Rupa Subramanya
The first India Ideas Conclave represents a hugely important first step in the creation of a non-left, non-politically correct.........
Jayant Chowdhury
Rampant proselytizing by Christian missionaries flush with Western funds is inflaming passions and could lead to a dangerous socio-religious situation in the Himalayan republic..........
Shankara S
The fine art of subverting an individual’s belief system to an extent that he starts hating his culture and tradition has been perfected by the Christian Church for over two millennia.........
Koenraad Elst
It seems the reaction of two foreign Muslims in my audience last Saturday to my critical scholarly remarks on Islamic doctrine and on the person of Mohammed has provoked quite a debate.........
Ashok K Mehta
Among other coveted assets, Pakistan needs the good terrorists to seek parity with India and secure strategic depth in Afghanistan.........
Rakesh Sinha
The recent events of Ghar Wapsi and their concomitant endorsement by RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat have led to predictable breast-beating by the ‘secularist’ brigade........
Tim Arango
Before war convulsed his hometown in Syria, Usaid Barho played soccer, loved Jackie Chan movies and adored the beautiful Lebanese pop singer Nancy Ajram........
India Facts
Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the chief architect of our nation’s constitution is now mostly remembered as the leader of the Dalits and is regrettably co-opted by individuals like Kancha Ilaiah........
Andrew Jacobs
There may be no exact translation for "humbug" in Chinese, but in recent days, as popular fervor for the trappings of Western-style Christmas celebrations enveloped this officially atheist nation.......
Dwaipayan Ghosh
Dhaka Metropolitan police on Wednesday arrested two Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members who were key persons of the terrorist outfit's Indian module since 2009.........
Ashwaq Masoodi & Nikita Doval
Malaviya, who died in November 1946 less than a year before India won independence, is remembered as an educationist........
The Tribune
Expressing his support for the anti-conversion Bill proposed by the Centre, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat today asked Opposition parties to facilitate bringing law in Parliament........
Firstpost.com
For Narendra Modi, lifeseems to have come a full circle with his staunchest critic economist Amartya Sen praising the prime ministerat an Indian Express event on Saturday..........
Tufail Ahmad
A review of Paskistan's Urdu-language newspapers after the 16 December Peshawar attack reveals that much of the blame has been heaped on India.........
Amit Ukil and Biswanath Roy
One swallow does not a summer make but when the RSS cub opens its account in Bengal's campus elections, the big cats are certain to pause and ponder.........
Rsschennai.blogspot.in
Hindu Unity Conference by VHP was organized in Chennai as a part of its Golden Jubilee Celebrations. Dr. Pravin Togadia..........
Dr Mrs Hilda Raja
‘Opposition targets government on conversion in Agra’… ‘Bid to impose Hindutva agenda”…This and more we heard and saw in Parliament on ‘ghar wapasi’...........
Hilda Raja
Why is the Congress suffering from Modi phobia? The media should also know that the more it demonize Modi the more it will boomerang............
Vidya Venkat
Interview with renowned Lebanese academic Gilbert Achcar and author of The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013) on the struggle for democratisation in the Middle East and North Africa...............
Pervez Hoodbhoy
HE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistan aghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism...............
Sankrant Sanu
Anti-conversion laws are needed since thrusting the idea of a competitive battlefield of religion onto India's pluralistic traditions can only lead to greater communal conflict, argues Sankrant Sanu...............
Al Arabiya News
Militants belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have executed 100 members for trying to flee their base in the northern Syrian city of Raqaa, the Financial Times reported on Saturday...............
The Times of India
Voting for the final phase of Jharkhand assembly elections concluded on Saturday and exit polls predicted a majority for the BJP in the state...............
JS Rajput
By no stretch of imagination does the Bhagvad Gita make any attempt to change the faith or affiliation of the devout or readers..............
Jataayu
The question is a valid one. But the answer is simple, if one is aware of the social history of conversion and reconversion and the Hindu texts dealing with these matters...........
