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Mumbai Sikhs
Outraged, appeal to Pak ambassador
25
February 2010
Angry and benumbed at the killing and abduction of Sikhs in
Pakistan at the hands of marauding thugs, who are looting and
killing Sikhs, Hindus and even Muslims too in the North West
Frontier Province of Peshawar... |
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Infant dies during stone pelting in Kashmir valley, reignites debate
24
February 2010
Srinagar: A
ten-day-old infant Irfan was killed when a group of stone-pelters
attacked the car in which he was being taken to hospital by his
mother Kulsooma... |
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Chidambaram sticks to standard line: There is no operation Green Hunt
24
February 2010
NEW DELHI: the ping-pong exchange of statements is currently on
between the beleaguered Indian government and the violent Maoist
groups. Reacting to Indian... |
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U.K. investor pulls out of Vedanta
24
February 2010
NEW DELHI: In a
blow to mining firm Vedanta, a fourth European investor has sold its
multi-million pound stake in the company, citing “serious concerns
about its... |
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HCs, apex court don’t need OK from state for CBI probe: SC
24
February 2010
New Delhi: The
Indian Supreme Court has said that constitutional courts in the
country can order a CBI inquiry into a crime committed within the
territory of a state... |
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Kashmir, where they blow the house to kill militants but do not catch them
24
February 2010
SRINAGAR:
Encounters in Jammu and Kashmir are becoming something of a routine:
the militants who engage the security forces are so committed that
they... |
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India Under Attack, Inside & Outside
17
February 2010
SELDA/PUNE:
India is clearly under attack. From inside and from outside. Last week saw
terror hitting Pune when bombs placed at a restaurant called German
Bakery... |
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SGPC in blissfull ignorance as A.P. High Court strikes down religion quota
10
February 2010
HYDERABAD: This
is one judgement that the Sikhs, particularly the SGPC, should take
a strong note of, though going by the reactions in India,
the SGPC seems not... |
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Bt Brinjal talk triggers strong protests all over India
3
February 2010
Chandigarh:
India is tying itself up in knots over a humble vegetable: Baingan,
the Eggplant. High-decibel anti-Bt brinjal protests took centrestage
at the national... |
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Chucking the
Constitution
3
February 2010
Of all the
entities, the one taht is consistently working against Indian
Constitution is the Government of India. Measure its stance, work
and approach to any clause of... |
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From death row to life term to possible freedom, Nalini & the House of
Gandhis
27January 2010
Chennai: In a
sign of rare humanity emerging from the ruling Indian establishment,
Nalini Sriharan who has spent 19 years in prison after her
conviction for being part of... |
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India shines in deathly light: 2 lakh farm suicides due to indebtedness
27January 2010
In times of much
hype about high growth rates in India and claims about the country
escaping the recession, here comes the bitter truth: most sections
of the... |
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Rathore is only the latest in Haryana
police’s crowded hall of shame
20
January 2010
Chandigarh: With evidence mounting about the manner in which former
Haryana DGP S P S Rathore used his position to evade the law for 19
years after allegedly.... |
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SC Declines PIL to Delink Sikhs From Hindu Law
20
January 2010
New Delhi: The
Supreme Court of India has declined to pass any order on a plea that
the Sikh Community, which gets the birth certificate under the Hindu
law, faces an uphill task to explain immigration authorities
across... |
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Maharashtra allows Nitu Singh to return
20
January 2010
MUMBAI: After
courting much shame by illegally deporting an FTII student, the
Maharashtra government has now come to the rescue of Nepali citizen
Nitu Singh, allowing her to return to complete... |
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Debate on Commonwealth Games menu beefs up
20
January 2010
New Delhi:
Indian politicians are set to fight a war about muscles, literally.
Former BJP president Rajnath Singh has demanded that beef must not
be served during the... |
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India ready for voting right to NRIs, but PM mum on Black List
13
January 2010
NEW DELHI:
Trying to remove a massive anomaly that prevents non-resident
citizens from voting in choosing the law makers of the country,
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.... |
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Will Rathore be stripped off his medal? What about KPS Gill?
30
December 2009
Seventeen years
after the much talked about incident of sexual harassment involving
killer cop K. P. S. Gill and a senior IAS officer Rupan Deol Bajaj,
the Supreme... |
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Supreme Court denies bail to Asaram, VHP defends him
30
December 2009
Allahabad
: At a time when even the Indian TV channels are going hammer and
tongs after the self-styled godman Asaram who calls himself Bapu,
Vishwa Hindu... |
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Shout then & there, or you will be left holding a candle
30
December 2009
Nineteen
years ago, popular cultural iconography for a 14-year-old budding
tennis player girl was a poster of Monica Seles-Steffi Graf, and
Ruchika Girhotra was no... |
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Don't fight for a state when
you can get a country
23
December 2009
As demands for
newer states in India rise like a crescendo, the fact that the
country is artificially bound without any common traits that are
required to build a legitimate... |
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Social Hostility In Yuletide Times: India Courts Shame
23
December 2009
At times,
poignancy of simple, human actions denotes feelings, emotions and
perspectives much larger than any one action can bring out. Little
Sikh kids holding... |
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Goa blast accused linked with Hindu extremists of Sanatan Sanstha
23
December 2009
Panaji : Just as
India's newly set up National Investigating Agency (NIA) took over
the probe into the Diwali bomb blast in Goa, police in the state
have said they have... |
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Naresh Gujral is worried about Planent striking Earth
23
December 2009
New Delhi:
Indian news television industry is finding it difficult to fill up
24 hours with farm fresh news, particularly when it does not want to
shift focus to nose-to-the-... |
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New Delhi, Assam buckle before Ulfa leadership, plead for talks
23
December 2009
New
Delhi: India is blowing hot and cold over Ulfa, and while some arms
of the government are out to malign the militant body by first claiming that
a section of the... |
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Indian poverty estimates zoom overnight from 27.5 % to 37.2%
23
December 2009
NEW DELHI:
Indian media is so busy covering film starlets and silly inanities
of the politicians that a dramatic change in poverty estimates has
remained virtualky... |
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Judging the Judges
23
December 2009
Indian polity is currently grappling with a stark ugly reality, and
is seen as powerless in dealing with it. A judge of the high court, who was
set to take over as judge of... |
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Govt
refuses heritage status for Amritsar, cites rule book
16
December 2009
NEW
DELHI: Indian Parliament has rejected a forceful demand for
declaring Amritsar a heritage city last Friday, as the government
said there was no legal provision to... |
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Separate electorate demanded for Dalits, Adivasis, Women
9
December 2009
New Delhi: The National Confederation of Dalit Organisations
(NACDOR), which has about 1200 Dalit groups under its umbrella, has
demanded that the Indian... |
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Omar Abdullah changes
stance: Now wants tripartite talks, offers to mediate
india
2
December 2009
SRINAGAR: Politics in Kashmir is taking a turn for the dramatic, and
all of a sudden. Till only recently, Jammu and Kashmir Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah was trying to... |
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Farooq says some powers
didn’t want Chattisinghpora investigated
25
November 2009
India’s Minister says he is writing a book which will have a
chapter on Chattisingpora incident but it will be so explosive
that he wants it to be opened after his death. Most Sikhs have all
through believed that the killings were... |
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90-year-old Haji is force
behind Babri Masjid fight
25
November 2009
Ayodhya: At a time when rabid Hindutva spewing elements in Indian
polity are creating a ruckus over Liberhans Commission’s report and
various versions of soft and hard Hindutva politics are on display,
a 90-year-old man... |
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Top Indian scholar hits out at
Hinduism with new book
25
November 2009
Kancha Ilaiah,
the author of the best selling book Why I am Not a Hindu, has now
come out with “Post Hindu India: A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan,
Socio- Spiritual and Scientific Revolution”, a thought-provoking
critique of... |
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Babri Action panel wants CBI to
go after Advani now
25
November 2009
Lucknow: The Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) has demanded that
the CBI frame conspiracy charges against L K Advani and other BJP
leaders indicted by the Liberhan Commission and said the body was... |
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Gadkari tipped to be BJP president as RSS micro manages BJP
18
November 2009
NAGPUR: At a
time when the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is talking of possibly
changing the khaki knicker uniform, Nitin Gadkari cuts an ungainly
figure in his khaki... |
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Aussie PM gives signs of crack down on racial violence
18
November 2009
New Delhi/MELBOURNE: Days after many Sikh students along with other
Indians were target of racial attacks in Australia, Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd has...
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Srinagar-Dubai flight to have Amritsar
stopover
18
November 2009
Srinagar: The
Srinagar-Dubai direct flight is set to be routed through Amritsar
from 2010. The direct flight from Srinagar to Dubai takes a little
less than five hours while the flight via Amritsar will take... |
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India’s
Minorities panel raps Punjab Govt
18
November 2009
CHANDIGARH:
India’s National Minorities Commission members have expressed
concern and unhappiness at the failure of the Badal government to
disburse scholarships worth Rs 8 crore to students belonging... |
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Kalyan leaves Samajwadi
for own kalyan
18
November 2009
Lucknow/New
Delhi: A day after he was publicly snubbed by Mulayam Singh Yadav,
ally Kalyan Singh ended the uneasy 10-month pact, calling the
Samajwadi Party... |
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India's 26/11, many other
sinister plots hinge on David, Rana
18
November 2009
New
Delhi: Pakistan-born American national, David Coleman Headley is
accused of having links with the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. He
had changed his name from... |
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Manu Sharma out of jail on
prowl, now back in Tihar
11
November 2009
NEW DELHI:
Senior Congress politician Venode Sharma's political career was not
helped byu his son Manu Sharma when he walked into a bar and shot
dead... |
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Soft Hurriyat seems ready for face saving solution
11
November 2009
SRINAGAR:
Notwithstanding some of the politically correct statements emerging
from the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference in Kashmir, it
seems... |
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No SC relief for historian who wrote blasphemies about Sikh Guru
11
November 2009
New Delhi:
Former UGC chairman Prof Satish Chandra and NCERT officials could
face arrest as the Supreme Court on Friday refused to quash an FIR
against them .. |
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Did having a Sikh PM assuage Sikhs' hurt?
4
November 2009
NEW
DELHI: Has the fact of a Sikh, Manmohan Singh, becoming a Prime
Minister of the country helped assuage the feeling of alienation from the
state for the Sikhs... |
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Mobs attacked this school, govt gave a Rs 1,000 cheque.
It bounced
4
November 2009
NEW
DELHI: The proudly displayed ISO 9000 plaque on the façade is the
first thing that catches your eye as you enter Guru Harkrishan
Public School in Vasant Vihar... |
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India still makes news for Dalits entering
temples
4
November 2009
For a picture of
21st century India, please browse through sarkari brochures,
abumdantly distributed and dished out by Indian embassies and
consulates around the... |
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Where have all the Sikh cabbies gone?
