National

• PDP boycots assembly sessions

  By Afsana Rashid

  Apr 15, 2013

  J&K’s main opposition party, PDP’s decision to boycott various sittings of the month-long budget session of the state legislature puts a question mark over its role in flagging issues of public importance at appropriate forums. ...

• Afzal Guru issue rattles J&K assembly

  By Afsana Rashid

  Apr 15, 2013

  J&K Legislative Assembly rejected a resolution moved by Er Abdul Rashid, an independent legislator, seeking return of the mortal remains of 2001 Parliament attack convict, Mohammad Afzal Guru. The decision was conveyed by the Legislative As...

• Elements of Bomb (Blast) Making — Understanding Dilsukhnagar

  Apr 15, 2013

  By Biju Mathew The story is always the same, isn’t it? A perfectly ordinary day becomes extraordinary. A day when the daily tribulations of thousands of workers and small merchants is instantly transformed into tragedy. Fifteen dead,...

• Seminar on Diaspora and Multiculturalism in West Asia

  Apr 15, 2013

  Aligarh: “America is a super military power in the world but India is the cultural superpower as it leads the world in multiculturalism and provides a large Diaspora to several countries, meaningfully contributing to their education secto...

• Communalism in South Asia

  By Zafarul-Islam Khan

  Apr 15, 2013

  Sectarianism, which is called “Communalism” in South Asia, essentially means to belong to a social, religious or political group but in practice it denotes a biased attitude in favour of one’s own group and against other group...

• PFI sends legal notice to Asian Age & Deccan Chronicle

  Apr 15, 2013

  New Delhi: Popular Front of India on 22 March sent legal notices to Asian Age English daily for publishing a defamatory news item against the organization recently. Likewise, three more legal notices were issued to Hyderabad, Kochi and Bangalor...

• The Extreme Danger of the NCTC

  Apr 15, 2013

  By Bhaskar Menon On 27 February 1933, four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, there was a devastating fire in the national Reichstag (parliament) in Berlin. Firefighters trying to save the building found in...

• Forgotten and forlorn Ahmednagar

  By Sumit S Paul

  Apr 15, 2013

  My interactions with ‘liberal’ Brahmin scholars of Poona and Bombay have strengthened my belief that Ahmednagar (derogatorily called as ‘city of lowly Muslims and Christians’ by the condescending Brahmins of Poona) has b...

• Mr. Modi, you are not welcome: Wharton

  By Ram Puniyani

  Apr 15, 2013

  The withdrawal of the invitation for Narendra Modi to speak at Wharton Business School of Pennsylvania (March 2013) has been looked at in different ways by different commentators. Those who are opposing the invitation withdrawal, point out that...

• Resolutions of Mushawarat’s Central Committee

  Apr 15, 2013

  New Delhi: The Markazi Majlis (Central Committee) of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations and eminent personalities, held its first meeting of the year 2013 here on 12 March at the c...

• Why Special Cell will continue to manufacture dreaded terrorists

  Apr 15, 2013

  Last year, JTSA compiled and released a report documenting 16 cases where the Delhi Police, especially its Special Cell, had framed innocents as terrorists. An overwhelming number of these unfortunate men were from Kashmir. Despite the fact tha...

• “Special courts soon for Muslims arrested in terror related cases”: Minority affairs minister

  Apr 15, 2013

  New Delhi: Special courts would be set up soon for Muslim youth accused of various offences, including terror-related charges, Minister for Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan said here on 23 March. He said that his ministry had written to the home...

• Again, Special Cell throws egg on its own face

  Apr 15, 2013

  New Delhi: Delhi Police’s claim to have averted a big terror plan on Holi by arresting “fidayeen bomber” was exposed within 24 hours. DP’s notorious Special Cell had “nabbed” a Kashmiri, Syed Liaqat Shah (47)...

• Sharma under NIA radar

  By AG Khan

  Apr 15, 2013

  Mhow: Jitendra Sharma, who has undergone several rounds of interrogation, is once again under the NIA radar following a statement by Dilip Jagtap’s wife in the special court. She is believed to have said that the pistol recovered from the...

• NIA scrutiny of Lokesh records

  By AG Khan

  Apr 15, 2013

  Mhow: An NIA team visited a local high school to verify school records of accused Lokesh Sharma. They obtained photocopy of scholar register record of the school where he had studied from class 10th to 12th. The team later on collected records ...

• Terror Trail: New facts surface day after day

  By AG Khan

  Apr 15, 2013

  Indore / Mhow: New facts are surfacing daily as the National Investigation Agency continues to probe several trails. NIA quizzed Lokesh Sharma’s cousin in Mhow for three hours. The team also sealed the house of Lokesh’s friend, ...

• NIA operation continues: new evidence collected

  By AG Khan

  Apr 15, 2013

  Indore / Dewas: The National Investigation Agency team investigating Sunil Joshi murder case collected new evidence and re-created the shooting scene with the co-accused Dashrath alias Samundar Chaudhari. The agency claims to have recovered...

• Swamy’s petition against Chidambaram in Hashimpura massacre dismissed

  By NA Ansari

  Apr 15, 2013

  New Delhi: Janta Party president Subramaniam Swamy’s petition requesting an investigation of the role of P. Chidambaram in the Hashimpura massacre of 1987 was dismissed by a session court of Delhi. Swamy in his petition had stated that wh...

• Infosys to pay compensation to Jaipur “suspect”

  By NA Ansari

  Apr 15, 2013

  New Delhi: Leading IT firm Infosys on 12 March agreed in the Rajasthan High Court to pay Rs.20 lakh as compensation to Rashid Husain, an IT engineer, whom it sacked after he was detained in the 2008 Jaipur blasts. Rashid Husain was detained...

• NIA arrests four in Beed (Maharashtra)

  Apr 15, 2013

  Beed: The NIA has arrested four persons in Beed following Abu Jindal’s arrest. This includes a Yunani medicine practitioner.  A joint team of NIA and Maharashtra ATS raided several places in the city. They arrested Dr. Rehan Shaikh, ...