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Shunted out after his leadership came under fire in the fight against the 26/11 attackers, former Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor has broken his silence only to ruffle a lot of feathers. In a scathing attack ahead of the first anniversary of...
Nov 6 2009
Conquering armies of centuries past avoided this remote, mountainous area along the present-day border with China, a place once described by a British colonial official as “an unpenetrated enclave of savage hills.”
Oct 7 2009
By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends to raise funds for the six-year-old’s release. Even then he was able to gather...
Sep 18 2009
Israel is warning that Islamist militants are preparing attacks in India similar to those in Mumbai last year, media and officials have said. Israel’s counterterrorism unit said the group that launched the Mumbai attacks was planning to target...
Aug 1 2009
It was just after dawn and the fish market beneath this port city’s clock tower was humming. Fishermen shouldering baskets laden with the night’s catch tipped their Spanish mackerel, tuna and prawns onto the slick concrete floor for buyers. Sweaty...
Jul 25 2009
There are many theories on the origins of homosexuality, its social and personal meanings and its implications. The American Psychiatric Association in 1973, and the World Health Organisation in 1992, officially accepted it as a normal variant of human...
Jul 17 2009
A leading member of India’s ruling Congress party was arrested and her house set on fire after she suggested a rival politician – Mayawati, the so-called Dalit Queen – ought to be raped so that she better understood the trauma faced by victims...
Jun 23 2009
What an irony that in a week when Iranian protesters were being hailed (not least by the British media) for harnessing the power of Internet through anonymous blogs and “tweets” bloggers in Britain were stripped of their right to anonymity after a...
Jun 3 2009
Japan’s sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world’s most endangered fish. A corporation within the £170bn Mitsubishi empire is importing thousands of tonnes of...
Jun 2 2009
Five-term Lok Sabha MP Meira Kumar on Tuesday became the consensus candidate of the ruling UPA and the Opposition BJP for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker . Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee led a UPA delegation to submit Kumar’s nomination...