He recommended ways to eradicate female foeticide. He even took potshots at Pakistan. He equated dharma to the husband and politics to the wife, suggesting that the latter should “accept the discipline” imposed by the former. He recommended ways to eradicate female foeticide. He even took potshots at Pakistan. And all through the discourse that lasted 40 minutes, Jain religious leader Tarun Sagar had MLAs cutting across party lines at […]

During his lengthy speech on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke briefly about what was happening in Pakistan, in Peshawar and the terror. He spoke about the messages he was receiving from the people of Balochistan, Gilgit and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) who were thanking him, and in doing so, they were really thanking all Indians.  He did not say why they were thanking him. Nor did he say what […]

Parliament on Wednesday unanimously appealed to people of Kashmir Valley to restore peace and harmony even as the government expressed readiness to hold talks with moderate groups and others. On the other hand, speaking on the unrest in the state, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh reiterated in Rajya Sabha that violence in the state was being fomented by Pakistan. “Whatever is happening is Kashmir is Pakistan-sponsored,” he said He lauded […]

Fifty prominent Republican national security officials, including a former CIA director, on Monday called party nominee Donald Trump unqualified to lead the country and said he would be “the most reckless president in American history.” The statement was the latest repudiation of Trump’s candidacy by veteran Republican national security specialists, and was remarkable for the harshness of its language. “Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be president. […]

A mid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stringent remarks against ‘cow vigilantes’, former VHP leader and BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh government official Mahamandleshwar Swami Akhileshwaranand Giri, on Monday said that “the third world war will start over a cow”. Giri is the chairman of executive council of the Madhya Pradesh Gaupalan Evam Pashudhan Samvardhan Board, which is responsible for protecting and conserving the cow in a state with a recent history of […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hit out at cow vigilantes, saying he felt enraged at such “anti-social elements” who indulged in crimes by the night and masqueraded as cow protectors by the day. Speaking at a Town Hall-style meeting here, Modi said he has asked state governments to prepare a dossier of people who are “running shops” in the name of cow protection and put so-called “gau rakshaks” on […]

Media headlines from Tuesday would be quoted and referred to for a long time in the future as Hillary Clinton “put the biggest crack in the glass ceiling yet”, as a CNN report put it. Clinton created history by becoming the first woman ever in the United States to be nominated for the US Presidential elections by a major political party. And on Thursday when she delivered her first speech […]

In the past week I read quite a few write ups across publications that lauded Hillary Clinton’s choice of Virginia Senator, Tim Kaine as her White House running mate.  Some news headlines, especially India centric ones hailing him as great choice to support India’s cause made me really curious. While Hillary Clinton and her Spanish-speaking former Virginia governor could be a great choice for taking forward the US interest and […]

After reports emerged that the use of pellet guns on protesters in Jammu and Kashmir injured many people, a website called ‘Never Forget Pakistan’ has posted some hard-hitting images of celebrities on Facebook, which have been photoshopped to show what they would look like if their faces had been injured by pellet guns. Some of the celebrities whose faces have been used in the pictures posted by the website on […]

Deep in the Himalayas some three miles above sea level, Indian security forces and Chinese soldiers gaze at each other through a barbed-wire fence while trucks carrying goods from both sides pass through a large iron gate that marks the border. The Nathula Pass, once part of the ancient Silk Road and later sealed after a 1962 war, was reopened in 2006 as a symbol of improved relations between Asian […]