4
November 2009
MUMBAI: It is
easier to find a Sikh cabbie in New York now
than in Mumbai. About a couple of decades ago, hailing a taxi on
Guru Nanak's Gurpurab would not have... |
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Kanpur got 24 hours, it scored 127 Sikhs on
Killer Scale
4
November 2009
KANPUR: All hell
broke loose in this cramped and crowded city, over 400 km away from
Delhi,when news of then prime minister Indira Gandhi being
assassinated by... |
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They agreed to let Dalits enter temple, but then reneged
21
October 2009
NAGAPATTINAM: An
attempt by Dalits to enter a temple in Nagapattinam district under
police protection turned violent when non-Dalits in Chettipulam
hamlet in coastal Tamil Nadu began throwing stones... |
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Minority status, benefits sought for
Sikhs in J&K
21
October 2009
SRINAGAR:
The All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) in Jammu &
Kashmir has demanded minority status for the Sikh community in the
state and asked... |
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The RTI
battle of the NRIs
21
October 2009
New Delhi: The
NRIs in the US have been leading a campaign for their right to use
the Right to Information Act from abroad even as the government
admits their “issue”... |
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Montek says only 16 paise of every rupee reach
poor
14
October 2009
NEW
DELHI: Twenty-five years after Rajiv Gandhi said that for every
rupee sent to the common man, only 17 paise reached him, the debate
is back on what constitutes... |
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Cambridge
don “believes” there was a plot
14
October 2009
LONDON: Indian government propaganda machinery’s success at working
overtime to give a bad name to the Sikhs brought in some dividends
with a Cambridge historian claiming that a plan... |
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Two Punjab mining executives shot dead in
Bihar
14
October 2009
RANCHI: Two
senior executives of a coal mine set up by the Punjab
government and the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) in
Jharkhand were last Monday shot... |
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India plans new curriculum for doctors: MBBS (Rural)
14
October 2009
NEW
DELHI: "What kind of a doctor are you?" "Rural, Sir."
That's the kind of thing you would soon hear in the medical
profession in India. In a rather peculiar plan to...
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Will Indian Air Force strike at its own citizens?
14
October 2009
After the Indian
government seemed to be preparing grounds for launching air attacks
against its own poor citizens fighting for survival and minimal
rights and at many... |
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Giving a gift to kin, give an affidavit too
14
October 2009
New Delhi: In a
development that would be of immense interest to Diaspora community,
the Indian law has been tweaked to now require an affidavit from you
if you give any gift in kind... |
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Top Hindutva body head worships guns, abhors politics
7
October 2009
Following its
two pronged strategy of continually assimilating the minorities and
adding an aggressive edge to the Hindutva inspired hate ideology of
brahamnical powers... |
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Rs 5 coin comes between life and certain death!
7
October 2009
MUMBAI: Krishna
Shetty’s son in the United States was in utmost hurry to get back to
India and rush into the Guru Nanak Hospital in Mumbai’s Bandra East
hospital to see a miracle that... |
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Pilots, crew settle squabble mid
air
7
October 2009
NEW DELHI: Two
people in the cockpit -- a pilot and a co-pilot -- and two crew
members of a Delhi-bound Air India flight from Sharjah via Lucknow
decided that they should settle their quarrel... |
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OIC appoints Kashmir envoy as India
fidgets
7
October 2009
NEW YORK: The
Organisation of Islamic Countries, an influential group of 57
predominantly Muslim countries, which promotes Muslim solidarity in
political, social and economic... |
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Botswana, even Palestinian territories do better than India
7
October 2009
India may have
claimed that it bucked the recession, it may have emerged as an IT
super power but when it comes to human development, New Delhi should
be looking for a good place... |
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Air India grounded as pilots strike heads for more showdown
30
September 2009
NEW DELHI: Air
India pilots striking against salary cuts have grounded to a halt
the operations of the country's largest airline, triggering threats
of a lock down from the government, even... |
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Orissa police takes leaf out of
Punjab cops' book
30
September 2009
Bhubaneswar: Just
like the Punjab Police had illegally picked up and detained
journalist and doctoral studies student Sewak Singh in
Patiala, arrest of a young journalist in Orissa has triggered... |
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India set to resume talks with J&K separatists, AFSPA may go
30
September 2009
SRINAGAR/NEW
DELHI: For the first time since 2006, Indian government is set to
resume talks with Kashmir’s separatist leaders in end-October... |
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RSS pulls out poor cow to encash Hindu symbolism
30
September 2009
NEW DELHI/NAGPUR: India's junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor
called the economy class as cattle class, and the remark led to much
mirth, comments and... |
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Death sentence may be changed to life term, suggests India's top court
23
September 2009
NEW DELHI: Known
for its spasmodic approach on the issue and propelled often by the
conveniences of the politics of the moment, India may soon have to
take a... |
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India dumps the fig leaf, now proclaims Naxals as only killers
23
September 2009
NEW DELHI: Finally, Indian establishment seems to have made up its
mind, and it is not mincing any words to tell the world about it.
While the committees set up to... |
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Shockers never stop in Manipur, here's another one
23
September 2009
GUWAHATI: Horror
tales from Manipur are just not ending even as Manipuris fight the
atrocities virtually sanctioned by the official Indian establishment
that has been refusing to scrap... |
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Advani opens his mouth on Jaswant episode, creates confusion
23
September 2009
New Delhi: Days
after the BJP plunged headlong into massive trouble and was reduced
into a daily soap opera instead of a political party trying to
understand the electoral verdict against... |
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Caste balance in top courts a complete disaster, says India's top lawyer
23
September 2009
NEW DELHI: One
of the most eminent Indian jurists, Fali S Nariman has admitted on
camera that Indian judicial system was riddled with the problem of
caste and... |
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Maharashtra Sikhs join to push for more political space
23
September 2009
MUMBAI:
Maharashtra Sikh Association is walking the extra mile to ensure at
least five Sikh candidates win the forthcoming Assembly polls... |
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Sikh minister comes to the aid of athlete's family
23
September 2009
NEW
DELHI: India's Minister of Sports, M.S. Gill, handed over a draft of
Rs.3 lakh to Mrs. Surinder Kaur, the wife of late Olympian Makkhan
Singh, here last week after... |
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Indian media gets bloody nose over China reporting
23
September 2009
New Delhi: Displaying its capacity to turn utterly rabid, and then
losing no time in exposing itself as to how it bows before the
government of the day, the Indian media... |
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Man who prides himself on beating girls leads Hindu agenda again
23
September 2009
New
Delhi: Communal agenda continues to rule the right wing politics in
India and no amount of shame heaped on the card carriers of
fundamentalism and intolerance... |
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Comrades' cry goes shrill: Let's
kill them all!
23
September 2009
Less
than a week after Indian Prime Minister declare dthat his country
was losing the war against Maoist insurgents, the real Red region is
spilling unprecdented blood... |
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Dalit boy loses vision to police torture
23
September 2009
Faizabad/Lucknow: Atrocities against Dalits in India continue
unabated, and in the dalit party BSP ruled UP, such incidents are by
no means unheard of. A shocking... |
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Bemoaning Indian
Media
16
September 2009
India is on an austerity drive big time. Rest of the world! Watch
out. India is saving. It is saving big time. There is drought, and
there is some economic downturn. So... |
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India concedes it is losing war against Red Terror
16
September 2009
NEW DELHI: Not
long ago, India's PM Manmohan Singh had called Naxalism the single
most important threat facing the country. On Tuesday, the candidness
only... |
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India's top judge all for
confiscating assets of the corrupt
16
September 2009
New Delhi: Sick of
massive corruption in government in delivery of public services,
India's top judge K G Balakrishnan has now favoured statutory
provision for seizure of... |
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US sets example for reaching out to a community
16
September 2009
Thiruvananthapuram: At a time when the Indian government, instead of
trying to bridge the gulf with the Sikh community which is marking
the 25th anniversary of... |
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Academic dons shame India on atricities in tribals
16
September 2009
BHOPAL: Indian
officials in tribal countryside continue the policy of pitching
tribals against tribals. A fact-finding team comprising professors
of Delhi University and... |
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The couple of other hundred who also died
9
September 2009
HYDERABAD: In
almost inexplicable series of tragedies, all buried under the flood
of news about the Andhra Pradesh CM's death in a chopper crash, a
number of... |
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Dalit boy served food in school, so it stands locked
9
September 2009
JAIPUR: When all
the guarantees that the Indian Constitution talks of are read out in
seminar halls and when the Indian leaders finally get tired of
telling us how much... |
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Probe finds Modi's favourite officers killed woman, three others in fake
encounter
9
September 2009
AHMEDABAD: In
yet another major setback to the Narendra Modi government in
Gujarat, Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate S.P. Tamang has ruled
that the incident... |
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Hindutva’s founding myths, and the RSS
9
September 2009
As far the
concept of Hindutva is concerned, there was never any clarity or
unanimity among the leaders of the BJP. The original discussion
between Syama Prasad... |
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My
Lord, How Much Do You Own?
2
September 2009
Finally, after
much resistance and after even a challenge in the Delhi High Court
to demands that the judges reveal the wealth that they have come to
possess, the... |
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Sikh boy’s refusal to cut hair costs him his
job
2
September 2009
Shimla:
Discrimination on religious ground has brought the dream of
24-year-old Harshdeep Singh Anand, a local Sikh boy, to find a
lucrative job abroad to an abrupt... |
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India's top judiciary stuck in
asset cleft-stick
26
August 2009
In times of crumbling moral values in public life, even the top
judiciary in India is at a loss about how to save its image, but the
insistence of India's top judge about not... |
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Court convicts three in anti-Sikh
genocide case
26
August 2009
NEW DELHI: A
Delhi court on Saturday convicted three persons for attempting to
murder members of a Sikh family during the 1984 Sikh genocide. It
indicted the Delhi... |
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India on Watch List
19
August 2009
CHANDIGARH/NEW
DELHI/WASHINGTON: India refused to take benefit of the nearly four
month delay in the preparation of the 2009 annual report of the
independent... |
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India's CBI: Cast
In Lawlessness
19
August 2009
The Sikhs have come to know the ways of the functioning of the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's top sleuthing body,
rather too well. In the case of a crime... |
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India scares
itself, then says do not press panic buttons
19
August 2009
Typical of the way
issues of public concern are addressed in the country, India pressed
all panic buttons when swine flu hit its shores. The media went into
a panic... |
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She inspired
organ donations by gifting son's organs
19
August 2009
Chennai : It was a
difficult decision for Dr Pushpanjali to even consider organ
harvesting. After all, her only son Hitendran, all of 15 years, had
been declared brain dead... |
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Sikhs join Kashmiris to mark
Indian Independence dayas “black day”
19
August 2009
LONDON: The
UK-based Sikh Diaspora marked India’s Independence Day by organising
a major demonstration before the country’s diplomatic mission in
support of... |
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BJP: A squabble in every nook
19
August 2009
New Delhi/Jaipur:
This was an ugly fight fought in full view and under the gaze of
24x7 news TV cameras. A core group of the BJP led by party president
Rajnath Singh... |
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Swine flu engulfs India as pig-headed govt
fumbles, fails its people
12
August 2009
PUNE/NEW DELHI: What did you expect when a virus as deadly as Swine
Flu hit a country as poorly equipped to deal with even a minor
healthcare emergency as... |
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India Must be Held Accountable for Manipur
Fake Encounter
12
August 2009
Ottawa: The
World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) has condemned the continuing
human rights violations and fake encounter killings being carried
out by security... |
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Rabba Rabba Meenh Wasa
12
August 2009
NEW
DELHI: It's a measure of how bad the drought currently affecting
India is: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a meeting of chief
secretaries of states that the... |
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Glasnost phase is
RSS' new stunt
12
August 2009
New Delhi : For a long time, the RSS functioned as a secretive
society, and rarely bothered to clarify many widely held
allegations. Now, increasingly under attack by... |
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No extradition of NRIs in kidnap cases
12
August 2009
New Delhi: One
has heard this too often. An NRI father or mother accusing the other
partner of kidnapping their children back to India in breach of a
foreign decree and... |
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Govt brings Bill to hold judges accountable, then runs away
12
August 2009
New Delhi: Indian judiciary in the past few years went into an
activism groove and pressed for many measures to bring probity in
public life. Such moves were hailed by... |
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Writing On The Wall: Yeh
Parivar Garib Hai
5
August 2009
How would you identify a poor household in case there is a
government scheme to extend some sort of help to the impoverished?
