Islamic State (ISIS) recruits in India wanted to take advantage of the student movement that broke out in several cities after the arrest of JNU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar. On February 19, when Kanhaiya was in Tihar jail on sedition charges and students of several universities were holding demonstrations demanding his release, ISIS’s Ahmad Ali asked 19-year-old Ashiq Ahmad alias Raja of Hooghly, West Bengal, to infiltrate the movement […]

We all agree that India is one of the worst victims of terrorism in the world. We also agree that this terrorism is aided and abetted from across the border. Yet, we have a section of people in our country which believes that those who publically advocate dismemberment of India should be treated with kid-gloves. Can we afford to be so ignorant that we would allow these people to create […]

Even as the Government is grappling with the JNU row, am sure the South Block is busy preparing its strategy for the action next week. The Parliament’s Budget session kicks off on February 23. Given the ongoing imbroglio on the JNU issue and the Rohit Vemula suicide case before that even the most optimistic ones amidst the Government machinery cannot pin their hopes on a smooth sailing. If the Monsoon […]

Even as news pours in about former Delhi University lecturer, SAR Geelani’s arrest on charges of sedition for allegedly spearheading the Press Club event organised to mark the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, I am absolutely appalled by the way some of the opposition leaders in the country are responding to it. Mr Rahul Gandhi, the Congress Vice President, has slammed the Govt action and questioned what […]