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October 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

 “Amaravati Railway Line Survey Completed”

“PM Modi to visit Russia from Oct 22-23 to attend BRICS”

Dissatisfied Liberal MPs plan to ask PM Trudeau to step aside”

 “June 2022 India requested Canada to extradite members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang”

“India hitting back? Canada’s border police officer named in terror case”   

“33 hoax bomb threats received by airlines in 4 days in India”

India’s domestic air passenger traffic to touch 300 million by 2030: Naidu

“Communal conflagration in Uttar Pradesh”

21 cops hurt in Amravati violence over Hindu seer’s remarks

“NC-Congress alliance stakes claim to form govt in J-K”

 “Punjab: Farmers block roads, squat on rail tracks to protest ‘tardy’ paddy purchase”

Removing 50 per cent cap on resrvation necessary to protect Constitution: Rahul Gandhi

Congress is being run by gang of urban Naxals: PM Modi

Bollywood mourns industrialist Ratan Tata’s demise

Punjab Police busts major trans-border drug network in Amritsar

Cyber attacks have emerged as major threat to national security: President Murmu

 India acts East”

Congress demands Sitharaman’s resignation over extortion

Lanka parties busy forming alliances to face Nov election

Nepal to organise Yoga Retreat to enhance physical, spiritual health

“20 killed in attack on miners in Pakistan”

“Pakistani separatist group claims bombing that killed 2 Chinese near Karachi airport”

“US is worried about China’s ‘dangerous’ actions in disputed sea”

Brazilians vote in local elections

Britain’s last coal-fired electricity plant closing

Austria’s Freedom Party secures first far-right national election win since World War II

France’s new govt pledges hardline stance on migration

“Cuba endured worst day of blackouts with over half of the island suffering”

One year of Gaza war

Culture

  “Multi Talented Young Girl | Playing Flute”

“Yogi Vemana Versity Students Exhibits Their Fine Arts”

Senegal, the bastion of the region’s Francophonie, French is giving way to local language

Andhra

 “Amaravati faces a renewed political assault”

“Naidu (@ncbn) inaugurates centralised kitchen in Tirumala”

“Look beyond laddu adulteration, Pawan Kalyan appeals to SC”

India

“Delhi: Woman finds hidden cameras in rented home, landlord’s son held”

“Will Indian Courts Tame Wikipedia?”

 “Punjab Farmers Protest: Throwing Grains Over Low Crop Prices”

 “How India is spreading itself across the chip-making value chain”

 “India is planning to build a fleet of 40-50 “Bharat Small Reactors” to provide heat & power”

Railways Minister: “Holding talks with state govts, police to prevent train sabotage

“GSTCouncil has significantly reduced …(GST) rate on cancer drugs “

“Women carried out a torch rally in Imphal valley earlier today over recent violence in the state”

Subcontinent

 “How the Baloch Struggle Went Mainstream”

  “In Bangladesh…extremists have attacked 1,068 houses & businesses of minorities”

  Potential Rise of a Radical Political Pariah in Bangladesh”

“How China Soured on Nepal”

“Who is Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s new Marxist president “

Asia

Japan parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba as the new prime minister

For global influence, China turns to fake news

 “Israel launches ground invasion into Southern Lebanon”

Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill 100 people

World

“More rivers spill banks in central European floods, death toll rises”

Texas declares Venezuela-based gang a ‘terrorist group

12 people have been killed in coordinated attacks in violent Mexican city

NATO’s eastward march threatens Asian stability

Military juntas in 3 West African nations investigate a French journalist over jihadi analysis

In exile: how Jews became a perpetually persecuted people

Rwanda Struggles To Halt Spread Of Marburg Virus “

Scores Dead As Boat Capsizes in DR Congo “

Updated!!!

September 2024 News Links

“AndhraPradeshFloods | NDRF teams rescued 350 people and evacuated 15,000”

Cabinet approves new moon mission Chandrayaan-4

J and K heading for ‘historic’ assembly elections

 “Netflix India Content Head Summoned over ‘IC 814’ Row”

Arvind Kejriwal resigns as Delhi chief minister

“Adani warns of legal action for Kenya fake threat news”

 “Government to begin farmer registration for Aadhaar-style IDs

 “Danish court rejects India extradition request in arms case”

“Green Hydrogen Mission”

 “K P Sharma Oli addresses Nepal Infrastructure Summit 2024”

“Jamaat genie out of bottle: How Yunus has failed to tame radicalism in Bangladesh”

War crimes tribunal set up by Sheikh Hasina initiates probe against her

“Balochistan has seen a series of insurgencies for over 7 decades”

“The Rise, Decline, and Possible Resurrection of China’s Confucius Institutes”

“Vietnam typhoon death toll rises to 233”

Meta bans Russian news agencies over ‘foreign interference”

 “Britain set out new legislation to stop water companies from leaking sewage into rivers”

 “Macron appoints Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator”

Hundreds of migrant women face sex attacks in Darien Gap

“How I was assaulted by Rahul Gandhi’s team in Dallas”

BAPS Swaminarayan Temple vandalised in New York; Indian Consulate alerts US officials

“U.S. Navy will sideline 17 vessels due to a “manpower shortage”

 “Algeria declares President Tebboune election winner with 95%”

“Severe flooding in #Nigeria has claimed 30 lives”

Culture

Bollywood films show India in bad light

Boycott IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack: Netizens slam Anubhav

The decline of Parliamentary decorum

Andhra

“Airdropping of food, water begins in flood-hit #Vijayawada”

26 NDRF teams deployed for flood rescue in Andhra, Telangana”

“Sub-10 nm chips likely to steer 60% of India’s semicon market by 2032”

India

“Karnataka: Heavy rainfall triggers flood-like situation in Kalaburagi”

“North India likely to see heavy rainfall in September”

Gujarat sees massive flooding after heavy rain, 15 dead, 20,000 evacuated

“’Miya Bihu’ singer arrested; won’t tolerate attempt to transform our Bihu songs”

Cabinet approves assured pension for govt employees

“TMC has been in power since 2011 in West Bengal”

‘India Had Obligation to Show That It Will Help A Friend in Need’”

Centre defends Law against Triple Talaq

Warships & tanks: India to add ₹1.2L cr arsenal to combat China

“Rahul Gandhi asked…Narendra Modi to fulfil the nation’s demand for a caste census”

“‘Counter disinformation’”

“#EnforcementDirectorate on Monday arrested AAP MLA #AmanatullahKhan”

Subcontinent

Pak army shifts focus to ‘digital terrorism’

“Hockey Players Flee Pakistan, Seek Asylum In Europe”

Will Bangladesh go the way of Pakistan?

Bangladesh’s anti-Hasina mobs thrash Awami League activists in Dhaka

“Violence spirals over in #Balochistan”

Asia

Anti-nuclear energy stance fades among LDP presidential hopefuls

No rice in Japan’s supermarkets. What led to the unprecedented shortage

Video: “Pavel Durov…before his arrest in France”  

Philippine Officials Rescue 162 in Raid on Suspected Cyberscam Hub”

World

“BioNTech begins injecting mRNA into participants in a clinical trial against lung cancer”

“EU states imported more gas from Russia than from the USA”

The US military inc: Profiting from war

23% drop in Indian students going to UK

“Scores of illegal migrants swimming to the Spanish enclave Ceuta”

“ISIS claims responsibility for stabbing attack in Solingen, Germany”   

Congo Says 129 People Died During Attempted Jailbreak”

“Brazil’s S.Court panel upheld a judge’s decision to block…social media platform X”

August 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

“Four Girls of Nellore | Exhibits Massive Talent in Bharata Natyam”

Terminal decline of Bengal has been hastened by the ‘Bhadralok’

“Was Kolkata doctor raped and murdered to silence her?”

“BJP slams INDIA-Alliance, CM Mamata Banerjee over Kolkata doctor”

Kolkata rape-murder lays bare ‘medical education racket’

“Bangladesh violence reinforces need for CAA in India”

“India to help Sheikh Hasina, in touch with Bangladesh  ”

 “Pannun plot is a political game: Nikhil Gupta”

“Cabinet minister Harjit Sajjan requested 100 Canadian soldiers to perform with pop star Diljit”

“drug lord Balwinder Singh alias Billa Havellian, has been ordered to be detained”

“Vinesh’s petition dismissed by the international court”

Kejriwal moves SC challenging arrest by CBI

Opposition strongly opposes Waqf bill

Rijiju defends amendments to Waqf law in Lok Sabha

All Adani group stocks tumble; Adani Energy slumps  

Hindenburg: IVCA backs Sebi Chairperson Madhabi Buch amid short-seller’s allegations

Wayanad landslides: Rescue operations continue after deadly disaster | Photos

The global crisis of over-tourism

“Mexico: Over 1,000 judges and magistrates have voted to join an indefinite nationwide strike”

“Contrary to stereotypes about #Africa as a ‘dark continent’, it is making remarkable progress”  

“ Terror Attack on Beach Hotel in Somalia”

Culture

Flavour of the City

Cosmopolitan Scrolls

Patna Patchwork

Andhra

“Drinking Water Crisis In 15 Villages In YCP Regime”

BRS faces existential crisis as KCR falters” 

“AP Govt Formed Committee For YCP Leaders Land Encroachment”

India

NEET exam scandal

India among major nations hit by Microsoft outage

Like Ministers in the Modi cabinet, the babus are also accountable

Religion and politics in modern India

Modi’s ‘White Paper’ shows a mirror to UPA’s misgovernance and corruption

“The NAC-drafted Communal Violence Bill  was enacted to Criminalise Hindus” 

“Colonialism 3.0”

Congress’ Colonial Gene”

Why the Khalistan Separatist Movement Is Neither Sikh Nor Liberal

India’s Afghan Sikh 2021 evacuation plan was nixed by Canadian antics

123 killed in Wayanad landslides, rescue ops on

Subcontinent

Protest in Quetta and Khuzdar against violence in Balochistan”

“Afghan Sikhs, Hindus angered after MPs ‘sneak out to India,’”

“’American dreams’ of Afghan Hindus, Sikhs delay airlift”

Sri Lanka to hold presidential election on Sept. 21″

Asia

“Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes off Mindanao, Philippines “

“Indian embassy in Beirut asks Indian nationals to leave the country”

Hamas says its leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated”

World

 “European Union wants to build a comprehensive database of the assets owned by all citizens”

Darkness over the Potomac

Nijjar: The terrorist who was mourned by Justin Trudeau

“Civil unrest in Southport following the deadly stabbing of several innocent children”

 “The British Countryside’s Forgotten History of Slavery”

Protests grow in Venezuela as concerns over election”

“S.Africa’s ‘Construction Mafias’ Are Scaring Away Investors, Minister Says

July 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

The Cholamandal Canon

Prabhas’ Kalki beats Hrithik’s Fighter

“Indian govt…approved 189 km outer ring road expressway for the new capital city Amaravati”

“Pattiseema Water Released To Krishna Delta”

Future 2nd Lady of the United States? “Meet Usha Chilukuri Vance”

Teaching law in regional languages can improve access to legal system

“RBI governor hints interest rates may stay higher for longer”

Unwise “seers”, improper policy: “Hindu Rashtra statute draft”

“Maharashtra has become 1st state in India to cross $500 billion economy ”

A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You

Regime change on cards in Nepal

“The threat of famine persists across the #GazaStrip”

“An #IsraeliAttack on the south of the #GazaStrip on Saturday killed 71 people”

 “Convert to Islam or die”- 1200 Hindu kids & families were warned”

“4 of Indian origin arrested in US’s Princeton in human trafficking case”

How Khalistan Resides In the Anglosphere “

Canada’s rising jobless rate pushes case for July rate cut

 “A lot of people are saying that Canada has become a safe haven for terrorists”

New British Desi MPs

“Labour pledges fresh inquiry into Thatcher’s role in 1984 Operation Blue Star”

Somalia Accuses Ethiopia of Pursuing False Claims to Seize Territory

Culture

 History: “Communalism in India”

“How Religious Freedom Reports Obscure More Than They Reveal”

Anti-Ayurveda forces are at play

 “Crisis in Handloom Industry”

Andhra

“Telugu States CMs’ Meeting in Hyderabad | Bifurcation issues”

“Jagan Disproportionate Assets Case”

“Thousands of dead fish found floating in Pedda Cheruvu lake in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad”

“Sim Swapping & Sim Cloning Fraud Cases Raised”

India

ISRO’s Aditya-L1 completes first halo orbit

Flood situation prevails in Kaziranga National Park

Stampede at Religious Event in India Kills at Least 116, Mostly Women and Children”

Modi slams Rahul Gandhi over ‘Hindu’ remarks in LS

 “Sampanthan made a `tight rope walk in Tamil politics’ !