And how would you maintain these... |
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A country called Kashmir
5
August 2009
This is an image-essay. Experience Kashmir in the words of the
editor of World Sikh News, who recently visited Kashmir. He is
convinced that the rights of Kashmiris... |
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KHAP Murder: Govt counsel asks HC to shut case, forgets to say petitioner was murdered
5
August 2009
CHANDIGARH: A
young couple wanted to and then got married, but both came from
different castes. They feared attacks and therefore had asked for
protection... |
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Finally, the firebrand gets his due
5
August 2009
PATNA: George Fernandes was the great face of people's struggle
against Indira Gandhi's emergency. Later, he emerged as a champion
of many people's movements... |
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Fake encounters galore: In Manipur, CM is party to a lie
5
August 2009
Guwahati:
Chungkham Sanjit was killed in an encounter on July 23 after he
opened indiscriminate fire in the Khwairamband Bazar area of Imphal.
Later, Chief Minister... |
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India is giving common women opportunity, but how!
5
August 2009
ALLAHABAD: Just have a look at the jobs that Indian government
offers to young women, and the way the recruitment is done. Indian
Railways has said it will now be... |
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Next Ban on
Ramayana?
5
August 2009
India's
right wing ultra-nationalist party, BJP, known for cultural
terrorism, has now gone a step further and its Chhattisgarh
provincial government has banned Charan... |
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Deep Joshi is Ramon Magsaysay Award winner
5
August 2009
Prominent Indian social activist Deep Joshi, who has done pioneering
work for "development of rural communities", was on Monday named
along with five others for the... |
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Top Indian official under CBI
lens for emigration scam kills family, self
5
August 2009
In
a strange and tragic turn of events, a senior IAS officer who was
Protector General of Emigrants in India's Ministry of Overseas
Affairs, Jagadananda Panda, shot... |
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Terror
strikes Valley after year-long lull, two men killed
5
August 2009
Srinagar: The Kashmir Valley’s seeming calm was shattered on
Saturday when militants struck in the heart of Srinagar after a
one-year lull and in two separate... |
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pull out of India
29
July 2009
Bill Gates was in India recently and received an award from the
government for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) work.
India has been the largest recipient... |
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India's politicians move to defend turf
against courts
29
July 2009
For years now, India's courts have been shaming the executive and
legislature by trampling on their domain and turf, and often while
people have hailed such activism... |
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The Hindu-Muslim Business, pernicious variety
29
July 2009
A piece of
legislation meant to prevent distress sale of properties by Hindus
and Muslims to each other in order to get out of allegedly dangerous
areas (dangerous... |
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Hurrying up the climate deal
22
July 2009
Hillary Clinton was in India and she spent a good deal of time to
stress that New Delhi cannot hide behind the developed country
carbon footprint versus developing... |
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Cop on bonnet, gun shots stop the
car
22
July 2009
Pune: A 65-year-old Canadian national living in Pune for last 10
years tried to run over a traffic cop in broad daylight in Pune and
then drove through Pune Camp with... |
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Karnataka's new Guv promises to look into demands of Sikhs
22
July 2009
BANGALORE:
Governor H.R. Bharadwaj on Sunday promised the Sikh community in
Bangalore that the State Government would look into their demand
that includes... |
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Back to back mishaps hit India's showcase Delhi Metro
15
July 2009
NEW
DELHI: Double whammy struck India's showpiece of developmet, the
Delhi Metro, when six persons died on Sunday morning after they were
buried under the... |
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On the
same-same debate
15
July 2009
This is a
complex debate, and it always was. There is a strong body of
arguments by those working to prevent HIV/AIDS, and there are strong
moral grounds from the... |
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Adopting a child in India may become easier
15
July 2009
Many Punjabis
across the world find it difficult to adopt a child from back home
because laws are so complicated. India, infamous for making adoption
laws, norms and... |
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Over 130 drink themselves to death in Gujarat
15
July 2009
Ahmedabad: In
India's Gujarat state where mass killer Narendra Modi of BJP is a
big champion of protecting "Gandhian ideal" of prohibition, more
than 130 people died... |
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Students beat to death professor on camera, court lets them free
15
July 2009
NAGPUR: In what
was a shameful episode of the Hindutva inspired students and
activists of the student wing of the BJP beating to death a college
professor on camera... |
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Overloaded Flight: Air India flies in cockpit too
15
July 2009
NEW DELHI: It
happens only in India. Air India carried three more passengers than
the number of seats on a Mumbai-Mangalore overloaded flight, and
made one of them... |
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Namaz v/s puja clashes in India leave four dead
15
July 2009
MURSHIDABAD:
Four persons were killed, including two in police firing, as
communal clashes broke out on Friday at a village in Beldanga in
Murshidabad district... |
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After Lalgarh, Red flag up in
Koraput
8
July 2009
Bhubaneswar: Orissa
has just got its own Lalgarh. Naxal-backed tribals in Orissa’s
Koraput district on Tuesday forcibly reoccupied lands that
non-tribals, local... |
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Sikh Leaders commit Green Plan to Reduce Global Warming
8
July 2009
New Delhi: UN
leaders and Sikh leaders met in New Delhi this week to discuss the
greening of the gurdwaras and schooling. They endorsed at the
conference a five... |
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Malta Tragedy: 13 years later, court orders framing of charges
8
July 2009
NEW DELHI:
Thirteen years after 170 Indian youth, all of them males and a large
number of them Punjabis, died in the icy waters off the Ionian sea
in the accident... |
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High Court ruling on private acts
ties India in knots
8
July 2009
NEW DELHI: Within
hours of Delhi High Court decriminalising same sex relationships
between consenting adults after overturning a 149-year-old law
finding it... |
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Youth killed in fake encounter in
Dehradun
8
July 2009
DEHRA DUN: Trigger
happy police in Dehradun shot dead an MBA student after he failed to
halt exactly at the spot where policemen manning a post had asked
him to... |
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India budgets for common man
after years of neo-liberal roller coaster
8
July 2009
NEW DELHI: Tough economic conditions and recent victory in Lok Sabha
elections seem to have convinced India's ruling UPA government to
come up with a budget... |
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Babri demolition report sends RSS, BJP squirming
1
July 2009
NEW
DELHI:
After 17 long years, 48 shameless extensions and 399 hearings, and
significantly after many a regime and many a turns in the body
polity of India, a... |
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Fugitive from law, this killer BJP MLA contested polls
1
July 2009
Ahmedabad:
Shame continues to visit the saffron parivar in India as another
Gujarat BJP politician was arrested earlier this week for his role
in the 2002 Gujarat... |
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India's top Human Rights panel is headless, in many senses of the term
1
July 2009
NEW DELHI: The
non-seriousness of New Delhi about its human rights record is clear
from te fact that its top human rights protection body, the National
Human Rights... |
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Godly visits come cheap for India’ poor, not food
17
June 2009
BANGALORE: Hair
brained ideas come dime a dozen to Indian politicians but their
particular favourites are those that keep poor people vote banks
happy without... |
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New Delhi tries to douse Kashmir fires with a sop
17
June 2009
SRINAGAR: After
the rape and murder of two Kashmiri women by Indian security forces
personnel and days after the kashmiri Valley seethed in rage
against Indian... |
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Mahatma Gandhi was natakbaaz, says Maya
17
June 2009
LUCKNOW: The
Bahujan Samaj Party’s view about Mahatma Gandhi has remained the
same but it is surprising how everytime the UP Chief Minister
Mayawati... |
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Brahmans, Rajputs take up broom, come out of caste’s maya
17
June 2009
LUCKNOW: At
least one government job which saw almost 100 per cent reservation
for the lowest of the lower castes in caste-ravaged India
was that of the safai... |
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Killings, lootings on in Lalgarh as govt prepares for showdown
17
June 2009
LALGARH:
In its June 3-9, 2009 edition, the World Sikh News reported about a
slice of India where people have effectively sacked the government
and have taken... |
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India asks Indian students not
to retaliate
10
June 2009
India has
advised the Indian students in Australia and the media at home to
exercise restraint. It also promised to engage Canberra in
high-level dialogue on the issue... |
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Habib Tanvir of Ponga Pandit
fame no more
10
June 2009
BHOPAL:
Eminent Indian playwright, actor and director HabibTanvir died here
on Monday, leaving a colossal void in the world of theatre. The
85-year-old multifaceted giant of Indian theatre... |
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Betweem militants and electoral politics: Studying a party that traversed
along the razor's edge
3
June 2009
Srinagar: For a
number of militant aspirational movements, the rise of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in Kashmir... |
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Excerpts Corner
3
June 2009
Jawaharlal and Rajiv were also guilty of one massive failure. Nehru
refused to offer Indian Muslims the gift he had given to Indian
Hindus... |
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The Oath He Took Was Sans Conviction
3
June 2009
NEW DELHI: Those who want to reform themselves, reform. Others set
up a commission on how to reform, and fight over reports of the commission
when they are not... |
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Hungry India set to export food
grains
27
May 2009
NEW DELHI: Welcome
to hungry India flush with food grain. At a time when Indian
official figures say 48 per cent of all children in the country
are... |
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Killer
minister gets bail
20 May 2009
AHMEDABAD:
Accused of leading blood thirsty mobs that killed some 100 Muslims,
former Gujarat Minister of State for Women’s Welfare... |
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Tamils have a new voice in LS
20 May 2009
CHENNAI: Even as the Tamil Diaspora worldwide protests against the
treatment being meted out to the Tamils in Sri Lanka, in India Tholkappian
Thirumavalavan, a... |
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Lalu: Good enough for jokes
20 May 2009
PATNA: It is difficult for the younger generation of Diaspora
children to understand what Bihar means in Indian political parlance. Most
Indians used the term hardly in a... |
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Separate Telnagana dream: Is it
dead?
