Ashok Malik
The best answer to the social inequity produced by the caste system is equality before the law. This, however, is different from stamping out caste-based identities.............
Ashok Malik
In the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the CPI(M) and sections of the Congress in West Bengal claimed Mamata Banerjee would eventually support.............
Sudhi Ranjan Sen
A group of four or five terrorists are holed up in an abandoned army bunker near the border with Pakistan and are exchanging fire with the Army.............
The Telegraph
Just when Calcutta, the capital of street protests, thought that it had been there, seen that and done that, comes an unparalleled event: a protest to champion the cause of thieves.............
The Economic Times
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held bilateral talks with all Heads of Government and State attending the 18th SAARC Summit here with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif the only conspicuous exemption............
Oneindia.com
Today, even a tot is aware of martyrs like ATS chief Hemant Karkare, Encounter Specialist Vijay Salaskar and Mumbai Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte...........
Devadeep Purohit
A Bangladesh minister today told The Telegraph that Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim linking the Burdwan blast with RAW had not cut much ice with his country.............
Peter Navarro
Did China pressure the White House to fire U.S. Navy Captain James Fanell as the top intelligence officer in the Navy’s Pacific Fleet?.............
Krishnadas Rajagopal
With the NDA government declaring its “tremendous feat” of having managed to vacate 363 of 374 former MPs from official bungalows here.............
Satyameva-jayate.org
March 1669: The Mughals, still smarting under their defeat at the hands of Ahom forces led by Lachit Barphukan two years back are not taking any chances this time.............
Loulla Mae Eleftheriou Smith, The Independent
Britain is facing a terrorist threat "greater than it has been at any time before or after 9/11", Theresa May has warned.............
India Today
Protests broke out in Janakpur and other places in Nepal on Sunday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his scheduled visit to these towns..............
Richard Garner
Pupils at six Muslim independent schools could be “vulnerable to extremist influences and radicalisation”, Chief Schools Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned..............
Deepshikha Ghosh
Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal has been dropped from a literary festival organized by the Times of India, which faced massive criticism online for inviting the rape-accused editor.............
Aloke Tikku
The prime minister’s office has ordered corporate-style ethics norms for civil servants, regulators and watchdogs to ensure that their private interests do not affect their performance as public servants............
Hindustan Times
The chief of the women’s wing of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who is also the wife of the prime accused in the Burdwan blast case............
Ashok Malik
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to President Barack Obama to visit India as Chief Guest on Republic Day exorcises yet another ghost from the practice of Indian foreign policy............
Narendra Modi
On the evening of the 19th, my trip to Myanmar, Australia and Fiji concluded. While on the way back I was reflecting on the last ten days...........
Narendra Modi
On the evening of the 19th, my trip to Myanmar, Australia and Fiji concluded. While on the way back I was reflecting on the last ten days...........
Poulasta Chakraborthy
On the 19 November edition of Hindustan Times, well-known columnist and ex-Hindustan Times editor and alleged Nira Radia tapes participant...........
Sankarshan Thakur
Among The Telegraph’s reports on the first torrent of Pandits fleeing the Valley in 1989-90 was the story of a little girl and her grandmother..........
Shashi Tharoor
Dr. Shashi Tharoor is a two-time MP from Thiruvananthapuram, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs........
Monideepa Banerjie & Deepshikha Ghosh
Amit Shah, the president of the BJP, has been permitted by a court to hold a rally in the heart of Kolkata on Sunday after the party's request was repeatedly rejected by various city agencies........
Kanchan Srivastava
Should Kendriya Vidyalayas give preference to Sanskrit as the third language or German? The position of the government is that while Sanskrit is the third language.........
Poulasta Chakraborthy
In modern times all of us are guaranteed freedom and liberty due to the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution. .........
Jayanta Gupta
Sleuths claim that they have information of calls from Kolkata to a suspected operative of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a West Asian country in the last few weeks.........
Aravindan Neelakandan
There is a furore over Smriti Irani visiting an astrologer. But so did Nehru, that epitome of rationality, in times of stress, and at taxpayers’ expense!........
The Telegraph
The CBI today said it would probe the “role of the people” mentioned in a central report on the Saradha scandal, putting Calcutta police commissioner Surajit Kar Purkayastha in the potential line of questioning..........
Sonali Das
The first round of assembly elections in 13 segments across six Maoist-hit districts in Jharkhand passed off peacefully on Tuesday..........
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
When Narendra Modi took oath as the prime minister, the received wisdom, even with those close to him, was India would look outward only fitfully..........
Maria Wirth
It is amazing how important religion has become in our times. Yet it is even more amazing, that hardly anyone bothers to define religion, except declaring that Christianity............