“Death toll in Kallakurichi hooch tragedy rises to 50”

“#Policymakers are again skirting the real cause of #farm distress — falling farm incomes”

“SAD reposes faith in leadership of Sukhbir Badal following revolt”

Air pollution kills 33,000 every year even in ‘clean’ Indian cities: Lancet

“Ambedkar and the economics of segregation”

“India’s richest 1% has highest concentration of wealth in decades”

 “Great game of leverage: Of Khalistan smokescreen, Deep State, and foreign interference”

Subcontinent

“Growth of 1.6%, positions Sri Lanka as ‘a nation on the move’”

“Maldives: Two Ministers Arrested For Performing Alleged ‘Black Magic’ On President Muizzu”

“Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Pressured to Join Myanmar’s Civil War”

“The Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army: 200 years of gallantry”

Asia

“Attack on synagogues, churches in Russia’s Dagestan: 9 killed”

“A tell-tale sign that China could be preparing for war”

“2,50,000 Gazans to be impacted by new Israeli evacuation orders in Khan Younis”

Moderate Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential race, interior ministry says

World

Stuck for 3 months on a ship that hit Baltimore bridge, most crew…get off board”

Paris Hilton came to talk about ‘abuse disguised as therapy.’

U.S. expels 116 Chinese migrants in first ‘large’ flight in 5 years

 “Harjit Sajjan failed Canada, and Canadians”

“A tale of two Trudeaus and Canada’s mollycoddling of Khalistani terror”

British spies and the IRA

“Marie Le Pen’s far-right party set to control France’s government”

“Sweden has gone further on ditching paper money than almost any other country in Europe”

“How bad, how cruel were Dutch to us?”

Gang violence in Mexico: 19 bodies discovered in latest grisly find

Mauritanian President Gets Another Term, Despite Claim of Fraud “

“Kenya: Fresh protests against government as protestors reject President Ruto’s appeal”

June 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

“Andhra Pradesh portfolio allocation | CM N Chandrababu Naidu keeps Law and Order”

Media personality Ramoji Rao dies aged 88

“’From ‘CEO CM’ to kingmaker: You can’t write off the TDP boss”

“13 Died Due To Heavy Rains In Telangana”

Uttarakhand: 12 dead as tempo traveller with 26 falls into gorge in Rudraprayag

“Twenty Indian labourers, promised jobs in Thailand, have been enslaved in Myanmar”

Agenda for the Modi Government 3.0

“PM Modi to inaugurate Nalanda University new campus today in Rajgir, Bihar.”

The Nation Strikes Back

“Kanchanjungha Express Collision | Death Toll Rises 15”

“In Reasi…Islamists attacked Hindu tourists.”

“Supreme Court to hear fresh petitions seeking to cancel the NEET-UG 2024”

The Second-Majority Complex

 “Poor helpless Pakistani Hindus protest”

“Southern China Faces Heavy floods, and landslides kill at least 9”

Southern Africa Needs $5.5 Billion in Aid for Drought Crisis “

“Around 40 Indian nationals were killed in a building fire at an labour camp in Kuwait”

“Pelosi & House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, met…Dalai Lama”

 What “is trying to defang India’s counter-terror & intel apparatus” ??

“What we know about the lawsuit filed by the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre”

Culture

 “3 Day Art Festival in Shimla | To Explore Artistic Expression”

 “An exhibition that reveals the stories hidden within the old maps of Udaipur

Padharo Mhare Desh

A blend of architecture and artistry

 Andhra

“Chandrababu Naidu and Co. sweep Andhra Pradesh”

 “YCP Faction Attacks Spreads From Rayalaseema to Vizag Via Palnadu”

AP Debt Burden Of Rs 21000 Crore”

“Contaminated Drinking Water Cause of People Deaths | Vijayawada & Guntur”

 “Adulteration of Food Supply in Hyderabad”

India

“NDA gets clear majority in Lok Sabha elections”

Torrid summer kills 71, mostly in Bihar

Rajkot gaming zone Chars 22 people to death

Monks take out protest rally in Kolkata against Mamata”

Do not withdraw capital support for oil PSUs

“Avian flu outbreak in state-run poultry farm in Kerala’s Kottayam”

“Classical example of fraudulent secularism: illegally give Muslims OBC quotas”

Rahul using Maoist language, companies will think 50 times “

9 killed, 15 injured as bus catches fire in Haryana

Mammootty is a jihadi, alleges close associate

Economic crisis takes a backseat in elections

Girl consumes ‘smoky paan’, undergoes surgery after hole observed”

Subcontinent

“Nepal’s Media Industry Is Facing a Severe Financial Crisis”

“Another Pakistani Hindu minor girl abducted by Islamists for possible forced conversion”

“…Pakistan is No. 1 in exporting prostitutes and beggars…”

“Plot afoot for new christian state carved out of Bangladesh, Myanmar”

Asia

Nothing ‘gentlemanly’ in Chinese diplomacy

“Thailand’s Grand Reconciliation: The Shinawatras and the Establishment”

“Myanmar’s Revolution Has Entered a New, More Complicated Phase”

Israeli military takes full control of Gaza-Egypt border”

“1 dead, others injured after London-Singapore flight hit severe turbulence”

“ Around 2000 people feared buried in Papua New Guinea landslide”

World

Frenemies

“Former US President Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 felony charges”

Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as president”

“Nigeria loses electricity and major airports close as unions”

‘At least 27 people shot at Akron, Ohio block party”

“No clean chit to Khalistan extremists as Australian police junk claims of ‘Hindu hand’”

Meet South Africa’s Top Presidential Contenders “

May 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

“Land Titling Act | Chances to Encroach Lands”

Economic progress in India: A reality check

Bihar ravaged by drugs deluge after liquor ban

Sam Pitroda’s controversial comments revealed Congress mindset”

“Academic Imperialism

“Colonialism 3.0 – The West’s new weapons to keep the world in line”

“A generation lacking in intellect will potentially lead to us being indirectly colonised again”

“Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules”

“Shreyas Talpade, who suffered a cardiac arrest, wonders if it was impact of Covid vaccine”

“you must do what the WHO says, or you are breaking international law”

“Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico shot after meeting, in critical condition”

“Israel-Azerbaijan relationship relies on unholy trinity of oil, arms and intelligence”

“slamic State Khorasan’s Westward Network Expansion Into Iran, Turkey, and Europe”

“Over 300 killed in Afghanistan floods as humanitarian crisis unfolds”

Culture

Hasan Minhaj: The comedian who cried wolf

Heermandi: Enough with celebrating ‘tawaifs’

Celebrating the vibrancy of contemporary art

Indian Ceramics Triennale: Artists reimagine working with clay

Jewellery that reflects your style

Andhra

“Discover the vibrant tradition of Terracotta from Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh”

“Vaishali is now the 3rd Indian female Grandmaster, joining Koneru Humpy and Harika”

further probe into Rohith Vemula death after filing closure report that claimed he was not Dalit”

India

India Election: Phase two ends, with weeks of voting ahead

Why did India pass CAA law?

With power freebies, debt comes calling

“SIT asks #PrajwalRevanna, H D Revanna to appear for probe”

Neglect spurs industry exodus in Punjab

“EAM Jaishankar on actions by Khalistani extremists in Canada”

Tesla lays off 14,000 or 10% of its workforce

Google sacks 28 employees for protests

Subcontinent

“Kathmandu world’s most polluted city, again” 

‘India Out’ Campaign Gathers Pace in Bangladeshi Social Media

“Another minor Hindu girl enslaved by Sufi ‘saints’ “

“Protect young people from psychological tactics of grooming gangs”

Asia

“Uyghur activists call for immediate global action against China’s ongoing genocide “

China warns Philippines to be ‘sober’

Indonesia’s volcano eruption triggers tsunami alert

 “20 #Cambodian soldiers killed in #ammunition explosion at a military base”

World

Justin Trudeau to introduce ‘halal mortgage’ for Muslims in Canada

 “Islamists march in Hamburg for a caliphate in Germany”

“Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf resigns”

Number of Chinese nationals illegally crossing the U.S. southern border is up by 7,000%”

“Floods and landslides across Kenya killed 179 people since March” 

At least 56 people killed as heavy rain and flooding lashes Brazil

Resurgence of military coups across Africa

April 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

A new exhibition features master painters who humanised deities

Do you know the history of the Durga patachitras in Bengal?

“Shah Rukh Khan, idlis and ‘the Northie gaze’”

The roots of Wahhabi extremism

“Congress proxy partner in Muslim League’s hidden agenda”

Indian man who entered US illegally dies in custody

11 Indian-origin students dead in US in 2024, diaspora body tells why”

The Rich Are Getting Second Passports, Citing Risk of Instability

India’s wealth inequality is rising

Bird flu outbreak reported in ducks at two places in Kerala’s Alappuzha

Maldives thanks India for allowing export of essential commodities amid row

Navigating Indian democracy’s turbulence

Why Rajputs, other dominant castes are boycotting BJP in western Uttar Pradesh

“Pakistan: Lightning, rain fury kills 65 as April downpour doubles historical average”

Hundreds of migrant women face sex attacks in Darien Gap on their way to US”

French Troops Near Russian Border Amid Macron-Putin Faceoff”

Hamas Fires Over 9,000 Rockets; More Than 600 IDF Troops, 12000 Militants Killed

New UK documentary examines racist attacks on British Indians

 “Why South Africa is facing a turning point in May’s national election”

Culture

Exploring linguistic identities amid pluralism

Ram Rajya: Treatises on good governance

 “Sony Pictures Names Ravi Ahuja As President And COO”

‘Shakti: Fair & Fierce’ art exhibition empowers talented women artists across India 

Andhra

“Handloom Weavers Facing Several Problems”

“Telangana: At least 4 dead in explosion at chemical factory”

“Election will be between two ideologies”

India

Parts of south Mumbai plunge into darkness due to power outage

“ Why America needs a nuanced understanding of Indian diplomacy”

 “The Way of Bengal

 “Barber Sajid Sheikh in an encounter within hours after he brutally slit the throats of two kids”

Punjab hooch tragedy: CM Mann meets families

The practice of offering freebies must stop

Apple’s Indian ecosystem emerges as top job creator, employing over 1,50,000 directly”

Subcontinent

India’s Citizenship Amendment Act and ‘power relation’ in Bangladesh

“CAA comes as relief for 35,000 Hindu migrants from Sindh”

 “Being a Nepali Dalit”

Katchatheevu between India and Sri Lanka – Let it not become a point of friction

Asia

Famine Imminent in Gaza, New Report Warns”

China’s Unquenched Territorial Greed — What is the Limit?

“Philippines’ undersea cable network to boost call center industry”

Russian detains suspects after deadly Moscow concert

World

A million children abused by Italian priests,& it barely makes the news”

“Concern Over Food & Water Supply Grows Among Europeans”

“West’s ill-informed criticism of CAA ignores similarities to US’ Lautenberg Amendment”

Racial tensions cost Germany Inc. skilled foreign labour

Why Canada should shed its Khalistan delusion

Gunmen Abduct Hundreds of Pupils in Northern Nigeria “

“Panama seized fives tonnes of illicit drugs in the Caribbean”

 “Why South Africa is facing a turning point in May’s national election”

March 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

“9th incident of such an attack in US on a person of Indian origin in 2024”

 “Kavitha Arrest: KTR Gets Backlash for Using CBN!”