20 May 2009
The dream of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) which had made the issue
of a separate state of Telangana the cornerstone of its politics and even
changed sides at the... |
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A CRYING MODI?`
20 May 2009
NEW
DELHI: During the campaign, the BJP projected Narendra Modi as its
star campaigner. L K Advani praised him umpteen times, and the BJP... |
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Rs. 500-crore aid package likely for Sri Lankan Tamils
20 May 2009
NEW DELHI: India
is considering a Rs. 500-crore aid package for civilians displaced
by the conflict between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces... |
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The Lone
ranger in Kashmir
13
May 2009
For a man who boycotted the 2008 assembly election, People’s
Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone made a surprising turnaround
recently by... |
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Even High Court judge gets angry: Tareek par
tareek
29
April 2009
New
Delhi: Hearing in the appeal by the CBI in the Delhi High Court
against acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984
anti-Sikh genocide case has hardly... |
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Prez drags Cabinet into Gujarat's anti-terror
law
29
April 2009
New Delhi:
Indian President Pratibha Patil has asked the Union home ministry to
go back to the Union Cabinet before seeking her consent on its rejection to
Gujarat... |
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Geelani blasts jazia on Sikhs, says nothing Islamic
about it
22
April 2009
In a move
that is being seen as significant at a time when one key separatist leader
is fighting the elections... |
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Kashmiris protest to shunt out CRPF camps
from their villages
8 April 2009
SRINAGAR:
Notwithstanding the repeated shame courted by India’s
Army and CRPF for killing innocent Kashmiris in fake encounters or
unprovoked... |
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India’s holy men rally behind saffron lobby
8 April 2009
PATANJALI: In
the garb of religious and moral teachings, a large number of
saffron-clad babas and selfstyled holymen in India
are rooting for the... |
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Advani
wants debate Obama style
1 April 2009
NEW DELHI: Poll
season brings in its wake claims and proposals that you will not hear the
politicians make otherwise in more sober times... |
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Ranjit Singh Kukki surrenders
without documents
18 March 2009
SANTA BARBARA: They came from Los Angeles, New Mexico, San
Francisco, and Sacramento and of course Santa Barbara and beyond. They were
art... |
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Poll Talk: Indian politics again hit by Third
Front
18 March 2009
NEW
DELHI: After much poll talk and just days before India goes to
elections, both, the ruling Congress as well as the Opposition BJP,
spent considerable... |
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Govt probe finds Indian Army guilty of murder, Army rejects it
18 March 2009
SRI NAGAR:
Agovernment probe into the killing of two innocent youths at Sopore
last month in firing targetted at the two youths has found the
Indian Army guilty... |
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Hindutva’s new hatred target: Charlie Chaplin
18 March 2009
BANGALORE: Intolerance has a face that is a poor caricature of
religious faith. Intolerant Hindutva elements now have found a new
enemy in w o r l d r e n o w n e d... |
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Top court lets free women 'coz they were frisked by male cops
18 March 2009
New Delhi: Male
officers cannot frisk women for the purpose of confiscating contraband
material like narcotics as it is illegal and would render the prosecution’s
case... |
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11-year-old partner dumps BJP in Orissa
11 March 2009
Bhubaneshwar:
India's Hindutva oriented right-wing ultra national party that often
talks of turning India into a Hindu rashtra and led a movement to
demolish... |
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In India, the battle of Lanka
will be fought in Tamil Nadu
11
March 2009
Chennai: So far is
the Dravidian land that Punjabis, not to speak of Punjabi Diaspora,
often gets little interested in what is happening in Tamil Nadu. But
because of the... |
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India goes to Rs 10,000 crore
poll but will it get a Sikh PM again
4
March 2009
NEW DELHI: India will go to elections from April 16 to May 13 to
elect a new government, and the ruling United Progressive Alliance
led... |
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1984 key witness Giani Surinder Singh illegally detained at Delhi airport
4
March 2009
CALIFORNIA/NEW
DELHI: Exposing for the benefit of the entire world the shallowness
of the Indian Government’s claims that it wanted... |
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India’s Election Commission under cloud
4
March 2009
NEW DELHI: Even as India began its tryst with democracy once again
by announcing the election dates, a huge question mark hangs over
the entire exercise. Serious... |
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European Union sees window of
opportunity in Kashmir
4
March 2009
SRINAGAR:
Maintaining that the Kashmir issue needed a political resolution, the head
of the European Union’s Troika Ambassadors delegation has said that... |
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'Ms Minister, Pl explain why you should not
be arrested?'
25
February 2009
AHMEDABAD: Narendra Modi's minister for women and child
welfare herself needs a lot of help, and of course only men of the
mental make up of Modi... |
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After budget comes the real thing: somethings
become cheap
25
February 2009
NEW DELHI: Days
after India skipped a full budget and Finance Minister Pranab
Mukerjee presented a vote on account, the UPA government, possibly
under pressure... |
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Sukh Ram is guilty
25
February 2009
New Delhi:
Corruption in India got a grand visual recall when sleths found
crores of currency notes stashed in the house of former Indian... |
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Hindutva mascot Modi prepares for UK
visit
25
February 2009
LONDON/AHMEDABAD: Even as focussed and Supreme
Court-supervised investigations into killings of Muslims in
Gujarat in 2002 are
increasingly bringing out the... |
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Indian lawyers police fight
pitched battles on high court premises
25 February 2009
CHENNAI: In scenes that hardly help the Indian argument at
international forums that it is a robust democracy... |
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Ranjit Singh Kukki arrested
again on orders of Delhi High Court
25 February 2009
NEW
DELHI: In a shocking twist to the case of Ranjit Singh Gill alias
Kukki, the son of Padma Bhushan awardee and former Vice Chancellor
Khem Singh Gill... |
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Modi does some jugalbandi with Pakistan
18
February 2009
In remarks
clearly loaded against the minority Muslim community, Gujarat CM
Narendra Modi last week said while India was asking Pakistan... |
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Top police officers expose Modi's
bias, KPS Gill's role
18 February 2009
New Delhi: EVEN AS THE Indian Corporate world led by the
likes of Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani wants to see Hindutva mascot
like Narendra Modi as the next Prime... |
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India finally admits ripple effect
of meltdown
18
February 2009
NEW DELHI: After months of obfuscation and claims to the contrary,
the Indian government is now finally forced to see the truth of the impact
of the global meltdown... |
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Hamri karo haath
de rachha
18
February 2009
I believe there is an omnipresent God who answers our good deeds.
Everyday, we should devote some time to prayers. That helps me, not just
during the near-miss... |
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My Lord, how much do you own? We
need to know, please
18
February 2009
New Delhi: Shaming
the resistance from within the Indian judiciary at the highest levels, a
number of eminent citizens from various walks of life have now... |
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Sikh pilot of
Air India averts disaster, possibly saved India’s President
11 February
2009
MUMBAI: An Air India Sikh pilot became a hero when he slammed
brakes of a plane about to take off after spotting an Air Force
helicopter... |
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Raaje Sheehn, Mukaddam Kutte
11 February
2009
NEW
DELHI:
Raju Sharma was arrested for a petty robbery and tortured
mercilessly for recovery of the materials stolen by him. He
succumbed to his injuries... |
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Mosque demolisher
Hindutva brigade takes Ram Temple turn
11 February
2009
NAGPUR:
Politics in India took a Jai Shri Ram turn this week. Communalising
Indian polity in one fell swoop... |
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Phone records told ghastly tale of genocide
11 February
2009
AHMEDABAD: SEVEN
YEARS AFTER the death tandav of Hindutva in western Indian state of Gujarat,
law is catching up... |
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Meltdown heat in Indian media singes scribes
11 February
2009
NEW DELHI: In
one of the clearer signs of the impact of economic meltdown, those
who were to tell you the complete story have been themselves
becoming part of the... |
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And the award goes to...Babri demolisher
11 February
2009
NEW DELHI: In a development
that speaks volumes about media’s scruples, or lack thereof, the
NDTV news channel gave away a Lifetime Achievement award to
India’s... |
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Delhi High Court frees massacre accused
11 February
2009
NEW DELHI: In a
scathing damnation of the Indian justice system, the Delhi High
Court this week called police investigations into genocidal attacks
on Sikhs in 1984... |
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J-K CM talks of democracy frills
4
February 2009
SRINAGAR: A state afflicted with terrorism but having a dalliance
with democracy has to try many strategies to project itself as a
people's friendly establishment. No... |
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No UPA alliance in polls, says
Congress
4
February 2009
NEW DELHI: Big
news from the Indian political front this week was the Congress
party’s official announcement that it will have no alliance at the
national... |
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Look who's talking! Now, VHP demands
apology
4
February 2009
New Delhi: of the
many ways in which to label a community as guilty, one is to seek an
apology for a perceived wrong. India's right wing Hindutva
spouting... |
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India's top poll body is torn
asunder
4
February 2009
NEW DELHI: India's much touted and hyped for its fairness Election
Commission is torn asunder and its chief has told the President of
India that one of his colleagues... |
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Kandhamal still lives on edge, peace
not in sight
4
February 2009
KANDHAMAL:
From outside, the situation appears normal in Orissa’s Kandhamal
district, which witnessed large-scale anti-Christian violence five
months ago... |
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Caste is alive in India, and kicking
even ministers
28 January 2009
ORISSA:
Days before
India celebrated its Republic Day and days after a serving Supreme
Court judge wrote a series of articles claiming... |
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Indian police officer caught for heroine
trafficking
28 January 2009
Mumbai: In a
rather glaring example of the rot in the police system, the
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested an Indian Police
Service (IPS) officer... |
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PM is out of ICU, family underlines
Sikh faith
28 January 2009
New Delhi: Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh is off intensive care and most intravenous
lines for drug infusions, fluids and nutrition have been removed... |
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Hindutva in Full Bloom: Sri Ram Sena
goes to pub, after women
28 January 2009
MANGALORE: Activists of Ram Sena, a front organisation of the
larger right-wing Hindutva BJP-RSS, molested, chased, assaulted and
beat up some 40 young girls on... |
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No beards allowed, except for Sikhs:
IAF tells SC
21 January 2009
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force has clearly told the Supreme Court
that the beard accepted policy is only and only applicable to the
Sikhs... |
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India Inc. votes for fascist
Modi
21 January 2009
In
times when America is showing the world that there is a path that
can beat the old foggies, the old rivaliries, the old animosities
... |
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Miliband, Susan Rice tell India some
hometruths
21 January 2009
NEW
DELHI: When British Foreign Secretary David Miliband came visiting
India last week and chose to say a few home truths... |
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Sumedh Saini case twist reveals judge-accused nexus
14 January 2009
New Delhi: A
kidnapping case against Punjab IGP Sumedh Singh Saini and three
other police officials has taken a dramatic turn... |
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Uttarakhand Sikhs rally for release
of jailed Merchant Navy captain
14 January 2009
THE Sikh community
in Uttarakhand has asked the Indian Government to take up on top
pririty basis the case of release of two Merchant Navy officers ... |
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Cambridge announces Manmohan
scholarships
14 January 2009
NEW DELHI: The
University of Cambridge on Monday announced a new scholarship
programme for Indian students in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh... |
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Militants escape after 9 day encounter
14 January 2009
India faced major
embarassment when despite the high military alert along the border,
a continuing encounter and direct supervision of top Indian brass
including the Army chief and intelligence agencies... |
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Top Indian judges say they must not be asked about their wealth
14 January 2009
Dashing any hopes of taking a lead and setting an example in the
interest of transparency and public image... |
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Top Rights activist languishes in
jail, India claims he's terrorist
14 January 2009
India's Home Minister P Chidambaram talked about balancing human
rights concerns when he brought the new black law to allegedly
counter terrorism... |
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Will RSS have a new chief soon?
14 January 2009
India's highly
communal Hindu right wing outfit, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
has been bitten by a youth bug. Saffron grapevine is currently abuzz
with rumours... |
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Hindu outfit had dacoit as member, he was behind Hubli blast
14 January 2009
In perhaps a
rare peep into how the Hindu rightist outfits function in India
and what kind of political linkages do they harbour, a Karnataka
dacoit has confessed that he had links to a radical Hindu... |
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INDIAN IT DOT CON
14 January 2009
NEW
DELHI: In countless Bollywood movies, the hero is often named Raju.
An underdog, Raju has beaten many odds in many a movies ... |
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Adamant government takes
anti-people law route to reopen truckers strike
11 January 2009
NEW DELHI: As
the strike by transporters all over the country enters the seventh
day, instead of reducing the price of diesel... |
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World
Bank bars Wipro too Investor confidence shaken, SEBI chief meets
PM over Satyam
12 January 2009
Bangalore:
Reeling under the impact of the massive fraud perpetrated by
Ramalinga Raju’s team of Satyam Computers... |
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Indian
IT bubble bursts, almost
7 January 2009
HYDERABAD: What was expected in the last few days has happened. No
one could have stopped it. Ultimately it was admission by none other
than the founder-chairman... |
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India keeps up Pak-Is-Guilty propaganda
7 January 2009
NEW DELHI: Indian media and India's government competed with each
other all through the entire last week in accusing Pakistani
bluntly... |
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Mumbai In The Hills:
Encounter With Militants Enters Day 8
7 January 2009
RAJORI:
Within days of exposing India's utter inability in tackling a terror
strike by a group of armed men in an urban setting... |
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Crores vanish from BJP office
31 December
2008
NEW DELHI: No
one likes money to go missing. And it’s harder if you can’t even
make a hue and cry about it. BJP finds itself in just such an
unenviablesituation after its chief accountant reported... |
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Kashmir proves what? Certainly not
what New Delhi claims!
