With Iran being pressured over nuclear weapons, a chilling new video from the al-Qaida has asked Muslims in Kashmir to emulate “brothers” in war-torn Syria and Iraq and wage a violent jihad against India. It is fashionable among right-wing pundits to blame President Obama for the present victories by ISIS in Iraq. But then the [...]
June 21, 2014
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights, World Focus
“If the secularists didn’t control the bottleneck of information on India, the West would be far less anti-Narendra Modi. Without a constant stream of anti-Modi propaganda, … you will see the West turn business-like towards Narendra Modi soon enough. Like the East India Company of the early years, the West only sees India in business [...]
June 20, 2014
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights, World Focus
The Hindu holy sites in the Indian cities of Rishikesh and Haridwar attract millions of pilgrims each year – but they are now the destination for another group of devotees.Scientists trying to understand the rise of antibiotic resistance, considered by some to be the great health threat of our time, believe they could provide clues [...]
June 12, 2014
HHR
World Focus
Yes, the gang rapes have been shocking — but India’s reputation as rape capital is undeserved Since the gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi last year, India has become the world’s rape capital. An American website recently satirized the problem by joking about an upcoming rape festival in the [...]
June 8, 2014
HHR
Archives, World Focus
This will no doubt come as a shock to the advocates of secularism in India . Dawkins’ statement is a frank confession of how far from being devoid of ‘religion’, secularism has always been an intimate twin of Christianity. The term "secularism" was first used by the agnostic (not ‘atheist’) British writer George Jacob Holyoake [...]
Smriti Irani (née Malhotra, born 23 March 1976) is an Indian politician and former model, television actress and producer. She represents the Bharatiya Janata Party and is the incumbent Minister of Human Resource Development of Government of India [...]
June 1, 2014
HHR
World Focus
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
HHR
World Focus
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
HHR
World Focus
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
HHR
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 [...]