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Security agencies are being blamed for their failure in connection with the bomb blast case of Dilsukhnagar. It is clearly a case of lethargy and carelessness of the security agencies Dilsukhnagar area is one of the busiest business centers. Earlier, a bomb was blasted in this area in 2002. It is the second time that the terrorists have targeted Dilsukhnagar area which caused the deaths of many persons.

It is said that the terrorists took stock of the situation of the area completely and then they executed this blast.

As the twin blasts ripped off Hyderabad by targeting its main commercial center Dilsukhnagar, police was tight lipped not letting their guns lose on particular terror groups, after earlier goof ups in Mecca Masjid bla

A timely and revealing book on the takeover of the Babri Masjid on the night of December 22-23, 1949. The authors’ political sophistication emerges from the pointed questions they raise about a divide in our polity.

Social activist Teesta Setalvad on Monday claimed there is ‘strong’ evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whom the Special Investigation Team has given a clean chit in the post-Godhra riot case, in a complaint filed by Zakia Jafri, wife of slain ex-Congress Member of Parliament Ehsan Jafri.

“We have many strong cases and evidence against many of the accused including accused number one (Modi),” Setalvad whose non-governmental organisation called Centre for Justice and Peace provides legal assistance to 2002 post-Godhra riot victims told reporters in Ahmedabad.

London, Feb. 18 (ANI): When it comes to looking thin, it seems that some women will just go to any extent to shift a few kilograms – except go on a diet.

According to a study, two-thirds of women feel they could do with losing weight but don’t have the time or the inclination to diet.

Instead they try tricks like wearing black, applying fake tan and carrying an oversized handbag to look slimmer, the Daily Mail reported.

But the most popular trick was wearing a control underwear.

The photographs of the Meteorite’s explosion, which have been released in the media, tell many tales.

The surprising thing is that these photographs resemble a painting available in Siasat’s Calligraphy Studio. This painting depicts verse no.35 of Surah Rahman of the Quran, which says, “When fire and smoke are released, you can’t escape”.

Rajnath Singh, the new BJP President (Feb 2013) has brought forward the issue of Ram Temple once again. The Sadhus associated with VHP have also proclaimed that it is on their agenda. All the top leaders of RSS Parivar are visiting the Mahakumbh, taking a dip in the Holy Ganges and affirming the Ram Temple as the fulcrum of their all round campaign in the wake of the forthcoming 2014 Parliamentary elections.

We are talking about Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and we should keep it in our mind that he is the greatest individual in history. If anyone wants to know about Islam, one should “Judge Islam by Prophet’s (SAW) life and his teachings,” said Swami Lakshmi Shankracharya, founder, Jan Ekta Manch.

Political system of this country has made the Judicial system subsidiary to religious sentiments which is dangerous for the credibility of democratic structure. For this gigantic secular country, Justice should be equal for everyone but in the present day context, the efforts of the political parties tantamount to shatter the faith in democracy.

We are going through strange times. While the science, technology and rationalism has given us physical and intellectual tools to better the lot of humanity, we are witnessing the production of provocative material, literature and films in particular, which demonize the particular religion, Islam to be precise, and the prophet of Islam. On the other hand there is a section of community, feeling threatened and insecure coming to the streets to protest against such humiliation and insult of their religion.

(Kuldip Nayar) When Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar suggests that they are willing to view Kashmir from “another angle” to tackle the thorniest problem and Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna changes the subject, it means that Islamabad has overcome pressures from within. Of course, Foreign Minister Khar’s remark is primarily meant to reopen the problem which remains frozen. Yet the mere suggestion of “another angle” indicates a new confidence that the tottering Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari government has assumed.

Over a million people in Britain could be suffering from constant and crippling headaches because of taking too many painkillers, according to experts.

According to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) in guidance to the health service for England and Wales, the pills people take to relieve headaches and migraines may be making things much worse, The Guardian reported.

Nice says that as many as one in 50 people suffering from continual headaches are in reality victims of “medication overuse”.

(M.A.J Siddiqui) The recent clashes between Bodos and Muslims in Assam, killing over hundreds of innocent Muslims and displacing over 5 lakhs citizens has once again generated more discussion on the issue. The present clashes have developed many a new penetrating and controversial analysis. It posed the question whether the Bengali speaking people are Bangladeshi infiltrators, does these clashes would dominate the Parliamentary elections. Whether Bodos are predominant population in Bodo Land? This article gives answer to all such questions based on facts and logic.

