Abdul Kalam was ready to swear Sonia Gandhi as PM in 2004

APJ Abdul Kalam

NEW DELHI: APJ Abdul Kalam was ready to swear Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Minister after the 2004 polls when he was the President despite pressure from various political leaders before Manmohan Singh was nominated to head the UPA government.

India emphasizes Pak state support for 26/11

New Delhi:  Abu Jundal, who allegedly played a major role in the 26/11 attacks, is sharing vital information with Indian interrogators. 

Here are the top 10 developments in this story:

Abu Jundal planned attacks on RSS office, US, Israel embassies

The one-child policy - The brutal truth

A shocking case of forced abortion fuels resentment against China’s one-child policy

 

 

Tatkal website can't keep up with demand, admit IRCTC officials

NEW DELHI: Try booking a tatkal train ticket online at 8am when booking counters and the web portal open simultaneously, and you will invariably find the website hanging frequently. Do not expect the situation to improve dramatically as IRCTC, the agency that runs the site, has plainly said it cannot meet the surging demand.

Assam Flood : 2,500 train passengers still stranded in Assam

IANS | Jun 28, 2012, 04.35PM IST

GUWAHATI/AGARTALA: Over 2,500 passengers in four trains continued to be stranded for the third day Thursday as heavy landslides following heavy rains blocked tracks and cut off parts of southern Assam.

A welcome move

The State Government’s decision to pay interest on loans given to farmers directly to banks from this kharif season is a welcome step to lessen the financial burden on them. It will be done only when the beneficiaries pay the principal amount to the respective banks within a year. 

Are they all the same?

It is said of women, not always correctly, that they seldom, if ever, say what they mean, and seldom mean what they say. That is true at least of Pakistan which clearly cannot tell between Surjeet and Sarabjit. 

Biting the ballot

Arun Nehru

Though the BJP is still rallying around P.A. Sangma, the fact that NDA alliance partners, JD(U) and the Shiv Sena, along with the CPM, the Forward Bloc, the BJD and the AIADMK are firm in their commitment to support Pranab Mukherjee as the President means that the veteran Congressman is set to move into Rashtr-apati Bhavan soon. No doubt West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will abstain from voting for the presidency, I reckon Mr Mukherjee will get 60-65 per cent of the vote.

Hindutva is the true Synonym for Secularism: RSS

NEW DELHI, JUNE 23,2012 : RSS Akhil Bharatiya Saha Sampark Pramukh Ram Madhav said that “Hindutva is the “true synonym” for secularism and is liberal as it embraces all other religions”, said  in Delhi today.

UNBELIEVABLE AND WRITTEN BY A MUSLIM

UNBELIEVABLE AND WRITTEN BY A MUSLIM

It sure makes interesting reading... particularly coming from a Pakistani official. 

By: Dr Farrukh Saleem

The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007, and an Islamabad-based freelance columnist.

Why are Jews so powerful?

India presses for Sarabjit's release, awaits confirmation

Unravelling terror

Pakistani cooperation on 26/11 can galvanise the bilateral peace process 

Sunita Williams to adopt Gujarati girl

AHMEDABAD: During her last visit to Gujarat in September 2007, astronaut Sunita Williams had expressed shock over female feticide in the state. "Why should you allow the society to limit you by the virtue of your sex. Limitations are only in your mind," she had told a gathering of girls in Kadi town.

Think small on big issues

A Surya Prakash

This is what the Congress-led UPA regime has practised over appointments to key positions. It has brushed aside the Opposition’s views and landed in trouble. 

Sleepless night at reservation counters, but no tatkal ticket

Dipak Kumar Dash & Prerna Sodhi, TNN | Jun 26, 2012, 03.34AM IST

J&K Interlocutors’ report, a dangerous ploy to destabilize India via Kashmir

By Bhim Singh 

Criminal silence of the Congress leadership on the highly provocative and vicious 179-page-report of three interlocutors (musketeers) submitted to the Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram in June, 2012 is an alarming signal vis-à-vis the future constitutional relationship of J&K with the rest of the country. 

Will a failed Finance Minister make a good President?

Is the Congress pushing Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee into the Rashtrapati Bhavan because he is the best person with a vast political experience and fit for this Number One constitutional job? Or is it being done to get the North Block seat vacated since he has messed the economy completely ?

Shiv Sena backs call for ‘Hindutva’ PM

Tribune News Service 

The Shiv Sena has come out in support of the demand by a section of the Bharatiya Janata Party that a hardline supporter of the Hindutva movement be named the National Democratic Alliance's candidate for Prime Minister.

