Owaisi’s rant: Provocative Politics or Everlasting Hatred?
Its politics and provocation are rooted in the delusion that Muslims were the original rulers of India and the British stole the country from them and handed it to the infidel Hindus. The complete silence of Sonia More...
Special Report: Stalking the Taliban in Afghan currency markets
Report by Matthew Green KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | Sat Dec 22, 2012 10:04pm EST (Reuters) – Haji Khairullah Barakzai is the ultimate Afghan success story: illiterate village boy makes a fortune thanks to a lifetime More...
Putin backs tit-for-tat response to U.S. rights law
Report by Alexei Anishchuk and Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Thu Dec 20, 2012 6:15pm EST (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin backed a ban on Americans adopting Russian children on Thursday in a feud over a More...
Twitter, privacy advocates eye Occupy case after guilty plea
Report by Joseph Ax, NEW YORK | Wed Dec 12, 2012 5:36pm EST (Reuters) – An Occupy Wall Street protester who tried unsuccessfully to keep prosecutors from subpoenaing his tweets pleaded guilty Wednesday to More...
Rajiv Gandhi assassination: criminals rewarded?
The Rajiv Gandhi assassination is a story that refuses to disappear. Like the Kennedy assassination and that of Abraham Lincoln a century earlier new theories keep cropping up. Here is a report by Sam Rajappa, More...
Nehru sat unmoved as Pakistan took Gilgit
Column by Sandhya Jain Indian intellectuals are having difficulty facing two overlapping anniversaries, viz., October 27, when Lord Louis Mountbatten accepted the hurried Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh after Pakistan’s More...
Google exec questioned over Brazil election video
(Reuters) – Google Inc’s most senior executive inBrazil was questioned by police and released on Wednesday after the company failed to take down a YouTube video attacking a mayoral candidate in alleged More...
Educated Professionals and Jihadism in South Asia
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Tragically, India, proud of its long-lasting democratic institutions and its far-reaching efforts at integration and equality for a population of 1.2 billion, has again been More...
Baba in Action
Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev sits inside a bus after he was detained by police during a protest march against corruption in New Delhi August 13, 2012. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA – Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) A More...
Baba Ramdev’s detention lifted, protest continues
(Reuters) – Baba Ramdev and his supporters, protesting against corruption in New Delhi, refused to disperse after police freed the yoga guru, who was earlier arrested near parliament. Indian yoga guru Ramdev More...
