LONDON: A British-Indian MP has come down heavily on the BBC for a programme on India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi that she stated was not objective. In a letter to BBC’s director general Lord Tony Hall dated May 19, Priti Patel, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Indian diaspora champion, brought to notice the complaints [...]
May 31, 2014
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World Focus
Israel today said it was all ready to be part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project of restoring to river Ganga its past glory. ‘We will be more than happy to cooperate with any Indian entity, government or private, in the task of cleaning the Ganga,’ Israeli Ambassador to India Alon Ushpiz said in [...]
New Delhi: The new BJP government has taken initial steps towards introducing the Hindu perspective in the education system. It is learnt that human resources development minister Smriti Irani has asked HRD officials to develop educational material that encapsulates the contribution of ancient Indians in different fields like science, mathematics, social sciences, philosophy, grammar and [...]
May 30, 2014
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Islamabad, May 29 (IANS) Five Hindu children were kidnapped from Pakistan’s Balochistan province by unidentified armed men, media reported on Wednesday.The children aged between five to ten years were abducted late on Wednesday from Dera Allah Yar area while coming back from school, Dawn online quoted an official as saying. The kidnappers shifted the children [...]
May 30, 2014
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‘What was predictable, but entirely missed by Modi’s strident critics, is that the excessive and intemperate demonisation of Modi allowed him to assume his own metaphor — the underdog, the martyr, the marginalised,’ says Dr Aseem Shukla. As the newly anointed Prime Minister Narendra Modi ascended the steps of India’s Parliament for the first time [...]
May 30, 2014
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Analysis/Insights
On a visit to UK (2015) we once again witnessed recycled half-truths and vilifications replete with false allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi doing their rounds in the Indian and Western media regarding the 2002 Gujarat Riots.
One of the biggest accusations by the media has been that as chief minister of Gujarat Modi never [...]
May 29, 2014
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The artist Anish Kapoor was one of the signatories to banning Narendra Modi from Britain. Yet his attack on the now prime minister of India was extreme even by the standards of those who opposed Modi. It was fanatical, venomous and very psychologically imbalanced. On BBC Newsnight on 16 May 2014 Kapoor said Modi was [...]
online poll by Opinion Stage The stunning victory by the BJP in India’s election has sent political shockwaves. No more are these being felt that in that beacon of freedom the United States. President Obama was one of the first to congratulate the new incoming Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi He also invited the [...]
May 25, 2014
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A Delhi court has directed recording of statement of a man who filed a complaint against Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni accusing him of insulting Hindu religion by posing as a deity and holding a shoe in his hand on the cover page of a magazine. Metropolitan Magistrate Mayuri Singh, who had earlier declined the [...]
May 25, 2014
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World Focus
With the continuous anti Hindu diatribe lead by the Western media covering the Indian elections has once again brought into the open the Hinduphobia prevalent in the West recycling misinformation and promoting well known Hinduphobes as ‘experts’ on India.. Recently BBCs Newsnight programme well known Hinduphobe William Dalrymple along with a new sidekick Anish Kapoor who [...]