Does Kerala Textbook promote Atheism?

Protests have broken out in Kerala against the content of the text book that allegedly promotes atheism. As usual religious heads have over reacted, as Apoorvanand has shown:

This imaginary dialogue between a couple and a headmaster has set Kerala on fire. We can see that the text does not advocate atheism in any form. It [...]

AP court refuses to believe terrorist’s love story

Love and terrorism make an unusual combination. That is why an Andhra Pradesh court refused to believe Azad Ahmad Qureshi when he claimed that love, not terror, had brought him to the state.
Qureshi was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh on Monday after he was found guilty for treason, criminal [...]

Afghanistan: Another frontier of Indo-Pak rivalry?

by Dr Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
Following the suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, the role of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence has come under the scanner of the Afghan and Indian governments.
The casualities of the July 7 blast were not victims of yet another attack by the Taliban, as believed in the immediate aftermath of [...]

Of terror & its ‘high-profile’ connections

Terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir are using cell phones of high-profile people, including a former legislator, who work as their over-ground workers, to communicate and receive orders from their Pakistan-based headquarters, intelligence agencies have said.
“Terrorist commanders used cell phones of 51 persons, including a former legislator, for their conversations with Pak-based headquarters and other [...]

Bangladesh has encroached upon 500 acres: Assam

The Assam assembly on Tuesday witnessed noisy scenes after the government conceded that Bangladesh and neighbouring states have encroached upon more than 700 acres of the state’s land.
As much as 500 acres were being encroached by Bangladesh along the border, while nearly 87 hectares were illegally occupied by Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Meghalaya and [...]