31 December
2008
SRINAGAR: India is making a big deal out of the heavy turn out for
elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the numbers favored a National
Conference-Congress coalition... |
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NCM urges Govt to take early decision on migrant Sikh youth
31 December
2008
NEW
DELHI: About 10,000 Sikh youths, now in their middle age, who had
fled to UK, US, Canada and Germany in the aftermath of the Operation
Blue Star in 1984... |
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Antulay’s Crime & Muslim Opinion
24 December
2008
India is gunning
for A R Antulay because he alluded to the fact that three top
officers of Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) were killed in a
rather strange manner... |
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Do not pounce upon Pak media, counsels Indian
editor
24 December
2008
NEW DELHI:
In an impassioned criticism of the way the Indian news anchors and
electronic media scribes are pouncing upon Pakistan, Pakistani media
and anything Pakistani... |
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Acid throwers and vigilante heroes
24 December
2008
An acid throwing incident and death of three youth in a shoot out
with the police has come as developments that show people’s utter
lack of faith in the Indian... |
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After Hemant Karkare, look who is heading ATS
24 December
2008
NEW DELHI: Even as
the brouhaha is at peak about Indian minister A R Antulay’s remarks
over the killing of Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) chief Hemant
Karkare... |
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India beats jingoistic drums, but PM rules
out war
24 December
2008
NEW DELHI: After
many days of jingoism and war mongering statements, India seems to
be cooling down. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday virtually
ruled... |
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Namdharis demand probe into death of leader
24 December
2008
New Delhi: The
Namdhari sect has asked the Government of India to set up a
Commission of Inquiry to probe how their legendary leader Ram Singh,
considered "satguru"... |
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Christmas celebrations will be awashed in
fear of saffron goons
24 December
2008
BHUBANESHWAR:
Across India, Christians will be celebrating Christmas perhaps in
one of the most disturbing times as Hindutva forces target
minorities and justice... |
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India says Sikhs out but makes Jains a
minority
24 December
2008
NEW
DELHI: Indian Government is moving full steam ahead to pass the bill
that will re-define minorities at the state level, thus making Sikhs
a majority in Punjab... |
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Finally MMS-Sonia trip on human rights front
17 December
2008
Faced with
terror attacks, reeling under the inept handling of the Mumbai
tragedy and smarting under criticism from the hardcore Hindu ultra
nationalist... |
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Semi-final polls leave all guessing, performers are stars
10 December
2008
As India races towards Parliamentary elections, possible eiter early
next year or by April-May, the results of the semi-finals have
proved that speculation will continue... |
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Enough Is Enough
3 December
2008
MUMBAI: Terror
had been knocking at India's doors in the past, at times even threatening to
break down the doors, but this time it just barged in: full frontal,
deathly... |
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Taj hotel's Sikh GM family among those killed first
3 December
2008
MOHALI: In one
of the first killings in Mumbai terror strike, terrorists sought out
and killed the family members of the Sikh General Manager of Taj
Hotel... |
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This dear judge wants to forget all, here's why
3 December
2008
MUMBAI/CHANDIGARH:
How even the best, the intellectuals, the brilliant fail to learn the right
lessons and escape the process of applying... |
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Sikh youth offer food to security forces
3 December
2008
MUMBAI: During
the chaotic aftermath of the terror strikes many ordinary Mumbaikars
came out on the streets to offer whatever help they could... |
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How far removed is Indian politician from
people’s pulse
3 December
2008
BANGALORE: Major
Sandeep Unnikrishnan of the NSG commandos who died in the Mumbai
operations must be wondering up above in the heavens about how ... |
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Stereotyping Muslim, India
style
3 December
2008
ndia is hardly taking note of its growing, educated, and politically aware
Muslim middle class and is continuously trying to paint the Muslim with jihadi
brush... |
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Friend of Punjab, former PM VP Singh passes away
26 November
2008
NEW
DELHI: Boldly battling cancer for many years, the 77-year old Raja
of Manda, VP Singh passed away. With the country’s
attention focused on battling violence in Mumbai... |
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Mumbai still
under siege
26 November
2008
MUMBAI: More than twenty four hours since the city was attacked in
one of the worst violent incidents this country has seen, the fires
at the prestigious heritage... |
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Shanti Bhushan wanted to haul Rajiv legally, but BJP
man tripped
26 November
2008
New Delhi: A
former Indian federal minister has blamed BJP leader Vijay Kumar
Malhotra for ensuring that a petition seeking the disqualification
of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi... |
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After weeks of torture, Indian police finds
these Muslim youth innocent
19 November
2008
NEW DELHI: In
1980s and early ‘90s, the Sikhs experienced what it means to be
stereotyped and labelled. Currently, Muslims are getting a taste of
it. Innocent Sikh young men... |
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BJP drops shame-sham cover, directly aligns
with terror suspects
19 November
2008
The fascist
leadership learns the ropes to defend one of their ilk and her
associates detained for masterminding violent activities... |
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Cong leader talks of money in party politics, eased out
12 November
2008
NEW DELHI: A little
bit of ripple is going through India’s ruling Congress party as one
of its better known women faces — no, not Sonia Gandhi... |
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Discourse India
style: Hindu activist spits on scholar’s face
12 November
2008
NEW DELHI:
Traditions of discourse in India hit their worst low when the Delhi
University’s (DU) faculty of arts building turned into a
battleground last Thursday... |
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Obama team member has Sangh links
12 November
2008
NEW DELHI: US
President-elect Barack Obama may have cultivated a left-of-center
image for himself, but Sonal Shah, the Indian- American advisor... |
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Raid effect: Belgian king
visits Gurdwara Bangla Sahib
12 November
2008
NEW DELHI: Belgium's King Albert II and Queen Paola made a
symbolic visit to Gurdwara Bangla Sahib here during their
three-day to India, probably to silence... |
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Dirty cops kill youth with point blank shot, then claim potholes road was
reason
5 November
2008
Bhiwani: A
lawless group of drunk Haryana policemen in a shocking show of brute
force shot from pointblank range a 22-year-old college student
returning home... |
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Hindu sadhvi slips deeply into marsh of evidence in terror blast case
5 November
2008
New Delhi: An
educated smart pro-saffron ultra right wing Hindu sadhvi Pragya
Singh Thakur has been found to be the main brain behind conceiving
terror... |
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Want seats? Contst on saffron symbol, BJP
tells Akalis
29
October 2008
NEW DELHI: The
Akali Dal and the BJP have failed to reach a decision on the Delhi
polls seat sharing arrangements amd the BJP is not ready to forgo
any... |
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Myth explodes: Hindu saadhvi behind terror
blasts in India
29
October 2008
Bhopal: For
years, there was talk of Hindutva terror elements juxtaposed with
stereotyping of the Sikhs as terrorists in the late eighties.... |
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Violence hits Maharashtra as Raj is arrested
22 October 2008
MUMBAI: It is easy to
blast Raj Thackeray’s outbursts and the violence against innocent
Biharis in Maharashtra,
just as Raj is turning the debate into... |
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Chandrayan-1 sets stage for India’s
‘moonwalk’
22 October 2008
SRIHARIKOTA: It has
been a long journey from carrying a hand-held rocket on a cycle to
the launch station here at Sriharikota, to blasting an unmanned
satellite... |
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This violence must cease forthwith
15 October 2008
We
stand before you as Indian citizens professing the Christian faith.
We bring you greetings from a community traumatized and struggling
for its existence.... |
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Govt to keep Muslims, Christians out of SC
list
15 October 2008
NEW DELHI: The
proposal to give Scheduled Caste status to a child with either
parents as Dalit has taken a curious turn, with the Centre making
changes... |
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Sans BJP, Akali Dal will be on test in Delhi
polls
15 October 2008
NEW DELHI: Punjab's
ruling Akali Dal will be soon on test in India's capital Delhi as
the country's Election Commission announced that the Assembly polls... |
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India’s minority panel says scrap the
blacklist
15 October 2008
NEW DELHI: This
is one demand that echoes every few weeks but then fades away from limelight
even though everyone agrees that it is a genuine measure... |
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In reverence for St Alphonsa
15 October 2008
The Vatican’s stamp of approval on the sainthood of Sr Alphonsa
dell’ Immacolata Concezione reiterates the great values of love and
compassion increasingly... |
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Hate How India is at war with itself
15 October 2008
NEW DELHI: As India watches helplessly the violence against
Christians not only continuing but even spreading to other states, as its
Prime Minister suffered... |
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She was gangraped 'coz the mob thought she
was a Christian
8 October 2008
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESHWAR:
The Indian Nationa State and its saffron-hued terrorists who shout /Bharat
Mata KI Jai' as they burn houses and churches... |
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India takes weeks to admit nun was gangraped
8 October 2008
Bhubaneswar/New
Delhi: Yet another shameful chapter in sectarian strife was added
when the Orissa government confirmed that a 29-year-old Catholic
nun... |
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147 dead in stampede at Hindu temple in
Jodhpur
1 October 2008
JODHPUR: Tragedy struck
the Sun City of Rajasthan on the first day of the nine-day navaratra
festivities on Tuesday when 147 pilgrims were killed in an early... |
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Nuclear India story continues
1 October 2008
KANDHAMAL/NEW DELHI: At
Ground Zero of Indian Hindutva terror groups' violence against poor
dalit Christians, there is no stopping bloodshed... |
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Zee TV pulls down hoarding after Sikhs object
to TV ad
1 October 2008
MUMBAI: Immediately after Sikhs protested against a Zee TV hoarding
in Mumbai, the channel reacted and pulled... |
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Blasts, encounter & lesson
24 September 2008
NEW
DELHI/BANGALORE: See the photograph alongside this story for a
complete meta-narrative of what the Indian nation state and its
agencies do to stereotype... |
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Indian workers kill CEO of Italian
firm after tiff
24 September 2008
NOIDA: In a
shocking incident, angry workers of a Rs 360-crore Italian concern
in India lynched to death the CEO of the company near the national
capital right... |
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High Court against High Court, so
Supreme Court stops judicial
24 September 2008
New Delhi: Shorn
of all frills, this is a fight within the High Court. The
administrative side of the Punjab and Haryana High Court is fighting
it out with the judicial... |
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Salwa Judam under fire in Supreme
Court, may have to go
24 September 2008
New Delhi: Salwa
Judum may have to go. The strategy to make the poor fight against
the organised poor in the name of countering what India calls... |
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RSS-BJP carry on anti-Christian hate
violence
17 September 2008
BANGALORE:
Hindutva's terror campaign against minorities in India
is on. The WSN recently carried detailed Special Report... |
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It’s easy to delay trials in India,
says Chief Justice
17 September 2008
NEW DELHI: The
Sikhs, of course, know this too well. The guilty of 1984 massacre of
Sikhs roam free, and one even became a minister in India, but the
trials in courts... |
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Delhi blasts kill scores, but here's
a story for you
17 September 2008
NEW DELHI: It was a happy Sunday when blasts in Delhi rocked India,
they jolted our conscience and brought us once again face to face
with the question... |
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Plight of Sikligar Sikhs needs attention
3 September 2008
HYDERABAD: No
ration cards. No voter identity cards. No dedicated water, power and
sewer lines. No health clinic and government school in the vicinity.... |
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Hyderabad conclave shames India’s re
27 August, 2008
HYDERABAD: “If
you can do something, please get my son back. He is in jail for the
last seven years. No trial, no justice. Just jail. They tell me
that it is some case under POTA... |
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India meets Azadi cries with force but
Kashmir is slipping
27 August, 2008
SRINAGAR: Indian
response to Kashmir’s cries of Azadi continued to be only use of
force. Force to stop rallies, force to arrest leaders, bullets to
keep people... |
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'Court should tell CBI to use video
conference facility'
27 August, 2008
New Delhi:
Jasbir Singh, the US-based witness in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case
involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, has filed a rejoinder
through advocate... |
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Sikhs extend helping hand to migrant Gujjars
27 August, 2008
JAMMU:
Various Sikh organizations have been distributing ration and other
essential commodities among the migrant Gujjar families at Mata
Gujri Teacher... |
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Sonia
says MMA will 'certainly' be candidate for top job again
20 August, 2008
New
Delhi: In what could help Congress possibly get a lot of Sikh votes,
and is likely to once again start a debate within the community
about whether to back... |
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Finally, Bhagat Singh statue unveiled in
Parliament House
20 August, 2008
NEW
DELHI: Seventy-nine years after Bhagat Singh, along with
fellow-revolutionary, threw a bomb on the floor of the Legislative Assembly
"to make the deaf... |
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Tributes to Surjeet had stuff between the lines
13 August, 2008
BUNDALA: Some of the tributes seemed too dubious for any dedicated
Marxist. General secretary of the CPI (M) Prakash Karat said all
that had recently... |
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Kashmir rises against India, troops shooting it down
13 August, 2008
SRINAGAR: The Muslim Street is rising against India, courting death
to get out of it.
