzaffarnagar flare-up, BJP says
  • by The Times of India
    Citing a sting operation on the Muzaffarnagar riots, the BJP on Wednesday said it has been proved beyond doubt that a senior minister of the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh .........

• NIA finds bomb-making equipment in Yasin Bhatkal's Goa house
  • by The Times of India
    The National Investigation Agency has recovered bomb-making equipment last week from a house at Anjuna village in the state .........

• After Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh BJP workers volunteer to pay for Modi's rally
  • by Suchandana Gupta
    After the youth in Hyderabad, now BJP workers of Madhya Pradesh will pay Rs five towards registration fee to see Gujarat chief minister and prime ministerial candidate .........

• On Modi's birthday, Gujarat BJP woos minorities with recruitment drive
  • by IBNLive.com
    Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the state Bharatiya Janata Party seem to be reaching out to minorities within days of him being nominated .........

• Classical Tamil conference of 2010: Karunanidhi now faces vigilance probe
  • by A Subramani
    The Madras high court has ordered vigilance probe into a complaint, which alleged that former chief minister M Karunanidhi had .........

• Hope Modi doesn't give up hardline Hindutva: Uddhav Thackeray
  • by The Indian Express
    The response among the people to his anointment as BJP's prime ministerial candidate has been positive and Gujarat Chief Minister. .........

• Indian netas part of ISI’s fake note racket: IM
  • by Rakesh K Singh
    Startling revelations, that could hit the penetration of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the political class of India and Nepal. .........

• Kerala temple rejects RBI request to provide details of gold stocks
  • by NDTV.com
    The Guruvayur Devaswom has rejected Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) request to provide them details of gold assets of the famous Sri Krishna temple in Thrissur. .........

• Akhilesh Yadav offers justice, faces anger: ‘Where was the government then?’
  • by Apurva, Dipankar Ghose
    Wherever Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav went, anger followed. A week after communal violence tore through Muzaffarnagar district .........

• 'Urban Maoists plan to raise army of professional revolutionaries'
  • by Vivek Deshpande 
    Urban activists of CPI (Maoist) wanted to prepare an army of "professional revolutionaries" and one of the task-masters for the same was to be Chetan .........

• Maoist sympathisers planning big meet in Delhi, say police
  • by Vivek Deshpande 
    Maoist sympathisers have been allegedly planning to organise a three-day International People's Tribunal (IPT), most likely in Delhi. .........

• Government’s latest ad campaigns: Is it right to blame lalas for corrupt practices?
  • by Jaithirth Rao
    In recent times, our worthy sultans in Delhi have started using your money to launch a massive publicity campaign on TV channels. .........

• Maoist sympathisers planning big meet in Delhi, say police
  • by Vivek Deshpande 
    Maoist sympathisers have been allegedly planning to organise a three-day International People's Tribunal (IPT), most likely in Delhi. .........

• India needs a patriotic government; Pakistan should fight poverty rather than us: Narendra Modi
  • by The Economic Times
    Stating that the current status of India' defence is not due to weak army, BJP's PM candidate for general elections, Narendra Modi on Sunday said. .........

• Annexation Through Technicalities
  • by Arun Shourie
    The day I entered Indiraji's household I became an Indian, the rest is just technical -- that is Sonia Gandhi's latest explanation for not having acquired Indian citizenship till fourteen years after her marriage to Rajiv Gandhi.........

• How Advani camp’s last hope of stalling Modi’s anointment fizzled out
  • by The Times of India
    As his meeting with L K Advani ended on Friday afternoon, BJP president Rajnath Singh quietly told the veteran leader that the decision to name Narendra Modi as the party's prime ministerial candidate could not be put off.........

• Before PM’s visit, hundreds taken into preventive custody at Chandigarh
  • by Firstpost.com
    Hundreds of people, including BJP and BSP leaders and activists, were taken into preventive custody today during the Prime Minister’s visit here.........

• The campaign begins
  • by Tavleen Singh
    So the campaign for 2014 has begun. While political pundits and aged, sulking leaders in Delhi mulled over irrelevant details like when the BJP should announce its candidate for prime minister .........

• Riding the Modi wave, ABVP storms back to power in DU
  • by The Indian Express
    Riding high on the Narendra Modi wave, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) stormed back to power in Delhi University after a gap of two years .........

• Sreesanth criticizes Modi in an attempt to get life ban revoked
  • by Sandeep Kadian
    Former fast bowler and one of the leading dancers of India, S. Sreesanth has criticized Narendra Modi’s anointment as BJP’s PM candidate in very strong words in an attempt to enter the good books of the ruling coalition, UPA. .........

• Odisha: Security forces gun down 14 Naxals in encounter in Malkangiri district
  • by Express News Service
    In a fierce encounter in Odisha, security forces have killed at least 14 Maoists in the Malkangiri district of the state. According to reports .........

