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BANGALORE -- Ramachandra Guha, the provocative, critical historian of India After Gandhi, has vitality and charisma to match his country's. Writing and talking with fire-hose force, he's come to mirror India's sense of it's 63-year-old self. For all of the nation's grave wounds and faults, Ram...

India proposes new law to combat honour killings Agence France-Presse - August 5, 2010 11:02 AM NEW DELHI - India's home minister proposed Thursday a bill to provide specific, severe penalties to curb honour killings, saying they brought "dishonour" to India as a secular, modern...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it was well within its power under UGC rules to de-recognise the 44 deemed universities for allegedly failing to maintain requisite quality education. Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium, appearing before a Bench of...

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width=570 align=left><TBODY><TR><TH scope=col>What is cooking in India against Sikhs? </TH></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top scope=col align=left>Kashmir Watch By Afshain Afzal How India is playing with the Sikhs remind me of an interesting incident. Once...

Couples in India dying in 'honour killings' August 02, 2010 Rick Westhead - Toronto Star Rajni, 19, and Sanjeev, 24, are under police protection. Rajni's family has threatened to kill them both if they marry out of class. RICK WESTHEAD/TORONTO STAR BAHAN, INDIA—Nineteen-year-old Rajni...

Like in the UK you have the BNP, who are all the hardcore far-right parties in India? Thanks

Uneducated Comments by Sajjid Khan on a Commendable Gatka Performance at India's Got Talent Spark Controversy: The exit of a seven-year-old participant from the “India’s Got Talent” reality show after judge Sajid Khan commented that the martial arts dance form he performed was too violent has...

India rebuffed on request for crown jewel <SMALL>India Gazette Friday 30th July, 2010 </SMALL><SMALL> </SMALL><SMALL></SMALL> <SMALL></SMALL> <SMALL></SMALL> The British government has refused to consider returning the jewel in the British monarch's crown. In an emphatic rebuff to India...

LONDON: Britain on Thursday announced lifting of temporary suspension on Tier 4 (General Student) Visa applications from students in North India, nearly six months after it stopped issuing visas in three centres in the region. An official announcement said...

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Forwarded for posting by Mai Harinder Kaur MALANG, India — Buddhi Devi was 14 when she was betrothed. In India, that is not unusual: many marry young. Her intended was a boy from her village who was two years younger — that, too, was not strange. But she was also supposed to...

The Punjab state government in India is seeking close to $150-million from Canada for turning back a shipload of South Asians, mostly Sikhs, from Vancouver nearly a century ago. During the 1914 incident, more than 350 passengers from India — Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus — were not allowed to...

"Shining India" Makes Its Poor Pay Price of Hosting Commonwealth Games by JASON BURKE The government bulldozers came to the school at 11am, after yoga and before English and Hindi lessons. The children and their teachers had three hours to clear the classrooms. By mid-afternoon...

India unsafe for women South Asia Post - July 15, 2010 THIS is India’s national capital, Delhi. From here India’s most powerful women govern. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi is an unassailable chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance. And, Mrs. Sheila Dikshit is the chief minister of the...

Sikhs Continue To Demand Justice in India by PRANAY SHARMA As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh mingled with the leaders of G-20 countries in Toronto, Canada, recently, symbolising India's ascent as a power, a ghost from the past surfaced - the macabre 1984 pogroms of India. Out...

London, July 11: Britons, who are facing cuts in public spending, are more and more questioning the UK government’s commitment to providing aid to countries like India and China. Chancellor George Osborne launched a website last week to get ideas from common citizens on how to “reduce the...

Canada-bound female spouses from India need counselling <!-- END HEADLINE --><!-- BEGIN STORY BODY -->Gurmukh SinghWed, Jul 14 03:12 PM Toronto, July 14 (IANS) With rampant domestic violence, including honour killings, against women in Indian and other South Asian communities in Canada, a...

In India, Castes, Honor and Killings Intertwine KODERMA, India — When Nirupama Pathak left this remote mining region for graduate school in New Delhi, she seemed to be leaving the old India for the new. Her parents paid her tuition and did not resist when she wanted to choose her own career...

<br>[URL="http://www.countercurrents.org/print.html"]<br><br>Manmohan Singh Phenomena: India’s Grand Strategy Of Controlling Thought Of Sikhs By Parmjeet Singh 07 July, 2010 <br><br>Ethno-political phenomena, everywhere in the world, have some common traits; one of then is...