NVONews.Com Correspondent, CAMP DAVID, Md. – With election due in just over five months President Obama is a busy man on the external front. But this exercise is being taken to keep himself internally strong and bring the Democrats back to power. On Saturday he held a Summit with the leaders of G-8 countries at [...]
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By Amulya Ganguli For once, the Congress seems to have been able to get its act together on the presidential poll with its two possible candidates, Hamid Ansari and Pranab Mukherjee, running ahead of the rest of the pack. However, the party itself can hardly be credited with this achievement. Instead, it is really a [...]
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By S Ahmed (NVONews.Com) Patna/ Aurangabad: For Hindi speaking people ‘LaRa’ clearly stands for the West Indian batting maestro Brian Charles Lara but back in Bihar it is ‘Lalu-Rabri’. ‘LaRa’ enterprises is in fact the name of a motorbike agency which is owned by Tej Pratap who is the first son of Lalu Prasad and [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) On April 28 Bangaru Laxman perhaps became the first ruling party president in the world to be convicted for four years for accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh in the party headquarters in New Delhi. The court ruling took the steam out of the so-called campaign against corruption of the [...]
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By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar: Amid talk of tension between Kashmir Valley’s predominant Barelvi Muslims and the fast spreading Ahle Hadith school of thought, their leaders have dismissed it as “false propaganda” and say Kashmiris can ill afford sectarian strife after two decades of bloodbath. There have been news reports that some central agencies are propping [...]
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New Delhi: Glasses clinking, but not with champagne, perfume wafting in the air, glamorous, high-heeled women and plenty of air kissing… it was a slice of an evening in Pakistan in the Indian capital where hundreds of Pakistanis and Indians mingled for an evening of fashion, food and music. An estimated 750 Pakistanis, many of [...]
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By S Ahmad (NVONews.Com) Patna: Bihar chief minister has announced that land would be provided for a BHU centre in Bihar if such proposal comes in. This action is being seen as an outcome of the pressure being exerted by the right wing Hindu organization on Nitish Kumar. The Regional Campus of Aligarh Muslim University [...]
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By Jim Miles The Balfour Declaration – The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Jonathan Schneer Anchor Canada (Random House), Toronto, 2012. This is the best that academic political history gets. More than simply the dates and the ‘facts’, Jonathan Schneer is able to give some personality to the characters involved, including the all too human [...]
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By Ram Puniyani Life is full of paradoxes, and not all of them are intriguing. Some of them give a pleasant cozy feeling too. Recently (25 March, 2012) people saw the Pakistan’ Deputy Attorney General, Muhammad Khurshid Khan, Polishing the shoes of devotees in Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Delhi. This work is part of Seva (service) [...]
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By Jim Miles Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping – The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012. This short book, or elongated essay, concerns the political attributes of one of Canada’s more revered politicians, Lester Bowles Pearson. As with Yves Engler’s other writing on Canada and the truth behind its role in the broader world [...]
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By Arun Kumar Washington, With two of them governors, four billionaires and over a score sitting in high places in government, Indian Americans not only keep making news but have also emerged as major players in American media. Take Indian-born Aparism Bobby Ghosh, for instance, who was last week named by Time magazine as ‘Editor-at-Large’. [...]
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By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, (IANS) Fed up with alleged harassment by the income tax department, members of the family of the erstwhile Nizam of Hyderabad are planning protests in Delhi during the budget session of parliament starting next week. At the centre of the row is Rs.8.99 crore ($1.8 million) tax dues being demanded by [...]
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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Uttar-Pradesh’s poll results are out. Every body claiming their poll predictions have come true. The election commission has been able to maintain its dignity and impartiality in handling the situation though political parties which are at the receiving end of the Commission’s reprimand normally blame the commission for being bias against [...]
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Truck driver’s daughter from Batla House selected in Haryana Judicial Service
February 27, 2012 7 Comments
By AN Shibli (NVONews.Com) New Delhi: The national media know Batla House only for the infamous encounter that took place in the area some three years ago. They ignore the good news and highlight merely the negatives. But a girl of the area has done its resident proud. Iram Hasan a resident of Batla House [...]
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