Tunku Varadarajan
Terrorists massacre satirists in Paris to avenge a mocking of the prophet, Mohammad, and the usual earnest chorus of Muslim spokesmen says that this bloodbath isn't the reality of Islam.......
The Telegraph
Mukul Roy on Friday reportedly told the CBI that he was with Mamata Banerjee at Deolo in Kalimpong when Saradha owner Sudipta Sen had met her in March 2012........
Our Bureau
Coined by campaigner Narendra Modi, "Jayanthi tax" has now been adopted by the Congress. Of course, with the retrospective effect that had once tormented the UPA........
Asra Q. Nomani
“You have shamed the community,” a fellow Muslim in Morgantown, W.Va., said to me as we sat in a Panera Bread in 2004. “Stop writing.”.......
Salman Ali
I recently went through with some textbooks and it was really depressing to find that Pakistani textbooks cannot mention Hindus without calling them cunning, scheming, deceptive or something equally insulting........
Jaganniwas Iyer
South Block is doing some perceptible heavy lifting. Understandable, as it has a heavyweight boss. And it is the not the External Affairs Minister, though she is the incumbent in the seat.........
Soeren Kern
A 120-page research paper entitled "No-Go Zones in the French Republic: Myth or Reality?" documented dozens of French neighbourhoods.........
Francois Gautier
As a Frenchman, I couldn’t help being moved seeing 40 heads of state walking together in Paris on January 11 along with two million other people marching for a better world..........
Shankhnaad.net
Leela Samson, chairperson CBFC shot to limelight after her alleged rabid hatred for Hindus was revealed with the release of movie PK..........
Anirban Ganguly
It would be interesting to extrapolate some features of a civilisational state into the Indian context and juxtapose them against some present efforts’.........
Dwaipayan Ghosh
The arrested director of Silicon Projects, Shib Narayan Das, had raised Rs 760 crore along with Saradha boss Sudipta Sen from investors within a span of four years.........
Jews News
The genocide suffered by the Hindus of India at the hands of Arab, Turkish, Mughal and Afghan occupying forces for a period of 800 years is as yet formally unrecognised by the World.........
Tahir Siddiqui
Anjali Kumari Meghwar, who was named Salma after she was said to have converted to Islam, was not allowed to live with her husband by the Sindh High Court for the controversy over her age..........
Meghdeep Bhattacharyya
Charity does not begin at home — not for a director of a company that contributed Rs 1.40 crore to the Trinamul Congress...........
Kanchan Gupta
Twenty-five years is a long time. But we must not allow the tragedy of Kashmiri Pandits forced into exile in their own country to disappear from popular memory. Never forget, never forgive..........
Pramod Pathak
As we celebrate one more milestone of science, the 102nd Indian Science Congress, it is time for stock taking. There is little doubt that in the present century..........
Paul McGeough
It's a "brief" war, which is to say that media reports on the brutal, dehumanising violence as Boko Haram consolidates its hold on a nation-sized slice of Nigeria invariably are..........
Rafia Zakaria
The attack took place in one of the busiest areas of Istanbul. On 6 January, a woman in a niqab blew herself up at a police station in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district..........
Bharatpress.com
A video has come out showing a Muslim cleric in India leading a funeral prayer, where he praises and endorses the murder of cartoonists and satirists of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo...........
Poulasta Chakraborthy
In the 13 January edition of Hindustan Times, well-known social activist and former member of the Sonia Gandhi-headed NAC...........
Dawn.com
China has banned the wearing of burqas in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, where a majority of Muslims reside, said a report published on The Telegraph...........
Herald Exclusive
Nationalism and patriotism in Pakistan are contested subjects. What makes us Pakistanis and what is it that makes us love our land and nation?..........
Nicolai Sennels
We should stop using Muslims’ self-chosen word — “Islamophobia” — by which they paint themselves into a corner of being feared: it destroys communication. ..........