• War of words between PM & Sonia continues
  • by The Economic Times
    Taking his war of words with Sonia Gandhi further, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has taken strong exception to Congress president's remark .........

• Narendra Modi: Aspirational India’s new Sardar
  • by Sandhya Jain
    Narendra Modi has pulled off a near-impossible feat. Months in advance of the general election being called .........

• Modi brings out worst in media charlatans
  • by Kanchan Gupta
    The twist given to Narendra Modi’s interview to Reuters is not despicable; it’s downright sinister. To grab eyeballs, media .........

• Modi is a de-polarizing figure in Gujarat
  • by Zafar Sareshwala and Asifa Khan
    In the 2012 assembly elections 31% Muslims voted for BJP. Before this election, numerous Muslims have won on BJP ticket at all levels - Zila Parishad .........

• Role of MSM in Muzaffarnagar riots
  • by Smita Barooah
    Yet again, India’s mainstream media has failed in its role as the fourth pillar of democracy. .........

• Instead of flying sick babus abroad, hone up our own healthcare system
  • by ET Bureau
    Does the aam aadmi political leadership know what kind of privilege its inefficient, self-serving babus have thought up for themselves? .........

• Adopt Chhattisgarh model for food security: Raman Singh to PM
  • by Anuja Jaiswal, TNN
    Chhattisgarh chief minister, Dr Raman Singh, on Tuesday urged the Centre to rise above partisan politics and emulate the state's food security model for.........

• How Chhattisgarh managed to achieve and look beyond roti, kapda and makaan
  • by Raman Singh
    I have often been asked how Chhattisgarh manages the contradictory pulls of sound fiscal health and welfare schemes. How did we manage.........

• Ethnic cleansing aim in Kishtwar
  • by Sandhya Jain
    A clinical look at the sequence of rioting in Kishtwar since the targetted violence against the miniscule Pandit community and its forced..........

• The Berlin Wall: what really made it fall
  • by Elizabeth Pond
    Extraordinary civil courage by the people of Leipzig on Oct. 9 first dissolved a crucial mental wall..........

• NDA, Narendra Modi top of heap today: survey
  • by Hindustan Times 
    If general elections were held now, 40% respondents intend to vote for the BJP-led opposition alliance NDA and only 27% for the UPA.........

• Hate campaign against Village Defence Committees makes Jammu Hindus insecure
  • by Hari Om
    Secessionist and communal violence gripped the Kashmir Valley in the late 1980s.........

• Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai vows to step up fight for education
  • by Agence France-Presse
    Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head last year by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education........

• Rupee Pressure – TempleTreasure: An Analysis
  • by Sudhirkrishna Adiga
    The recent news about the efforts on the part of both the central government and the RBI to check the fall of rupee against US dollar and other international currencies........

• Police filed Chargesheet against Congress MLA for morphing pictures of RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat
  • by samvada.org
    Madhya Pradesh Police on Wednesday filed a chargesheet in a local court against a Congress MLA........

• Rupee Pressure – TempleTreasure: An Analysis
  • by Sudhirkrishna Adiga
    The recent news about the efforts on the part of both the central government and the RBI to check the fall of rupee against........

• Indian author Sushmita Banerjee murdered by Afghan militants
  • by Firstpost.com
    Author Sushmita Banerjee, who wrote the bestselling Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife) about her experiences of living in Afghanistan........

• Its time to go Mr Prime Minister
  • by Avay Shukla
    In Hindu tradition and culture the concept of renunciation has always been valued more than the idea of acquisition........

• British Sikh girls at risk of 'sexual grooming': BBC report
  • by NDTV.com
    Minor British Sikh girls sexually abused by gangs of Asian men who befriend them over a period of time usually........

• Don't expect BJP to be cheerleaders of UPA government, Rajnath tells Manmohan
  • by The Indian Express
    Hitting out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for blaming the BJP for the economic crisis being faced by the country........

• What India needs is leadership, not rage, Mr Prime Minister
  • by Rediff.com
    Both Dr Singh and the Congress party are culpable for India’s aimless drift. This crippling........

• BJP snubs Manmohan's peace move, to continue coal protest in Parliament
  • by The Indian Express
    BJP top brass today decided to raise the issue of missing coal block allocation files in Parliament........

• Indian citizenship is no game
  • by Sandhya Jain
    Amidst disturbing reports on illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are managing to secure the Aadhaar card for a modest price........

• US court summons Sonia Gandhi
  • by The New Indian Express
    On a complaint by a Sikh group, a US federal court has issued summons against Congress party president Sonia Gandhi for shielding party officials........

