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06 Feb 2011
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| Editorial: A Raja Finally Arrested |
Editorial: A Raja Finally Arrested
The Editorial Team
It seems noose is tightening around A Raja. Former Telecom Minister charged with siphoning off more than 1.76 lakh crores in 2G Spectrum scam has been arrested by CBI. In one of the biggest scams in India, A Raja has been under CBI scanner for allotting the spectrum and thus cheating the nation of the huge money causing loss to the exchequer. The opposition has been pointing fingers at the shady deals for last few years but the Congress led UPA government at the centre had be...
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| Compulsive Aggression and Profanity of Islam |
Compulsive Aggression and Profanity of Islam
Dharamveer
Islam is a predatory religion. It seeks to demean and destroy other cultures and replace them with Islamic-arab culture. To this end, it finds the things most sacred, most symbolically sublime in cultures it encounters, and then proceeds to systematically profane them. When Islam invaded India in 712AD, they found the Hindus to be very different from themselves. Alberuni, an Islamic historian who accompanied the brutal Islamic invasions of Mahmud Ghazni in 1000AD, states that the Hin...
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| Preah Vihear Temple and Hindu Civilization |
Preah Vihear Temple and Hindu Civilization
 Dr. Shiv Shakti
Many in India might not be aware of a long protracted dispute over a Hindu temple known as Preah Vihear or Prasat Preah Vihear between Combodia and Thailand. The temple has become a bone of contention between the two countries since 1904 when the Siam and French colonial authorities ruling Combodia started demarcating their borders through a joint commission. Although the International Court of Justice in Hague has awarded the temple to Combodia the Thai authorities have not yet...
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| Change in Egypt, But No Revolution | Change in Egypt, But No Revolution
Swapan Dasgupta
For more than 10 days the ferment - some chose to call it ‘r evolution' - in Egypt has shaken and stirred the world. There have been emotional scenes from Tahrir Square as clutches of young people have re-enacted an oriental variant of Greenham Common and Woodstock. There has been a genuine upsurge of sentiment against authoritarian tyranny in the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, not to mention the TV studios throughout the ‘free' world. These in turn have led ...
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| The Pan Arab Intifada and The Return of The Kalifa | The Pan Arab Intifada and The Return of The Kalifa
Aron
Regarding the Uprising if we study and surmise we should suspect a monumental Intelligence failure to pick it up the rumblings on Arab regimes' floors. It later got confirmed when Obama was shouting across the table -as to how this could happen under NSA's nose? We could guess this 'Failure of Intelligence' was much more serious than failure to act upon 9/11 inputs. This could not have happened unless the very same Systemic failures are continuing. Or more plausible an explanation- some su...
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