The arrest of Pakistani national and Hizbul Mujahideen operative Liaquat Ali Shah on March 20, 2013, after he crossed over from Nepal along with his family, raises serious questions about the Jammu and Kashmir Government’s Surrender & Rehabilitation Policy for militants, and the Union Home Ministry’s complicity in giving free … Read More
When on March 14, 2013, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose the archbishop of Buenos Aires as new Pope the election was no surprise to the cognoscenti. Soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the German press leaked the details of his election in 2005, which showed Bergoglio was in … Read More
The Congress-led UPA has stooped to a new low in its quest to capture the increasingly uncertain Muslim vote-bank, with a mischievous and deplorable move to set up ‘special courts’ for members of the minority community who have been “falsely implicated” in terror cases. Apart from being a stunning denunciation … Read More
Even before the nation could imbibe the magnitude of the Supreme Court’s verdict on March 21, 2013, which finally brought the curtain down on the Mumbai serial bomb blasts that took over 257 lives and left 713 injured on March 12, 1993, the irrepressible Chairman of the Press Council of … Read More
In a vociferous defence of the manner in which he fought and won the 30-year war against the LTTE, former Sri Lanka Army Chief Sarath Fonseka riddled holes in the allegation that his troops murdered Velupillai Prabhakaran’s minor son, offered to face any probe, and gave a powerful, albeit indirect, … Read More
Whatever the outcome of the Friday, March 22, 2013, vote on the UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka, the Congress-dominated UPA and the DMK, along with some of the latter’s allies in Tamil Nadu have jointly opened the door for a future Western military intervention in Asia under the dubious doctrine … Read More
One month after he filed a criminal complaint against Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi, treasurer Motilal Vora, general secretary Oscar Fernandes, family friends Suman Dubey and Sam Pitroda, and the private firm Young Indian, for misappropriation of the assets of National Herald and associated journals, before the chief … Read More
The nationwide sensation created by the transitional Italian government’s move to help two Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, dodge the Indian justice system calls into question the pivotal role played by the Supreme Court in handling bail / parole applications in sensitive cases. A discernible pattern of pick … Read More
Tamil Nadu parties are quick to hyperventilate over issues favoured by the church, such as the alleged atrocities towards Tamils in Sri Lanka, wherein they are trying to force the Government of India to support a UN resolution censoring the island nation on the issue of human rights. The church … Read More
The archetypal states of the green revolution are shriveling under the cumulative impact of the overuse of chemical pesticides and fertilisers, hybrid monoculture, and over extraction of ground water, all of which have ravaged the soil health and affected productivity. Further, in just one decade, yields have peaked in genetically … Read More