Combating the rise of cyberbullying

“Airbnb bans indoor security cameras for all its listings”

SPB’s Son Goes To Court Over Father’s Voice

Actress of depth and versatility

How to win an Oscar: Guneet Monga details networking, money, extensive PR

Treasure called Wazwan

“India’s semiconductor quest amid geopolitical dynamics”

Govt launches portal for those seeking Indian citizenship

More Indian travelers are taking extreme road trips to see the world

India inks ‘watershed’ $100 billion free trade deal with four non-EU nations

Haryana BJP president Nayab Saini to be sworn in as CM

India, Mauritius natural partners in dealing with challenges

“China eroding #Tibetan language, religion”

In Haiti, as Elsewhere, Elections Alone Are Not the Answer”

“How did western intelligence agencies pave the way for Iranians”

“Victims of Catholic nuns…overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis”

“Missouri mother burns baby to death inside oven”

“UK is the second-most miserable nation in the world”

Neo-liberal policies cause for crisis in agriculture sector

“mayor of Edmonton’s rise to power from a prison in India” 

Ethiopia Amhara Conflict Threatens Another Civil War”

Culture

India’s heritage sites finally see a ray of hope

“Why Marathas had a problem with the late Babasaheb Purandare”

 “ Akal Takht slams BJP interference, SGPC says RSS eyeing gurdwara “

” India & Thailand historically has a shared heritage”

Andhra

“Roads Situation Miserable in Rural Areas”

” AP as Debt Ridden State”

“Public Facing Problems With Drinking Water Crisis”

India

“Explosion at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe caught on CCTV camera”

“Racism against Indians is normalized in social media”

 “Wheat from other states smuggled into Punjab for MSP”

“India faces WTO pressure on farm subsidies amid protests”

Modi to launch world’s largest co-operative sector grain storage plan to empower..farmers”

“Shanta Sharma..in W.Bengal’s Hooghly,with the help of her lover..killed her son”

Major milestone: Cryogenic engine for Gaganyaan

“’VinFast’ will hold the ground breaking ceremony for its $2 billion integrated EV plant in Thoothukudi”

“Multidimensional Poverty Index”

Subcontinent

“Sri Lanka and India have signed a contract for a Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems”

“Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription ”

“Bangladesh: Massive fire kills 44 people at Bailey Road building in Dhaka”

Asia

“Chinese President Xi has called for the mass production of humanoid robots by 2025”

How Tehran Became the World’s Nose Job Capital

“Palestinian death toll rises to 29,410”

“Tokyo Metropolitan government paving the way for solar future”

“Thailand will ban recreational use of marijuana”

“Breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria asks Russia for “protection”

World

 “UK Conservatives suspend a lawmaker..he accused London’s mayor of being controlled by Islamists”

“On rising Christian nationalism in America”

“U.S. federal agents arrest journalist Steve Baker in handcuffs for his reporting”

“Former Canada’s Prime Minister #BrianMulroney passed away on Thursday.”

 “Corruption scandals cast a shadow over Portugal’s early general election”

“Ghana’s parliament passed a bill that imposes jail terms on people who identify as LGBTQ”

“Over 100 killed in Gaza as chaos erupts during food distribution”

“Drone footage captured the extent of the damage in the Brazilian municipality of #Brasielia”

February 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

“Teachers Stage Protest | Across State”

Heritage left unattended, history threatened

 “Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh: Devotees throng Sri Suryanarayana Swamy Temple”

“Punjab Economy Remains On Debt-Bed “

BJP stalwart L K Advani to be awarded Bharat Ratna

FM did not say single word on unemployment

“Odisha: Jashipur police station seized 120 kg of ganja”

ED files first charge sheet against Chinese smartphone

Social commerce in India booming

“Nepalis want to visit Ram Temple Ayodhya”

“Sri Lanka has plans to establish a free trade agreement with India”

17,871 Bangladeshi migrant workers died in GCC countries between 2017 and ’22: Report”

“Lunar New Year of the Dragon flames colorful festivities across Asian nations”

 “it was Native Americans who first set the foundation for Chicago”

“UK’s economy contracted for a second quarter at the end of 2023”

“Japan in recession, loses third largest economy tag to Germany”

“Soros fund poised to take control of 2nd-largest chain of radio stations in the United States”

“Violent clashes between Eritrean migrants and the police in The Hague”

 “Senegal’s president defends delaying elections in exclusive interview as protests erupt” 

“Brazilian leftist leader Lula da Silva compares Israel’s actions in Gaza to Adolf Hitler’s”

Culture

Ram Lalla Consecration Ceremony: Wait Over!

The Lost Stupa

Kalinga Art Festival”

Andhra

Tollywood Drugs Case

Let TDP speak about alliance, says BJP

“Chandrababu and Pawan Kalyan to hold a crucial meeting”

India

Creator of deepfake video of actor Rashmika Mandanna

How to Find Hidden Cameras in Hotels and House Rentals “

Punjab: “Farmers protest, lay siege to Kathunangal toll plaza

Four of international drug trafficking gang arrested in Bathinda

14.1 lakh new cancer cases, 9.1 lakh deaths in India: WHO

JMM MLA’s big statement on Hemant Soren

Subcontinent

“Each year 1,000 Pakistani girls forcibly converted”

India-Maldives row: Explaining the story so far

Debt-laden Sri Lanka marks Independence Day with Thai prime minister

Asia

“China’s population drops for 2nd year, raises long-term growth concern”

Death toll from Israeli strikes in Gaza passes 25,000, Gaza health officials say

Protesters in Tel Aviv call for change to Netanyahu government”

 “Japan has been named one of six countries with the world’s most powerful passport for 2024”

World

South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation

 “UK military contractors”deployed”sophisticated psychological operations  “

“Cyberattack targeting UK councils causes online disruption”

“Irish nationalist is set to lead Northern Ireland’s government”

“Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 46 people”

“Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, 82, died in hospital” 

January 2024 News Links

Updated!!!

Essence of the Upanishads

‘Minimalism’ is a powerful statement

“ISRO in 2024: With Stars Aligned Perfectly”

India’s heritage sites finally see a ray of hope

“Municipal workers stage protest at Collectorate, demanding fair wages.” 

Ammonia gas leaks from Chennai fertiliser unit, people

Ration scam: ED officers assaulted by TMC leader’s loyal supporters

“NDRF Deploys G20 Procured HAZMAT Vehicles, Rescue Teams in Ayodhya…”

India Logs 1,378 Cases of Covid Sub-variant JN.1”

“Xi Jinping’s empty dream city shows limits”

“Myanmar… and three armed ethnic groups have formally agreed to a Beijing-brokered truce”

Everyone Could Have Died in the Tokyo Airport Crash. Here’s Why They Didn’t.”

 “Ecuador’s ongoing gang war is wreaking havoc across the nation”

““Iran Strikes Terrorist Group Bases in Pakistan” “

 “Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina wins a fourth straight term”

“UK sheltering war criminals of 1971 Bangladesh genocide

How Western Media Exonerated Hardeep Singh Nijjar And Covered Up His Tracks

Honest Government Ad | Visit Canada

U.S. carries out new strike in Yemen after Biden vows to keep pressure on

Culture

“encouraging all temple leaders to download the HinduAmerican temple safety guide”

“‘Garba Of Gujarat’ Declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO”

Preserving Nature: The Vedic Concern

Only we can reform our society

Andhra

“Gollapudi Locals Struggled for Drinking Water”

 “The Greatest Telugu Stories Ever Told”

“Hundreds of Bridges in Ruined Situation in State”

BJP dilemma in Andhra Pradesh: To ally or not to ally

India

“Aditya L1 LIVE: ISRO’s first Sun mission”

 “Indian Toy industry witnessed a rise of 239 percent in exports in 2022-23”

Modi in Lakshadweep: An essential travel guide to the breathtaking getaway

India’s GDP expected to expand by 7.3%”

Ayodhya Ram Temple: Know all about the design

“NATGRID rollout by early next year”

Indian trade curbs may cut exports by $4 bn, Red Sea attacks a risk

 “The Jewish Warriors of Maratha Empire”

“Phone Calls Scam Cases Rising In India” Phone Calls Scam Cases Rising In India”

Subcontinent

  “Nepal |  DrSJaishankar will inaugurate 59 post-earthquake reconstruction projects”

 “Are Pro-LTTE Elements Trying to Revive the Eelam Movement?”

 “(BNP) is bringing out processions & conducting mass contacts across #Bangladesh to protest”

“Why is China usurping Bhutanese land?”

Asia

“K-Pop stars flying solo: Breaking boundaries or an escape from ‘slave contracts’?

Actors say sexual abuse is a structural problem in Japan’s film industry

Death toll from western Japan earthquakes surpass 100

“Islamic State group claims responsibility on Thursday for two explosions in #Iran that killed nearly 100”

Turkish justice minister says 15 suspects jailed ahead of trial for spying for Israel

“Is China running a secret propaganda operation with journalists in India?”

World

“On Bangladesh and Democracy, America’s Approach Is Undermined By History”

“Ireland is “the test case for the next phase of the global crackdown”

“Farmers in France are now throwing eggs at the police”

Britain in serious travel disruption as major rivers burst banks, homes damaged

‘Britain is broken.’ Dire poverty could usher in Victorian-era inequality”

“A 24-year-old #Czech student opened fire and killed 14”

Ethiopia Govt Wants Referendum on Amhara, Tigray Disputes

December 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

“Srimukhalingam Temple Sculptures in Ruined Situation”

Local products can boost exports

“Stock up on battery devices and candles in case of grid meltdown, Britons told by UK”

Geopolitical implications of energy transition

Overcoming lust, the spiritual way

“Kashmir does not have any internal sovereignty after accession to Union of India: Supreme Court”

Mayawati names nephew Akash as political heir

“ The unprecedented suspension of Opposition MPs from Parliament does not augur well”

JK Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill

 “Balochistan: An undeclared war zone-I

The Philippines is battling a resurgent Islamic State threat

“Iran-backed #Houthi terrorist group defies efforts to protect Red Sea vessels”

“Groups of “mostly Chinese men” crossing illegally into the United States”

“China: 118 people killed and over 500 injured after 6.2-magnitude #Earthquake”

Condoning terror acts, terrorists a great disservice to human rights cause

“’Canada committed genocide against Indigenous Peoples’” 

From Bonhomie to Bluster. Changing Foreign Relations

“Ireland’s “Media Minister” calls on the public to report any “hate speech” they see online” 

Congo road to peace amid ethnic conflict“Leaders of Venezuela and Guyana agree to avoid use of force in land dispute”

Culture

Bhagat: Reviving the dying artform of folk drama

Upfs are not what marketers say

 “Looking beyond beauty stereotypes

Listening is an art one must learn and master

Andhra

Revanth Reddy delivers Telangana for Congress, stops KCR juggernaut

 “People Forcibly Vacated From Rushikonda”

 “Encroachments & Illegal Constructions Along Swarnala Cheruvu in Nellore”

India

BJP’s 3-states stunner, Congress goes home with Telangana

 “Three Khalistan supporters have been sentenced for the attempted murder”

Adopt a realistic approach to infiltration

The CAA scare

Celebrating Kerala’s 67 years of statehood

Deepfake: Troll armies’ new tool

Here’s how trapped workers spent time inside Uttarkashi tunnel

We want work-life balance but the biggest tech leaders including Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella do not support it

“Making of the Indian Constitution”

Are foreign universities best bet for better education?