Pawan Deshpande
The national Indian debate about the recent ghar wapsi reconversion drive of some Hindu organisations bypasses the broader narrative of ongoing, aggressive campaign by Christian missionary organisations...........
Vikas Saraswat
If Muslim extremists constituted the fringe of that community, how come courts of countries that run on Shari’ah laws reflect extremism, too?.............
India Facts
Over the last decade, several so-called orphanages have mushroomed all over India, in particular along our Eastern Coast and in Southern India funded by foreign agencies. .............
Nicola Harley
Hundreds of copies of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo 'survivors' magazine are expected to be brought to the UK when it is published on Wednesday despite claims by radical preacher Anjem Choudary it is "an act of war".............
Tufail Ahmad
The continuing series of jihadist attacks by “lone wolves” – some call them stray dogs but both the terms are insults to animals...........
Saumitra Mohan
With none other than the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself admitting Naxalite insurgency to be the country’s deadliest internal threat to security...........
Hari Pulakkat
Prime ministers' speeches are seldom discussed beyond a day or two, and their addresses at the annual Science Congress are discussed still less...........
Shemin Joy
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not only knew about the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in advance, but had actually given his approval for them..........
Utkarsh Anand
The Supreme Court on Monday asked a filmmaker who shot a documentary on Kashmir whether it had become “fashionable” to depict only one side of the story in movies.............
The Telegraph
A Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh operative whose phone number the police had found scribbled on the palm of one of the survivors of the Burdwan blast was arrested from Jharkhand today............
Monica Mark
Amnesty International calls the killings ‘a disturbing and bloody escalation’ and a local defence group says its fighters have given up trying to count the bodies............
Aminu Abubakar and Faith Karimi
Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said............
Poulasta Chakraborthy
Following the despicable murders of the cartoonists and staff at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, many Indians have taken to the print...........
Kanchan Gupta
The answer depends on whether the person asking the question and the person answering it are ‘tolerant’ and feel the ‘need to understand’. Such are the absurdities of Left-liberalism!............
Saradindu Mukherji
Unfortunately, a dominant section of the political establishment in India, inclusive of its preferred set of “progressives”..........
B R Haran
The Church, which focused on harvesting Scheduled Castes and Most Backward Classes in the beginning, has also started concentrating on the upper echelons of the Hindu society...........
The Times of India
Egypt's president opened the new year with a call for a "revolution'' in Islam to reform interpretations of the faith entrenched for hundreds of years...........
Saswati Sarkar
Civil society, media and the government of India have all remained mute spectators while this human tragedy has been unfolding right in their backyard............
The Times of India
Members of the Gade family proudly show off a stash of rupees kept in an unlocked tin barrel in their bedroom, despite their home not having a front door...........
NDTV.com
Emphasising the importance of ancient Indian science, noted computer scientist Vijay Bhatkar today asked why it took 100 years for the Indian Science Congress to discuss the issue..........
Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
During the framing of India’s Constitution, the matter of whether it should guarantee the right to not just freely profess and practise one’s religion but also to propagate it was much debated..........
Niticentral.com
Hyderabad, Jan 8 (PTI) Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan today defended the paper which talked about the existence of aeroplanes 7,000 years ago.........
Meira Svirsky
The involvement of Pakistani authorities with terrorist groups reaches far into the government, making the claim not too hard to substantiate.........
Firstpost.com
A Catholic priest from India was jailed after asking a 14-year-old boy to help him delete dozens of images of child pornography from his phone, authorities said........
Sidharth Bhatia
Two main reactions have emerged after the horrific attack by masked gunmen on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which ended in a bloodbath........
Ratan Sharda
Dear Vishal Bhardwaj and Raju Hirani, I would have kept quiet like any 'decent, tolerant' Hindu about PK and Haider but Vishal Bhardwaj's lamentations........
The Onion
Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in a lascivious sex act of considerable depravity......
V. K. Shashikumar
The author, S. K. Shashikumar, is a noted investigative journalist for Tehelka. This article was prepared by him for IBNLive.com (the online arm of CNN-IBN, owned and funded by affiliates of the Southern Baptist.......