RSS to Modi-fy BJP

Seminar by Social Cause on "J & K"

How India missed the Myanmar bus

Arijit Sen 

IT was unbearably hot in Kolkata in May last year when 31 Arakanese and Karen men walked out of Presidency Jail. It took them a little time to spot the TV cameras waiting to record their acquittal, their walk to freedom. Once they knew where to look, they posed with victory signs. Yet, most were too tired to flash a smile or even realise they were free. Three of their comrades were still in jail. Two others had died over the years. The tiredness was not surprising. It had been 13 years since February 1998 when these men had been allegedly stabbed in the back by the Indian Army.  

CALM ABOVE THE STORM

- As the presidential poll nears, everyone has an axe to grind  

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

A Hindutva PM for India?

That the Bharatiya Janata Party is a house divided against itself is clear from its rabble rousers: First, the choice of President, and, now the party’s prime ministerial candidate. Even before the party stalwarts had come to an understanding on whom to support, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had emerged as a clear winner and it’s a foregone conclusion that he would be the next President.

'Failed' Siachen Talks Pak must win confidence

Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva (Retd)

India and Pakistan have, as expected, failed to make any headway in ending the military standoff on Siachen. The two sides stuck to their stated positions, merely committed themselves to "serious, sustained and result-oriented efforts" for an amicable settlement of the issue and "acknowledged that the ceasefire (in Siachen) was holding since 2003." Thus, at the end of the talks in Islamabad, the usual joint statement was released, followed by an agreement to hold the next secretary level talks in Delhi on a mutually convenient date.

Balancing secular and minority teachings

NS Kapur 

When a college has students drawn from different religious communities and backgrounds, it helps to create a more inclusive and competitive environment on the campus. That’s also good for national unity, writes NS Kapur 

Violence does not pay

Kerala CPM must mull over by-poll loss 

The June 2 by-poll in Neyyattinkara Assembly constituency in Kerala, the results of which were announced last weekend, is simultaneously an example of how the political parties can transform democracy into a mockery and a huge lesson for the CPI(M) on why it should end its politics of terror. 

A post-Partition contest India-Bangladesh Relations Need A Reset

Krishnan Srinivasan

SOME state leaders invoke the federal principle for their parochial purposes and put at risk India’s relations with important neighbours. Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, declined to accompany Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Dhaka last year, vetoed an agreement on sharing the Teesta river waters, and now jeopardises the Land Boundary agreement with Bangladesh that has been hanging fire since 1974. 

Too much laughter?

Laughter is the best medicine, or so we were led to believe. Defying the old dictum is the emerging theory that excessive laughter is bad, perhaps not for the body and soul of those who laugh but for their neighbours’ peace and well-being.

AP parties’ moment of truth

Do political parties own communities or is it the other way round? Do voters exercise their franchise according to their will, or do they vote or cross-vote as advised by the village-level politicians?

Trithiya Varsh Sangha Shiksha Varg

3rd year Sangh Shiksha Varg concludes, Mohan Bhagwat demands Govt to reclaim PoK

Mohan Bhagwat, RSS Sarasanghachalak

india in Crises - How do we save : A Seminor

Not the Opinion of RSS on Articles published in Organiser : Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav - RSS (A Google Photo)

Press Release Of VHP on Amarnath Yatra

विश्व हिन्दू परिषद्
प्रैस विज्ञप्ति  

अमरनाथ यात्रा की अवधि का विवाद प्राकृतिक मौसम के कारण नहीं राजनीतिक मौसम की खराबी के कारण निर्माण किया जा रहा है यह आरोप लगाते हुए विश्व हिन्दू परिषद् के राष्ट्रीय प्रवक्ता डा सुरेन्द्र कुमार जैन ने  कहा कि अमरनाथ श्राइन बोर्ड  केवल कुछ अलगाववादियों को खुश करने के लिए  हिन्दुओ की इस पावन यात्रा के साथ खिलवाड़ करने का दुस्साहस कर रहे है | वे आज यहाँ पत्रकारों को संबोधित कर रहे थे और उनके साथ विश्व हिन्दू परिषद् , जम्मू कश्मीर प्रांत के वे पदाधिकारी उपस्थित थे जिनके नेतृत्व में  इस पावन यात्रा की गरिमा को बचाने का संघर्ष चल रहा है और इस आन्दोलन के पहले चरण में शिवभक्तो को विजय प्राप्त हुई है|

Guruji--A Drishta, not a Prophet by S Gurumurthy

S Gurumurthy

 

Sushasaks needed for Sushasan:Ram Madhav

Sushasaks(Good Administrators) needed for Sushasan (Good Governance): Ram Madhav

(Text of the concluding speech delivered by Sri Ram Madhav at the Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini workshop on ‘Quality Manpower for Good Governance’ on 26-05-12 at MewDelhi)