A Rajdhani Express in Assam was ripped apart by a bomb blast 280 km from Guwahati, near Kating village. The train had to travel 1.5 km to the nearest Chongajan station before stopping. Dead bodies fell off the train before it halted. The attack has...

Two class VIII students have shot a 14 year old boy at Euro International School Gurgaon. Abhishek Tyagi has been shot three times with the licensed pistol belonging to the father of one of the shooters. This parent is now on the run. The police are...

Why is it that Hindus hate Hinduism so? Why is it that Hindutva is used as a negatively loaded term? Every religion has some black sheep, like Hindus have Modi in Gujarat; some silly jihadis in hiding somewhere will someday try to give the Muslim...

The UGC, the central watchdog for framing national Higher Education policies, has decided to control political appointments for the posts of University Vice Chancellorships. Persons with administrative backgrounds will be preferred than academic...

It is ironical that Nilotpal Basu of the CPI(M) writes of India’s 128th ranking by the UNDP. The Human Development Report by the UNDP had last year ranked India 126th I the development scenario in the world. In spite f the Sensex zooming upwards...

The BBC is glad that South Africa’s crime rate is dropping. The BBC correspondent in Johannesburg, Peter Biles is anxious to see rape, murder and armed-robberies reduce there. And who runs the BBC? Oops, the same people who have led to South...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W....

When everyone and every institution have failed to cater to the people of India, only the judiciary has time and again saved us. Now the judiciary faces some of the toughest challenges ever. The UK Telegraph forecasts a gloomy future for the Indian...

The Times of India has a unique view about our rising mob violence. It cites the Salwa Judum or people’s militia in Chhattisgarh, the Islamic fundamentalists baying for Taslima Nasreen’s blood in Kolkata and the lynch mob in Assam who...

The Allies in Afghanistan do not understand that no amount of bombing will do away with the Taliban. Ideologies cannot be destroyed by the military. The UK Telegraph reports the imminent fall of Musa Qala in north of Helmand province. NATO has even...