Balbir Punj
As is the vogue, there was all-round condemnation of the Paris massacre, both by Muslims and non-Muslims. The denouncement of the dastardly act was along predictable lines........
Tarek Fatah
One of the reasons I avoid attending Friday congregations at mosques is a specific ritual supplication uttered by Imams at many mosques in Canada and around the world........
BS Hari Shankar
What took place in November 2011 was neither a debate nor a discord. The venue was Thiruvananthapuram, at the Joint Annual Conference of Indian Archaeological Society (ACIAS).........
Lt Gen PC Katoch, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd
A recent article titled, ‘Egypt’s Sisi: Islamic Thinking Is Antagonizing the Entire World’ by Raymond Ibrahim of the David Horwitz Freedom Center...........
The New Indian Express
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Sunday said Gujarat could also be a crossroad for a new era of sustainable development while it has long been a cultural crossover to the world...........
Colonel Anil A Athale (retd)
A few years ago, then United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton had described Pakistan as a global headache. ...........
kampanna
A list of the terror outfits in the North East that have found support from missionary groups or perpetrate terror in the name of Christianity............
Siddharth Mohan Nair
This film director from Kerala has been desperately trying for two years now to get his movie cleared by the censor board...........
The Times of India
The attackers who stormed the Paris offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, killing 12 people, shouted "we have avenged the prophet"...........
Wilson John
What Pakistan faces in the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan is virulent insurgency and terrorism, fuelled by its association with Al Qaeda, says Wilson John............
Frank Jack Daniel
Reports of a $500-million Washington aid package to Pakistan and a period of intense border shelling in Kashmir have overshadowed the run-up to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to India in the next few days...........
Sharmila Ravinder
You will not find me adorned in saffron and shouting hoarse in a crowded market place or at a public gathering that I am a proud Hindu..........
B B Singh
The Indian Science Congress is holding its annual meeting in Mumbai with the theme, “Science and Technology of Human Development”, where several Nobel laureates are participating. .........
Vivek Gumaste
Every opinion, however outlandish, warrants an examination in a free society. Healthy scepticism is a positive attribute that reflects an open mind but vulgar derision demonstrates prejudice...........
T. Satyamurthy
History writing in India has become a sensitive initiative, carrying ideological leanings and authors’ personal views rather than integrating new findings into an ever-growing perspective..........
A Surya Prakash
Many stalwarts of the freedom movement and the Congress felt that religious conversions must be legally banned. But the idea fell through because of drafting difficulties.........
Swordoftruth.in
One of the oft-repeated urban myths that sometimes pops-up in conversation even among many educated, well meaning Indians is that India as a nation is a British creation..........
Madhav Nalapat
The Pakistani TV channel, also believed to be linked to terrorist groups, was associated with a promotional event for the film in Dubai..........
J Gopikrishnan
After CBI, the CAG has also found gross irregularities in the FIPB approval granted by the Finance Ministry during the tenure of P Chidambaram to the controversial Aircel-Maxis deal.........
India Tomorrow
Emphasizing the importance of ancient Indian science, noted computer scientist Vijay Bhatkar questioned why it took 100 years for the Indian Science Congress to discuss the issue.......
Sankrant Sanu
“The biggest weapon wielded and actually daily unleashed … is the culture bomb. The effect of a cultural bomb is to annihilate people’s belief.......
Ketki Angre & Anindita Sanyal
Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor has apparently come out in support of BJP minister Dr Harsh Vardhan's claim that Greeks and Arabs received credit for advances in Mathematics that rightfully belong to India.........
Opindia.com
In my earlier piece, we had looked at some journos including Praveen Swami, who had floated mind boggling borderline conspiracy theories about the Pakistani boat incident........
Smita Barooah
Political commentators express concern only when some people convert to Hinduism, not when some convert from Hinduism to other faiths........