SYL canal issue: No insight, just theatrics

“Cyclone Michaung causes Downpour and Distruption in AP & TN “

Subcontinent

Nepal in the throes of strategic choices

 “Bangladesh’s Make or Break Elections”

“Thailand ready to receive Myanmar war refugees”

Asia

Japan govt will ask court to revoke legal status of Unification Church

Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak”

The Rising Tide of ‘Imperial Han’ Nationalism in China”

Tears of Gaza

Cambodian PM Affirms Ban on Mekong Hydropower Projects”

“11 Hikers Killed As Volcano Erupts In Indonesia”

Iran likely to face more sanctions

World

The worsening financial crisis in the UK post-Brexit

 “Canada has long been slammed as a ‘haven’ for ex-Nazis like Yaroslav Hunka”

Fighting Cuts Power Supply to DR Congo’s Goma

“Black survivors are nearly invisible in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse”

 “Indians make up 3rd largest illegal immigrant population in US” 

“Nine people were killed and 15 injured after armed men raided Peru’s Poderosa mine”

November 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

“Massive Fire Accident in Fishing Harbour | Vizag”

Will India ever become a football-playing nation?

Hyderabad: “AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi threatened a police inspector”

Beyond Taste: Ultra-Processed Foods and Their Impact

ISRO: Propelling India’s space industry

Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: All trapped workers safe

India emerges as a voice of Global South

ICC suspends Sri Lanka’s membership on ground of government  interference

Pakistan: “1000-2000 young girls from minority communities are kidnapped, raped, forcibly converted “

“Israeli Agrees To ‘Truce’ Deal | 150 Palestinians For 50 Hostages”

China pushes BRI, despite resistance

“Canadian Diplomats Misusing Powers to Give Visas to Khalistan Supporters”

“‘neo-Nazis’ were at wake for Ukrainian soldier

Dubious agents running illicit UK visa appointments trade: Report

Sudan Peace Talks Fail as War Turns ‘Homes Into Cemeteries’ “

“An explosion at the Canadian High Commission of Canada in Nigeria”

Culture

VisakhaMusicAcademy 54th Annual Festival of Music & Dance “

‘DANA’ HAS SPIRITUAL CONNOTATIONS

 “Discover the timeless elegance and artistry of Eluru Hand-Knotted Carpets”

Millet-based sweets: taste with health

India

“New Delhi has asked Canadian authorities to scale up Air India flights’ security”

“Violation of Bail Conditions | Jagan’s Disproportionate Assets Case”

 “#ncertbooks: “India” should be replaced with “#Bharat” in the #schooltextbooks”

 “India sends humanitarian aid to Palestine amid Israel-Hamas war

India’s West Asia quandary

MP: Five labourers die after inhaling suspected poisonous gas at a factory

“Caste Census work will be taken up across country if Congress comes to power”

PM Modi calls for rooting out casteism, regionalism

 “ISRO successfully conducts test vehicle mission ahead of human space flight ”

Amarinder names BJP, RSS leaders involved in 1984 riot

Subcontinent

“Thousands of garment factory workers took to the streets of Bangladesh”

“SriLanka decides to issue free visas to nationals of seven countries”

20 houses damaged in Nepal quake

Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan charged in cipher case

Asia

Shaping up India-South Korea relationship

‘China seeks to control Pak media’

 “Why fears of another war between Armenia and Azerbaijan are growing”

Israel announces expanded military operations in Gaza

 “2 workers at Fukushima plant hospitalized”

World

“Time for central bank digital currencies to prove their worth”

“Arab World unites”

Canada: “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW)

US, UK side with Canada

 “CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran”

“How Khalistan Resides In the Anglosphere”

Surge in anti-Semitism in West

S Africa culls nearly 2.5mn chickens in effort to contain bird flu outbreaks

“Algeria’s state oil and gas firm Sonatrach plans $1 billion project”

“Hundreds of thousands still without power days after storm hits Brazil”

October 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

“First Coordination Meeting of TDP & Jana Sena”

” A global minimum tax on billionaires could raise $250 billion annually”

“1200 people have come back in 5 flights from Israel under Operation Ajay”

“YCP Activists Attack On TDP | Punganur”

“First Ever Rapid X Train Services in Delhi”

“Arrested ISIS terrorists conspired in Delhi riots, says Police”

“Indonesia panel to investigate ethical complaint over vote ruling”

“15 killed as strong #earthquake and several aftershocks reported in w. #Afghanistan”

“Who is running to be Taiwan’s next president?”

“Israel-Hamas War, Day 17; Death toll increases to over 6,000” 

“Harman Singh Kapoor, the Sikh man from the #UK … #Khalistan radicals vandalised his car”

“Trudeau Losing Popularity | Was Voted Worst PM in 50 Years”

“Canada Is Dying | Full Movie” 

“Nigeria’s paramilitary raids birthday party for gay people, 76 arrested “

“Brazen ambush leaves at least 13 local police dead in Mexico”

“#Spain’s first private rocket successfully lifts off”

Culture

“Aksharadham Temple in New Jersey”

 “108-ft tall Adi Shankaracharya statue unveiled in MP

Waheeda Rehman to be conferred with Dadasaheb Phalke Award”

Andhra

“Financial Crisis Deepens In AP | Under YCP”

“CM Jagan Massive Scams In YCP”

 “Remembering the forgotten heroes who fought to free Hyderabad from the Nizam”  

India

India Best Ever Medal Haul at Asian Games

Nanded Hospital: “Case registered against Shiv Sena MP Hemant Patil  ”

ED raids AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s premises in Delhi “

HAL hands over first LCA Tejas twin seater aircraft to IAF

India to acquire more howitzers, rockets and missiles

“Sikkim flash flood: NDRF deploys 3 teams, rescues 7”

“Over 3,000 tourists are stranded in Lachen and Lachung…#Sikkim”

“Delhi most polluted city in India in past year: Analysis”

 “ Nijjar was a killer, not a religious head, says Indian Intel

Women’s reservation Bill – imperfect but important

Subcontinent

“Sri Lanka’s economy is expected to grow by 1.7% in 2024”

“Buildings suffer damage in 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Nepal”

“Decades of Suffering: Baloch Missing Persons Await Justice”

Asia

” Furious China believes UK spies bugged sinking submarine”

“More than 100,000 refugees arrive in Armenia as exodus swells”

ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT

 “G7 Chair Japan refuses support to Canada

World

“Dengue will ‘take off’ in southern Europe, US, Africa this decade, WHO scientist says”

Trudeau, Canada Speaker Rota Give Standing Ovation to Nazi Soldier

Canada hand found in Sikh separatism, Tamil war, Mujibur killing

X turns into a bank? Social media app to start Google Pay-like services soon

Kenya’s president is committing his country to lead a multinational force to Haiti

“America Prepares for a Pacific War With China It Doesn’t Want”

“Many migrants from China arriving at the US-Mexican border “

“Blast at illegal Nigerian oil refinery kills 37 people”

“Argentina’s soy crushers face ‘disaster’ as bean shortage sharpens”

September 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

Nutrition could ensure wholesome well-being

“TDP Activists Candle Rally | Against Chandrababu Arrest”

Punjab tender ‘scam’: ED seizes Rs 2.12-crore worth gold bullion, jewellery

Monsoon fury: 21 of 23 Himachal Pradesh hydel projects ‘violated’ norms 

175 killed, 1108 injured in four months of Manipur violence”

“Income inequality in India: Top 10% upper caste households own 60% wealth”

“Why Are China’s Job Numbers So Bad?”

South Korean lawmakers vote to lift opposition leader’s immunity 

Tornadoes kill 10 people and seriously injure 4 others in eastern China

“Death toll soars to 11,300 in flooding in Libya’s coastal city of Derna”

” toll from the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco has risen to nearly 3,000 “

Talks held on the future of Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan claims full control”

“100 injured in violent clashes between Eritrean asylum seekers, security forces in Tel Aviv”

“German federal police registered more than 15,000 illegal migrants in August”

“Pharmacists in Germany expect an “intensive vaccination campaign” in autumn”

Russia strikes cities from east to west Ukraine, starting fires

“Hawaii State Rep. Elle Cochran questions the declining death toll on Maui”

Khalistan Event In Canada Cancelled

Smugglers, gangsters wanted in India, free in Canada

Opinion: Justin Trudeau brings Canada’s ties with India under increasing strain

Culture

“Narcissism and Self-Esteem Are Very Different”

A cradle of culture”

“Twitter campaign lifts Pattachitra artist out of Crisis”

Kabir, pottery and the potter

Andhra

Incessant Rains Across State

TTD Funds Used For Development of Tirupati Municipal Corporation

Andhra Pradesh’s $15 Billion Quest for Green Hydrogen

India

Aditya L1 successfully undergoes the second earth-bound maneuvre

“Vikram lander makes soft-landing on Moon again”

“3 held with 41kg of heroin smuggled from Pakistan via Ravi river”

High Court: “Non-Muslim students cannot be forced by school to wear hijab”

Badrinath highway collapse is a warning

Changing name of opposition alliance can’t hide hatred for ‘Sanatan Dharma’: Anurag Thakur

Are we lacking communication?

DMK Controversy over insulting Sanaathana Dharma

“Nalanda Mahavira is a rare combination of outstanding achievements”

Full curfew reimposed in 5 valley districts of Manipur as preventive measure

Maratha quota activist Jarange put on IV fluids 

Subcontinent

Nepal resumes importing onions from India to calm rising demand

“Businesses shut in #Pakistan’s Sindh to protest kidnappings of #Hindu #businessmen”

“Sri Lanka to probe Channel 4 video on Easter Attacks “

Asia

Saudi Arabia, Russia plan to extend 1.3 million barrel a day oil cut

“China Wants to Run Your Internet”

“Global Mood Sours on China’s Economy”

“The Fukushima Plant Is Still Leaking Poison After a Decade”

Indian-origin rapper jailed in #Singapore

World

US moves to force recall of 52 million air bag inflators that can explode

“Britain’s secretive “Counter-Disinformation Unit”

“Canada considering foreign #student visa cap to address housing shortage“ 

“The death toll from fierce storms and flooding in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria increased

“German business activity suffered the steepest decline for more than three years in August”

Descendants ask for restitution of Paris human zoo victims: ‘People died, where are they?’

Soros Retreats as Right Wing Gains in Europe

48 killed in East DR Congo anti-UN rally crackdown

At least 64 people killed in South Africa fire

Fierce storm in southern Brazil kills 21 people

August 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

At G20 meet, a Guinness effort to shine light on Karnataka’s Lambani craft

How India Became the First Country to Reach the Moon’s South Pole

India backs Brics expansion on consensus basis, says PM

“Landslides in #Shimla highlight faulty urban planning, say experts “

Biden tours ‘overwhelming’ devastation in Maui: ‘The country grieves”

China looks to attract foreign investment as its economy struggles

“London Continues to Nurture Khalistan Elements”

“Shooting & sword attack during a kabaddi…event in Derby,UK, where #Khalistan flags were “

“Antim Panghal And Sujeet Kalkal Move Delhi High Court, Challenge Trial Exemption “

Power Cuts continue in parts of Andhra Pradesh

The Story of How Swahili Became Africa’s Most Spoken Language

“Germany’s left-green-liberal govt has approved a law allowing people to change their gender & first name once a year”

“Germany is quietly building a “huge surveillance apparatus” that risks creating a denunciation culture similar to those of the Nazis” 

 “Brazil’s leftist President Lula da Silva signed a decree to limit civilian access to firearms”

Argentina: “Inflation exceeds 113% and the poverty rate approaches 40%”

Officials say a jet crash in Russia kills 10, Wagner chief Prigozhin

North Korea’s Kim lambasts premier over flooding

Tropical Storm Franklin makes landfall and dumps heavy rain on Haiti 

Talks between regional bloc and Niger’s junta yield little

Culture

“Elite dining: A trend that’s catching up in India”

“Kennedy:”YouTube deplatformed me… I was shut down”

Sahitya Akademi under fire for awarding ‘below par’ authors

Crimes of Razakar Movie Trailer is Released

Aluru Venkata Rao Birth Anniversary: Remembering the Kannada Kulapurohita

Andhra

Visakha Music Festival

Who are Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem

“Mega Seed Hub in Kurnool’s Thangadancha”

India

Nuh clashes: How the violence was planned

1984 Anti-Sikh Pogrom: Tytler case ongoing, Kamal Nath next?

India Explores Programmable CBDC, Digital Rupee with Expiry Dates

The Boy General who was Bhagat Singh’s hero

Dalit oppression in Punjab: The caste cauldron

“W.Bengal Horror Continues: 2 tribal women stripped naked, tortured, paraded in Malda”

Heavy rains batter Gujarat; Junagadh among worst-hit

8 dead as heavy rains create flood-like situation in Jammu, many rivers breach danger mark

Commuters a harried lot as rains wash away roads in Amritsar

Haryana govt announces compensation of Rs 15,000 per acre for crop damaged by heavy rain spell

“Tamil Nadu: Nearly 50 prisoners put up in an open-air jail at Shivaganga for cultivating farmland”

Neither with NDA nor with ‘INDIA’:11 political parties w/ 91 MPs have not joined any alliance”

 “Changing Battlefields”

Subcontinent

Pakistan: Hindu temple attacked with rocket launchers in Sindh

3 Hindu sisters in Pak’s Sindh province forced to marry Muslim men

“Is Nepal Under China’s Thumb?”

