Illustration – P. K. JobDr B. Ekbal, former Vice Chancellor of Kerala University, said teachers and parents should keep vigil on the use of Internet and mobile phones by minor students.
However, he did not see any need for giving user guidelines to adults on the use or misuse of mobile phones and Internet.
‘Curb terror outfits’It is a wonder that in 26/11, the jihadis after successfully breaching three layers of Indian maritime defence, inactive in all but name – the outer zone manned by the Indian Navy, the coastal zone patrolled by the Coast Guard, and the inner-most defensive line policed by Harbour patrols — merely shot up a couple of hotels when they could have done something really spectacular — a “Pearl Harbour” by sinking a good part of the Western Fleet anchored at the time in the Mumbai naval base, only a few hundred meters from where they landed.
The Palestinian security officer at the Rafah border was overly polite. He wore a black uniform and walked around self-assuredly, as he instructed weary travelers on their next moves before being allowed back into Gaza. On the other side of the border, in Egypt, there was much anxiety, fear and anticipation.
The Pulitzer Prize winning biography on cancer ‘The Emperor of All Maladies’ has brought the malady to centre stage. The writer-oncologist Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee chronicles a disease humans have lived with and perished for more than 5,000 years. Hyderabad, referred as a medical hub, tells another sordid story: several women cancer patients continue to choose death over treatment here.
A showdown between Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party appears imminent over the communal violence bill with the ruling party dismissing as “pernicious propaganda” the latter’s criticism that the law was fraught with dangerous consequence.
Noting that the BJP’s reaction on the draft bill was “premature” as nothing has been finalised, Singhvi said, “BJP is trying to further its communal agenda…it clearly reflects BJP’s guilt complex.”
Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare today warned the government that if it did “something hanky panky” with the Lokpal bill he would again undertake a fast-unto-death.
“If the Jan Lokpal bill becomes a law, it will eradicate corruption 60-70 per cent. It will lay the foundation for total eradication of corruption,” he said addressing villagers in Begur village in Bangalore Rural district.
Hazare, who had undertaken an indefinite fast in Delhi to press for anti-graft legislation last month, asked the villagers to be ready for a nationwide protest if Lokpal bill was not implemented.
Most women in America don’t think twice about hopping in their cars and hitting the open road to run errands, pick the kids up from school or simply enjoy a long leisurely drive. However, in Saudi Arabia, women are still banned from driving despite several high profile incidents over the years that has thrust the global media’s attention on the issue. This past week the issue was once again brought into the limelight as a female Saudi Arabian citizen took to the wheel and later posted the video on the popular social-networking site YouTube.
Childhood and innocenceThe figures are astounding. Some 6,500 children, mostly girls, go missing in Andhra Pradesh every year.
Of these, 2,500 are reported missing in the twin cities. In 2010, Hyderabad, reported 364 boys and 532 girls missing, and Cyberabad also reported 364 boys and 532 girls missing, according to the State Crime Records Bureau.
Out of the 896 cases of missing children in Hyderabad and Cyberabad, each. Around 241 children are untraced in Hyderabad and Cyberabad has 385 untraced children.
Childhood and innocenceTo make it easier for families to trace children, a website www.missingchilsearch.net was launched in 2007 in collaboration with Unicef.
The site allows parents to upload photographs and ask for help. At present there are 47 active NGOs across India registered with the website and about 17 NGOs from AP are also registered with the website.
Bhopal, May 26: Little fingers from Bhopal bring out concern on bias towards girl child, water crisis and corporal punishment.
“I even dance in my dreams, I love dancing, it is my passion, but my parents and brother don’t like my passion, they say I would not be able to dance after Class 10. But why? These is the question of Tammana, a girl presently in tenth grade in a Bhopal school.
The shootout at Barkas in Old City turned out to be a complex case faced by investigators in recent times since it involved crucial points as to who fired at whom and with which weapon. Though eventually police managed to reconstruct the crime and sequence of events, there are lessons investigators can learn from the case.
The buzz is Mumbai is once again about the the dynamics of the two gangs that once defined its underworld, the latest reminder coming from the brazen shooting last week outside Dawood Ibrahim’s family home, which left his brother Iqbal Kaskar’s driver-cum-bodyguard dead.
The jury is still out on who ordered the hit but investigators feel that the planning and the sophistication imported Webley revolvers were used suggest the hand of Dawood’s old rival, his former lieutenant Chhota Rajan, rather than that of a newer gang.
