11-23-2008, 06:50 AM
Yeah..a year ago a friend's wife was like "I am on India Forums all the time"..and I was thinking "huh?"..then I googled and found out!!
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Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2
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11-25-2008, 03:59 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-shamu+Nov 22 2008, 10:46 AM-->QUOTE(shamu @ Nov 22 2008, 10:46 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Looks like there is a junk bollywood site called http://www.india-forums.com
Looks like it is there to avoid traffic to this site. [right][snapback]90513[/snapback][/right] <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> We need other names which point out to our forum indiapoliticalforum.com indiapolitics.com ANY MORE IDEAS
11-26-2008, 02:57 AM
Son-in-law also rises under YSR tutelage
---- Eight years ago, not quite a preacher then, Anil Kumar had a brush with the law and the Andhra Pradesh state Assembly was thrown into a turmoil in December 2001 because of this. It so happened that an illegal ISD racket was busted in Hyderabad following a complaint by the DoT on November 21, 2001 that few persons had misused Tata Tele Services for termination of incoming international voice calls bypassing the VSNL gateway and BSNL network. Police booked cases for violation of the Indian Telegraphic Act and Section 420 of IPC against four persons that included M Anil Kumar. And even as the son-in-law surrendered before the court, Rajasekhara Reddy rose in the Assembly to defend him describing the booking of cases against him as political vendetta. -- Incidentally, Anil Kumar was not born as a Christian. He got converted to Christianity after his marriage to Rajasekhara Reddy's only daughter Sharmila. He started preaching on the `calling of God.' The story of the marriage of Anil Kumar is also not without a twist. Sharmila, the story goes, had to enter into unwilling matrimony with someone else because of family pressure. This in spite of the fact that she was in love with Anil Kumar and even her father Rajasekhara Reddy doted on her. Reluctantly Anil Kumar too entered into marriage with someone else. But love, they say, is all powerful. A short while later the two got divorced and entered into fresh matrimony with each other. Rajasekhara Reddy was close at hand to bless this wedding.
11-26-2008, 03:57 AM
Damper on varsity plan
New Delhi, Nov. 25: Montek Singh Ahluwalia has questioned plans to set up new central universities as world-class institutions, joining a chorus of concern at a concept mooted by the Prime Minister. âIt will take 15 to 20 years for a new university to achieve world-class standards. And world-class universities require resources that are way beyond the scope of the government,â the Planning Commission deputy chairperson said today at a Ficci meet on higher education. -----
12-06-2008, 08:49 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Lights out for PMâs Malda landing
Power lines snapped for Singh security Malda, Dec. 5: More than 5,000 people are having to do without electricity â this will continue for 72 hours â as the administration has brought down the high-tension lines around the helipad at Netaji Ground where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to land on Sunday. --- <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Congress MP urges PM to contest from Malda --- Congress MP from Malda Abu Hashem Khan Chowdhury today said that he had requested Singh to contest from Malda (North) during his recent meeting with the prime minister. ----- <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
12-06-2008, 08:54 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Azad is richer than Mufti Mohd Sayeed
Former Congress chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is richer than his predecessor Mufti Mohd Sayeed even though he does not have cash in his wallet nor possesses a four wheeler of his own. According to the affidavit furnished by both the former chief ministers along with their nomination forms, GhulamNabi Azad does not own any agricultural or non agricultural land and does not have any cash. A total sum of Rs 19,93,552 is parked in his different bank accounts. Whereas Mufti Mohd Sayeed, has cash amount of 60,000 and a sum of 11,26,915 is deposited in his bank account.Mufti,too does not own a personal car.. 71 year old Mufti, however, possesses agricultural land valuing Rs 55 lacs in Bijbehera and is entitled to get one third share of his ancestral house with net worth of Rs 25 lakh. But when it comes to their wives Mufti Mohd Sayeed's better half owns 5 diamond sets costing Rs 7 lacs and 200 gm gold valuing Rs 2,20,000.. on the other hand, Azad's wife owns jewellery amounting to Rs 4.20 lacs only.A flat in New Friends colony whose value is not disclosed in the affidavit is named after her apart from parental house in Hyderpora Srinagar. An amount of rs 61,32,124 lakh is deposited in her different bank accounts, according to the affidavit details furnished by Azad. <b>According to the information provided by both the former CM's Azad paid an amount of Rs 45765 as income tax in 2008-09 and Mufti dislcosed that he deposited 10,015 as Income tax for 2007-08.</b>PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti in her affidavit stated that she has a cash sum of rs 40,000 besides Rs 1,29,000 in her bank account.She owns 900 gm gold valuing 9,90,000 and a Maruti swift car.. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
12-24-2008, 09:24 PM
Kanchan Gupta's take on kandahar hijacking episode
It has quite a lot of inside information on the happenings The truth behind Kandahar Was it really an âabject surrenderâ by the NDA Government? <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>There have been innumerable communal riots in India, nearly all of them in States ruled by the Congress at the time of the violence, yet everybody loves to pretend that blood was shed in the name of religion for the first time in Gujarat in 2002</b> and that the BJP Government headed by Mr Narendra Modi must bear the burden of the cross. Similarly, nobody remembers the various incidents of Indian Airlines aircraft being hijacked when the Congress was in power at the Centre, the deals that were struck to rescue the hostages, and the compromises that were made at the expense of Indiaâs dignity and honour. But everybody remembers the hijacking of IC 814 and nearly a decade after the incident, many people still hold the BJP-led NDA Government responsible for the âshamefulâ denouement. The Indian Airlines flight from Kathmandu to New Delhi, designated IC 814, with 178 passengers and 11 crew members on board, was hijacked on Christmas eve, 1999, a short while after it took-off from Tribhuvan International Airport; by then, the aircraft had entered Indian airspace. Nine years later to the day, with an entire generation coming of age, it would be in order to recall some facts and place others on record. In 1999 I was serving as an aide to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the PMO, and I still have vivid memories of the tumultuous week between Christmas eve and New Yearâs eve. Mr Vajpayee had gone out of Delhi on an official tour; I had accompanied him along with other officials of the PMO. The hijacking of IC 814 occurred while we were returning to Delhi in one of the two Indian Air Force Boeings which, in those days, were used by the Prime Minister for travel within the country. <b>Curiously, the initial information about IC 814 being hijacked, of which the IAF was believed to have been aware, was not communicated to the pilot of the Prime Ministerâs aircraft</b>. As a result, Mr Vajpayee and his aides remained unaware of the hijacking till reaching Delhi. This caused some amount of controversy later. ----- Desperate calls were made to the officials at Raja Sansi Airport to somehow stall the refuelling and prevent the plane from taking off. The officials just failed to respond with alacrity. At one point, an exasperated Jaswant Singh, if memory serves me right, grabbed the phone and pleaded with an official, âJust drive a heavy vehicle, a fuel truck or a road roller or whatever you have, onto the runway and park it there.â But all this was to no avail. ---- Yet, despite IC 814 remaining parked at Amritsar for three-quarters of an hour, the NSG commandos failed to reach the aircraft. There are two versions as to why the NSG didnât show up: First, they were waiting for an aircraft to ferry them from Delhi to Amritsar; second, they were caught in a traffic jam between Manesar and Delhi airport. The real story was never known! --- Ms Brinda Karat came to commiserate with the relatives of the hostages who were camping outside the main gate of 7, Race Course Road. In fact, she became a regular visitor over the next few days. There was a steady clamour that the Government should pay any price to bring the hostages back home, safe and sound. This continued till December 30. ---- No senior Minister in the CCS was willing to meet the families. Mr Jaswant Singh volunteered to do so. He asked me to accompany him to the canopy under which the families had gathered. Once there, we were literally mobbed. He tried to explain the situation but was shouted down. âWe want our relatives back. What difference does it make to us what you have to give the hijackers?â a man shouted. âWe donât care if you have to give away Kashmir,â a woman screamed and others took up the refrain, chanting: âKashmir de do, kuchh bhi de do, hamare logon ko ghar wapas lao.â Another woman sobbed, âMera beta⦠hai mera betaâ¦â and made a great show of fainting of grief. --- I do not remember the exact date, but sometime during the crisis, Mr Jaswant Singh was asked to hold a Press conference to brief the media. While the briefing was on at the Press Information Bureau hall in Shastri Bhavan, some families of the hostages barged in and started shouting slogans. They were led by one Sanjiv Chibber, who, I was later told, was a ânoted surgeonâ: He claimed six of his relatives were among the hostages. Dr Chibber wanted all 36 terrorists named by the hijackers to be released immediately. He reminded everybody in the hall that in the past terrorists had been released from prison to secure the freedom of Ms Rubayya Sayeed, daughter of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, while he was Home Minister in VP Singhâs Government. âWhy canât you release the terrorists now when our relatives are being held hostage?