India is responding, by shooting to kill. Blocked from even passing
through the... |
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Alfred Nobel’s grandson plans peace university in
India
13 August, 2008
NEW DELHI: The HRD ministry is considering a proposal to set up a
United Earth Peace University by United Earth, an international NGO
headed by Claes... |
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India Wins
Gold, and Loses
13 August, 2008
India is celebrating Abhinav Bindra's
Gold and state after state government is announcing rewards for him, but a
very important aspect is being missed... |
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Hindutva snub: Tribunal lifts
India's ban on SIMI
6 August, 2008
NEW DELHI: After much brouhaha and persistent
ultra-nationalist propaganda aimed largely against Muslim community,
Indian establishment got the snub... |
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Like father, like son
6 August, 2008
HEMALKASA: Following
the footsteps of their father, Prakash and Mandakini Amte have won
the Ramon Magsaysay award for their selfless work with the
aboriginal... |
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Kashmir simmers, Jammu on boil
6 August, 2008
JAMMU: Over a dozen policemen were injured, a
police post and government buildings were set ablaze and a railway track was
uprooted as violence escalated... |
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India wins N-trust vote at IAEA, two hurdles ahead
6 August, 2008
New Delhi: India on Friday took a big stride
forward to take its place at the nuclear high table. The India-specific
safeguards agreement sailed... |
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5 Days, 55 bombs, 3 cities, 53 Dead,
Life Is On Edge
29 July, 2008
AHMEDABAD/SURAT: India is terror struck, and being bombed. With
terrorizing frequency. Swanky IT capital Bangalore had serial blasts
on July 26... |
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Fresh spiral of violence in Jammu over Amarnath shrine land
29
July, 2008
JAMMU: The troubled Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir exploded with
fresh violence as scores have been injured during continuing clashes
between Hindu... |
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Sikh community expresses solidarity with Kashmiris
29
July, 2008
Srinagar: In
Kashmir, a delegation of Sikh community comprising prominent
political and social personalities on Thursday, called on the All
Parties Hurriyat Conference... |
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Dalit: The Error of Usage
29
July, 2008
Dalit”,
“Scheduled Caste”, “Ex-Untouchable” and “Harijan”. These are only
some of the many words used to refer to the most oppressed sections
of Indian society... |
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Tension in Rampur over scuffle with Sikh student
29
July, 2008
Rampur
(UP): The alleged attempts by some students of a higher secondary
school here to forcibly remove the turban of a Sikh classmate and a
subsequent scuffle... |
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Trade talks collapse after US, China,
India reject compromise
29
July, 2008
GENEVA: Trade
officials said Tuesday that a high-level summit to salvage a global
trade pact collapsed, after the United States, China and India
failed to compromise... |
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Singh is King
23
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: On a day Indian
Political System plunged to record depths of morality and Parliament
watched the ugly spectacle of currency wads appearing minutes... |
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In Vienna, Pak pushes for a vote on India’s
safeguards pact
23
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: While
New Delhi debated the survival of the Manmohan Singh government over
the Indo-US nuclear deal, Pakistan stepped up diplomatic efforts... |
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MMS’ attack on Advani was bristling,
personal, and it hurt
23
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: Personal
attacks on L K Advani, references to Godhra, attack on Parliament
and other black marks from BJP regime, defence of his... |
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First Sikh PM's Govt Is Set For Final Nuclear
Test on July 22
16 July
2008
New Delhi:
India’s Left parties vowed all of past week that they will bring down
Manmohan Singh’s Congress-led government before it can finalize the nuclear
deal... |
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Karnataka CM says Sikh pilgrims will get all facilities
16 July 2008
BIDAR: Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.
Yeddyurappa has announced the release of Rs. 15 crore to Bidar for providing
basic amenities... |
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India wakes up to problems of jilted NRI brides
9
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: India now
plans to come to the aid of women who’ve been deserted by their NRI
husbands in foreign countries with legal and financial assistance in
order... |
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India moves into US embrace as Cong strikes power deal to save N-deal
9
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: After
tearing itself apart for months over the Nuclear Deal with the
United States, the Congress-led alliance government in India finally
came close... |
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Indian govt’s new coalition partner
9
July, 2008
The regional Samajwadi Party now holds the balance of power in
Indian politics after the withdrawal of the communist parties from
supporting the government... |
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Kashmir Valley explodes over land-for-mandir
2
July, 2008
SRI NAGAR:
BLATANT imposition of Hindutva agenda in Kashmir has
triggered a groundswell of protests, violence, police firing, lathi
charges, street... |
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Scolded, teen reality show star paralysed
2
July, 2008
KOLKATA: As the
Indian telivision space gets clamoured with more and more reality
shows, some comic, some real tragic but most of them rediculous... |
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Ghising tears down GJM flag at his residence
2
July, 2008
SILIGURI: Former
undisputed leader of the Gorkhaland movement in Darjeeling
hills Subash Ghising has torn down a flag of the Gorkha Janmukti
Morcha (GJM)... |
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DU Sikh colleges challenge quota
2
July, 2008
NEW DELHI: A group
of minority colleges under Delhi University (DU) have approached the
High Court seeking exemption from giving reservation... |
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Pakistan, India OK Iran Gas Pipe
2
July, 2008
NEW DELHI:
Pakistan and India have solved all the bilateral and commercial
differences that prevented them from moving ahead in building a gas
pipeline... |
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Indian Air travel comes full circle
25
June, 2008
The increase in India's air fares following the hike in ATF
prices by oil companies evokes memories of a time not so long ago
when air fares were so cheap... |
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Hindutva league leader RSS plans to hijack
Guru'ta Gaddi celebrations
25
June, 2008
NEW DELHI: The saffron band is always on the look out for occasions
to stress assimilation and the very formation of the Rashtriya Sikh
Sangat... |
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India's top
Hindu leader falls back on terror language
25
June, 2008
MUMBAI:
Imagine a Sikh leader merely mentioning that continuous
marginalization of the Sikhs or attempts to denigrate Sikh Gurus or
Sikh maryada... |
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Indian govt tears itself apart on N-deal with US
25
June, 2008
New Delhi: Just as this WSN edition was
going to the press, India's coalition government and its Left allies
were meeting on Wednesday over a civilian... |
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7 Hemkunt Sahib pilgrims buried under glacier
25
June, 2008
Dehra Dun: Seven
pilgrims on way to Hemkund Sahib shrine in Garhwal Himalayas were
killed and a dozen others injured when a glacier moved from its
place... |
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Sikh scholar addresses Principals of Convent Schools
18
June,
2008
DALHOUSIE:
With a view to have proper appreciation of the Sikhs and Sikhism, a
special learning session was arranged by Rev. Fr. Joseph Puthenpura... |
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Indian sand sculptor wins top honours
18
June,
2008
NEW DELHI: By
choosing ‘global warming’ — the hottest topic in the world today —
as the theme of his sand sculpture at the Berlin International
sand... |
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India’s Supreme Court heaps shame on
Hindu Marriage Act
18
June,
2008
NEW DELHI: For years, saner sections across the country, and the
Sikh community in a very shrill voice, has been pointing out the
many problems... |
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BJP Govt finally tames Gujjars, pact sealed
18
June,
2008
JAIPUR:
When
Gujjar leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla alighted in Jaipur from
the "Indiabulls" helicopter on Monday, one thing was clear: the
Gujjar ... |
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Hemkund Yatra: Six pilgrims hurt in clash
18
June,
2008
Dehra Dun: The Uttarakhand government today deployed heavy police
force at Nagrasu in Rudraprayag district as tension prevailed on the
Hemkund yatra... |
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A refugee from Pakistan, he bought this asset for Rs
2.5 lakh
18
June,
2008
Mumbai:
Of course he did make money for himself, but in the process the
image of a Sikh entrepreneur that Malvinder Mohan Singh has
propagated... |
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Delhi cops beat Sikh to death because of bounced
cheque
18
June,
2008
New Delhi: A member
of the national minorities commission has sought a Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged killing of a Sikh, Nirmal
Singh... |
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BJP National Executive reveals Hindutva
agenda’s resurgence
18
June,
2008
India's right
wing Hindu ultra-nationalist party, the BJP, that is seen largely
responsible for the demolition of the Babri Mosque and inducing... |
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Some God's men are very rich, here is one
18
June,
2008
KERALA:
At a time when the Kerala government, students, NGOs, and youth
bodies have been acting as self-styled vigilantes, carrying out a
drive... |
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Sikh volunteers bring respite to many sun-hit passers
by
18
June,
2008
VISAKHAPATNAM: In a
loving written report from Vizag city, journalist Nivedita Ganguly
wrote in India's leading English daily 'The Hindu' how scores of
weary... |
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Shameless BJP wants death for Afzal Guru
11
June, 2008
MUMBAI: India's
death row convict Afzal Guru sought to put the right wing Hindutva
brand Bharatiya Janata Party to shame by saying that it will be
better if L K Advani... |
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Now, Indians can read foreign news, current
affairs magazines
11
June, 2008
New Delhi: At a time
when internet editions are easily available, the Indian Government
has decided to allow foreign news and current affairs magazines... |
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New theory on Aarushi twin murder case talks of two killers
11
June, 2008
New Delhi: Even as
the Aarushi twin murder case keeps India glued to TV for any new
theory, the federal investigative agency CBI that has taken over the
case... |
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Gujjar protests continue, trains, road traffic hit
badly
4
June,
2008
New
Delhi: Gujjars in India continue with the protests, uprooting
railway tracks, blockading roads. Northern Railways was forced to cancel a
large number... |
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Hurriyat chief Geelani under house arrest
4
June,
2008
SRINAGAR: Adamant on
its policy of not even allowing the ethnic minorities to listen to each
other, the Indian nation state exposed itself once more by putting... |
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Kerala goes godmen hunting to end over the counter
spirituality
4
June,
2008
KERALA: Deravad is
an all India problem, not just Punjabwide. India's Communist-ruled
high literacy southern state of Kerala is often termed in tourism
literature... |
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Gujjars want tribal status, get
bullets
28
May,
2008
RAJASTHAN/NEW
DELHI: Caste is casting its crooked eye on India, and corpses of men
fighting for a miserably thin slice of the reservation cake... |
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The BJP's 18 worthies
28
May,
2008
This is one aspect
that the Indian media did not deem fit to cover though the
information is in the public domain. The WSN brings to you the real
face... |
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BJP touches South Pole; Cong should
read straws in the wind
28
May,
2008
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: Any election in the poll year is keenly watched
to see any straws in the wind and Karnataka was no different... |
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When 25,000 landed up to bless 22 Sikh
couples
21
May,
2008
HYDERABAD:
Some of them were poor, some needed only a little bit of help,
and then there were some who were simply happy to be part of such... |
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Menu card offends Sikh
21
May,
2008
Sikh community
staged a dharna in front of a restaurant on Museum Road on Sunday,
taking serious objection to jokes and pictures displayed... |
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Round up “Bangladeshis”, put them in Guantanamo Bay style camp: India tells
Rajasthan
21
May,
2008
AT a time when
the war on terror is arguably the top priority agenda item of the United
States, and by a stretch of harsh truth of geopolitics, India too... |
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85 killed in Jaipur blasts
14
May,
2008
Once again jolting
the nation with the force of terror, at least 85 people were killed and over
150... |
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One year of Dr Binayak Sen in jail
14
May,
2008
It has been exactly one year India courted shame by putting behind
bars public health specialist and human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen who
has... |
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SC refuses to interfere with French law
14
May,
2008
NEW DELHI:
A
Sikh forum on Tuesday presented an impossible task before the Supreme
Court... |
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Indian print industry on a roll
14
May,
2008
MUMBAI:
At a time
when it has been predicted that the newspaper would die in another
three decades, the print media in India is showing a great
resurgence... |
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Sangh doctors drop Red Cross for Swastika
30
April 2008
AHMEDABAD:
Gujarat doctors leaning towards the Sangh parivar are promoting
the use of the swastika instead of the Red Cross... |
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Yes, India fakes encounters, says Supreme Court
30
April 2008
NEW DELHI:
Fake encounters are happening throughout the country, and they
are worse than cold-blooded murders... |
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BJP govt orders case shut against VHP goons
30
April 2008
JAIPUR:
The Hindu
right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Rajasthan has
refused sanction to prosecute 14 Vishwa Hindu Parishad... |
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Mass Graves issue: Soz to meet Defence Minister
23 April 2008
SRINAGAR: Indian Water Resources Minister Saif-ud-Din Soz
has again brought the spotlight on the issue of mass graves in
Kashmir, saying he would take up... |
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From Chandigarh to Delhi in 50 minutes!