Firstpost.com
Even as the world tries to come to terms with the dastardly terrorist attack in Pakistan's Peshawar and the 'lone wolf' attack in Sydney............
The New York Times
With the slaughter of at least 145 schoolchildren and teachers at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday, the Taliban took its grisly war against the state to a more horrific place.............
Abplive.in
Proximity to tragic events tends to magnify the cruelty inflicted on innocent people. So it is that we are horrified by the ghastly slaughter............
News18.com
Uttar Pradesh A 28-year-old Muslim woman, divorced by her husband in 2012 as per Islamic traditions, has refused to accept talaq and instead moved court seeking its annulment............
Ram Ohri
Does the breakout of jihadi violence accompanied by multiple bomb blasts across several districts of West Bengal convey any message to all ranks of Indian Police............
The Times of India
After Union minister Sushma Swaraj favoured declaring Gita as "national scripture", veteran BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday urged people to read Mahabharata............
Sandeep Balakrishna
Note: This is my translation of one of D.V. Gundappa’s(DVG) essays in the Kannada book titled, Vruttapatrike (Newspaper) first published in 1928. ..............
The Times of India
Heads of central police organizations and departments have been directed by the government to shun British-era "decorative" practices like a battery of junior staff "escorting" their bosses for official meetings and events...............
Sanjay Singh
On the first day of his three-day stay in Hardwar, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday gave special focus on his direct interaction with the saints................
S Gurumurthy
If, as reported, the conversion of 350 odd Muslims in Ved Nagar in Agra to Hinduism is the work of RSS, it is clear that the RSS has grown strategic...............
Aditi Tandon
A day after the Congress tried to corner the government in the Lok Sabha over religious conversions, party leaders seemed confused whether the conversions took place in Agra..............
Memrijttm.org
The Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State (ISIS) has released a pamphlet on the topic of female captives and slaves. .............
Kashi. N. Pandita
Jammu-based Daily Excelsior of 27 November 2014 carried on its front page the news item under the heading ‘New package for KP.............
The Hindu
The laying of foundation stone for Nagarjunasagar project entered the 60th year on Wednesday. The first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone on December 10, 1955...............
Rediff.com
High alert has been sounded across India that five members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, who had fled from a Madhya Pradesh jail in 2013...............
Marcy Kreiter
A Canadian man who traveled to Syria and joined the Islamic State group urged Canadian Muslims to carry out so-called lone-wolf attacks on Canadian targets in a 6-minute video produced by ISIS...............
The News Minute
Kerala Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb has agreed to give back Rs 2.5 lakh spent for his Iftar party by using state funds, this after an investigative report by Asianet...............
M Saleem Pandit
Serial terror attacks by Pakistan-backed militants, including one on the Army camp in Uri just days before the third phase of polling in Jammu & Kashmir.............
Kevin Sullivan
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, rose before dawn on Oct. 4 to pray with his father and 16-year-old brother at their neighborhood mosque in a Chicago suburb.............
Toufiq Rashid and Sanjoy Dey
Millions of voters defied a separatist call to boycott assembly elections in Kashmir and voted amid tight security in the third phase of the polls on Tuesday............
NDTV.com
A Sikh teacher has claimed that he was forced out of a school in Britain for "giving children British values", a media report said on Monday............
The Daily Star
Ruling party men attacked and vandalised the houses and temple of Hindu people following a dispute over construction of a school at Donarkani village in Gournadi upazila on Monday...........
Alok K N Mishra
Priya Kumari, the widow of Lieutenant Colonel Sankalp Kumar of 24 Punjab Regiment, was inconsolable when their eight-year-old daughter Sara was lighting the pyre at Harmu Ghat here on Sunday..........
Jagdish N. Singh
Doval argued that the idea of such a convention was first mooted by the National Democratic Alliance government in 2001 but it did not take off...........
James Brandon
In early October 2010, University College London (UCL) published its official inquiry into the radicalization of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab............
Sankrant Sanu
The problem that members of the Anglicised leftist elite has with women like the sadhvi is not that the subaltern is speaking but that she is not following their script............