â he demanded. And then we heard the familiar refrain: âGive away Kashmir, give them anything they want, we donât give a damn.â On another evening, there was a surprise visitor at the PMO: The widow of Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja, whose plane was shot down during the Kargil war. She insisted that she should be taken to meet the relatives of the hostages. At Race Course Road, she spoke to mediapersons and the hostagesâ relatives, explaining why India must not be seen giving in to the hijackers, that it was a question of national honour, and gave her own example of fortitude in the face of adversity. âShe has become a widow, now she wants others to become widows. Who is she to lecture us? Yeh kahan se aayi?â someone shouted from the crowd. Others heckled her. The young widow stood her ground, displaying great dignity and courage. As the mood turned increasingly ugly, she had to be led away. Similar appeals were made by others who had lost their sons, husbands and fathers in the Kargil war that summer. Col Virendra Thapar, whose son Lt Vijayant Thapar was martyred in the war, made a fervent appeal for people to stand united against the hijackers. It fell on deaf ears. The media made out that the overwhelming majority of Indians were with the relatives of the hostages and shared their view that no price was too big to secure the hostagesâ freedom. -- Mr Jaswant Singh had mentioned his decision to go to Kandahar to personally oversee the release of hostages and to ensure there was no last-minute problem. He was honour-bound to do so, he is believed to have said, since he had promised the relatives of the hostages that no harm would come their way. It is possible that nobody thought he was serious about his plan. It is equally possible that others turned on him when the âpopular moodâ and the Congress turned against the Government for its âabject surrenderâ. On New Yearâs eve, the hostages were flown back to Delhi. By New Yearâs day, the Government was under attack for giving in to the hijackersâ demand! Since then, this âshameful surrenderâ is held against the NDA and Mr Jaswant Singh is painted as the villain of the piece. --- <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
12-24-2008, 09:30 PM
<b>UP PWD engineer killed, FIR against BSP MLA</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->An executive engineer of the Uttar Pradesh [Images] Public Works Department was beaten to death allegedly by a Bahujan Samaj Party member of the Legislative Assembly and his supporters after he is believed to have refused to pay them a huge sum for birthday celebrations of Chief Minister Mayawati [Images] next month.
........... Though police refused to comment on the motive of the murder saying that investigation was on in the case, <b>family members of Gupta alleged that Rs 50 lakh was demanded from him by the MLA as donation for celebrations of party chief Mayawati's birthday falling on January 15.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Why they expect PWD engineer can pay Rs 50 Lacs? this much money they don't even get in dowry.
12-27-2008, 02:11 AM
looks like the award was create just to honour him
Lokmanya Tilak award for Vir Sanghvi <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vir Sanghvi, one of the best-known faces of Indian journalism and Advisory Editorial Director of Hindustan Times will be the first recipient of the Lokmanya Tilak National Award for Excellence in Journalism instituted by the Kesari-Maratha Trust. The Trust was founded by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1881. --- Kesari was started by Tilak to rouse public opinion against India's colonial rulers. Recalling that Tilak had even been jailed by the British for his writings, Deepak Tilak said: âThe award is intended to strengthen the tradition of fearless journalism that Tilak represented.â <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
12-27-2008, 04:32 AM
Naxalites beat police âinformerâ to death
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hazaribagh, Dec. 26: Naxalites dragged a woman from her home and beat her to death â in the presence of other villagers â late last night. Thirty-odd rebels carried out the killing in Daldalia village under Charhi outpost, 22km from the district headquarters. According to eyewitnesses account, the Naxalites acted on the suspicion that Etwaria Devi, 38, was a police informer and believed that she deserved death for her âcrimesâ. After being dragged out of her home, the woman was beaten up with sticks, lathis and stones. Though she cried out for help, fear of meeting a similar fate kept her neighbours from helping her. The only person who came to her rescue was her 13-year-old daughter, and the teenager was also beaten up and then locked up in her home â for trying to save her mother. After some minutes of severe beating the woman died on the spot. -- <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-rraajjeevv+Dec 27 2008, 04:32 AM-->QUOTE(rraajjeevv @ Dec 27 2008, 04:32 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Naxalites beat police âinformerâ to death