Matt Apuzzo, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti
American investigators intercepted a conversation this year in which a Pakistani official suggested that his government was receiving American secrets from a prominent former State Department diplomat..........
Agniveer.com
There is a new movement in rage these days. They call it Kiss of Love. I am told that some news-channel (owned by Indian National Congress...........
India Facts Staff
This report is the gist of a conversation that the IndiaFacts team had with Robert Rosario, an activist and leader based in Mangalore.................
The Hindu
"Never seen any leader as rapturously received in Australia as Prime Minister Modi," Tony Abbott said in the Australian Parliament...............
The Hindu
"Never seen any leader as rapturously received in Australia as Prime Minister Modi," Tony Abbott said in the Australian Parliament...............
Hindustan Times
It was in the end as Suresh Prabhu, minister for railways and India’s G20 sherpa, put it, an “excellent G20 summit” and not just a “talkfest” as some feared it would be..............
Raj Kadyan
The Pentagon report confirms independently that Pakistan is still conducting a proxy war against India as well as another one against Afghanistan in order to control that country.............
D. Suba Chandran
The suicide attack in Wagah, a few metres across the border is a new development with far- reaching implications for Pakistan.............
Sandhya Jain
Investigations which the FBI has launched into the activities of senior-ranking US State Department official Robin Raphel should help reveal her devious games.............
Lowyinterpreter.org
The news that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Australian Parliament next month is a welcome sign of how far relations between Australia and India have advanced.............
Mohammad Neyaz Asghar
There is no doubt that every party is despondent due to elevation of Narendra Damodardas Modi — from Kanyakumari to Kashmir............
The Times of India
Singer-turned-politician Babul Supriyo is one of the youngest ministers in Narendra Modi’s government. Speaking with Robin Roy...........
Abhinandan Mishra
In a first ever interaction with an Indian media organisation, the Islamic State said they have recruited people from Bihar, UP, Maharashtra, etc...........
Senaka Weeraratna
Joseph Vaz was serving the interests of the Catholic Church and the King and Government of Portugal in Goa when he landed in Ceylon on a mission...........
Business Standard
Followers of Hinduism in Australia have lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's humble beginnings, and said he can spread the message of peace..........
Kanchan Gupta
What is it about hundred, hundred-and-twenty-five or hundred-and-fifty years that gets us so excited about individuals and events?..........
Tavleen Singh
Anyone who has listened to any of the Prime Minister’s speeches should have guessed that Jawaharlal Nehru is not one of his heroes..........
Swapan Dasgupta
Last month, Royal Mail issued eight postage stamps commemorating Britain’s prime ministers. Of the five more recent leaders portrayed..........
Kirk Semple
The 15-year-old girl, crying and terrified, refused to release her grip on her sister's hand. Days earlier, Islamic State fighters had torn the girls from their family..........
The Hindu
An Indian-origin convert to Islam has skipped bail to flee Britain and is believed to be now living under the Islamic State in Syria..........
Ben Doherty
Ostracised after the Godhra riots of 2002, the newly minted PM of the world’s largest democracy is the man other leaders are seeking out this week..........
Swapan Dasgupta
Hosts of a function whether a private individuals or a non-official body have the complete and inalienable right to invite whosoever they choose. .........
Cahal Milmo
Father Bernard Kinvi was gathering injured Muslim women and children when gunmen from a largely Christian militia singled out the 14-year-old boy clinging to his robes to be shot..........
Ritika Chopra
What is history? Do Indians who love Mahabharata and Ramayana need history? And how ugly can an academic debate at a memorial lecture get? These and more questions...........
Tara Palmeri
The FDNY is gearing up for a terrorist strike in which fire would be used as a weapon to engulf the city, fearing a repeat of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai............
Paul John
Eighty-six years ago, in July 1928, the Congress party was wrestling over who should lead the party: whether its reins should be handed over to young............
Livemint.Com
As part of concessions for Hindu and Sikh refugees, govt introduced relaxations in the procedure for granting them Indian citizenship............
Dr Mohammad Taqi
Is Ambassador Robin Lynn Raphel a modern-day female counterpart of Harry St John Philby, who converted to the cause of those she had been assigned to engage with diplomatically?............
Praful Shankar
BJP’s Chief Ministerial selections in Haryana and Maharashtra represent a major trend that the political chattering class has conveniently overlooked............
Andrew Johnson
The site in Mecca where the Prophet Mohamed is said to have been born is about to be "buried under marble" and replaced by a huge royal palace............
Haindava Keralam
List of Hindu activists killed by CPI(M) goons and NDF Terrorists after LDF Govt. took over power in Kerala on 18th May 2006............
Poulasta Chakraborthy
The ill-wisher of India, Pankaj Mishra penned an alarmist article on the Bloomberg website which goes back to whip up the usual secularist fear mongering............
