In Pic :In this 2010 file photo, Kuki National Front cadres arrive at Natheljang in Senapati district of Manipur to deposit weapons as part of a Suspension of Operation agreement with the Centre. With Manipur’s Kuki groups again in protest mode, it is time to ask why the Centre ignores their calls for a dialogue but talks to Nagas Manipur, with a population of over 2.7 million, is home to […]
In Pic :Nehru smiles as Che Guevara gifts him a box of Cuban cigars. Despite his own convictions, Che Guevara understood India’s non-violent resistance as arising from a cultural context in which war was distant from the spirit of the people Jean-Paul Sartre was impressed enough by Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967) to call him “the most complete human being of our age” after Che’s death. It was a reference to […]
The Acorn That Was gives a brief history of Providence Women’s College The first women’s college in the Malabar had a difficult birth. Adventures were many, so too moments of dejection, but the grace of Providence was strong. In the early 1950s, a group of young women tamed an unruly Florican Hill to start one of the well-known campuses in Kozhikode. The Acorn That Was documents the tale of Providence Women’s College, […]
Linda Stewart used a Kelowna-based company www.Meditours.org to arrange a medical tourism trip in May 2010 to get an experimental treatment for MS in India. Stewart is one of the unknown number of Canadians using medical tourism to access experimental treatments not offered in Canada. Shaz Pendharkar, of Kelowna, B.C., is the first to admit he isn’t a trained medical professional. He is a retired school principal who connects patients to […]
At least 12 people were killed and 78 wounded when bombs ripped through crowded areas in Hyderabad on Thursday in what the prime minister called a “dastardly act”. The bombs targeted the crowded place in a suburb of the city, a hub of India’s information-technology industry which has a large Muslim population, and came with the nation on alert after the recent hanging of Afzal Guru. A senior police officer at […]
As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S. government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama administration is poised to spell out specific trade actions it may take against Beijing or any other country guilty of cyber-espionage. According to officials familiar with the plans, the White House is eyeing fines, penalties and other trade restrictions as initial, more-aggressive steps the U.S. would take in […]
Under attack from BJP, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday issued a statement on the eve of Budget session of Parliament, expressing regret over his “Hindu terror” remark and saying his comments had been misunderstood. Mr. Shinde, who is also Leader of the Lok Sabha and faced the prospect of boycott by BJP, underlined that he had no intention to link terrorism with religion or political organisations. “My statement given […]
New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s envoy to India said on Wednesday that photographs showing the late LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son alive before being killed were morphed. “Prabhakaran’s son could have been killed in crossfire while he was in a little bunker. There is no need for an international probe. The photos are morphed,” Prasad Kariyawasam told a news channel. A section of the media carried photographs of 12-year-old Balachandran Prabhakaran seated […]
olkata: Industry body Assocham today said the loss to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) due to the strike by central trade unions could be about Rs. 26,000 crore, higher than its initial estimate of Rs. 15,000-20,000 crore. “Against initial estimates of Rs. 15,000-20,000 crore, the GDP may be eroded by about Rs. 26,000 crore,” the industry body said in a release. “In the wake of a more than expected […]
