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India's Worst Acts of Terrorism <small>by DILIP D'SOUZA</small> <!-- <small>November 6th, 2009</small>--> This is the 62nd piece in sikhchic.com's "1984 & I" Series, which is being presented to you through the 12 months of this year to commemorate...

Arundhati Roy The Guardian To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy – and it has chosen the Maoists The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills...

With reference to apeal of Dal Khalsa to PUNJAB BAND on 3rd Nov09 in Punjab, India; I quote these lines from my blog randhawacalling. blogspot.com and support Dal Khalsa to their demand of justice after 25 years. To prove this allegation and discrimination by our govt, i give another report...

Need to Check Religious Conversions in India: Rajnath BJP President Rajnath Singh has said that there is a strong need in the country for amending the constitution to check large scale religious conversions allegedly being carried out by foreign forces through...

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source: No justice for India's Sikhs | Schona Jolly | Comment is free | The Guardian No justice for India's Sikhs India must reveal the true scale of the 1984 Sikh massacre and bring its architects to account <LI class=byline sizcache="0" sizset="33">Schona Jolly<LI class=publication...

India's 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: Waiting for Justice By Mridu Khullar / New Delhi Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 Sikh refugees seek shelter in a New Delhi schoolyard in the violent days of anti-Sikh...

Is India more prosperous than China? Yes, says the Legatum Prosperity Index. India ranks 45th in the index well ahead of China. The third edition of the Legatum Prosperity Index ranks 104 countries (covering 90 per cent of the world's population), based on a definition of prosperity that...

After 60 yrs of Independence, untouchability alive and kicking in India Shobha John, TNN 3 August 2009, 09:35am IST More than 60 years after Independence, untouchability is alive and thriving in India’s hinterlands. Pockets of social change have been but mere drops in an ocean of casteism...

India loses stand, face at UN forum World is no more ready to listen to pernicious Indian stand that caste cannot be equated with Racism It was high time that the world took notice of discrimination by birth...

12 new species of frogs discovered in India mongabay.com February 03, 2009 A dozen previously unknown species of frogs have been discovered in the forests of Western Ghats according to a paper published in latest issue of Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, London. The 12 species...

source: PunjabNewsline.com - Corruption has become way of life in India, says Punjab CM Corruption has become way of life in India, says Punjab CM SATINDER BAINS Wednesday, 14 October 2009 Only five percent people may not be taking bribes CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash...

Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has expressed disenchantment with people from India "bothering" him and "clogging" up his email box and dubbed as "strange" their sudden urge to reach out to him. "All sorts of people from India have been writing to me, clogging up my email box. It takes...

Sikh group seeks to soften transition from India to America Sometimes when Sikh students come to the United States from the Punjab region of India, they initially find themselves without the means to survive, said a Sikh Students Association member. This is when the work of the Sikh Students...

Seen in this light the achievements of Milkha Singh, GS Randhawa, Sriram and PT Usha were truly extra ordinary...

Seven more farmers committed suicide yesterday," my brother said during our weekly phone check-in. A civil engineer who travels around the rural Vidarbha region, the bread basket of my native state of Maharashtra, he daily witnesses the ravages of the epidemic of suicide, which he first...

source: UK Asians hiring contract killers in India: Report - Indians Abroad - World - NEWS - The Times of India UK Asians hiring contract killers in India: Report PTI - 28 September 2009 LONDON: Britons of Indian origin have been hiring contract killers in India to murder targets such...

By Gurmeet Singh Sohal In July/August 2009, I visited Tanzania along with my family to attend a Sikh wedding. Where we enjoyed the beautiful weather and the hospitality of Tanzanian people, we also had the opportunity to meet our cousin Mr. Parmukh Singh Hoogan for the first time, who is the...

First in India: Docs to sign bond for rural service Gautam Handique, Chandrika Gogoi and 698 others will inadvertently rewrite Indian medical history on Wednesday. They will become the first government doctors appointed on the...

Marco Polo's India Returning home from China in 1292 CE, Marco Polo arrives on the Coromandel Coast of India in a typical merchant ship with over sixty cabins and up...