Tuesday, February 23, 2010

It does not stop at 49.5 percent - India's bestest Home Minister evah!



    • Yet, media persons covering the Pune terror attack proclaimed in reverent adulation how Chidambaram had "rushed" from Chennai to Pune and how well he handled the aftermath. This handling mainly consisted of a press conference, held in his preferred style, which is essentially a royal sermon. He does not like to be asked questions, setting the boundaries at the get go. The few he chooses to answer, he makes no attempt to hide his contempt towards the questioner, making hand gestures of impatience, his body language reeking of elitism. He drops recycled cliches ("they have to get lucky just once..") and his fanboys in the media lap it all up.

      After Pune, Chidambaram claimed that there had been no intelligence lapses, which is probably true. There had been ample information related to flourishing terror cells in Pune. What was lacking was the political will to act on this information. It is obviously hard to prevent terror attacks, but "you are a sitting duck, too bad" isn't exactly confidence inspiring.

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India Retold: AF-PAK: THE TIDE IS TURNING BUT INDIA HAS NO PLAN

  • India Retold: AF-PAK: THE TIDE IS TURNING BUT INDIA HAS NO PLAN

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    • Is it not matter of grave concern that it has taken American Senator Larry Pressler, to voice disappointment that India is not raising a voice about what's happening in Afghanistan, and warn the country that once the US leaves that country, "India is going to have on its border a highly armed loose canon in Pakistan, a rogue state whose government is not what we espouse or support. A rogue Pakistan on steroids of US money"? With Afghanistan back in Pakistan's pocket, Pakistan's military will have at its disposal thousands of jubilant jihadis who it will redirect to achieve victory in Kashmir and, at the same time, create mayhem in the rest of India. Let us not forget that Pakistan has been assiduously preparing the ground for greater jihadi intervention in India. Musharraf, in an interview to Karan Thapar, repeatedly spoke of the role of the LeT in protecting the interests of Indian Muslims. More recently, the way Hamid Mir twisted the reaction of Shiv Sena to Shahrukh Khan's idiotic statements, to appropriate for Pakistan the role of his friend and protector of India's Muslims, shows that, behind fake civil facades, its anti-India agenda remains unabated. The objective of luring more and more Indian Muslims to terror by creating disaffection in them against India is not limited to Pakistan's military alone.

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PunjabNewsline.com - SGPC President serves defamation notice on Delhi based Punjabi magazine

  • PunjabNewsline.com - SGPC President serves defamation notice on Delhi based Punjabi magazine

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    • The president of SGPC Jathedar Avtar Singh Makkar has served a legal notice against a Delhi-based Punjabi monthly magazine for allegedly defaming him by publishing his ‘morphed’ picture on the front page of its February ’10 issue.

      The notice, sent by Ajaib Singh, senior advocate of Punjab-Haryana high court, claims that showing him in RSS uniform (Khaki shorts) may create disunity and friction in the Sikh community and demands apology from the publisher and editor of the magazine.

      In the front page photo, Makkar clad in Khakhi shorts is shown bowing at the knees of RSS chief.The caption suggested that Makkar has appeased RSS by changing Nanakshahi calender.


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Abhinav Bharat denies involvement in Pune blast - Oneindia News

  • Abhinav Bharat denies involvement in Pune blast - Oneindia News

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    • Pune,
    • Abhinav Bharat, a radical group accused of a blast at Malegaon town in 2008, on Tuesday objected over allegations that the group was involved in the bomb blast at German Bakery in Pune that killed 15 people.
    • Himani Savarkar, President of right-wing group Abhinav Bharat and a relative of Indian freedom fighter Veer Savarkar, refuted all allegations and accused the Congress Party of hoodwinking people by making such claims.
    • She added that Abhinav Bharat is a revolutionary organisation involved in nationalist activities and also threatened to file a case of defamation.
    • Founded in 2006, Abhinav Bharat was established as an educational trust with Himani Savarkar - daughter of Gopal Godse, brother of Mahatma Gandhi's assassin - as its chairperson.

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Raj Thackeray favours Nitin Gadkari's formula on Babri Masjid - dnaindia.com

  • Raj Thackeray favours Nitin Gadkari's formula on Babri Masjid - dnaindia.com

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    • Kiran Tare / DNA
    • While Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray disagreed with BJP president Nitin Gadkari’s idea of rebuilding the Babri Masjid on an open plot near the Ram temple in Ayodhya, his nephew and MNS president Raj Thackeray has welcomed it cautiously.
    • Gadkari shares a good rapport with Raj. “In my opinion, Nitin Gadkari is the right person for the chief minister’s post in Maharashtra,” Raj had said before the October 2009 assembly elections in the state.

