NCHRO Survey of COVID-19 Impact on Indian Society. The crisis due to Covid-19 is the biggest health, social and economic catastrophe we are living with. As we face what may well be a prolonged period…
Divide And Rule, But For How Long?
By Jawed Naqvi,21 October, 2006, Countercurrents.orgIt was colonial perfidy, or so our elders said. They said divide and rule was a British way to pit Indian against Indian. That's how they created Pakistan. That's what…
Mukherjee is foreign minister, Antony defence minister
By Indo Asian News Service,Tuesday, October 24, 2006Pranab Mukherjee is India's new foreign minister while A.K. Antony replaces him as defence minister. These changes were announced after a minor shuffle of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's…
Secret killers were men in uniform
Kangla Online,JORHAT, Oct 21 – The Justice KN Saikia Commission of Inquiry, instituted by the Tarun Gogoi-led Asom government to probe the incidents of ‘secret killings’ between 1998 and 2001 during the Asom Gana Parishad…
A Song, A Blast and the Indian Media
Yoginder SikandBias against Muslims is deeply-rooted in large sections of the Hindu-owned media in India, even in influential sections of the English press that prides itself in its claim of being ‘secular’ and ‘progressive’. Two…
Dutch army should take prostitutes abroad – mayor
Mon Oct 23, 2006 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch mayoress has raised eyebrows by backing the idea of sending prostitutes to accompany Dutch troops on foreign missions."The army must consider ways its soldiers can let…
BJP flays Narayanan's remarks on 7/11
23 Oct, 2006 IANS NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday criticised National Security Advisor M K Narayanan's remarks in a television interview that India didn't have "clinching evidence" of the involvement of…
Global ecosystems 'face collapse' : WWF
Greater demand for land is threatening species' long-term survival (WWF-Canon/Michel Gunther) BBCNEWS.COM Current global consumption levels could result in a large-scale ecosystem collapse by the middle of the century, environmental group WWF has warned. The…
British defense firm QinetiQ appoints ex-CIA chief Tenet…
The Associated Press, October 24, 2006LONDON British defense technology company QinetiQ Group PLC said Tuesday it had appointed former CIA chief George Tenet as a non-executive director. The appointment of Tenet, who served as director of…