Cracks are appearing in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government led over the issue of Genetically Modified (transgenic) crops. The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests has revived a committee to consider proposals on new GM crops (Minister Prakash Javadekar bats for the technology on grounds of food security), while … Read More
It would have been fitting for the Government of India to designate the miniscule Hindu community that was brutally driven out of Kashmir valley in 1990 as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on the occasion of the United Nations-sponsored World Refugee Day. Instead, Hindus who fled West Pakistan after the war … Read More
In recent times, two books have captured the essence of the dilemmas and challenges facing the contemporary Muslim world, viz., The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State by Tarek Fatah (2015) and Jihadist Threat to India by Tufail Ahmad (2016). By a strange coincidence, both authors are sub-continental Muslims who … Read More
Startling allegations have surfaced from Kairana, a small town in Shamli district of western Uttar Pradesh, that for the past two years Hindu families have been forced to migrate out of fear of a dreaded gangster, Mukim Kala. Kairana is barely 124 kms from Delhi. The news, broken on June … Read More
Tensions are rising in Jammu province following the Jammu & Kashmir Speaker’s decision to accept a Private Member Resolution by Congress MLA G.M. Saroori for a separate Chenab Valley Hill Development Council, on the lines of the Leh & Kargil Hill Development Council. On May 31, the Speaker also accepted … Read More