23 April 2008
NEW DELHI: The
Indian Railways has started work to give shape to an ambitious
high-speed train project that would cut journey time from Delhi to
Chandigarh... |
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RSS starts new round of attack on Ram Sethu issue
23 April 2008
New Delhi: Funny
how completely obscurantist stances of certain groups and parties in
India do not lead to popular jokes, and totally ridiculous
stances... |
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Pak says Sikhs welcome without visa
16
April 2008
New Delhi: Pakistan
has said it was open to a visa-free regime as far as Sikh pilgrims
to Pakistan are concerned but it is not known how the Indian
Government... |
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Sarabjit’s sister assured by Pakistan
minister
2
April
2008
AMRITSAR:
Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur
has put off her visit to the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi... |
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Advani gets bouncers after claims in book about hijack saga
2
April
2008
NEW
DELHI: India's Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani's memoirs My
Country, My Life has run into fresh controversy with former minister
and Advani's colleague... |
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SC wants post-Godhra riots re-investigated
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI: The
Supreme Court of India has agreed to constitute a five-member
special investigation team (SIT) to reinvestigate the post-Godhra... |
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I will
quit if violence continues: Dalai Lama
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI: Upset
over the continuing violent protests by the Tibetans, their spiritual
leaders Dalai Lama said he would step down if it continued. “I have... |
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Now, Indian govt plans to amend land
acquisition law
26
March 2008
NEW DELHI:
Rather late in the day, the Indian government is now contemplating
amending the land acquisition law to ensure adequate compensation... |
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Subcontinental
peace hangs by a rope, but Pakistan says it won’t pull lever till
April 30
19
March 2008
NEW
DELHI/ISLAMABAD: For more than two decades, this Sikh man has been
languishing in Pakistan prisons, confined in a solitary cell, waiting
on the death row... |
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Top Sikh officer in Indian Army shunted out
because he was exposing corruption
19
March 2008
One of the highest ranking Sikh army officers in the Indian Army,
widely celebrated for his sense of integrity and a no-nonsense attitude
towards... |
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Govt plans Rs 50 cr kabaddi
extravaganza for NRIs
19
March 2008
CHANDIGARH: If there is a possibility of big money, be sure that the
Punjab Government will be interested in it. And if the big money
involves dollars... |
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India keeps many Sikh refugees from Afghanistan
hanging
19
March 2008
Nearly 4,000 Sikh and Hindu refugees from Afghanistan, who are back
due to civil war, are peeved at the lopsided citizenship norms of the Indian
Ministry... |
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Supreme Court to examine Terminator Act next
month
12
March 2008
NEW DELHI: Punjab
will continue to have to remain on high alert to protect its waters.
The Supreme Court of India has assured the Haryana government... |
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A postcard from the bloody battle ground
12
March 2008
THALASSERY (KANNUR,
KERALA): The Thalassery Government Hospital has often witnessed such
patients as Suresh who received 120 stab wounds... |
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48 Pakistanis in Indian Punjab jails: Prison terms
completed
12
March 2008
NEW DELHI: Forty-eight Pakistanis are languishing in jails across
Indian Punjab even after completing their prison terms. Many of them
have not even been... |
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Sikhs not minority but Centre out to give sop
to other minority varsities
12
March 2008
New Delhi: Even as
the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently ruled that the Sikhs are
not a minority in Punjab, thus taking away SGPC's right to run... |
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Sikhs can use Wakf land, Muslims tell
community
12
March 2008
YAMUNANAGAR:
Displaying not only generosity but the spirit of Sarbat Da Bhala,
the Muslim community in a village in this district said it will open
up... |
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RSS raids Red nerve center
12
March 2008
NEW
DELHI: Thalassery has echoed with political violence so often and so
regularly that the Indian media had long stopped even mentioning it,
but on... |
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India
writes $15 billion cheque to save Sonia’s UPA from committing suicide
5
March 2008
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: For four
years, the image of India spun out
by the Sonia Gandhi-Manmohan Singh led, Leftnudged and SEZ-business-industry... |
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PM says Black List will remain
5
March 2008
AMRITSAR: For
decades the Indian government has been claiming normalcy in Punjab,
but the functioning of the establishment and its psyche refuses to
change... |
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Islam defines and decrees terror
27
February 2008
Facing flak from
the media and tired of regular and rigorous stereotyping of Muslims
in the media by the police and the state machinery... |
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Western India's Bhagat Puran Singh, Baba Amte,
passes away
13 February 2008
Nagpur:
Noted social worker and Magsaysay Award winner Murlidhar Devidas,
also known as Baba Amte, who devoted his entire life to the care... |
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India’s
intellectuals snubbed in Dr Sen case
6 February 2008
RAIPUR: Within
10 days of India's top intellectuals, academicians, lawyers and
retired bureaucrats issuing a strong demand... |
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Bangalore Sikh rider asked to pay fine for not wearing helmet
6 February 2008
BANGALORE: Sikh drivers outside the state of Punjab, particularly in
southern Indian states, continue to face harassment over wearing of
helmet... |
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Turbanating the issue
23 January 2008
NEW
DELHI/AMRITSAR/PARIS: By the time this edition of WSN will be in
your hands, the French president Nicholas Sarkozy would have landed
in India... |
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Indian minister shocked at Punjab’s
‘disturbed’ tag
23 January 2008
AMRITSAR/NEW DELHI:
When Sikhs complain repeatedly that New Delhi discriminates with unjab,
the national media rushes to call it names... |
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Bilkis Bano finally gets
justice, at least some
23 January 2008
MUMBAI: In a justice done, though
perhaps not so completely for the victim, the sessions court in Mumbai sent
12 people to life imprisonment... |
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Now India wants quota for minorities
23 January 2008
NEW DELHI: Ironical are the ways in
which the Indian Government often functions. Close on the heels of
re-defining minorities in such a way as to leave Sikhs... |
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Media Mein Ravan
16 January 2008
Even the much maligned Indian Evidence Act did not require this much proof.
