India looking to reverse ban on Pakistani TV channels

NEW DELHI: India has assured Pakistan that it will consider a proposal to lift the ban on Pakistani television channels in the country. This was after Pakistani foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani's strong pitch last week proposing India allow transmission of not just Pakistan government ( PTV) but also private channels, both news and non-news.

Village backs ban on cellphones for girls

AASRA (UP): Six couples in love ran away at a go from this village of over 30,000 a year ago and married in court. Aasra was shocked. That wasn't the last straw. But when one of them returned to live here, the stink got unbearable. Village elders had to restore order. They issued a firman: No mobile phones for women below 40. They wouldn't go to the market unescorted. Boys were banned from playing songs on their mobile phones in the streets.

Unveiling a treasure trove for posterity

A.D. Rangarajan

KE Govindan. Photo : K.V.Poornachandra Kumar

Folly of Pakistan’s Taliban logic

By Bharat Karnad

Pakistan is ‘the sick man of Asia’. In the early 21st Century, our neighbour to the west deserves that appellation as, ironically, Turkey-Ottoman Empire did in the 19th century. 

India tests nuclear-capable Agni-I missile

Agni-I

Pakistani soldier crossed LoC for lady love?

JAMMU: A 19-year-old unarmed Pakistani solider was caught after he crossed the Line of Control at Kerni in J&K's Poonch district on Thursday.

Lashkar wants to revive militancy in Kashmir, plans 'big strikes' in state: Abu Jundal

Implement reservations else say goodbye to Muslims votes in 2014: Islamic summit in Hyderabad

By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net

Hyderabad: Major problems and controversies concerning Muslim community in India were discussed in the Islamic Summit organized by Markazi Majlis-e-Quadria (MQM) a Sufi organization here in Hyderabad.

Islamic Summit in Hyderabad on July 11, 2012. [Photo by Indian News Network]

India's Worst Journalists...

(This post was made on August 31. Since then the media skeletons don't seem to stop tumbling out. Some of the faces here are prominently connected in various scams including the Nira Radia tapes. I thought an update to this post may not be a bad idea. Updates made on November 26 are in Red.) 

India's Best Journalists

Since the article on India’s Worst Journalists-2012 (IWJ) last April I had received many suggestions to do one on India’s best. Some even recommended that the same ‘worst’ should be put to another poll to find out which are the best among them. 

Jammu and Kashmir ‘nightmare’ in UK media

Times of India publishes clarification

Times of India publishes clarification, after RSS claimed the TOI report as False

Bangalore July 11: The Times of India, Bangalore today carried a clarification of RSS for a report carried by TOI on Tuesday, to which RSS claimed as baseless and false.

 

 

 

India wrestler-actor Dara Singh dead

Tributes have been pouring in for Dara Singh

Amarnath Yatra: 67 pilgrims die in 2 weeks; shrine board worried

 

Time Magazine flays Manmohan Singh, UPA Government

China's arming Pakistan makes it a 'second class enemy': Ratan Tata

NEW DELHI: China's assisting and arming Pakistan has made "it a second class enemy", but its economic strength overpowering India is not a real concern, according to Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata.

Gujarat woman milking millions in dairy den

SUPER MILKMAID: Ramilaben made a net profit of Rs 1.10 crore in 2011-12.

Manmohan’s sick jokes

Sanjay Kaul

An economist PM who is all theory has taken Indians down a terrible roller coaster 

A is for Allah, B for bandook

Balbir K Punj 

Abu Jundal’s arrest is a reminder that Pakistan remains in the grip of terror outfits. India must bear this is mind while working with its neighbour. 

Let the CBI breathe freely

Arindam Chaudhuri

 If the country’s premier probe agency has to be released from all-pervasive political interference, it has to be made an independent, constitutional authority. Else, it will always be manipulated by the ruling party 

Temple set ablaze in Assam

 

PTI - KARIMGANJ (ASSAM) 

Unidentified persons have set ablaze a temple at Maijgram in Karimganj district where Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband were beaten up by people who were angry over her remarriage, police said today.

250000 computers may lose internet on July 9

BOSTON: About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that US authorities shut down last November.

Teachers should be democratising schools

Shantha Sinha

One must agree with certain aspects of Prof. Krishna Kumar’s centrepiece in The Hindu on June 30, 2012 (“A messy corner of India’s modernity”), on the dilemma of the schoolteacher in denying admission to child brides but at the same time examine some of his propositions from the perspective of girls who are exercising agency to continue in the education system.

Rationalist alleges witch-hunting

Devesh K. Pandey 

Vinaya Deshpande

Alleging that the Delhi Police had visited his Mayur Vihar house in East Delhi to execute an arrest warrant issued by a Mumbai court in a case of hurting the religious sentiment of Christians, eminent rationalist thinker Sanal Edamaruku on Thursday said the charges levelled against him were based on religious intolerance and arrogance.