Sukanta Chaudhuri
I am the luckiest and unluckiest of Calcutta academics. My teaching life was divided equally between two premier institutions............
Bargad.org
Gopal Krishna is an activist and associated with ToxicsWatch Alliance, Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI), IMOWatch, MediaVigil & WaterWatch Alliance. .............
Virendra Kapoor
In the 70s, with Mrs Indira Gandhi at the peak of her popularity, the small and splintered Opposition would often unite under a single name and flag to try and challenge her.............
Piyush Srivastava
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has put the shakha at the very centre of the resurgent right, saying that the hour-long morning sessions "produce prime ministers"..............
William Booth and Taylor Luck
Several hundred robed Muslim clerics recently packed themselves into an auditorium to hear the minister of Islamic affairs issue their new marching orders. The meeting was mandatory..............
Smita Prakash
Robin Raphel, former US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia and India’s long time foe is now under a counter-intelligence probe.............
NDTV.com
"I don't care if I lose my job. Even if death comes in my way, I will not end my fight against those who have been ruling this constituency since 1967,"............
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury
A Pakistani sympathiser Veteran US Diplomat often forced Delhi to hold dialogue with Islamabad even when bilateral ties were low............
Gargi Parsai
Days ahead of the first phase of the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, former separatist leader and People’s Conference chief Sajjad Gani Lone on Monday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.............
Pheroze L. Vincent
Leaders of the pro-talks factions of two prominent insurgent groups of Assam told The Hindu here on Monday that the BJP has won the trust of the State’s youth and former insurgents.............
Indrani Roy
Taki in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district is the last Indian outpost on the border with Bangladesh. It is one of hotspots for Bangladeshi infiltration into India............
S.K. Sinha
If at any stage now or later the BJP attains its 44-plus target in the Assembly, Article 370 could be given a fitting burial by a suitable resolution passed by the state Assembly...........
Benjamin Hall
EXCLUSIVE: It wasn’t the slaughter of innocent women and children, the $150-per-month in wages or the strict rules enforced by torture and death that prompted Abu Almouthanna to desert the Islamic State army...........
Cyril Almeida
ONE evening in early October, Robin Raphel was the guest of honour at an elegant dinner hosted by a prominent Islamabad couple...........
K.P. Nayar
A tip from Indian soil which shed new light on how US diplomat Robin Raphel empowered the Taliban may have hastened her downfall in Washington..........
Niticentral.com
From the time of mid-1960s when those who argued for liberalisation were traduced as “agents of capitalists” as “World Bank-IMF men”,.........
The Telegraph
An array of names and versions has surfaced in the Burdwan blast case. The following is a guide to the key suspects and their current status.........
B. Raman
Robin Raphel, notorious in India in the 1990s for her role in getting J&K declared as a “disputed territory”, is now reported to be joining the team of Richard Holbrooke for the Af-Pak region.........
Poulasta Chakraborthy
Today, on 7 November 2014, the people of Jayapur village in Varanasi celebrated when it was announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would adopt.........
Deepu Sebastian Edmond
A platoon commander of the CPI (Maoist)’s People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army has confessed that the outfit is not in a healthy state in its former stronghold of Porahat sub-zone..........
Livemint.com
Kolkata police released Yasin Bhatkal in 2010 for peddling fake currency, without having any idea that they had freed the leader of Islamic terrorist group..........
The Telegraph
A former Trinamul associate, who was questioned by the CBI on the Saradha scandal and had embarrassed the party by speaking of overnight riches of some leaders..........
The Times of India
Three days after the incident came to light, Thirthahalli police are yet to register an FIR against four persons named by parents of a 14-year-old girl who died after being allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted..........
Mediacrooks.com
I’m not sure where I read it (probably from Stephen Covey) but this little story is important for chronic haters like Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose..........
Claude Arpi
Having undertaken a huge amount of infrastructure work along the border with India, China has no business to object to similar activity by New Delhi on the pretext it will complicate matters..............
Sandip Roy
“I am a small fry. I am a commoner,” said Mamata Banerjee in Delhi during the Nehru 125 celebrations when asked about leading a Federal Front.............
The Times of India
More than 12 years and 25 extensions later, the Nanavati commission on Tuesday submitted its final report on post-Godhra riots.............
Barbara Boland
“Ultimately I want to see every single woman in this country covered from head-to-toe; I want to see the hand of the thief cut;..........
Narayan Lakshman Indian-American Pratima Dharm speaks of her deep links with India, and shares her thoughts on Hindus in the U.S. military and the kind of leader she hopes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be..........
