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S Gurumurthy  Raja had informed me that he was only implementing the policies that were in place and approved by the TRAI’. This is how the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh defended A Raja, his telecom minister, the prime suspect in the CBI probe into the 2G cell phone licence case. […]

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NAGPUR: RSS has said nationality should be the basis in the ongoing national census and not caste.  “The RSS is following the principles of late Dalit leader B R Ambedkar. Right from the beginning, RSS is in favour of a casteless society and any attempt to dilute it will hurt […]

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CONGRESS  MISUSES  CBI TO STRIKE POLITICAL BARGAINS –         V. Shanmuganathan`                 The Central Bureau of Investigation has become a political arm of the ruling Congress party. The CBI has been used as a threat to corner the opposition leaders and get their support to serve their political interests. There is […]

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‘Why should Manipur remain in India?’ Tarun Vijay Kamminlung Singson was sitting next to me on a four-hour hopping flight from Delhi to Imphal. He had one year of training in a short-term programme of Indian Army and was on his way back home to Churachandpur, about 60km from Imphal. […]

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Denigrating Hinduism under Government Patronage “Periyar Science and Technology Center” aka “The Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Center” has organised a “Summer Science Camp” for High School students for three days (17, 18 and 19 May 2010) in the Birla Planetorium, Kotturpuram, Chennai. Today’s “Dinamalar” (http://www.dinamalar.com/fpnnewsdetail.asp?news_id=7564 ) has reported that […]

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Fence is not the border  by S Gurumurthy  Demography is destiny”, said Augustus Comte, a French philosopher of the 19th century. Demography, to use a simple definition, means the religious, cultural, or any secular, composition of a nation’s population. As the French were the first to understand the ideas of […]

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Two MPs honoured for performance in Lok Sabha May 1st, 2010 – 8:21 pm ICT by IANS –  Chennai, May 1 (IANS) S.S. Ramasubbu of the Congress and Hansraj Gangaram Ahir of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were honoured here Saturday for their active participation in various debates in the […]

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Akshaya Tritiya, is a Hindu holy day, that falls on the third Tithi (Lunar day) of Bright Half (Shukla Paksha) of Hindu month of Vaishakha. This day is ruled by god Vishnu, the preserver-god in the Hindu Trinity. It is also traditionally celebrated as the birth day of the Hindu […]