How the Constitutions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh were drafted

Asia

Himalayas under threat

Fukushima Disposal Plans Put Tokyo in Hot Water”

Singapore police to probe racial discrimination faced by Indian-origin officer before death

World

Abuse in Britain’s boarding schools

Death toll rises to 67 in Maui wildfires

Nuclear threat from Ukraine war prompts Ottawa to update plans for catastrophe”

“Kenya suspends “eyeball scan” crypto project Worldcoin over safety concerns”

Central Bank of Nigeria to add NFC, programmability features  ”

‘We are close to reaching an agreement on global minimum tax system’

First Solar to make solar panels in India; no China input: US energy secretary

Riots in France and lessons for Europe

More than 700 sentenced to prison over French riots, minister says

Haiti Is on the Brink of State Failure

July 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

Rain fury: At least 55 people killed in Punjab, Haryana; relief work underway

“13 Found Dead in Flooded Tunnel as South Korean Storm Toll Rises to 40”

“AP, Odisha sign MoU for Machkund projects”

By denying Hinduphobia, western academia and media enable it

Liberal America refuses to recognise racism against Hindus

Why West Finds It Difficult To Swallow India’s Success Story

A BRICS Currency Could Shake the Dollar’s Dominance”

UK unemployment climbs as inflation weighs on economy

Centre imposes import restrictions on certain gold jewellery, articles

““Why profitable strategic PSU CEL’s sale leaves scientists aghast

“PM Modi’s France visit: Shaping a multipolar world”

Modi’s gift of ‘10 danas’ – the 10 donations – to Biden reflects ancient Hindu wisdom and carries a deep symbolism

Bengaluru boy bags gold at International Mathematical Olympiad

Pandits’ rally to commemorate Guru Teg Bahadur’s sacrifice

“World Sikh Organization demands Canada prove Sikh extremism is a threat”

Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped

Why have Bengal’s Panchayat polls turned violent?

Opinion | Today’s China Isn’t Real China”

India overtakes China to become most attractive emerging market for investing”

Bank of America to pay more than $100M for doubling fees

 “Hague court rejects India’s objections over water treaty arbitration”

RRR 2 confirmed, Ram Charan and Jr NTR to star but SS Rajamouli may not direct

Turkey’s Economy Is in Deep Trouble

What Turkey’s neo-Ottomanism means in 2023

Thailand PM Prayuth announces retirement from politics

The incredible story of how East African culture shaped the music of a state in India

Culture

Nearly 70 percent children are eating unhealthy foods, report says

Fentanyl is Very Deadly… Here’s Why”

Adipurush movie writer issues public apology

“Indo-Scythian dynasty”

Andhra

Fire at AP Pharma Factory

“45.9 Kgs Ganja Seized & 11 Arrested In AP State”

2 Villages fight over Irrigation water in Kakinada

India

Caste Atrocity:” Accused Pravesh Shukla’s illegal encroachment being bulldozed”

The depths to which politicians sink

524 Ayurvedic dispensaries in Punjab sans medicines for four years

Data protection Bill

1984 anti-Sikh riots: Delhi court issues fresh notice to produce records  of case against #Tytler

Ajit Pawar moves Election Commission staking claim to NCP

AIMPLB sends objections to Law Commission on UCC

India summons Canadian High Commissioner in Delhi over Khalistani extremists”

CBDC is the future of money, RBI actively preparing for transformation

No extra river water allowed to flow to Pak, says minister

Subcontinent

“SriLankan Parliament Speaker Abeywardena calls India a “trustworthy friend””

“Pakistan’s atrocities against Balochis highlighted at UNHRC”

Bangladesh: “Dengue situation takes alarming turn

“No benefits for Nepal from deal with China”

Asia

Russia calls on NATO to discuss Ukraine nuclear plant at summit

First South Korea-U.S. Nuclear Consultative Group meeting to be held

Amid media row China tells last Indian reporter to leave

China’s central bank digital currency takes a bigger place on WeChat’s

“Uyghurs commemorate Urumqi massacre,hold protest in Austria against Chinese persecution”

On security and diplomacy, Abe’s legacy to be felt far into the future

“How Identity issues keep India and Israel apart”

World

“Nine humanoid robots gathered at the United Nations”

“Poland moves troops to eastern border amid Wagner fears”

As France Burns, the Far-Right Rises

Capitalism:  “The super-rich have taken it all away from others

Billionaire investor, philanthropist George Soros cedes control of empire

“Russia confirms that they are launching a BRICS currency backed by #gold”

 Britcoin currency ‘could be used to check ages and nationalities’

UK YouTuber Mohd. Hijab is reportedly instigator-in-chief in Leicester violence

Indian-origin MP in Canada slams posters by Khalistani supporters

“Colonialism was a disaster and the facts prove it”

“Colombia, Brazil presidents pledge cooperation to protect Amazon”

Africa News Roundup

Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population

College Sports Are Affirmative Action for Rich White Students

June 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

“Vegetable Prices Skyrocketing “

Bjp Leaders Divided Over Alliance With Tdp | Vijayawada News – Times of India

Corporate Boards in India : Blocked by Caste?

The cult of greed

JPMorgan to pay $290 million to settle with Epstein victims

Punjab doesn’t have water to spare

India’s trade deficit with China hits $100bn for first time

Rishi Sunak in slanging match with predecessor Boris Johnson 

Charting the evolving India-US relationship

Uneven U.S. treatment of Bangladesh and Pakistan makes little sense

Pakistan Army aimed to change Bengali race through rape, genocide in 1971

“South Africa in the spotlight over terror funding”

Indonesia is building a new capital? And it will cost $1 billion more

IMF working on global central bank digital currency platform

“De-Dollarisation | Global Nations Steps Towards Alternative For US Dollar “

Trump prepares for court appearance as 1st ex-president

Philanthropic Contributions Keep Africa Poor

Culture

Order All Natural Lepakshi Wax Wood Toys called ‘Etikoppaka

Battling cultural taboos in Uttarakhand

Magnificent mango delights: Irresistible recipes to savour the sweetness

“The true purpose of [G]anga Jamuni Tehzeeb “

Andhra

Jagan Rules Out Early Election To Assembly 

Shah-Naidu Talks Signal Thaw In Ties “

“Union Cabinet Increases MSP Of Paddy By Rs 143”

Sabotage? “Coromandel Express Accident | CBI Files FIR In Odisha Trains Probe”

India

From Modi to Gandhi, Indian politicians court the diaspora

India’s wheat output set to touch a new record of 112.74 mn ton in 2022

Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari [relative of former VP Hamid Ansari] gets life term”

“Socialism for the Rich and Capitalism for the Poor”

Gautam Adani and the New Indian Capitalism

SAD leader Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal, brother join BJP

Had Indira taken his word, Punjab wouldn’t have bled

Top wrestlers meet Thakur

Will freebies sink Karnataka?

Who bears the huge cost of freebies?

Subcontinent

Not Bengalis,Hindus were Pakistani targets in 1971 Bangladesh War

Imran Khan vs the Army puts Pakistan’s future in question”

Bedlam in Afghanistan and Pakistan”

Indo-Nepal ties will flourish on trust”

Asia

“India and Vietnam will define Future of Asia”

 “China’s false monoculture”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wins Turkish presidential election runoff

War Imminent in Asia?

Dam destroyed in Ukraine

World

Smoky haze blanketing US, Canada could last for days as wildfires rage

After California Temple Robbery, fear of Growing Attacks on Hindus Worldwide

Not just India. Central Bank Digital Currency soon to be World Wide Reality

A digital pound must never be introduced by stealth”

Visa, Microsoft and others join Brazilian CBDC pilot

UK: Three ministers ‘on list of 56 MPs accused of sexual misconduct’

“20 #richest #countries account for over half of 50 #million #people in ‘modern slavery’”

Agriculture: Climate Change – Policies must prioritise water-food-energy triad

“Nigeria Loses Legal Battle Against Shell in Oil Spill Case “

May 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

Three Malaysian nationals arrested in East Godavari fake loan app case

“Apsrtc: Andhra Pradesh HC convicts APSRTC chief Dwaraka Tirumala Rao”

 “An expert said shooter particularly hated Indians”

“Fresh Violence Erupts In Manipur | 74 Killed”

‘Farm to flop’ scenario across India

India sees 18% surge in weekly cyberattacks in Jan-Mar 2023

Union Minister Hardeep Puri rules out alliance with SAD for 2024

Human trafficking racket busted in Punjab’s Pathankot, 2 held

Haryana tomato growers stare at losses as prices fall below ₹5/kg

Lithium reserves traced in Rajasthan’s Nagaur, capacity higher than J&K reserves

BrahMos engineer accused of spying for Pakistan’s ISI granted bail”

15 killed in clash between 2 tribes over delimitation of coal mine in northwest Pakistan”

Anti-Hindu hate flies under the radar in the UK

Revealed: royal family has power to censor BBC coronation coverage

Khalistani drug nexus in Canada

Consumer companies hit hard as summer products take a rain check

Analysis: Xi, not Trump, started on path to decoupling

 “ DR Congo In Mourning For Flood, Mudslide Victims “

President-Elect Tinubu to Refine Nigeria Transition Plan in UK “

Detained US reporter ‘violated’ Russian law, says Kremlin

Culture

Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years

Ayodhya Ram temple to be ready by September this year: Official

Talking over mobile for more than 30 minutes linked to developing hypertension”

Georgia becomes 1st US state to pass resolution condemning Hinduphobia

Andhra

AP: Heritage tourism circuit in the pipeline

Telangana BJP president released from jail

“Cm Seeks Spl Wing To Tackle Cyberbullying “

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams steps up battle against fake websites

India

50,000 Dalit Hindus likely to embrace Buddhism in Gandhinagar”

Dalit woman dies after being raped, set afire in Rajasthan

Video: Sikh restaurant owner ‘receives’ threats over anti-Khalistan video

India’s stretched health care fails millions in rural areas

Effluent Mess: Fix gaps, set aside Rs 1,500 cr, NGT tells Haryana

Politicising of wrestlers’ issue regrettable: Puri

For Akalis, Prakash Singh Badal leaves behind a grand legacy — & a void

“Punjab: Gas leak at Ludhiana factory, 9 killed, 11 injured”

CBI team at ex-JK guv Satya Pal Malik’s Delhi residence

 ““Behind the anti-conversion violence in Bastar is a fight for tribal identity”

 “SIMI aims Islamic rule in India, doesn’t believe in Constitution: Govt to SC

“Islam and nation-state: Are they compatible?“

In Gujarat, training camps for illegal US crossovers

Subcontinent

Bhutan, Bitdeer plan $500 million green crypto fund

SouthKorea to provide USD 3 billion financing support to Bangladesh for metro

Sri Lanka to establish new International civil airport, area identified 

Nepal’s economic condition continues to deteriorate

Asia

Over 100 feared killed in airstrikes on Myanmar village

“Defence Ministers of India, Russia, China and other member nations of the SCO deliberated”

