"For years, a scam has been going on in connivance with some local families and some senior Kandla Port Trust and Union Shipping Ministry officials. Headlines Today has exposed the mammoth land scam in which 16,000 acres of prime land were leased out for a mere pittance and the loss to the Indian exchequer has been evaluated at a whopping Rs.200,000 crore by the port's chief vigilance officer.
'The Criminal Investigation Department in its charge sheet against former minister and BJP MLA H Halappa has stated that the two laboratory analyses have confirmed the charges of the victim that she was raped by Halappa. These reports have come as a conclusive evidence besides her oral complaint to the police. Deccan Herald has obtained a copy of the charge sheet from the CID under the Right to Information Act. The CID had filed the charge sheet against Halappa in the Shimoga JMFC last month alleging that he had raped Chandravati, wife of Venkatesh Murthy of Shimoga on November 27, 2009.
"Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activists dragged a professor out of a classroom of the Government College at Khandwa and beat him up with footwear on Wednesday. Professor A.K. Chaudhary ran to the Principal's office, but the activists chased him and continued thrashing him. “We received a complaint from Prof. Chaudhary today [Wednesday] afternoon that he was attacked by ABVP workers. We have registered the complaint and will be able to say anything conclusive only after investigating the case further,” R.K. Shivhare, Superintendent of Police, Khandwa, told The Hindu..."
"In the backdrop of Rahul Gandhi equating the RSS with banned SIMI, senior BJP leader LK Advani today came to the defence of the saffron outfit. In the backdrop of Rahul Gandhi equating the RSS with banned SIMI, senior BJP leader LK Advani today came to the defence of the saffron outfit lauding its role during the freedom struggle. "I don't think any institution has influenced our society more than the RSS and Nanaji Deshmukh was one of the key motivators during the freedom struggle and post-Independence who had a great influence on people ", Advani said..."
"In 1965, a book titled Vedic Mathematics was published in English. Since then, the subject has become an industry that shows no sign of diminishing. In its latest manifestation, parents who know no better are shelling out serious money in the hope that their children will become scientific geniuses. They really shouldn’t bother. The subject amounts to nothing more than a few cheap parlour tricks, and there is nothing Vedic about it. But the story of how it came to be makes for a fantastical tale.
"Investigations into Sanathan Sanstha's role in Friday's blast in Margao have revealed the right-wing Hindu group's involvement in recent communal riots in Maharashtra. Maharasthra Police hav revealed that four members of this group were arrested during the riots in Sangli and Miraj, while travelling in a Maruti van with swords, sticks and chains. They were been charged for possessing arms and inciting communal violence. Friday night's blast in south Goa's Margao town brought Sanatan Sanstha to centrestage.
"Teaching is central to the whole Hindu nationalist enterprise. At its core, the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, lit. ‘National Volunteers Organization’) itself, with its own shikshaks and bauddhiks (teachers, intellectual sessions) in neighborhood shakhas (branches) defines its noiseless but assiduous method as a long-term strategy of ‘going to classes rather than to the masses’. Many RSS affiliates too, on different fronts – religious, tribal, etc.
"A BJP leader from Ajnala, Ashok Taneja, was on Wednesday booked by the police for allegedly raping his 20-year-old daughter for the past eight years. A university student, his daughter has alleged in her complaint that her father has been sexually assaulting her for the past eight years and even threatened to kill her if she disclosed the matter to anyone. The victim has stated in her complaint that she finally mustered enough courage to tell her mother. Her maternal family living in Amritsar then came to know about the alleged rape of the girl, said the police.
"Watch this scene: SAR Geelani is invited to participate in a seminar on ‘Communalism, Fascism and Democracy, Rhetoric and Reality’ at Delhi University. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP)’s goons – about 50 students – do what they are best at: vandalise the venue, hurl abuses and even spit on him. Geelani had not picked up a loudspeaker and started screaming in the street corners to get people all charged up. This was within the confines of a university conference room and a serious discussion.
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday severely reprimanded the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat for slapping a sedition case against a senior journalist. The apex court protected sociologist and author, Ashis Nandy from being arrested by the Gujurat Police. The senior journalist had moved the Supreme Court apprehending his arrest. Nandy faces criminal charges for allegedly promoting enmity between groups in the society through his analytical article on the 2007 Gujarat poll outcome.