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अयोध्या से चेन्नई तक चले ट्रेन :: सहारा समय

  • अयोध्या से चेन्नई तक चले ट्रेन :: सहारा समय

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  • (Ramesh Chandra)

    • इंडियन यूनियन मुस्लिम लीग ने रेल मंत्री ममता बनर्जी से उत्तर प्रदेश की धार्मिक नगरी अयोध्या से दझिण भारत के चेन्नई तक नई ट्रेन चलाने की मांग की है।
      इंडियन यूनियन मुस्लिम लीग के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष डा.नजमुल हसन गनी ने आज यहां कहा कि अयोध्या विश्वस्तर का धार्मिक स्थल है इसलिए दक्षिण भारत चेन्नई तक नई ट्रेन चलायी जानी चाहिए।
      उन्होंने कहा कि 1992 से अयोध्या धार्मिक स्थल विशेष चर्चा में है। महत्व अधिक बढ जाने से देश के विभिन्न प्रांतो से हिन्दू,मुस्लिम,जैन तथा सिख श्रद्धालु यहां आते हैं।
      उन्होंने कहा कि दक्षिण भारत से आने और अयोध्या से दक्षिण भारत को जाने के लिए कोई सीधी ट्रेन नहीं है जिससे श्रद्धालुओं को आने-जाने में काफी कठिनाइयों का सामना करना पडता है।
      डा.गनी ने कहा कि अयोध्या एक ऐसा धर्मस्थल है जहां से हिन्दू मुस्लिम एकता का सबक पूरे देश वाले सीखते हैं। उन्होंने 1992 के मंदिर-मस्जिद आंदोलन को याद दिलाते हुए कहा कि इतना सब कुछ हो जाने के बाद भी हिन्दू मुस्लिम एकता पर कोई प्रभाव नहीं पडा।
    • अयोध्या

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पाक में एक हिंदू व्यक्ति का अपहरण-पड़ोसी देश/एशिया-दुनिया-Navbharat Times

  • पाक में एक हिंदू व्यक्ति का अपहरण-पड़ोसी देश/एशिया-दुनिया-Navbharat Times

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    • पाकिस्तान के अशांत कबायली क्षेत्र में तालिबान द्वारा दो सिखों की हत्या की घटना के बीच एक पाकिस्तानी हिंदू का अपहरण कर लि
      या गया है।

      एक आधिकारिक बयान में बताया गया कि रॉबिन सिंह नाम के व्यक्ति का अज्ञात लोगों ने पेशावर के यूनिवर्सिटी रोड पर स्थित बाजार से बीते शुक्रवार को दिनदहाड़े अपहरण कर लिया।
    • पेशावर

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The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> There’s a Trojan in the EVM!

  • The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> There’s a Trojan in the EVM!

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    • A Surya Prakash
    • Among these experts was Mr Rop Gonggrijp, a computer hacker from the Netherlands who hacked a machine on a live television show and became instrumental in the banning of EVMs in his country; Mr Alex Halderman, professor of computer science at the University of Michigan and an authority on electronic voting security; and, Mr Till Jaeger, the attorney who argued against the use of EVMs before the German Federal Constitutional Court leading to the order banning of these machines in Germany. The Indian viewpoint on the vulnerability of EVMs was offered by Mr Hari Prasad, a noted ‘hactivist’ from Hyderabad, who first raised the red flag about the integrity of the EVM-based election process.
    • According to Mr Gonggrijp and Mr Halderman, EVMs can be tampered with either at the manufacturing stage or when they are stored in State capitals for deployment in elections or at the polling booths. They are convinced that Indian EVMs are no different from those that were deployed in the Netherlands, Germany or Ireland, before they were discarded in those countries. One of the ways to rig an election is to introduce a Trojan in the display section of the control unit. This chip would give ‘fixed’ results on the EVM screen. In other words, whatever the voters’ preference, the control unit would display numbers as per the hacker’s plan.
    • The lack of transparency appears to be the Achilles heel of electronic voting. Nobody knows what goes on inside these machines. This is the point on which the German Constitutional Court has held the deployment of EVMs as un-constitutional. It says the Constitution emphasises the public nature of elections and requires all essential steps to be open to public scrutiny.

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वो जो चुप न रह सका: नक्सलीयों के 72 दिन शांति नहीं, अपने बचाव की कारवाई. हिन्दुस्तानी सरकार क्या तुम जाल में फंसोगी?

  • वो जो चुप न रह सका: नक्सलीयों के 72 दिन शांति नहीं, अपने बचाव की कारवाई. हिन्दुस्तानी सरकार क्या तुम जाल में फंसोगी?

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    • नक्सलियों को चाहिये 72 दिन जंगलो से बचकर भाग जाने के लिये.

      असल में नक्सली आतंकी झारखंड और छत्तीसगढ़ के जिन जंगलो में छिपे हैं वो जंगल में मुख्यत: साल के पेड़ है. यह वह समय है जब साल के पेड़ों पर से पत्ते झड़ते हैं और जंगल के जंगल बेरंग हो जाते हैं. साल के घने वृक्षों में छिपे नक्सलियों के लिये एक-दो हफ्तों के बाद शरण दुर्लभ होने वाली है, क्योंकि अप्रेल-मई तक साल के वृक्षों में नये पत्ते नहीं आने वाले.

    • अब वक्त है कि सरकार सही फैसला ले और नक्सलियों के खिलाफ संघर्ष को वह तेजी दे जो साल भर नहीं दी, ताकी नंगे होते जंगलों में छुपे नक्सलियों को वक्त रहते खत्म किया जा सके. यह वह दुर्लभ मौका है जो साल में एक बार आता है, और त्वरित कार्यवाही से निश्चित है बहुत से नक्सली कातिल पकड़े/मारे जा सकेंगे.

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