• Mamata in a soup: The Calcutta high court strikes down her decision to pay a monthly allowance to Muslim clerics
  • by The Times of India
    In her zeal to establish her secular credentials in the eyes of West Bengal's Muslims — who constitute close to 30% of the state's population........

• Coalgate: CBI officer says need to examine PM, director says not now
  • by Express News Service & Ritu Sarin
    The probe into coal block allocations has been a burning issue not only in Parliament and the apex court but now also within the Central Bureau of Investigation........

• Geelani calls for bandh to protest Zubin Mehta's concert
  • by M Saleem Pandit
    Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday called for a bandh to protest musician Zubin Mehta's concert in Srinagar five days later.......

• Imran Khan's party to restore jihadi content in Pak textbooks
  • by The Indian Express
    Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's party is set to restore "violent jihadist content" removed from school textbooks in Pakistan's militancy-racked Khyber.......

• Driving Change
  • by Ullekh NP
    Introduction: Maruti Suzuki along with the Gujarat government is training tribal youth to get behind the wheels of cars & heavy vehicles.......

• Who ordered deletion of Jaitley’s comments? BJP asks
  • by The Times of India
    The BJP on Monday strongly protested against the puzzling expunction of certain remarks critical of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from leader ........

• Why Nehru, Indira, Rajiv everywhere?
  • by A Surya Prakash
    IN a systematic effort to gain an unfair advantage over others, the Congress party has named all major government programmes ........

• WB government's allowance for Imams and Muezzins unconstitutional: Calcutta HC
  • by IBNLive.com
    The Calcutta High Court on Monday ruled that an allowance announced by West Bengal government for Imams and Muezzins was unconstitutional and against public interest. ........

• Grant Morrison: Krishna is super cool, like a rock star of the ineffable
  • by Narayanan Krishnaswami
    Grant Morrison is a superstar of the comic world. The 53-year-old Scotsman has written the acclaimed ........

• South Beach To Swadeshi Thali
  • by Sonal Nerurkar
    Dieticians are now promoting the Indian diet, which combines Ayurveda and home-spun wisdom........

• Uddhav Thackeray takes dig at PM, says show aggression against Pakistan, China
  • by The Economic Times
    Taking a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over his aggressive stance in Rajya Sabha yesterday........

• Caught in Kerala, absconding '93 blasts convict brought to city
  • by The Indian Express
    An absconding convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, caught in Kerala a few days ago........

• Why is Nitish silent on Yasin arrest
  • by Santosh Singh
    So why has Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar not spoken a word yet on the arrest of top Indian Mujahideen man Yasin Bhatkal........

• On way to polls, PMO pushes for Delhi-Jaipur expressway
  • by Amitav Ranjan
    Despite the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) calling the project unviable........

• J&K: With change in command set-up, HM takes centrestage
  • by Bashaarat Masood
    After lying low for years, Hizbul Mujahideen is taking centrestage of Kashmir's militant scene replacing Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) as the most formidable militant outfit........

• Food Security Bill: Explain hurry over bill, says BJP to Centre
  • by Deepshikha Ghosh
    The BJP today tore into the government for rushing to get its Food Security Bill through, calling its decision to bring an ordinance unconstitutional.......

• Profiling Jacob John of Grace Home, Jaipur and his modus operandi Hymen of 13 kids found ruptured during medical tests
  • by The Sangai Express
    Medical examination of the children rescued from an illegal children home at Jaipur......

• Jaipur child trafficking case TSLD flays 'agents' for trying to protect Jacob John
  • by The Sangai Express
    Pandemonium on the Jaipur child trafficking case is yet to die down even after five months of the incident......

• Jaipur home raided again::: Jacob’s wife escapes with two missing Ukl kids; TSLD reveals names of local middlemen suspects
  • by Hueiyen News Service
    Another raiding was conducted today at ‘Grace Home’ run by Jacob John in Jaipur.....

• Time for Hindus to reconnect with their roots
  • by Vijay Shejul
    The irony of being a Hindu God in Modern India. In my frequent visits to countries around the world.....

• Which other democracy has a doormat for a PM?
  • by Kanchan Gupta
    Manmohan Singh made a pathetic spectacle of himself in Parliament while defending his abysmal.....

• Naked Lunch: Blow Daddy
  • by Nadeem F. Paracha
    Did Quaid-i-Azam fight in that war along with Muhammad bin Qasim and Imran Khan?.....

• No justice for Swami Lakshmanananda – Saswat Panigrahi
  • by Bharata Bharati
    “Never have fear of death when you are working for the cause of the motherland.” .....

• Bhatkal's handler a Pakistan Army Lieutenant Colonel
  • by Hindustan Times
    A Pakistan Army Lieutenant Colonel, serving in the ISI, was the handler of Yasin Bhatkal and used to give instructions to the arrested Indian Mujahideen leader for terror acts in India. ......