Ibnlive.in.com
The Indian diaspora in Australia will seek to recreate the Madison Square Garden magic when they will host Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Sydney in the country's largest indoor arena. ...........
Poulasta Chakraborthy
This tweet was made on 9 November by eminent journalist Rajdeep Sardesai the occasion being the swearing in of two new ministers in the Modi cabinet...........
Agniveer.com
There is a new movement in rage these days. They call it Kiss of Love. I am told that some news-channel (owned by Indian National Congress...........
Praful Shankar
BJP’s Chief Ministerial selections in Haryana and Maharashtra represent a major trend that the political chattering class has conveniently overlooked...........
Dawn
China has jailed almost two dozen people including “wild imams” who preach illegally in the western region of Xinjiang where the government says Islamists are waging a violent campaign for a separate state............
Notcovered.blogspot.in
At best this article should have appeared as paid advertisement. Probably the newspaper being one of the entities committed to the ideology that binds the signatories together............
Sandeep Singh
After Secularization of the Constitution, of Politics, the Judiciary, Education, Art, Literature, Media, Film, etc, India is witnessing the secularisation of Indian Sports...........
Madhuparna Das & Sagnik Chowdhury
As the National Investigation Agency (NIA) probes the Khagragarh blast case in West Bengal’s Burdwan district...........
Shuvendu Sen
When was the last time you heard of a meritorious student, etched in academic brilliance opt for a walk of life riddled with conflicts............
S.K. Sinha
If at any stage now or later the BJP attains its 44-plus target in the Assembly, Article 370 could be given a fitting burial by a suitable resolution passed by the state Assembly............
Aravindan Neelakandan
If one examines the cold facts, the Sangh Parivar’s contribution to science in India is remarkably secular. It’s time to expose the malicious left wing propaganda............
Saibal Gupta
Neighbours didn't get a whiff of the designs of this lanky bearded Yousuf Seikh, allegedly the Indian point man in Khagragarh blast case............
Monideepa Banerjie & Abhinav Bhatt
A Trinamool Congress legislator from Burdwan in West Bengal has been caught on camera claiming at a large meeting that leaders of his party are extorting money from businessmen in his district...........
The Economic Times
Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi raised a few eyebrows on Friday when he said that those who slaughter cows do not have the right to be called Indians.........
The Telegraph
That which cannot be named is “breathing down our neck”, the Trinamul Congress conceded today, virtually anointing the BJP as the main Opposition in the state......
India Facts
Tirthahalli in Shimoga district in Karnataka is renowned from time immemorial as a holy place. Indeed, the name “tirtha” itself means “sacred.”......
Ishita Mishra
Minister of state for external affairs VK Singh was not allowed to address a session at the ongoing three-day camp — "Yuva Sankalp Shivir" of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).......
Arpit Basu
The NIA probe into the Burdwan blast and its aftermath points to a clear link between Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, Maoists and Ulfa. .........
Alexandra Hudson and Sabine Siebold
Radical Islam poses a critical security threat to Germany, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere warned on Tuesday.........
Madhu Kishwar
In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984 by two Sikh security guards, North India witnessed the most gruesome anti Sikh massacre.........
Realitycheck.wordpress.com
For those new to the story: Senior IAS Officer Mr Umashankar was recently suspended by the Tamilnadu government for a claiming quota benefits by using a false community certificate........
The Financial Express
The fact that India’s agriculture exports have grown the fastest in the world in the last decade is of course related to the low base.......
Rakesh Sinha
Two leading lights of the CPI(M), Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat, are in a slugfest to determine the ‘correct line’ of the party. ......
Surjit S Bhalla
There are several reasons why the case for retaining the NREGA employment system, as argued by 28 of India’s leading economists, should be dismissed........
Poulasta Chakraborthy
On 28 October, Shoaib Daniyal wrote a report on scroll.in titled Meet the icons of India’s refurbished history: Mukherjee, Upadhyaya, Malaviya........
Tejasvi Surya
Ordinary men rise to become heroes because of the ideals and values they espouse. And heroes are seldom remembered for their looks........
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
Ajit Doval's clarity of vision on the problems of 4th generation warfare that combines winning hearts and minds, amorphous sub-state actors and the near end of state-to-state warfare, was unusual........
G Parthasarathy
In any situation, there should be no question of a sustained dialogue process, till Pakistan keeps its January 2004 assurance that territory under its control will not be used for terrorism against India......
Deepshikha Ghosh
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the anti-Sikh riots in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination were like a "dagger that pierced through India's chest.".......
Alan Caruba
It is doubtful that most Americans and others around the world know how vast the organizational structure of the environmental movement is..........
Lalit K Jha, PTI
In a blunt assessment of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan, the Pentagon has told the US Congress that the country is using militant groups as proxies to counter the superior Indian military...........