China records world’s first human death from H3N8 bird flu

Japan to quadruple cyber defense forces, meeting threats head-on

Israel’s Democratic Decline

World

The West’s Future of Anarchy

Riotous Pension Protests in France

Global Economics Crisis Worsens

Australia PM says ‘frustrated’ over continued detention of WikiLeaks founder

BBC chief quits amid furor over role in Boris Johnson loan

 “U.S. makes first arrests for operating an illegal Chinese police station on its territory”

17 arrested in connection with 11 gang-related Sikh shootings in Northern California

On May Day, workers rally for better labor conditions

Opinion: Caste bill would harm California’s South Asian communities

Chicken Prices May Surge As Heat Takes Toll On Birds

April 2023 News Links

Culture

*capitalist exoticism: corporatisation, control, & cultural critique

Ten songs by MM Keeravani that show his musical range

Twitter Files reveal Hindu nationalists were targeted

Andhra

 “Vijayawada temple to crack whip on corrupt staff

Telangana: “BJP’s Bandi Sanjay Arrest “

“Clashes Between YCP Leaders At Anakapalli “

“Leaders Grabbing Lands Illegal In Rajahmundry”

India

“Bihar | There was a bomb blast in Sasaram”

 “Five of top 10-firms lose Rs 86,447 cr in m-cap; Infosys, TCS, SBI hit hard

“Violent Sikh Separatism Is Repeating as Farce”

Amritpal Singh trained by ISI in Georgia, linked to SFJ: Intel

Ensure Himachal’s law and order does not collapse ‘like in Punjab’

Khalistan referendum has no legal standing, Australia’s respect for India’s sovereignty

Proactive civil society vital for healthy democracy

NCERT drops texts on Mahatma Gandhi, Hindu-Muslim unity, RSS ban

Mustard selling below MSP, farmers cry for help

Farmers suicides not new, happening for many years: Maha agriculture minister

Gujarat saw drug seizures worth Rs 5300cr in 18 months, 102 arrests

Subcontinent

Post Doklam misgivings, India hikes aid to Bhutan

Nepal’s political economy

From Pak Punjab to Scotland first minister, Humza Yousaf “

 “IMF treating Pakistan like a ‘colony’: Maryam Nawaz

Govt intends to make Sri Lanka the region’s first green economy

Asia

Hopes for Renewal Disappointed Again in Kazakhstan”

“Bird flu is so bad that Japan’s running out of land to bury chickens”

China seethes as US chip controls threaten tech ambitions

 “South Korea’s ‘Three Axis’ Defense System Is in Trouble”

“The State of Israel”

World

Nvidia set to reveal new AI technologies at annual conference”

Husband of ex-Scottish leader arrested

“Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts”

Ukraine trains 40,000 storm brigade troops for counter-offensive”

African Union criticises Tunisia over ‘racialised hate speech

Mexico complains to China about US pressure over fentanyl

Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college

March 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

Rajamahendravaram gets Poetess Molla’s statue”

At 80, retired Andhra Pradesh official gets 1-year jail term in graft case”

Andhra Pradesh tables Rs 2.79 lakh crore budget

Outstanding debt of Telangana stands at Rs. 2.83 lakh crore: Centre

Centre-state rivalry fuelling chaos in Punjab

Who Is Propping Up Amritpal Singh?

Canadian NRI stabbed to death in brawl at Hola Mohalla festival

Khalistan backers force closure of Indian consulate in Brisbane

Conrad Sangma stakes claim to form govt in Meghalaya

Karnataka hijab ban: SC to set up bench to hear plea”

Gujarat drug seizure

In election year, Rajasthan gets 19 new districts

“Sisodia carried out major destruction of digital evidence”

 “Maharashtra reports 2 H3N2 deaths, 361 flu cases; minister advises use of mask

SC tells govt to demolish mosque inside Allahabad HC complex within 3 months

Is BJP Getting It Wrong In Tamil Nadu?”

“Mamata-Akhilesh to work on Opposition alliance without Congress”

Conflict between India, Pak, China likely: US intel

“14 killed, over 100 injured as #explosion rocks seven-storey #building in #Bangladesh”

SVB, First Republic CEOs involved in lobbying pre–banking crisis

 “Tens of Thousands of Dutch Farmers Protest in The Hague”

UK is grappling with vegetable shortages. How did it happen?

“unpalatable truths about Britain’s slave trade”

UN: Fresh gang violence in Haiti leaves 187 dead in 11 days

“Who owns Majority Land I South Africa ?”

Culture

23 Signs You’re Secretly a Narcissist Masquerading as a Sensitive Introvert

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a human

How media slants crimes against hindu women by minority men

Himalayan styles are not static, it is ever-evolving tyle and substance

Andhra

Justice for Preethi gains social media momentum”

Is Telangana heading for a hung Assembly?”

“ Telugu student in US battling for life after car accident

“Good Response For 33rd Book Festival At Vijayawada”

 “Telangana set to give judicial powers to Wakf Board

India

 “Hyderabad was liberated by India”

Tripura: BJP-IPFT alliance wins 31 seats

Prices fall, growers destroy cauliflower crop

India to join controversial US-led energy-intensive agribusiness initiative

Puri Shankaracharya wrongly claims Varna made by Pundits. Gita says Krishna created it

2,500 people, primarily women, were killed across the country over accusations of witchcraft”

Value education should be included in curriculum: President Droupadi Murmu”

 “Exodus of babus from Punjab amid ‘Khalistan’ uproar”

Conversation between BP Koirala and the American Consul in Calcutta

 “Green Hydrogen Mission gets Cabinet nod

Global governance has failed, developing nations now facing consequences: Modi

 “List of prominent global Indian social entrepreneurs launched

Efforts on to revive ancient stitched ship technology

Subcontinent

At least 14 Hindu temples attacked in Bangladesh “

55 Sikh, Hindu refugees from Afghanistan arrive in Delhi

Remembrance and revival of Udhauli

“Bangladesh opens first metro line in traffic-choked capital Dhaka ”

Asia

“Vietnam’s Parliament Selects Vo Van Thuong as New President “

“Malaysia claims 200,000 Myanmar Rohingyas refugees”

 “Japan Suspects Chinese Spy Balloons Violated Its Airspace 

‘China violated nations’ sovereignty across 5 continents’

World

CNN ex-boss Jeff Zucker told staff not to probe ‘lab leak’ theory…

Embassy in Belgium issues a security alert, warning of a “possible metro attack” in Brussels

  “Modern Slavery in Italy”

“South Africa is on the verge of “collapse” amid rolling blackouts”

Suriname’s Unrest Is a Warning

Onion shortage threatens a new chapter in world food crisis

U.S. food additives banned in Europe:Expert says what Americans eat is…making them sick”

  “Head of Paris Fashion Week model found in soup pot

Europeans saw nothing wrong with cannibalism until the 1900s”

Millions in Britain are choosing between heating and eating”  

February 2022 News Links

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“Farmers Build Flower Market | Guntur Dist”

“Officials Negligence On Mopadu Reservoir | Prakasam District |”

“Unidentified people vandalised the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) office”

“Former Supreme Court Judge S Abdul Nazeer Appointed New Andhra Pradesh Governor”

“Hyderabad was Bhagnagar, but politicians still differ “

“States with a Christian Chief Minister”

‘Jagan’s conversion drive on fast track’

Dissident claims Chinese Communist Party pays Vatican $2 billion annually

Portugal Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 5,000 minors: inquiry “ 

The collegium system needs improvement

‘Mughals had nothing to do with Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan’ “

Assam Police arrests 1,800 people in massive crackdown on child marriage

Is ‘Caste’ Being Weaponized Against The Indian Diaspora?

 “‘Thakurvad’ pales in front of Brahmin elitism”

Violence breaks out in Melbourne over ‘Khalistan referendum’, many Sikhs detained “

“A Sikh family in Sri Nankana Sahib, Pak attacked on Jan 21”

 “Married Pak Hindu girl abducted, raped for refusing to embrace Islam “

Pakistan looks to rival India to save its economy “

Reviving Nepal’s community forestry success story

India sends 7th flight of relief supplies to Turkey, Syria

“Bird flu death in Cambodian child sparks global alarm

Japan, Philippines agree to sharply boost defence ties

Economic reality check on China

A horrific environmental disaster is happening in Ohio

 “Mexico files 2nd lawsuit against arms dealers in US

Culture

The basics of Ranjana lipi

Should Dharmic eat Halal?

Saffron & Hinduism

Andhra Pradesh: 1st century Buddhist rock-cut cave collapses due to neglect

Andhra

Aruna Miller keeps Telugu Roots

How Can State Govt Justify Salary To Pastors, Asks Hc

Reservation for Kapu community gets Centre’s nod

No special category status for Andhra Pradesh, Centre makes it clear in Parliament”

India

Adani Enterprises to be dropped from Dow Jones

Drug Hotspots: In Moga village, 400 booked for smuggling in 3 decades

 “BBC Documentary on Modi: ‘Colonial mindset blatantly visible’

Most BJP-ruled states skip eggs in mid-day meal, cite vegetarian sentiment

51% of adolescent girls underweight in Gujarat

“Hit By Layoffs, Thousands Of Indian IT Professionals Struggle”

Why Indian players need to be more aware of caste privilege and oppression

Rajasthan: Sons waited for 31 years to avenge dad’s death | Ajmer News

1932 Srinagar Anti-Hindu Riots

Court discharges Sharjeel Imam in Jamia violence case

“Liberal fallacy of connecting India’s plurality with a Muslim Prime Minister”

Subcontinent

Pakistan hit by nationwide power outage after grid failure

Pakistan flour crisis worsens; prices skyrocket amidst wheat shortage, stampedes

 “Three Nepali women escape their coercive Chinese employers in Laos

Nepal and Bangladesh lobby India for corridor to trade electricity

Ex-Maldives leader gets 11 years for money laundering, bribe”

Asia

Japan to introduce semiconductor tech export control

Mass detentions, unprecedented protests, Covid pivot: Is China’s Xi losing grip on power?

WHO advisers call for ‘realistic’ data from China “

“Small but mighty – the rise of newly rich ‘micro-regions’”“Iran hires crime gangs to murder dissidents in UK”World

Extreme Israeli group takes root in US with fundraising bid

US downs PRC weather balloon on its coast. Another sighted in Latin America

 “Public urination is a growing menace in #London”

Ukraine interior minister, top officials among 14 killed in copter crash

Anti-democracy riots jolt Brazil

Senegal Bus Accident: 40 killed in Senegal bus disaster

 “California trying to find, compensate sterilization victims

China’s ByteDance admits using TikTok data to track journalists”

January 2023 News Links

Updated!!!

India’s richest 1% own more than 40% of total wealth”

“high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for bankers”

From plate to plough: Over Rs 45 lakh crore plundered from farmers”

“What Ails Joshimath”

India’s forgotten land at Mt Kailash

How new Ambedkarites are busy undermining Ambedkar and his legacy

 “Air India Urination Case | Accused Shankar Mishra Arrested in Bangalore |”

Is Punjab economy inching towards debt trap, and why it is cause for worry

Protests rock PoK as Gilgit Baltistan demands reunion with India

Sri Lanka given 6 more months to repay Bangladesh’s $200m loan

China’s surge: should Nepal be worried?

Chinese are turning to black market for Indian Covid drugs amid surge

K-pop Soft power is really about the power of attraction as a method of influence”

Slave Contracts: Exploitation Rife in K-Pop

20,000 arrested and 522 dead in Ongoing Iran Protests

Two girls found beheaded, dumped in Syrian detention camp

At 4% of UK’s population, Muslims make up 18% of criminals in jail

How Religious Grooming Gangs in UK prey on unsuspecting women

Guardian’s cartoon of Priti Patel shows the West’s duplicity on racism

America:” Where Will This Political Violence Lead? Look to the 1850s”

Indian-origin Leo Varadkar set to become Ireland’s prime minister for second time

EU corruption scandal: Eva Kaili claims innocence, says she feels betrayed

Europeans saw nothing wrong with cannibalism until the 1900s

What Nigerian Voters Are Looking For in Upcoming Polls “

Jacinda Ardern RESIGNS as New Zealand Prime Minister

Culture

What powers the Boycott Bollywood movement and why is it working?