With the conditions imposed on fees reimbursement scheme,70% of the Muslim students will be deprived of higher professional education. The revision of this scheme has proved that it was a temporary scheme which was introduced only to appease Minorities.

Sub-plan should also be allocated for Minorities on par with B.C’s according to their population. The present budget allocation for Minorities is very meager.

“In the days to come, there will be large scale changes in the entire world. Oil reserves are there only in a few countries. Veteran Politicians are paving the way for the youngsters or the young leaders themselves are carving their own way.”

Mr. John B. Alterman, Director of Center for strategic and International Studies in America, expressed these thoughts. He was talking to a group selected journalists on the occasion of his recent visit to Hyderabad.

An obscure Israeli film-maker in the US makes an obscure hate-filled amateurish film against the Prophet Mohammed. The film is released in June and no-one gives it a second thought. It sinks without a trace into the dustbin of history as it rightly should. Its trailer struggles to get even 100 views on YouTube. Nobody has time for such mediocre rubbish.

Then a curious thing happens months later in September, more precisely on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. Protests over the film break out in Egypt. A violent attack in Libya claims the life of the US ambassador, among others.

Not only in Hyderabad but in the entire Andhra Pradesh, the month of September is labeled as ‘sitamgar’. Elders of Hyderabad say that the month of September has always been proved disastrous for the state. Not only the incidents of flood, natural disasters, communal riots but the greatest tragedy in the history of India, the police action, also occurred in the month of September.

(P. Madhu – Ex MP) THE media coverage of the riots in Kokrajhar district of Assam have focused on the immigration of Bengali Muslims into the Bodo Territorial Council areas as the root cause of the July 2012 riots. Political parties like the BJP have fed on this discourse and blamed the Congress government for playing vote bank politics thus ignoring tribal rights in the region.

(By Amer Ali Khan) The conference of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was held at a time when preparations are in progress for American presidential elections on one side and on the other hand, Israel is getting ready to attack Iran. The entire world is afraid of the dreadful consequences of probable attack of Israel on Iran. In such situations conducting NAM conference in Tehran successfully is a historic event.

Historian and writer William Dalrymple is sad that Hyderabad has shed much of its past and called for a major effort for conservation and to popularize the history and culture of Deccan, nationally and internationally.

The author of “White Mughals”, who lived in the city in 1990s while writing and researching, described Deccan’s culture as one of the greatest in Asia and stressed the need for studying and popularizing it.

(Ram Puniyani) The verdict of magistrate Dr. Jyotsna Yagnik, sentencing Dr. Maya Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi and others to long imprisonment (31 August, 2012) has come as a big relief to the victims of Naroda Patiya, for whom it was like return of Eid to their houses. Naroda Patiya had witnessed horrific carnage and acts of rape in 2002 and this judgment will give a solace to the victims and their near and dear ones’.

A massive Dharna programme was organized at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi against the large scale killings of Muslims in Assam. More than 200 citizens representing 31 Muslim organizations participated in Dharna programme. Dharna was organized by “United Movement for People’s Rights” organization. The participants were from various political parties, social organization, journalists and others.

They demanded the Govt. of India to ensure quick and permanent solution to Assam problem.

Chupa Kar aasteenoun mein Rakhi hain gardoon ne

Anadil bagh ke ghafil na baithen Ashiyanoun mein (Iqbal)

{The sky has kept concealed the thunders in its sleeves The nightingales in the garden should not sit negligent in their nests} (Dr. Sir Mohammed Iqbal)

(Ram Puniyani) The Assam violence between Bodos and Muslims, alleged by many to be Bangldeshi infiltrators, has a long chain of repercussions. The number of dead is nearly eighty. Killings are continuing and the people who have been displaced have been over 4 lakhs. There is no exact statistics to tell us how many of the displaced are Muslims and how many are Bodos, still roughly some investigators have put the figure of Muslims 80% and Bodos 20%. The few reports which have come out tell us that the condition of the all refugee camps is abysmal, much worse of those where Muslims are living.

In a narrow, congested bylane in south Mumbai’s Saat Rasta area is the Dagdi Chawl headquarters of mafia boss Arun Gawli, sentenced to life for the 2008 murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar, his first conviction in a four-decade-long career in crime in the notorious underworld of India’s commercial and entertainment capital.

Unlike the man, the chawl – local euphemism for a slum – is nondescript and easy to miss for those unfamiliar with the packed city.