How Veerappa Moily wants to fight terror The Second Admnistrative Reforms Commission headed by Veerappa Moily has submitted its report on tackling terrorism to the Union government that states that a comprehensive and effective legal framework to deal with all aspects of terrorism needs to be enacted.
The woman who busted TN's sand mafia Jothi Nirmala, the collector of Kanyakumari district, was awarded the Kalpana Chawla award by the Tamil Nadu government for taking on the sand mafia in the district and also bringing about harmony after violent clashes between communities here.
'Terror was there during Ram Rajya also' 'There may be some fringe element like SIMI and others but by and large people want peace and want to live in harmony with other communities. There is a sharp decline in communal clashes in the country. There are some aberrations. Wherever they occur it is unfortunate,' says Home Ministry official Mahendra Kumawat.
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Why India is upset with George W Bush & Co The Indo-US nuclear deal may have secured the approval of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yet India finds it unacceptable because of a change in language from the 123 Agreement it negotiated with the US.
Sending SMS reduces your IQ level Most of us prefer to send a quick SMS instead of making a call, but the act leads to some reduction in a person's IQ level, experts claim.
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B S Raghavan: Wanted: A balanced approach The Centre could have set all speculation at rest if, with all the mighty and extensive intelligence and investigative machinery at its disposal, it had ascertained the truth behind the murders of the Swami and his associates and unhesitatingly named the desperadoes. Its own inability, or unwillingness, to expose the forces that were behind the killing should be taken to have contributed to the flare-up that followed in Khandamal.
T V R Shenoy: It's time for the 'silent majority' to speak up Most Hindus, most Muslims, and most Christians in India are essentially peaceable folks who would rub along perfectly well with each other given half a chance. But will they get that option if the headlines are hijacked by extremists with their own agenda?
Yogi Sikand: Manufacturing 'terrorists' the Indian way The mounting indiscriminate arrests, torture and detention of vast numbers of innocent Muslim youth across the country in the name of countering terrorism not only makes a complete mockery of our claims to secularism and democracy but is a perfect recipe for making Muslim terrorism a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Image: Indian Christian villagers take mid day meal at a relief camp after they returned back from nearby jungles following an attack, allegedly by Hindu fundamentalists, at Naugaon, a village in Orissa's Kandhamal district.
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