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After Kashmir, N-E has largest intelligence deployment Ajay Suri Though Union Home minister L K Advani said today he ‘did not think’ there had been an intelligence failure in the north-east, the fact remains that after Kashmir, the region has the maximum concentration of intelligence...

India rebels 'making **** films' By Subir Bhaumik BBC News, Calcutta Rebels in India's north-eastern state of Tripura are making pornographic films to raise money for their separatist campaign, officials say. The information has come from surrendered guerrillas of the National Liberation...

Rural India's Seeds of Despair It might have been borrowing another $100 just to keep his family going that finally convinced Pravin Bakkamwar to end his life. Or maybe it was knowing that he needed to find a husband for his 18-year-old sister Suwarana, and then pay her dowry and arrange a...

COMMUNALISM M.F. Husain, who has been the target of communal groups and now spends most of his time in London and Dubai. JUST before the incident in Vadodara, India's best-known artist, M.F. Husain, was subjected to a round of moral policing. Husain has been targeted repeatedly by...

RAW's involvement in Chittagong Hill Tracts : Some admissions 1. The Chakma guerrillas had closely assisted RAW operatives. They were assisted during and after the liberation War. The Chakmas, after the change of govt in 1975, contacted the RAW. The Chakmas offered to infiltrate among the...

Assam: Identity and grievances The ferment in Assam is the superficial manifestation of a discontent that is much deeper than what is seen outside as sentiments aroused by the question, "who is an Assamese?" WHO is an Assamese? This is one of those silly and argument-stopping questions...

Indian HC's advice to BD to be secular sounds ironical as Muslims killed in Hyderabad mosque blast, police firing communal disturbance in India are a regular feature Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka on May 18 issued an unsolicited advice to Bangladesh to be 'secular" like India while...

'RAW and Bangladesh' by Zainal Abedin Lt Gen (Retd) Sardar F.S. Lodi 'RAW and Bangladesh' is an illuminating book written by Mr. Zainal Abedin, a senior Journalist of Bangladesh and published by Fatema Shahad in November 1995. It is printed by Madina Printers and distributed by Madina...

Terrorists in North-East India get support from America The recent terrorist strikes in the USA on September 11, 2001, in which the World Trade Centre and Pentagon were "crash-bombed" by large airplanes, have brought a new resolve in the global community to root out terrorism from all parts...

India's Dams Largest Methane Emitters Among The World's Dams Latest scientific estimates show that Large dams in India are responsible for about a fifth of the countries' total global warming impact. The estimates also reveal that Indian dams are the largest global warming contributors...

In India, child labor barred in name only By Amelia Gentleman It's lunchtime at the Evergreen Café in central Delhi, and middle-class women, laden with shopping, accept plates of fresh noodles and cold drinks from child waiters without a second glance. Just hours after the Indian...

RAW: An Instrument of Indian Imperialism Isha Khan The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India's domestic and foreign policies, particularly the later. Working directly under the Prime Minister, it has over the...

Naga Blockade of Manipur – An Analysis by Anand Kumar The oldest insurgency of northeast which is undergoing through a peace process got further complicated due to an ill-timed and indiscreet political decision of the Manipur Chief Minister. This decision not only turned the clock...

India Has Killed 10 Million Girls in 20 Years: Girls Are Considered a Burden in Sections of Indian Society By PALASH KUMAR Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on...

NSCN (IM) will continue fight for greater Nagaland Dimapur, Aug 03: National Socialist Council of Nagalim (IM) wants the Centre to address the issue of integration of Naga dominated areas of Northeast. The outfit during its recent meeting with the senior Union government officials has made...

Indian brides pay a high price By Amelia Gentleman International Herald Tribune OCTOBER 23, 2006 NEW DELHI Once the wedding guests were all assembled, the father of the bride brought out a large metal tray on which he had piled up 51,000 rupees (in notes of 10 and 50 rupees, to make...

Marginalization of Muslim Minority in India The highly-anticipated report of the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee on the status of minorities in India was submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and was tabled in Parliament during the Winter Session. According to this report tabled on...

India's violent north-east A wave of violence in the north-eastern Indian states of Assam and Nagaland has again highlighted the tensions and fissures in this part of the country. News Online looks at why there is so much violence in north-eastern India. Why is north-eastern India so...

Of Illusory Democracies, Rogue States, and Accelerating Humanity’s Demise By Jason Miller I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself, what a wonderful world…. ---Louis Armstrong In an increasingly frightening and unstable...

Uprooted in the Northeast:The imbalance of rights, ethnic claims and histories of dispossession Sanjib Baruah In Meghalaya in 1997, the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council, which has constitutional jurisdiction over Khasi 'customary law', passed the Khasi Social Custom of Lineage...