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hazaribagh, Dec. 26: Naxalites dragged a woman from her home and beat her to death â in the presence of other villagers â late last night. Thirty-odd rebels carried out the killing in Daldalia village under Charhi outpost, 22km from the district headquarters. According to eyewitnesses account, the Naxalites acted on the suspicion that Etwaria Devi, 38, was a police informer and believed that she deserved death for her âcrimesâ. After being dragged out of her home, the woman was beaten up with <b>sticks, lathis and stones.</b> After some minutes of severe beating the woman died on the spot. -- <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]92276[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->That's but more proof that <i>all of christoislamicommunism is one and the same</i>: For instance, - the above is an instance of death-by-beating+stoning being a very communist thing - proof for how death-by-stoning is a very christian thing: christians advocate death-by-stoning because the babble tells them it is the punishment for adulterers - two examples of how death-by-stoning is a very islamic thing. Hence, christoislamicommunism is once more shown to be the same terrorist ideology. Q.E.D. <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Though she cried out for help, fear of meeting a similar fate kept her neighbours from helping her. The only person who came to her rescue was her 13-year-old daughter, and the teenager was also beaten up and then locked up in her home â for trying to save her mother.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->All Hindus, without exception, absolutely have to stop playing cowards. Because this will not end: eventually the same terrorism will come for others. Better to stand together against violence and have some chance of succeeding collectively than to be extinguished on one's own. There will always be cause to fear, there will always be tyranny and violence and the next attempts at invading and destroying us. And <i>every one of them</i> must be withstood, fought and defeated. The future <i>matters</i>: any inaction now due to fear will *multiply* fearful circumstances in the future. It is easy for me to write this, of course, because I am safe and I have never faced such a situation in my own life. But it does not change anything: if Hindus cannot come to the aid of the brave among them (like the woman in the above), then they are helping the christoislamicommunazis wipe out non-cowardice from their own Hindu gene-pool. Hindus must not act like an endangered species, or they will bring all Hindus to the verge of extinction. Tyranny never relents in the face of cowardice, it has no sympathy, no mercy. Fear and acquiescence in its victims only encourages it further in its thinking that the means employed are successful. And its bloodlust will increase if not defied. Nothing but opposition and retaliation will end tyranny. But where is the Hindu army? I keep hearing about how heroic they are. Would have thought that here was a situation that could benefit from their heroism. Why not flatten the 30 genocidal communist maniacs that murdered this single woman?
01-21-2009, 10:56 AM
<!--emo&
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01-24-2009, 12:49 AM
From Race Course Road to the ICU
----- 1230 hours: The two kilometre road from Race Course Road to AIIMS is cleared of traffic for the prime minister's convoy. The departure gets delayed as astrologers say there is a solar eclipse on Janaury 26 between 1230 and 1500 hours and hence, Dr Singh should not leave without performing a pooja (prayer ceremony). 1330 hours: After performing the pooja, the prime minister gets into his car. Just then Congress President Sonia Gandhi [Images] rings up and speaks to Dr Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur. ---
01-24-2009, 01:15 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> The departure gets delayed as astrologers say there is a solar eclipse on Janaury 26 between 1230 and 1500 hours and hence, Dr Singh should not leave without performing a pooja (prayer ceremony).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I will go to hospital first and pray. Solar Eclipse is on 26th so why prayer now? <!--emo& --><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Not sure those had 2nd or 3rd right on India's resources are really praying. <!--emo& --><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Who knows those Pundits may be from secular brigade product?