“The Khasis: A Matrilineal Society in India’s Northeast”

“RRR’s Naatu Naatu Make It To Shortlist Nominates to Oscars 2023”

A recipe for poornalu, with love from an Andhra home

Anti-Hindu attacks grow, from N.Y. to a California Taco Bell

Andhra

 “Veteran Telugu actor Kaikala Satyanarayana passes away”

“AP Debts Continue in Over Drafts”

25 Nanded villages seek merger with Telangana

 “AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi and KCR are looting Telangana together”

Anantapur | Illegal Sand Mafia Along Penna River

India

Google, Meta lead Big Tech layoffs. All you need to know

PM’s mother Heeraben passes away

Central Vista redevelopment project: L&T to construct Executive Enclave

Leicester violence: UK think tank rejects report of RSS, Hindutva groups’ Involvement”

 “The Raj Revision

Giving election tickets to women against Islam, says Shahi Imam

Dread of conversions

Bhadralok and the myth of casteless West Bengal politics

“Kerala | #BirdFlu outbreak in parts of Kottayam”

“With #Green #Revolution having outlived its utility, it’s time to move to the next stage”

“Chargesheet Against MLC Kavitha & YCP MP Magunta | Delhi Liquor Scam Case”

Salesforce cuts about 10% of its workforce

Priest held for theft at Jain temple in Ankleshwar

Subcontinent

Mauritius Telecom CEO, who leaked Indian team visit, under lens, for China links

“Can Nepal Achieve Political Stability?”

 “Pakistan: Hindu man dies after he was chased away from hospital”

 “Six killed in firing by Afghan forces on Pakistan border

Bangladesh on razor’s edge: Why India must wake up to the looming economic crisis

Asia

Time to Boost natural Immunity again? “China is likely seeing 5,000 deaths a day”

Protests against Turkey’s Erdogan for misusing Judiciary against Presidential rival

“At Least 100 Members Sentenced To Death | Anti Hizab Protests in Iran”

Saudi foreign minister: ‘All bets off’ if Iran gets nuclear weapon

World

Higher Food Prices worsen World Hunger in Developed & Developing World alike

The History of the Royals Is Tangled and Bloody

“Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized for Netherlands’ slavery past”

Gangs control about 60% of Haiti’s capital

San Francisco police seek permission for its robots to use deadly force

Civil war will break out in US, Elon Musk would become President, predicts Putin aide

Truck with liquified gas explodes in South Africa, 8 killed

“Peru declares a state of emergency nationwide for 30 days per decree amid civil unrest”

Argentina’s VP Cristina Fernandez guilty in graft case, gets 6 years

Soccer Legend Pelé Dead at 82”

‘Epic’ winter storm wallops US, leaving 1.5 million without power”

Scot Sikh accused of involvement in targeted killings sues UK

December 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

Blackouts & Cyber Outages Coming to a Neighbourhood near You

“Delhi HC dismisses with Rs 25K costs plea seeking to make Twitter’s Elon Musk party”

A ragi recipe to honour the International Year of Millets”

Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules

55,000 farmers are protesting at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan

Delhi air quality worsens, 24-hour average index recorded at 262

Groundwater level in Punjab worrisome: MoS for Jal Shakti Bishweswar Tudu

BJP MP moves private bill on Uniform Civil Code, govt backs him

Purpose of charity should not be religious conversion: SC

““The Myth of a Casteless Bengal”

Mammoth crisis threatens India’s IITs and IIMs

“Andhra Pradesh | Police personnel seized 140 kg of ganja worth Rs 10 lakhs”

The Hypocrisy of Shah Rukh Khan

Pakistan: Every day three minor Hindu girls are abducted, gang-raped, converted

A nun’s story: sex, affairs and priests you can’t refuse

The reckoning: rape culture and the crisis in British schools

Why Audrey Truschke should stop inventing history to suit her vicious agenda

Chinese action violates 1993, 1996, and 2013 border agreements

China threatens Bhutan for aligning with India

Brazil: Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro clash with police in Brasilia

Peru president dissolves congress, which then ousts him

At least 100 people killed by floods in capital of Congo

Pakistan-based Khalistani terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda dies in Lahore hospital

Jagmeet Singh’s comments on Khalistan risk undermining Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy”

Culture

Rethink India’s nationally protected monuments list

A new, exhaustive book on Carnatic singer Balamuralikrishna

Maharashtra Cuisine’s Bakarwadi

Visakha Music Academy 53rd Annual Music Festival Successfully Completes

Andhra

“AP Faces Debt Burden of Rs 8.71 lakh Crore”

“Nearly 18 Thousand Kg Drugs Siezed in AP For Yr 2021-22”

Historic 1st, AP & Telangana settle on Srisailam

India

RBI in final stages of retail CBDC pilot rollout

With GM mustard, risks outweigh rewards

“Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor”

Airport: All you need to know about Bengaluru’s Kempegowda

Bengal: Three killed, several injured in blast near venue “

“Mangalore blast ‘act of terror’

India tops list of most inclusive nation for religious minorities, US ranked 5th

Delhi AIIMS server hacking: Main servers likely to be hacked from Hong Kong

India’s envoy calls on Canada to crack down on Canadian funding of Khalistan

Paswan gave shelter to Sikhs during 1984 riots, he was also attacked

EWS Reservation News: Quotas can’t be for ever, need to fix time limit

“Akal Takht pronounces ‘tankhah’ to former SAD minister “

“Vizhinjam police station attack: Cases against 3,000” 

“Police complaint against ‘unknown persons’ over anti-Brahmin slogans”

Subcontinent

Over 22 lakh Hindus in Pakistan, says national database report

Islamic State Is Alive and Well in South Asia

10 killed in bombing of Afghan religious school

Nepal: UML maintains lead in PR vote tally

“President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed a committee of public & private sectors”

Asia

Iranian general acknowledges over 300 dead in unrest

8 held for killing Indian-origin teen in Israel

China uses corrupt leaders to make inroads into economically weaker countries

2000-year-old Ashoka stupa restored in China

Saudis tell US that Iran may attack the kingdom

World

”40,000people..without electricity in N.Carolina after 2power substations..damaged by gunfire”

Mearsheimer predicts the world is headed for a massive conflict between the US, China

“Satanism and devil worship is on the rise, according to census data”

South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa will not resign over ‘Farmgate’ scandal

‘Brain-like computing’ possible at molecular level, reveal scientists

Brazil’s Bolsonaro, voted out, challenges election results

Musk says Twitter personnel may have interfered with Brazil’s election

Opinion: The strange loyalties of Jagmeet Singh

Death toll in landslide on Italian resort island hits 11

England and Wales no longer majority Christian nations, census reveals

November 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

Government completes mother tongue survey of 576 languages

Delhi Murder: Aftab used to SLAP the severed head of Shraddha kept in fridge

Be wary of Online dating apps & unknown suitors 

“Bengal’s Murshidabad shows demography is destiny”

No Hindutva or RSS extremism involved in Leicester violence

Coimbatore car blast: It was a terror attack

“‘Forced Conversion a Very Serious Issue’ | Supreme Court”

Why the three-capital model for Andhra Pradesh may not work

Punjab govt bans 10 insecticides for 60 days

“2,498 farmers ended their lives in 11 months of 2021 in Maharashtra”

“How can state govt justify salary to pastors, asks HC”

Turkey: 17 charged over bombing in Istanbul that killed 6

Iran protests enter third month with deadly clashes

State media: Gunmen attack bazaar in Iran, killing 5

Skeletal remains ‘confirm ancient Greeks engaged in human sacrifice’

China reports highest Covid cases, Beijing’s record infections

“The truckers and farmers have joined the protests against the election in Brazil”

Flash floods in Australia’s southeast cut off inland towns

UK faces biggest fall in living standards on record

100,000 Russian troops killed or injured in Ukraine, US says

Culture

A popular Garhwali dish, Phanu makes a regular appearance in pahadi meals

 “12th-century Kannada inscription discovered in Maharashtra

 “Elon Musk Plans To Lay Off 50% Twitter Employees | Roll Back Work-From-Anywhere”

“Jeff Bezos sued by former employee over long working hours, racial bias”

What you do Everyday matters

Andhra

TDP Leader Ayyanna arrested in forgery case, later released on bail

Visakha Music Academy: The 53rd Annual Festival of Music

Jana Sena Leaders Seek Nsg Cover For Pawan

India

Declassify Operation Bluestar, 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom documents

“Indian aerospace ecosystem seeing unprecedent growth towards becoming self-reliant”

“Amidst nuclear threat looming large & changing world order, India stands on its own”

“#Gujarat government has suspended #Morbi municipality chief officer “

Yogi Adityanath government to begin drive to remove encroachment

Hidden history of the Owaisis: What MIM doesn’t want you to know

Blame the British Raj on bankers

 “Meet Jagat Seth – The Richest Family Of Bengal Who Gave Loans To British

“Bharat Jodo Yatra of the Congress party resumes “

“Vehicles curbs from Saturday; Delhi mulls odd-even as air quality plunges”

Subcontinent

Pakistan: Every day three minor Hindu girls are abducted, gang-raped, converted”

Imran Khan injured in ‘assassination attempt’

“Nepal’s Oli vows balanced ties with China, India if returned to power

“Three more airlines to resume operations to Sri Lanka

Asia

Death Toll of Iran Protests Surpasses 230

Netanyahu returns to power in Israel

North Korea keeps up missile barrage with suspected intercontinental ballistic missile

China imposes zero-COVID lockdown of 800K people in Wuhan

The demolition of shrines in Medina

World

What is COP27 and why is it so important?

Ethiopia peace talks have begun on Tigray

Global diesel shortage threatens Energy Security

“U.S. can get to 100% clean energy with wind, water, solar & zero nuclear”: Stanford

Lula becomes President of Brazil for 3rd time amid Protests

Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession

Why Did British Police Ignore Pakistani Gangs Abusing  1,400 Rotherham Children?”

“hate crimes against Hindu Americans has jumped by more than 500 percent”

Sikh independence referendum in Canada leads to angry clashes

Barbados Independence Movement from Britain

October 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

How quilt-making became a ray of hope for this Rajasthani community

Water Storage in E.Godavari, Andhra Pradesh

“Companies start implanting microchips into workers’ bodies”

Boston University CREATES new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate

Indigenous Peoples Day Comes Amid a Reckoning Over Colonialism

Rishi Sunak becomes first British PM of colour and also first Hindu

How the British impoverished India

What Leicester really signifies

180 Hindu bodies sign letter to UK PM requesting help for ‘community under siege’

Khalistan on the Pacific: How the gangs of Punjab were born in Canada

India demarches Canada over Nov 6 Khalistan referendum

2 women killed in ‘human sacrifice’ in Kerala, 3 held

Caste atrocity | 12 members of a Dalit family convert to Buddhism in Rajasthan

Emiratis are still Arabs when they’re not Muslims, but what would that make Pakistanis

“Pakistan’s Worst Nightmare: Indian Kashmir Thrives

Iran Gives Russia Help From the Air

 “Chinese government asked TikTok for stealth propaganda account

“Xi and These Six Men Will Reshape the Future of China”

“US Army’s 101st Airborne is practicing for war with Russia”

“Giorgia Meloni sworn in as first woman Italian premier”

Culture

108 Veenas Fill the Air with Music in Madurai on Dussehra

“Telugu films needn’t just be for Telugu-speaking people, it can grow beyond that”

‘The Sindhis — Selling Anything, Anywhere’

The making of Sikh scripture – Guru Granth Sahib

Andhra

Andhra govt moves SC against HC order on Amaravati as sole state Capital

Ambani soon to collect state road tolls for Gujarat & Andhra Pradesh

How Bhairanpally was plundered

75 years of Hyderabad’s liberation to be celebrated in year long commemorations: Centre

India

“From Max Muller to Audrey Truschke:Bigotry&lies in the guise of academic freedom”

“Government Deducts From Pension Funds to Collect Garbage Tax”

“2,498 farmers ended their lives in 11 months of 2021 in Maharashtra” 

Ankita murder: NH 58 blocked in protest

Aamir Khan’s brother Faisal Khan claims Sushant Singh Rajput was ‘murdered’

“The Indian bureaucracy is the true inheritor of the British imperial legacy and still thrives on the five Ps—Perks, Preservation, Process, Protocol and Procrastination”

Why discuss Aarakshan with an immoral upper class?