Adi Kesavan
As dusk falls at Karamana, the precincts of the ancient Siva temple at this Tamil Brahmin settlement reverberate with chants from Yajur Veda...........
Eva Hoffman
Among the most chilling developments in the rise of the Islamic State is that so many citizens of Western countries have joined the group’s ranks...........
Pradip R Sagar
As Indian Army troops posted at high-altitudes prepare to battle freezing cold this winter, the government has decided to freeze its spending on fuel that keeps them warm............
Sandhya Jain
Article 370 has been distrusted from its inception; but until now it could never be discussed seriously because the vested interests in favour of retaining it seemed invincible...........
R. Balaji
The Supreme Court has set a one-week deadline on the Centre to make its stand clear on two draconian clauses that were pushed through............
IBNLive.com
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday critical of media interviews where questions are asked with the apparent aim of getting answers that is sometimes "pre-decided"............
David Rohde
Since 2001, the United States has tried virtually every strategy available to persuade Pakistan’s army to take the threat of militancy more seriously...........
Maria Wirth
Religious fundamentalists are on the rise and that is bad for our societies. Most people will agree on this. Yet few examine who religious fundamentalists are.........
IBNLive.com
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday critical of media interviews where questions are asked with the apparent aim of getting answers that is sometimes "pre-decided"..............
Vivek Chaudhary
For expat Punjabis, kabaddi is more than just sport. Across UK, US and Canada, the game helps cement and celebrate cultural.............
The Times of India
The Sunni militant group ISIS has justified the enslavement of non-Muslim women and children and sexual intercourse with them, not sparing even prepubescent girls.............
Khaled Ahmed
These days I walk in a state of mental enslavement to Laurent Gayer, a member of the National Centre of Scientific Research in Paris.............
Salil Gewali
It is for the astounding richness of the Sanskrit language a renowned linguist Sir William Jones first translated Kalidasa’s Shakuntalam from the original Sanskrit into English in 1789............
Niticentral.com
Peshawar witnessed the most brutal Terror attack in recent memory with more than 100 school children dead and several teachers killed as well at an Army School...........
Hindustan Times
In the first week of this month, Maoists attacked a Central Reserve Police Force contingent in southern Chhattisgarh and killed 14 troopers............
Mala Das
In a major embarrassment for the Oommen Chandy government in Kerala, state Finance Minister KM Mani was today booked for bribery by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau..........
IBNLive.com
In a proud moment for India, the United Nations will declare June 21 as World Yoga Day on Thursday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi.........
Pawan Deshpande
In recent months, the plight of the Yazidi, an otherwise unknown people, has been brought to the center stage of world consciousness.........
Samvada.org
Nearly 15000 activists of Bajarangadal participated in annual ‘Datta Maala Abhiyan’ organised by Bajarangadal Karnataka at Guru Dattatreya Peetham at Chikkamagalur on Sunday..........
Samvada.org
“The problems faced by Manipur are the problems of the nation”, said RSS Sarasanghachalak Mohan Bhagwat while inaugurating conference of cadres of the organisation.........
Vikram Sood
Gratuitous advice about how Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had to go through hoops to be able to come to India — and how we should be grateful for that...........
Rsschennai.blogspot.in
Hindu Unity Conference by VHP was organized in Chennai as a part of its Golden Jubilee Celebrations. Dr. Pravin Togadia ...........
Bharti Jain,TNN
A group of six SIMI cadres, including five who escaped from Khandwa jail in October last year, has been tasked by Pakistan's ISI to unleash terror acts in India, most likely in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. ...........
The Indian Express
Fourteen CRPF personnel laid down their lives while fighting Maoists on December 1 in Sukma district, the hub of Maoist activity in Chhattisgarh. .............
Radhika Ramaseshan
The BJP today hit back at the Opposition for demanding minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti's resignation and a censure motion against her.............
Saswat Panigrahi
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), is roaming free in Pakistan making a mockery of the bounty announced by the US...............
Koenraad Elst
“Another chapter gives an exhaustive enumeration of all the testimonies … for the tradition that the Babri mosque had replaced a Hindu temple. ..............
