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Basic Islam for Hindu Dhimmis
Seeded on Wed Jul 1, 2009 10:15 AM EDT (Organiser)
The Muslim-ruled municipalities have thereafter converted these areas into mini Dar-ul-Islams, in a Hindustan of 83 per cent Hindus! The minority Hindu areas of the municipality were thus denied civic amenities, funds for schools, garbage clearing etc., and sent notices in Urdu.
Indian Elections were rigged
Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:44 PM EDT (The Hindu)
For example, International Electrical & Electronics Engineering Journal (May 2009, p 23) has published an article by two professors of computer science, titled: Trustworthy Voting.
Slumdog millionaire in Media:Don't see "Slumdog Millionaire". It sucks!
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:16 AM EST (The Sunday Indian)
There is nothing positive about the film and it seems that a deranged sadist has painted his insecure negative self in each and every character of the movie. It illogically shows every negative thing about India happening in the protagonist's life...
Does israel have any options left, other than retaliation?
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:12 AM EST (The Sunday Indian)
For the last few days, since the beginning of the Israeli military operations in Gaza, media – both print and television – has been riddled with scores of pictures of Palestinian kids, grievously injured in the air attacks by Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF.
Slumdog in Indian Media:Poverty Sells
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:08 AM EST (The Sunday Indian)
The last couple of months have suddenly put India into the literally centerstage. If the saga was started by the awarding of Booker Prize to Aravind Adiga, its culmination literally happened through the Oscar nomination for A R Rahman.
Slumdog in Indian Media:Are indians so blind as to praise a movie that insults india?
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:04 AM EST (The Sunday Indian)
Never, ever have I come across a pictorial version that shows the deity as a vengeful God with fearsome eyes. In fact, this Lord Ram looks more like Lord Shiva on the verge of performing the Tandava.
Slumdog in Indian Media:Does "Slumdog Millionaire" have a wrong answer?
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:57 AM EST (The Hindu)
The answer of one of the questions which was asked in the TV quiz contest in the film is wrong. Even the options given with the question are incorrect. The question asked was "Name the Indian poet who wrote the poem, "Darshan do ghanshyam nath mori akhiyan pyasi re".
Slumdog in Indian Media:Beyond the Slumdog alley
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:53 AM EST (The Hindu)
Perhaps this is the moment to ask why this rather mediocre film is being feted with such fervour when it so alarmingly resembles a much better film made 20 years ago? Bees saal baad — what has changed between "Salaam Bombay" and "Slumdog…"? It seems as if the gritty s …
Debating spaces
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:50 AM EST (The Hindu)
Are we dismissive of the recent Booker Prize winners from India because they hold a mirror to realities we refuse to accept? Or do we have a right to be sceptical of books defined as 'Indian' and as 'good' by Western institutions? Criticism need not always arise out of je …
Slumdog in Indian Media:Orientalism for a global market
Seeded on Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:22 AM EST (The Hindu)
So it should only be expected that American audiences would love to see films about India which conform to their image of the third world Orient.
Serial murder case solved:wealthy bussiness man the culprit
Seeded on Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:15 AM EST (BBC News)
i live 15 km away from nithari.when this happened it was revealed that these people killed for fun or cannibal "It's a landmark judgement. It's a victory for justice," Mr Khan said. The court order has come in the murder case of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar.
Could Oz wildfires be jungle jihad?
Seeded on Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:28 PM EST (Times of India)
Experts on terrorism aren't ruling it out.
Tough choices for America's hungry
Seeded on Sun Feb 8, 2009 10:10 AM EST (CNN)
With the national economy in meltdown, more Americans than ever are relying on the federal aid program to keep from going hungry. In October, more than one in 10 people -- about 31 million -- were using the food stamp program to get by, according to the U.S.
IBM to laid-off: Want a job in India?
Seeded on Sun Feb 8, 2009 7:33 AM EST (CNN)
"IBM not only is offshoring its work to low-cost countries, now IBM wants employees to offshore themselves," spokesman Lee Conrad told CNN. "At a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States."
Diary of a Pakistani schoolgirl in Swat valley
Seeded on Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:09 AM EST (BBC News)
A Pakistani seventh grade schoolgirl is writing a diary after Taleban militants in the troubled north-western Swat district ordered schools to close as part of an edict banning girls' education.
Chief Election Commissioner Gopalaswami 'recommends' removal of Navin Chawla
Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:29 PM EST (The Hindu)
The sequence of events is as follows. On March 16, 2006, BJP Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani and 204 MPs submitted a petition to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam seeking the removal of Mr. Chawla as Election Commissioner under Article 324(5) of the Constitution.
Swat Valley: Whose war is this?
Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:00 PM EST (atimes.com)
Swat is a valley and an administrative district in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) located 160 kilometers from the capital Islamabad. The capital of Swat is Saidu Sharif, but the main town in the Swat Valley is Mingora.
Faceless Taliban rule
Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:56 PM EST (atimes.com)
taliban is spreading itself in swat and surrounding areas.read the whole series by a pak journalist on asiatimes to understand the seriousness of this problem.
Rising Taliban
Seeded on Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:53 PM EST (atimes.com)
Peshawar and its surrounds are also now the epicenter for the
C1XS Catches First Glimpse of X-rays from the Moon
Seeded on Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:01 PM EST (ISRO(INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION))
The Imaging X-ray Spectrometer, one of the 11 payloads onboard Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, jointly developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, has successfully detected the first X-ray signature from the Moon.
Fresh Pics From Moon:Indian Moon mission
Seeded on Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:58 PM EST (ISRO(Indian Space Research Organisation))
Indian moon mission chandrayaan has sent many fresh pictures of our moon.check ISRO site for more details.
The advance of Taliban
Seeded on Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:01 AM EST (Times of India)
The widening influence of Taliban was dramatically illustrated recently at Buner, south of Pakistan's Swat valley.
Tajik women who buy and sell babies:dollar 100 per baby
Seeded on Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:13 AM EST (BBC News)
"The moment I heard that a woman in a maternity hospital was selling her newborn daughter, I rushed there," Mahbuba said. "The woman told me she already had five children and she could not afford having another baby. I paid her $100 [£67]."
India and the Third Parties: From Miliband to Holbrooke
Seeded on Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:47 PM EST (Indian Express)
Mention the word 'third party' in the context of Pakistan or Kashmir and India gets hot under the collar. Over the last few days, we saw New Delhi mercilessly hammer the British Foreign Secretary Foreign Secretary David Miliband for his comments (childish?) on Kashmir.
Buddha trouble:Nepal bans Indian Movie over Buddha
Seeded on Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:48 AM EST (Times of India)
As Nepal's Maoist government banned Chandni Chowk to China at home and asked its foreign ministry to ask the US, Canada and other foreign countries where the controversial film is being screened to halt the shows, Ramesh Sippy, the main producer of the Akshay Kumar, Deepika Pa …
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