Nadeem F. Paracha
A curious column in an Urdu daily recently asked whether all those Pakistanis who have been holding candlelight vigils for the victims of terrorism, have become Catholics?........
Nitin Gokhale
A timely intercept by the National Technical Research Organisation, and its well coordinated operation with the Coast Guard foiled what could have been a repeat of a 26/11..........
Themuslimissue.wordpress.com
The genocide suffered by the Hindus of India at the hands of Arab, Turkish, Mughal and Afghan occupying forces for a period of 800 years is as yet formally unrecognised by the World..........
The Hindu
A Home Ministry official said terrorists were waiting in eight locations along the International Border and the LoC to sneak into India.........
The Indian Express
A Pakistani fishing boat, suspected of carrying explosives, was intercepted by the Coast Guard in the Arabian Sea around midnight Wednesday but its four occupants blew it up after a nearly hour-long chase........
Anirban Ganguly
“Eminent” Marxist historians possessing an intolerant Stalinist mindset have struck again. By referring to the Prime Minister in an inane resolution full of the pathos.......
Herald Exclusive
The answers to these questions vary widely depending on who is being asked. A large part of our national identity stems from our sense of history and culture that.....
Ram Ohri
It is astounding that Minister for External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, is being pilloried by our partisan media and secular chatterati largely consisting of ignorant WOGS.......
The Times of India
BJP on Tuesday celebrated the order of a Mumbai special court discharging Amit Shah in the case concerning his alleged complicity in "encounter" of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati.........
The Sentinel
A real preceptor is he/she who always wears his/her teacher’s hat, at least when in school and boarding, and does what a teacher ought to do.........
Deepika Ahlawat
The secular state need not concern itself with the merits of theologies. But it does need to consider whether fundamental tenets of some faiths disallow a synergised existence within a secular social structure.........
Kanchan Gupta
One of the apocryphal stories that came to symbolise the absurdity of Indira Gandhi's totalitarian rule during the Emergency years when the press was whipped into submission by the dear departed mother-in-law.......
The Hindu
WORKING, as I have been for the last couple of years, on a short biography of Jawaharlal Nehru, I became conscious of the extent to which we have taken for granted one vital legacy of his.......
Carolyn Gregoire (Carolyn.Gregoire@huffingtonpost.com)
In 1971, Sat Jivan Singh Khalsa moved to New York to open a yoga studio. A lawyer moonlighting as a Kundalini yoga teacher.......
Michel Danino
The Indian History Congress (IHC) recently held at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi passed a unanimous resolution condemning “historical distortions” promoted by the ruling party at the Centre or its associates........
Kartikeya Tanna
After several months of endless maligning through innuendos, selective leaks and sensational reportage, particularly the umpteen references to “black beard and white beard”,........
Arun Jaitley
CBI Special Court at Mumbai has discharged Amit Shah, the BJP President, of all charges relating to a case of his involvement in the alleged killing of Soharabuddin and Tulsi Prajapati. .........
Radha Rajan
Leela Samson was to Sonia Gandhi what Pupul Jayakar was to Indira Gandhi; Samson, hand-picked by Sonia Gandhi is currently in the eye of another storm and this time for.........
Rudrangshu Mukherjee
" The times of happiness are past and times of trouble lie ahead. The days grow worse every new tomorrow... A dreadful time is at hand, confounded by much trickery.........
Worldhindunews.com
Sharada Peeth’s Shankaracharya Swaroopananda Saraswati on Saturday called for a ban on Aamir Khan-starrer ‘PK’, which is currently running to full houses at the box-office.........
Worldhindunews.com
The island paradise in the Indian Ocean is known among holidaymakers. But what is little known is that it is home to over 300 Hindu temples, making Mauritius a land rich in Hinduism.........
Worldhindunews.com
Press Release Joint Session of vhp Trust and Management Committee held at Pune at ” Swami Vivekananda has said clearly that the conversion of Hindus in Hindu society became......
