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Quotas for Indian Muslims? Affirmative action for religious minorities isn’t a new idea. In India, its time comes as important elections approach — and then its time passes. We now have proposals from two sections of Indian polity competing for the Muslim vote, that job and education quotas...

Hindus still tied in knots over marriage registration in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: The largest minority in Pakistan is struggling to register marriages due to chronic delays in the passage of the Hindu Marriage Act. The draft bill, proposed in 2008 but yet to be tabled before parliament, seeks to...

In Kishtwar, new clues to national terror networks NIA arrests point to growing links between jihadist cells in Kashmir and those operating elsewhere in India In the summer of 2008, as Indian troops battled a Lashkar-e-Taiba unit in the northern Kashmir mountains, intelligence personnel...

Sri Lanka Buddhist monks destroy Muslim shrine A group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka led a crowd that demolished a Muslim shrine last week, the BBC has learned. This incident took place on Saturday in Anuradhapura, an ancient Buddhist city and Unesco world heritage site. The monk who...

Majority Pakistanis think separation from India was justified: Gallup poll ISLAMABAD: An overwhelming majority of Pakistanis believe that separation from India was justified in 1947, revealed a recently released Gilani Poll conducted by Gallup Pakistan. In a survey, a nationally...

Mega jet deal could be split: Ex-NSA told US NEW DELHI: Although US firms lost out on India's mega fighter deal, former national security adviser M K Narayanan had told US diplomats that the $10 billion buy could be split into two contracts and that he would ask Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...

China confronted India warship off Vietnam HANOI — An unidentified Chinese warship demanded that an Indian naval vessel identify itself and explain its presence in South China Sea waters off Vietnam in July, the Financial Times said on Thursday. The London-based newspaper reported that five...

From the archive, 27 August 1947: Indian proposal to Pakistan Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 27 August 1947 FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LAHORE, AUGUST 25 (DELAYED). Master Tara Singh, the village schoolmaster who rose to be one of the chief leaders of the...

Yes, India kept its loyalty to British Crown (King George VI) until 26th January 1950. From 15th August 1947 to 26th 1950 India was a dominion (By the way, many people think Dominion means slavary to British, but it's not. Canada, Australia and New Zealand are still Dominion today, yes their...

Vietnam, India, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia should join hands and establish 'Asian NATO' to teach lesson imperialist China.

Bin Laden raid: China 'viewed US helicopter wreckage' Pakistan may have allowed the Chinese military to examine the US stealth helicopter downed in the operation to kill Osama Bin Laden, reports say. US officials are quoted as saying there is evidence Pakistan invited Chinese military...

The forgotten history of Indian troops in China. A photograph from the Shanghai Museum shows Sikh soldiers on duty in Shanghai. Photo courtesy: Colonel G. Jaishankar For 55 days, the Boxers laid siege to the heart of Beijing. The rebels, mainly young Chinese farmers and workers...

Negotiations completed with Swiss company for trainer aircraft New Delhi, July 5 (PTI) Moving ahead with the procurement of 75 basic trainer aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF), Defence Ministry has completed negotiations with Swiss company Pilatus, which emerged as the lowest bidder in...

US cables likened ISI to Taliban, al-Qaeda: Wikileaks US authorities described Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency as a "terrorist" organisation, according to a leaked US document. The document was published in some US and European newspapers as part of a series of leaked documents...

Tiger kills lion in Turkish zoo 7 March 2011 Last updated at 19:46 GMT Six tigers remain in an enclosure at Ankara Zoo A Bengal tiger has killed a lion at Ankara Zoo after finding a gap in the fence separating their cages, say zoo officials in the Turkish capital. The tiger severed...

Yes, I agree with you.

And to my surprise our Prime Minister recently said that it's time to forget the 1984 and move on! I simply can't believe my ear. How can a Oxford educated and a doctorate of economist who himself a Sikh make such a irresponsible comment? I also believe things won't change 'significantly' if BJP...

Hi brother, Yesterday I was watching a BBC documentary about operation blue star & 1984 Sikh ‘riot’. I thought it'd be good to share my feeling with you. Honestly speaking I have never experienced such an extreme pain while watching it. It is the worst chapter of India's history...

Unlike Kerala, in west bengal where communists have been ruling for 35 years and turned this state from one of the prosperous into one of the poorest.

This proves your intolerance towards other religion. Thank god that not all Pakistanis share your views otherwise Hindus and their religious sites in Pakistan would have been 'extinct' long ago. :frown: