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In a first of its kind, the city of Jodhpur organised a 21 km (or half marathon) was to salute the soldiers of the Border Security Force (BSF), and in addition less intense races for children, women and the general public. The BSF monitors the 6,500 km India-Pakistan border along with other divisions… Read More

News reports say that the Supreme Court order on the Diwali firecracker ban mentions “Diwali” in almost every paragraph and in a few instances “Dussehra”. They have had UNILATERIAL RULINGS - REALLY RESTRICTIONS on Dahi Handi of Krishna Janmasthmi, during Holi and the Jallikattu (bull-hugging race). People feel that Hindu festivals are… Read More

After Supreme Court ban of selling firecrackers in Diwali, a big shock and a redo from last year, no secular opposition politician - Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Mamta Bannerjee, other leaders, chief ministers - BSP, Samajwadi Party, etc. etc. - no one has said anything. Why this loud… Read More

Supreme Court almost came to passing a judgement to ask the Government to not deport the nearly 1 lac Rohingyas Muslims who entered India illegally. This was till Government of India's lawyer asked them not to pass any judgment due to larger consequences. Firstly, several people feel that it is not appropriate… Read More

Indian startups or young companies including Ola, Flipkart and PayTm are in fight for their lives (with no end in sight) against well funded global competitors - Uber, Amazon, etc. Ola just got new funding commitment of over Rs. 7,000 crores and Flipkart got a few thousand and so did… Read More

We all can agree that Rape is "sort" of well known. Now our Supreme Court defines it more clearly. Any sex between a man over the age of 18 and a woman (really a girl) below 18 is Rape. Why? Because "a girl under the age of 18 years is a child and… Read More

For pollution control reasons, sale on firecrackers for Diwali was banned. Then in September this ban was relaxed, but now the ban went into effect again. Doing so deeply hurts religious sentiments of the Hindu, Sikh and Jain community who look forward to it and celebrate in a big way.… Read More

Nirmala Sitharaman, the recently appointed and India's first ever Lady Defence Minister paid a visit to the sensitive Nathu La, the Sikkim - Tibet (disputed territory) border point. All Ms. Sitharam said was the simple and the common "NAMASTE" forcing the Chinese Generals to return the favour and the Chinese media to gaga over this… Read More

Diwali came early to New York's Times Square, its most famous landmark when it celebrated the biggest ever Diwali festival outside of India. Since its inception several years ago, it has been growing in size. One reason that took added significance to host and celebrate this years function was the… Read More

Supreme Court has asked for the Love-Jihad issue to be fully investigated in Kerala. People - both youth and others and both educated or not are being radicalized to join Islamic terror groups in India and in the Gulf region. Several youth have been caught. Thousands have converted to Islam -… Read More

Over a month ago, China agreed to pull back after a tense 70 face to face standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Doklam plateau, located near the strategic chicken neck area. But that was only temporary, as it is now being reported that they have restarted the road… Read More

These 40,000 Rohingya entered India illegally and are Muslims. Both of our neighbours are Islamic and should take these refugees. India is not even a neighbour to where these people claim to belong to. Just because we are democratic we cannot be responsible for problems of every refugee group when… Read More

Some rumours are floating around that Gurmeet Ram Rahim and some of his aides and followers are threatening mass conversions to Islam. One reason given for this is Hindus are treated badly in India (a true statement!), one of the reasons for Gurmeet Singh arrest, while Muslims are able to… Read More

The current government has gone much further than any Indian government to rescue and assist Indian nationals anywhere in the world in times of war, uprising, terrorist captures, sickness or other emergencies. Ministers and staff are working 24X7 to provide critical assistance. Due to the government efforts several catholic priests… Read More

Due to the public interest litigation (or PIL), the Supreme Court hears and gets involved with so many issues even though it has an overflowing case load. In this case, these Rohingya Muslim, who claim to be stateless are originally from the Bangladesh-Burma border. So with Burma and Bangladesh as… Read More