But India’s leading Hindi TV news channel... |
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PM allays fears of overseas workers at Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas
2 Januuary 2008
NEW
DELHI: The Indian government on Monday announced the
establishment of the PM’s Global Advisory Council of People of
Indian Origin, a high-level... |
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Indian govt gives nod for extension of freight
corridor to Amritsar
2 Januuary 2008
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has agreed
in principle to connect Mumbai and Amritsar through a freight corridor that
will.... |
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Bus service between Pakistan and India
resumes
2 Januuary 2008
AMRITSAR/LAHORE: The
bus and train service between Pakistan and India resumed on Monday and the
Samjhauta.... |
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PM tells Staines widow India will act to stop
communal riots
2 January 2008
New Delhi: In a
somewhat belated assurance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said India
will take necessary measures to protect... |
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Orissa reels under church violence after
shocks
2 January 2008
BHUBANESWAR: The riot-hit Kandhamal is limping
back to normal. Six days after anti-Christian violence flared up in the
tribal-dominated... |
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Kiran Bedi to reveal all in revised
2 January 2008
NEW
DELHI: Promising to expose how police reform process is "sabotaged"
by the establishment, the country's first woman... |
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The Naxals, the PM and the Indian
media
26 December
2007
NEW DELHI:
Nation states often find it hard to see a 300 pound guerilla in the
room if they decide not to take note. For years, India's approach to
the... |
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India's Orissa reels under anti-Christian riots, many
churches burnt
26 December,
2007
Orissa: Nightmare replaced celebrations for
Christians in India as right wing Hindu hoodlums of Vishwa Hindu Parishad.... |
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Indian govt seeks ‘report cards’ on Naxal-hit
districts
19 December, 2007
NEW DELHI: The Indian government’s plan to fight Naxalism through
development will be thoroughly tested during the chief ministers’ conference
on internal security on... |
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Cop suspended after 300 escape Indian jail
19 December, 2007
DANTEWADA (Chhattisgarh): A daring jailbreak in
the Dantewada prison in which 300 inmates escaped on Sunday led to the
government suspending Chhattisgarh... |
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RBI also strikes out Sikhs from 'minority' list
19 December, 2007
Chandigarh: Weeks
before the Punjab and Haryana High Court said Sikhs weer not a minority in
Punjab, the Reserve Bank of India,... |
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Raising the Bar on Fake Encounters
12 December, 2007
India's leading Supreme Court advocate and one
of the country's top legal luminaries Soli J. Sorabjee this week
strongly.... |
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Rajiv Gandhi asked Sikh officer of IPKF to kill LTTE
chief during meeting
12 December, 2007
New Delhi: Nation states cast away scruples at
the drop of a hat but how blatant may the leader of a nation get has been
shown by an Indian Army Major General... |
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Mann pro-imperialism, says Bhagat Singh's nephew
12 December, 2007
Amritsar: Criticising Akali Dal (Amritsar)
leader Simranjit Singh Mann for calling Bhagat Singh a murderer of 'innocent
persons' (British police officer Saunders.. |
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Goons attack gurdwara in Delhi, sewadar dead
12 December, 2007
New Delhi: A gurdwara sewadar in Delhi
was killed after a known gang of assaulters attacked him, demolished
gurdwara property, pillaged the... |
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US-style campus violence hits India
12 December, 2007
GURGAON/SAN DIEGO: One of the paramount concerns
of the Diaspora in the United States has always been the security of their
children on school and... |
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Sikhs slam FIR against Reliance, Joke is on Ambani now
5 December, 2007
LUCKNOW: Top Indian honcho and chairman of the
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Anil Ambani, has been accused of facilitating
circulation.. |
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Indian to be new Adobe CEO
14
November, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO: Forty-three
year old Shantanu Narayen, arguably Hyderabad's most successful business
entrepreneur... |
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India tells its ministers to boycott Dalai function
7 November, 2007
New Delhi: When India acts, it does so without shame. Former Prime
Minister Inder Kumar Gujral was to preside over a function to
felicitate... |
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1984 to 2002 -- Tehelka exposes Hindutva's beast on
camera
31 October, 2007
An investigative
Indian news weekly, Tehelka last week totally exposed the truth behind
Gujarat riots and the role of the state and the RSS in it. The extraordinary
six-month investigation... |
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UP Sikh panel member hit in face by hammer
31 October, 2007
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh State
minority commission member and prabhandhak committee chief Rajendra Singh
Bagga was hit on the face with a hammer by a group of men in the Naka |
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A Reporter's Diary
31 October, 2007
Reporter Rahul Bedi
has seen it all, and is a frustrated man today. back in 1984, he was working
with The Indian Express. In 23 years, most memories would fade. But not the
images... |
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Eyewitness
31 October, 2007
The Ghost of Indira Gandhi (1995), Amitav Ghosh, Professor at Queens
College, New York. ‘It was still and quiet, eerily so. The
usual.... |
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India's top sleuthing agency targets culture
body tzars
24 October, 2007
Chandigarh/New Delhi: The CBI has sought
the federal Indian government's nod to file a chargesheet against four
former top officials of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR),
involved in a case... |
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Indians
abroad send most money home
24 October,
2007
New Delhi: India has displaced China and
Mexico to become the top remittance receiving country in the world,
according to latest data released by the World Bank..... |
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Congress to ‘unmask’ Modi in ‘chargesheet’
24 October,
2007
New Delhi: Stepping up its campaign for the Gujarat
Assembly polls, Congress on Saturday said it would “unmask” the
“misdeeds” of chief minister Narendra Modi by bringing out ..... |
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29 folk artists detained for forging US visa documents
17 October, 2007
New Delhi: A troupe of 29 folk artists from Punjab was detained by
the Chanakyapuri police for allegedly using fake documents to apply
for visas in the US embassy in New Delhi.... |
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10
cops convicted for fake encounter in Delhi
17 October, 2007
New Delhi: A New
Delhi court on Tuesday convicted a suspended assistant commissioner
of Delhi Police and nine other policemen for gunning down two
innocent... |
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Mayawati in Newsweek's list of top 8 global power women
17 October, 2007
New York: Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister Mayawati
has been profiled by US magazine Newsweek among eight women leaders
worldwide who have... |
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VHP reconverts 50 tribal families to Hinduism
17 October, 2007
Bhopal: Fifty tribal Christian families were reconverted to Hinduism
at Dewas, 170 km from Madhya Pradesh’s capital, in a ‘‘ghar... |
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Spooky Expose: RAW told its officer to
kill senior Sikh leader, he wants asylum in US
17 October, 2007
New
DELHI: Touching many a RAW nerve in Indian establishment’s dirty
underbelly of Intelligence agencies’ working, no one else but a very
senior officer of India’s top... |
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Trace witnesses, petitioner pleads
10 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: Also,
a petition was moved before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
(ACMM) Sanjeev Jain by the “November 84 Carnage Justice Committee”
and the... |
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Court issues notice on plea against
letting Tytler off the hook
10 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: An
Indian special court has now questioned the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) for giving a clean chit to Sikh killer and
former union minister and Congress... |
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Farmers get pre-poll doles; MSP hiked
10 October, 2007
New Delhi:
Showering pre-poll sops, the Indian government has announced an
across-the-board bonanza covering commodities as diverse as sugar,
wheat, rice, mustard and masur... |
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Indian babus take Consultancy route
10 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: This
is a trend clearly exported from the United States
to India. First it was top Indian bureaucrat and retired cabinet
secretary Naresh Chandra who took the 'Consultant'... |
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Is tobacco lobby too strong, asks
Indian Supreme Court
10 October, 2007
New Delhi: The
Supreme Court on Monday wondered whether the tobacco lobby was ‘too
strong’ to stall attempts by the government to bring into force
rules that made it mandatory for... |
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First ever Agan Bhent Seva Samagam in
South India draws huge crowds
10 October, 2007
HYDERABAD:
Amidst chanting of shabad keertan, several old volumes of Guru
Granth Sahibji and other religious books that cannot be used anymore
for reading purpose because they... |
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Explosives from 21,000 Indian manufacturing facilities leaking to
terrorists
10 October, 2007
NEW DELHI: At a
time when the United States is witnessing agencies like the TSA
ordering patting down of Sikhs' turbans ostensibly to check any
hidden explosives and young... |
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When people grilled the
World Bank, its officials remained mum
3 October, 2007
New Delhi: This
was a rare tête-à-tête between the World Bank officials and
probing people with no political axe to grind, and so rattled
were the officials ... |
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Communal India lost sense as soon as it won match
3 October, 2007
SRINAGAR/GUWAHATI/DEHRADUN:
Give communal Indian streak half a chance, and it makes a
scandalous feast out of it, marauding its minorities even in its
hour of joy to... |
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Senior J-K official held with US passport
3 October, 2007
Srinagar: The terror
affected notrthern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is in the
throes of a new scandal as the police is investigating
corruption and queer citizenship charges... |
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Little India was just a slice, try the real big ugly whole
3 October, 2007
Those readers of
the WSN who passed through New York's Central Park a week ago must
have seen the dancers, chefs, actors, musicians, singers trying
to tell the western world that India... |
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Mobs are taking over because courts
are failing: SC
26 September,
2007
Kanyakumari:
At a time when the Indian newspapers have been regularly reporting
incidents of mobs taking out their anger and rage on one or the
other criminal thus serving instant... |
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What was at issue?
26 September,
2007
A campaign had been started by the Commission for Judicial
Accountability (CJA) by the Bhushan and Bhushan team et al asking
for an explanation as to why a business was... |
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RAW officer exposes the agency, CBI
goes after him now
26 September,
2007
New Delhi: India's
top sleuthing agency, the RAW, is tying itself up in knots over a
book that was written by one of its former officers, telling some of
the gory inside details. On Friday... |
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Son rise in India's ruling party as
Sonia
26 September,
2007
New Delhi: India's
ruling Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi, widely known and believed
to be more powerful even than the Indian Prime Minister and
President put together, has... |
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NCERT rewrites Partition history,
vilifies Jinnah more
26 September,
2007
New Delhi: In a departure from the tone of political correctness,
the NCERT history textbook for Class XII for the first time has
identified the villains of Partition, putting the blame on... |
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DMK workers ransack BJP office
26 September,
2007
Chennai: The political debate on the Ram Setu veered towards
violence in Tamil Nadu with suspected DMK workers ransacking state
BJP chief H Raja’s residence and later attacking... |
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Karunanidhi ready to consider
realignment of Setu project
26 September,
2007
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi has said he is
open to considering realignment of the Sethusamudram project, and
that... |
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20 get life term for killing Sikh
family
26 September,
2007
Alwar (Rajasthan): Twenty people were on Friday sentenced to life
imprisonment by a local court for killing three members of a Sikh
family in Musakheda village two years back over... |
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Journalists jailed for contempt of
court
26 September,
2007
New Delhi: The Delhi high court has sentenced three journalists and
a publisher to four months imprisonment for carrying allegations
against former Chief Justice of India Y K Sabharwal... |
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Govt told to explain quota for Muslims
26 September,
2007
New Delhi: The
Indian Supreme Court has asked Andhra Pradesh government whether it
had issued a notification excluding the 'creamy layer' (the
supposedly privileged ones among... |
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Bal Thackeray arrested, released
26 September,
2007
Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Friday ‘arrested’ Shiv Sena chief Bal
Thackeray as a matter of procedure at his Bandra (E) residence,
Matoshree. He was released immediately... |
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Three
arrested for killing AMU student
26 September,
2007
Kanpur: Three youths while trying to loot a mobile set had allegedly
killed Aligarh Muslim University student Mazhar Nayeem on September
16. The Aligarh police and the Meerut... |
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Dara gets life term for pastor’s
murder
26 September,
2007
Baripada: A local court here has sentenced Dara Singh alias Ravindra
Pal Singh and his three accomplices to rigorous life imprisonment
for the murder of pastor... |
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Ram Leela
19 September, 2007
The epic of
Ramayan dates back to centuries and has appropriately been stated
as THE GREATEST THEATRICAL SHOW ON EARTH by an eminent foreign
critic who... |
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India to send 850 peacekeepers to Congo
19 September, 2007
NEW DELHI: India
is sending a fresh contingent of 850 military personnel to Congo to
bolster its UN peacekeeping troops presence in that country to over
4,666 personnel... |
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Indian state reserves one-third of the bus seats for women
19 September, 2007
SHIMLA: Most
Americans are used to a few seats reserved for senior citizens in
local buses but in India's northern hill state of Himachal Pradesh,
the provincial government has...
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Indian court
now wants Geeta as national scripture
19 September, 2007
Allahabad: In a
nation which is largely ruun as a Hindu country with little regard
to the minorities and the deprived sections, off and on the chinks
in the intellectual armour... |
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At 60, India hunts villains; avoid mirror
15 August, 2007
Indian Independence Day celebrations would have
played out in myriad colours a few hours before this issue reaches ..... |
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Manmohan Singh blasts quick-fix label mentality on
terror
11 July, 2007
New Delhi: Never will the Sikhs forget those
gory days of 1984 when the Congress led by rajiv Gandhi unleashed an
advertisement... |
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Sikhs lose a good friend in Chandrashekhar as former
premier dies at 80
11 July, 2007
New Delhi: Of the very very few friends that the
Sikh community had among the non-Sikh leaders at the federal level... |
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Got Rs 45 lakh? Buy Canadian citizenship
9 May, 2007
New Delhi: Those
who have reportedly been paying sums like Rs 30 lakh to become kabootars
(illegal migrants) may have .... |
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Time for India to learn from Oregon
25
April, 2007
In Punjab's Barnala
district, farmers have fought for months against acquisition of land for a
private venture. In Nandigram, police brutality to ensure.... |
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Make
Hinduism more aggressive
4 April,
2007
NAGPUR: As if the attitude of the
eternally maverick Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) over the last few years
has left anything to the imagination, its chief... |
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Mumbai cops asked to ban anti-Sikh jokes on Net
21 March, 2007
MUMBAI: Sikhs have for years been the subject of
many a politically incorrect racist and often crude jokes, but as
awareness.... |
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Finally, a statue for Shaheed Nanak Singh
7 February,
2007
AMRITSAR: The
Punjab Government finally ensured unveiling of the statue of Shaheed Nanak
Singh, a committed patriot and visionary, who stood... |
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India slams European Parliament resolution on
Dalits
7 February,
2007
BRAMPTON:
It was the simple step of naming the new emergency department after
Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhis..... |
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Kitne Pakistan's Kamleshwar bids adieu, his work will
live forever
31 January 2007
New Delhi: The grand man of Hindi literature,
Kamleshwar, who depicted trials and tribulations of a fast changing society
groping for new values... |
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Rajasthan minority panel writes to royal family on
Kirpan issue
17 January 2007
Jaipur: The Rajasthan state minority
commission has written a letter to the royal family seeking details related
to the Kirpan... |
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EU wants more Indian students
NEW DELHI: After US, Australia and Great
Britain, it is now the European Union which is wooing Indian students. It is
going a step forward... |
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