David Frawley
In media accounts today, particularly in India, it seems that any group which identifies itself as Hindu or tries to promote any Hindu cause is quickly and uncritically defined as ‘right-winged’. ..............
Suhasini Haidar
“Extending facilities to a designated terror entity including providing train services, is nothing short of mainstreaming terrorism”...............
Suhasini Haidar
“Extending facilities to a designated terror entity including providing train services, is nothing short of mainstreaming terrorism”...............
Ruchika Chitravanshi
The India-Myanmar container service, an offshoot of the government's Look East Policy, has run into a rough patch just two months into its launch...............
Richard Garner
Council officials in Birmingham are investigating claims that a trust running the city’s first-ever Islamic school spent £1 million of public money funding a new school in Pakistan..............
Haindava Keralam
Hindu AIkya Vedi general secretary Kummanam Rajashekharan has lashed out at the state government for issuing the affidavit staking claim on SreePadmanabha Swamy Temple.............
The Times of India
Two top Maoist women commanders surrendered before zonal IG MS Bhatia on Monday after being subjected to sexual harassment in the outlawed outfit.............
Defencelover.in
As we all know Bangladesh was East Pakistan which got it’s independence after a bloody battle and Indian RAW and Indian Army fought for Bangladesh to make it free from the Barbaric and Dictatorship of Yahya Khan.............
Peeyush Khandelwal
Two months after a young couple got married secretly, the boy was chased down a street and his throat slit by the girl’s brother on Saturday in a UP village barely 75km from Delhi.............
Vishwa Mohan, TNN
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to inter-link rivers (ILRs) across the country will have one more project, bringing the total number to 31. ............
The Telegraph
The number that guarantees a BJP membership with a missed call occupies pride of display space on the dais in front of Victoria House on Sunday. Pictures by Bishwarup Dutta and Pradip Sanyal.............
Purusharth Aradhak, TNN
A diary recovered from the house of Yadav Singh, the former Noida engineer-in-chief accused of orchestrating a Rs 954 crore tenders scam..............
News18.com
#Lucknow #Uttar Pradesh News that a crucial diary was found during raids at Noida chief engineer Yadav Singh's house has created panic among UP bureaucrats and politicians..............
Jugal R Purohit
Give Prime Minister Modi some time. He has changed the mood and done in six months what governments haven't been able to do in years,"..............
Amit Chaturvedi
Two college-going sisters fought three men who were harassing them onboard a Haryana Roadways bus, even as the fellow passengers did not bother to help them.............
Philip Goldberg
In a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, 3,217 Americans were asked to rate religious groups on a 0-100 "feeling thermometer,............
Aravindan Neelakandan
The BJP wanted to celebrate the birth anniversary of Raja Mahendra Pratap, a major donor to the Aligarh Muslim University...........
The Times of India
Kolkata was ambushed by a Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind rally on Saturday afternoon, putting lakhs of commuters through six hours of agony and forcing President Pranab Mukherjee's route to be changed............
Rakesh Sinha
The HRD ministry’s decision to replace German with Sanskrit met unique logic by the same forces and people who possess unique contempt for the Soul of India...........
Deccan Herald
Ending a stand-off, BJP today gave up its plans to organise the birth anniversary celebration of Raja Mahendra Pratap at the campus of AMU..........
Subhajoy Roy and Meghdeep Bhattacharyya
The degree of refinement with which an operation is performed or a measurement stated (Merriam-Webster)..........
Kanchan Gupta
Should we look beyond India to understand why Islamism is dragging Muslims back to the past? Must we look elsewhere as to why Islamists believe in a joyless world?..........
BBC News
Police in Austria have arrested 13 people suspected of radicalising young people and recruiting them to fight in Syria, prosecutors say............
Hindustan Times
A suicide and gun attack that killed at least 120 at one of Nigeria's most well-known mosques was extreme in its brutality but part of an increasingly familiar pattern that has spread fear even beyond Nigeria's borders............