Chicago: The mysterious Major Iqbal, who India suspects is a Pakistani army officer in ISI, has now been identified as ‘Chaudhery Khan’ by Mumbai terror accused David Headley who said he is the mastermind of the 26/11 attacks plot.
50-year-old Headley also told a Chicago court during the trial of 26/11 co-accused Tahawwur Rana that an attempt to take the attackers to Mumbai in September 2008 failed as a boat in which they were to sail was lost.
For BPO workers in their early 20s, the cigarette is a panacea for everything from peer pressure to lack of concentration.
They move around in packs, especially at night. They lurk near the back doors of offices, and almost all you can see of them are the burning red circles on their faces. They reappear every hour or two, almost like a ritual. At the end of the night, all that is left of their activity are empty butts, the stench of stale tobacco in the thick, smoky, morning air and some crushed packets with prominent pictures of diseased lungs and warnings that tobacco kills.
Between 42 lakh and 1.21 crore female foetuses were selectively aborted in the country in the last three decades and wealthy and educated families are increasingly going for abortion of the second girl child if their first-born too was a girl, claims a new study. Selective abortions of girls are estimated to be between 4.2 and 12.1 million over the three decades from 1980 to 2010, as per the research findings that are to be published in the upcoming issue of prestigious ‘Lancet’ magazine.
On May 11, like any other day, 21-year-old Joseph D’souza logged on to his Facebook account. Purpose? To add, update, poke and tag. But today, there was unusual, serious activity. A picture of a cute little kid flooded the pages, profile after profile. Within minutes, a community was created — ‘Search for Tamanna’ — giving details of the five-year-old kid who was abducted from Chennai’s Marina beach. Even though her parents lodged an official complaint with the police, the desperate father posted on Facebook, sparking rage and an urgency to volunteer help.
Legend has it that Mughal emperor Akbar had 100 bottles of ‘itr’. Jasmine, rose, kewda or mogra…the many splendoured potion of the past, once edged out by international perfume brands, is unleashing its heady scents in India once again.
Tagged as the purest non-alcoholic natural fragrance, itr is made with flowers and takes five to seven years to reach maturity. Packed into tiny colourful glass bottles, itr like wine gets better with time, says its growing tribe of aficionados.
There are so many reasons why women cheat. None of them good, but the truth is it happens. The fact that some women believe they can get away with it is probably the most important reason why they cheat; moreover now than any other time in history.
In July 2006, I was watching the news report on Israel’s devastating attack on Lebanon. As I saw the images of severed bodies and heard the cries for help, the frustration and helplessness I felt was overwhelming. So I decided to pray while reciting from the mus’haf (hardcopy of the Qur’an, which is the word of God). As I was reading, I arrived at the verse:
At a time when elections in Uttar Pradesh are just eight months away, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi astonished everyone by sneaking into Bhatta Parsaul. The Congress, which is now milking farmers’ plight, has never felt the necessity to rake up the issue when farmers were committing suicide from across the country. Why?
Pilot: The situation in Uttar Pradesh is very different. Western UP has witnessed farmers’ agitation a number of times in the recent past. Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government curbed those agitations at gun points.
Along with many American Muslims, my family and I listened to your speech today on the Middle East and North Africa. While I appreciate your encouraging statements to the people of the Muslim world — particularly to those who are currently fighting for dignity and civil rights in their own lands — I also couldn’t help feeling that many Americans are not setting the example of which you spoke when it comes to our own Muslim citizens.
Osama Bin Laden, the brain behind Al-Qaida was killed on May 1, 2011 in the resort town of Abbottabad near Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Al-Qaida has lost a leader who was fighting against the western politico-cultural influence through terrorist means in the name of religious ethos and history.
After the Abbottabad covert operation, the search for a new CEO of Al Qaeda can be as wild and difficult as it was for America to track down its original chief, OBL. Here’s a sneak peek at how a core group member, Pasha Qul (PQ), had to reach out everywhere — including Bollywood — in his crazy, desperate hunt for a new head of AQ, which is Arabic term for `The Base’.
The government’s use of surveillance, informants and invented plots fails to enhance public safety and instead prompts human rights concerns, an NYU report says. The FBI and the NYPD take issue with the findings.
U.S. government tactics in pursuing domestic terrorism cases target and entrap Muslim community members and fail to enhance public safety, according to a report released Wednesday by a human rights center at New York University’s law school.
The death of the World’s No.1 Terrorist heralds no real change in fundamentals or policy
May 2, 2011. Osama bin Laden is dead. The world celebrated, berated, fussed and fumed. Two weeks on, life’s moved on.