Is what Abdul Telgi gets in the first-ever conviction in the infamous Stamp Paper Scam–does anyone remember that?
The kingpin of multi-crore fake stamps and stamp paper racket Abdul Karim Telgi was on Tuesday convicted by a special court for his role in a 1995 case of selling fake stamps worth Rs 17 lakh.
Only 17 [...]
The Stalin of Indian education, Arjun Singh has roared!
‘Abide by us, you are not independent’
Arjun Singh is in the news always for all the wrong reasons. Reminds me of a boyish phrase, the fella is up to no good.
Related Reading: Read how the Acorn builds an excellent case for the IIM to spread its [...]
Here’s a roundup of Marxist misdeeds reported by the Pioneer today.
Teaching terror
If the BJP-led Government in Jharkhand is resting content with opening more State-run schools in the hinterland, it has fresh cause to worry. The diabolical Communist Party of India (Maoist) - whose bloodthirsty cadre have virtually created a parallel administration in several districts [...]
Is the CPI (M) according to the result of a poll the Financial Express conducted.
…as the party had received tremendous publicity for their espousal of a pro-labour policy that meant all talk of disinvesting public sector undertakings was dropped. This was interpreted by most of India and the corporate sector in particular that what was [...]
Or The Lesson Sonia is Refusing to Learn
Or The Phantom Returns
The Bofors is the first of the biggest political scandals and we’ve woken up each day ever since, to increasingly bigger ones. Yet there must be something in the spirit of the case that refuses to release its stranglehold on the First Dynasty of [...]
Via the Indian Express:
Politicians assisting militants in J&K: Cops
This is one of those “open” secrets but the lid is off only now.
The J-K Police today said that “foreign militants have got mainstream politicians involved in their nexus, who are acting like their eyes and ears’’ thus turning the “elaborate security set-up into a joke”. [...]
Revamping airports is certainly one of the right paths to take if India needs to keep pace with, and sustain its flourishing economy. But as with any activity that is associated with the “P” word, this too has the potential to crashland with–who else–the Left’s piloting. Merely appointing E Sreedharan is not enough: he should [...]
Iran’s nuclear effort is in news again. According to the news item, Iran isn’t particularly concerned about the repurcussions of removing the
…UN seals at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant and resumed research on nuclear fuel on Tuesday, drawing Western criticism but no threats of punitive action.
The AMU folks are angry!
Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association and the Students’ Union on Friday called a day’s strike in the campus on Saturday to demand the Centre to amend the constitution to restore minority status of the institution.
This comes in the wake of the Allahabad High Court declaring that the minority status granted to [...]
This is not a book review as I had promised earlier. Rather, this entry seeks to explore my own understanding of the controversial Dead Sea Scrolls affair.
Note: I’ve drawn the entire material in this entry from the Profiles in Deception book.
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