01-25-2009, 02:22 AM
Amethi-centric vision
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->British journalists who accompanied Rahul Gandhi and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to Amethi were taken aback at the Gandhi scionâs reluctance to speak on international and national issues. To queries on Pakistan and Afghanistan, Gandhi was non-committal, remarking simply that the situation was complicated. On the other hand, he was happy to discuss at length the affairs of his constituency, particularly the condition of the local hospital. --- <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
01-25-2009, 03:02 AM
Rogue MIM workers thrash rivals
The ongoing tug of war between the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and its rivals in the Muslim dominated old city of Hyderabad took a new turn with the MIM supporters attacking Zahid Ali Khan, the editor of a leading Urdu daily, who has announced his plans to contest Lok Sabha elections against the party. Zahid and some of his supporters, including two reporters of his newspaper â Athar Moin and Mubasshir Khurram â were grievously injured and had to be admitted to Care Hospital when the follower of a local MIM legislator Mumtaz Ahmad Khan allegedly attacked them. ---
01-29-2009, 06:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-29-2009, 06:39 AM by Capt M Kumar.)
NEW DELHI: The Padma Award committee seems to have goofed up big time. It has conferred the Padma Shri to Hashmat Ullah Khan of Jammu & Kashmir for being a master craftsman of the rare Kani shawls. But it now transpires that Khan is no craftsman. He is an exporter of shawls, who is said to be currently on a business trip abroad.
What's more, the Omar Abdullah government never recommended Khan's name. Said a senior J&K official, "The state's general administration department has not sent this name for the award. On behalf of the government, it is this department that's responsible for sending in names." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Padma_g...how/4044705.cms
01-30-2009, 10:50 AM
From E-mail
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This report is release by the Ministry of Home Affairs and gives details of Contribution received by NGO's under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 1976. <b>1. Highest receiver of such contribution is Tamil Nadu Rs 2244 crs, Delhi Rs 2186crs and Andhra Pradesh Rs 1,211 crs.</b> 2. When looked at city wise <b>Chennai received highest contribution at Rs 928 crs, Mumbai Rs 891crs and Ranchi Rs 653 crs.</b> 3.<b> Largest donors are the USA Rs2971crs, Germany Rs 1650 crs and UK Rs 1425 crs. 4. List of foreign donors is topped by Misereor Postfech Germany Rs 1243 crs, World Vision International USA Rs 469 crs and Fundacion Vicente Ferrer Spain Rs 399 crs. 5. Ranchi Jesuits Ranchi Jharkhand received the highest contribution Rs 621 crs, followed by Sonthome Trust of Kalyan near Mumbai Rs 333 crs and Sovergein Order of Malta Delhi Rs 301 crs.</b> To know more read the report - http://www.mha.gov.in/fcra/annual/ar2006-07.pdf or see attached file. And we are not talking of the money that comes from the Arab world which I presume comes mostly through the Hawala route. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What has gone into TN is practically all christianisation money. They think that TN is particularly ready for conversion because of their having invested so much effort to prepare the ground with their fable of dravidianism.
They have a very nasty shock waiting for them (inconvertibles are exactly that: <i>in</i>convertibles). In the meantime, TN and the rest of India will drink up all their christianisation money, leaving them practically nothing to show for it in return.
02-03-2009, 11:45 PM
Rebels vacate Siroy after 14-day siege
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Feb. 2: The 14-day Siroy siege ended today with the 30-odd Naga militants holed up in the Ukhrul village finally moving out. On Saturday, Union home minister P. Chidambaram had said the Centre would consider further talks with the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) only after the camp was vacated. -- A senior government official in Ukhrul told The Telegraph over phone that the troops escorted the cadres out of the camp. âBarring the report that the cadres vacated the camp, the Assam Rifles did not disclose the destination of the cadres,â the official said. For the past fortnight, the Assam Rifles has tried a number of tactics to force the Naga militants to leave the camp. They first offered âsafe passageâ to the rebels, provided they moved to a designated camp â an offer the militants declined. Next, the troops cut off food, water and electricity supplies to the camp, hoping that the rebels would surrender once they ran out of ration. -- <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> Assam Rifles jawan kills 6 colleagues at Manipur checkpost New Delhi: In perhaps the worst case of fratricidal killing in the security forces, a jawan of the Assam Rifles shot dead six of his colleagues at a remote checkpost in Manipurâs Ukhrul district this evening. -- Security forces are searching for the jawan who hails from Nagaland and is believed to be familiar with the local terrain. Police suspect he might be headed to a stronghold of the NSCN-IM insurgents. The group has a ceasefire agreement with the Government in Nagaland but is active in Manipur. -- |
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