“Supreme Court Upholds Validity Of Haryana Sikh Gurudwara (Management) Act 2014 “

Delhi starts vaccination drive to curb spread of lumpy skin disease

“Tale of two hijackers: BN Pandey & Gajinder Singh”

Subcontinent

Sri Lanka’s Story of Sovereign Default

“Leicester violence: Britain’s journey towards ghettoes and partition”

‘Baloch armed resistance has stopped CPEC from becoming operational’

“5 Hindu girls converted to Islam, & another Hindu gang-raped in Tharparkar,Sindh”

“Power Grid Collapse In Bangladesh Leaves 140 Million People In Dark”

Asia

Uzbekistan’s Ethnic Minorities: Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind

Political Changes in Saudi Arabia

Commercial Espionage by China around the world

China’s Arms Sales In Africa Fueling Conflict, Forcing Millions To Displace

World

“Biden: Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ risk highest since ’62 crisis

Russia mobilises 300,000 conscripts for Ukraine War escalation

Italians Didn’t Exactly Vote for Fascism”

How UK Islamist jihadists are openly preaching violence against Hindus

Jihadi rebels attack key military base near Mali’s capital

‘Modern slavery on the rise globally; touched 50 million in 2021’

Runoff Election on October 30 in Brazil

“Sept.19 Cursed in Mexico? | Three Major Earthquakes on That Day”

66% of pilots doze off in cockpit, reveals survey

 Honduras is the latest country to get the crypto bug

September 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

“How to overcome the beauty bias“

Plant-Based Doesn’t Always Mean Healthy

Seemaku Samudram

Zoroastrians confront depletion of their faith

“Omani Sultans banked on Kutchi moneybags”

Jammu & Kashmir: Ghulam Nabi Azad floats own party, to decide on ‘Hindustani name’

Off-centre: The Hyderabad communal cauldron: The role of the Owaisis

“the man arrested for leading the ‘sar tan se juda’ protests in Hyderabad”

‘Grooming gang’ targeting tribal, Dalit girls in Jharkhand: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey

 “Kartavya Path is a mirror for those trapped in time of slavery” 

Kolkata streets turn into war zone as violence shrouds BJP’s protest march

“NIA raids at 50 locations expose the dirty nexus between ISI, Khalistanis and gangsters”

“Taliban stop Afghan Sikhs from leaving for India with Holy Book”

After the floods: Will Pakistan go under?

Chinese drones are Pak’s faceless terrorists in India

China steps up bid to woo Nepal’s Buddhists

International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming”

“There is no end to history”

“’I cannot mourn’: Former colonies conflicted over the queen

Anti-Hindu rampage in UK: Muslim gangs terrorising Hindus, vandalising property”

Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US

“A rival ethnic group has killed at least 30 villagers in western Cameroon”

Culture

Bollywood cannot change: We must look for alternatives

“Sangita Kalanidhi: Musicians’ hall of fame”

Rhythm of an ominous beat: Rabbi Shergill on what ails Punjabi music

NSD returns to stage with Kalidasa’s classic

Andhra

Farmers’ suicides increase by 19 % in Andhra Pradesh: NCRB

“Water Resources Department is Responsible for Delay in Polavaram”

“Govt ignoring High Court Directive on Amaravati”

India

In a first, India refers to ‘militarisation’ of Taiwan Strait by China

Govt projects record foodgrain production, lower wheat output in 2021-22

“Free temples… and then give them to whom”??

India’s CBDC roll-out likely this fiscal with wholesale businesses

Worries of grain shortfall mount as godowns clear wheat stocks in Punjab

How Sufism works in tandem with Wahhabism

What the West gets wrong about India even after 75 years of independence

Hundreds of farmers reach Delhi to take part in ‘mahapanchayat’

Lal Singh Chaddha officially Flops

18 rapes per day: Every 10th rape in country reported in MP in 2021

Karnataka minors’ rape case: Notice issued to survivors

Subcontinent

Hunger Riots in Bangladesh

Sri Lanka: Timeline of a crisis

Pakistan Sponsored Terror Next Door. Now, It’s Back to Roost”

Death toll in Pakistan floods near 1,100; international aid trickles in

Asia

“Millions Locked Down in China’s Chengdu over Covid outbreak”

 “The Fall From Grace of One of Kazakhstan’s Gray Cardinals“

Thai protesters say PM reaches term limit, must step down

“Iran’s hardline newspapers praise Salman Rushdie’s attacker”

“Islam in China must be Chinese in orientation, says Xi Jinping”

World

Europe now Starves

Russia launches war games with China amid tensions with US

Researchers Show How a Car’s Electronics Can Be Taken Over Remotely

Ethiopia, Eritrea forces launch Tigray offensive

At 170 carats, pink diamond, unearthed in Angola, is world’s largest in 300 years

British dock workers latest to join summer of strikes

“Dept of Justice investigating the Southern Baptist Convention over…sex abuse complaints”

Australia: Staffer allegedly raped in minister’s Parliament House office

Vatican says they’re gifts; Indigenous groups want them back

Latin America territories record up to 358% surge in civil unrest

August 2022 News Links

Culture

 “Visakhapatnam artist Srinivasa Rao Kanumuri wins international online competition

 “With the hope to make Telugu theatre a sustainable career option

“Lata Mangeshkar’s connect with the Carnatic world “

“Tribute to musicologist M.B. Vedavalli “

RRR is a potboiler, not a history lesson

Andhra

“Amaravati Will be Completed if Center Concentrates”

“Telangana’s Musical Legacy”

“Ruling Party Leaders Are Looting Public Money Through the Liquor Business”

“Dilapidated Roads Due to Lack of Repair | Eluru-Kaikalur Route”

India

India’s first Tribal (Santhali) President, Draupadi Murmu, takes office

 “Zubair is not a journalist — and even if he were one, he should not be allowed to create chaos

How the narrative of Muslim victimhood is pushed to promote political Islam in India “

“Nitish Kumar to take oath as Bihar CM for 8th time”

Enough evidence to show Satyendar Jain, aides used ‘hawala’ funds to buy agricultural lands

Rice acreage down 13% till Aug 5 due to rain shortfall

Himachal apple farmers stage protest, demand rollback of hiked GST

“Tamil Nadu: Massive amount of water released from Kallanai dam”

Idiot Indian Students want to Study in China on eve of War

 “Gangster Maninder Dhaliwal, friend killed in shootout in Canada“

 “Khasi outfit ‘threatens’ Shillong Sikhs on housing demand

 “Delhi man who tested positive for monkeypox…attended ‘stag party’ in Himachal’s

“Gujarat hooch tragedy: 2,500 people arrested across state as death count reaches 42“

“Local police, government officials favoured UP gangster Vikas Dubey: SC Inquiry”

Should party MLAs do caste-quota on “Brahmin Gangster” Encounters?

Subcontinent

 “India gifts 75 ambulances, 17 school buses to Nepal

 “Fair-weather ally? How Sri Lanka, Pakistan fell into Chinese ‘debt trap’

 “Sri Lanka to restart bailout talks with IMF in August: President

“Makeshift brothels crop up in Sri Lanka as economic hardship pushes women”

“The last thing the subcontinent needs is turmoil in Bangladesh”

US eliminates Zawahiri in drone strike: Did Pakistan sell him out for IMF bailout?

Asia

“The chip pendulum is swinging West”

China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan

 “Lebanese face long ‘insulting’ queues to buy bread

 “Turkey’s imperial vision and its ramifications

Iran targets its Baha’i community with arrests and home demolitions

Kim Jong Un says ‘ready to mobilise’ nuclear weapons

World

 “World one step from ‘nuclear annihilation’, UN chief warns

New World Order Is Coming”

Libya official: Renewed militia clashes in Tripoli kill 13

Pope Francis lands in Canada, set for apologies to Indigenous groups

 “At least 32 people killed after bandits set homes on fire in Madagascar

 “Libya’s power cuts enrage citizens, spurring protest “

Pay attention to what’s happening to Dutch livestock farmers

“Explainer: Causes and consequences of Amazon fires and deforestation “

July 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

Narcissism and Self-Esteem Are Very Different”

Singer Bhupinder Singh passes away

AP’s Monsoon in Full Swing

A bait to regime of blasphemy

“AjmerDargah cleric nabbed in Hyderabad for beheading slogans”

“Delhi police registers case against controversial documentary ‘Kaali’”

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi among multiple people booked by Delhi Police over hate messages

 “Mann sorry for nana’s siropa to Dwyer”

Rajapaksa resigns and flees to Maldives, then Singapore

“Beyond Sri Lanka, economic cyclone bears down on South Asia“.   

 “Wheat stock in central pool close to minimum threshold amid low procurement “

Value of rupee declined by 25% since December 2014, Centre tells Parliament

Language of justice

Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle and Voice of America

World mourns Abe’s assassination

 “Imperialist China’s challenges in Pak

“5 countries suffering in Europe’s heat wave “

UK OK’s extradition of Assange to US

PM Boris on the outs in the UK. Rishi in the running

Calling for abolition of monarchy is still illegal, UK justice ministry admits

 “International Criminal Court marks 20th anniv“

‘Turn out the lights, brace for Russian gas cutoff,’ says France’s Macron

Brazil joins the Netherlands Farmers Protests

“Child malnutrition soars in Ethiopia as drought worsens”

Culture

Waheeda Rehman shows off her painting skills

“Time for a ‘credibility revolution’ in Agriculture”

“Leadership is not a title, it’s a behavior”

Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back

“Tamannaah Bhatia on north-south cinema debate: We have created these strange differences”

Andhra

Fluoride devastating Village with Kidney disease

“Vijayawada Water bodies shrink after encroachments”

“AP has become a Playground for Corrupt Politicians”

Alluri Sitaramaraju Jayanti Celebrations

India

Bhagwant Mann Cabinet expansion likely on Monday

”No future for us,’ say Afghan Sikhs after temple attack”

After farmers, youth suffering from govt decisions: Tikait on Agnipath

“Agniveers will be 50% of Army by 2032“

“Maharashtra Political Crisis “

Ajmer cleric, two others held for ‘beheading call

“Prophet remarks row: Two dead in protest in Jharkhand’s Ranchi”

Double standards of Hyderabad razakars on ‘Hate Speech’

 “Hyderabad minor gang-raped in car; all 5 accused, including MLA’s son”

“Reconciliation cannot be a one-way process!”

“Pakistani citizens acquiring the unique numbers meant only for residents in India”

“Death toll in #Manipurlandslide rises to 37, more rains affect search for missing 25”Nupur Sharma’s suspension: Why BJP’s decision is a rational one”  

India’s model

Subcontinent

Pakistan’s Negotiations With Terrorists

Hindu temple priest’s house in Pakistan’s Karachi attacked, vandalised by mob “

Bangladesh’s Dangerous Islamist Appeasement – And What It Portends

2 dead after explosions hit Kabul gurdwara, India ‘monitoring’ situation”

“Islamists storm India-backed yoga event in Maldives “

Asia

“Chlorine gas leak kills 12, injures 251 at Jordan port”

“Chinese Air Force maintaining 20-25 frontline fighters near Eastern Ladakh”

China and Cambodia break ground at naval base

Is North Korea moving nukes to its border?

“Japan’s JERA says it shut down a 500 MW power plant due to fire”

Turkey changes name to Türkiye to stop confusion with bird and ‘flop’

World

South Africa says 21 teens found dead at tavern

Food Shoplifting and Riots as Supply Chain Desperation sets in

“Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking”

The WEF and the Liberals’ agenda for Canada

Why US is no longer heading for a recession but is actually in a recession

“How Elon Musk evinced interest in buying Twitter”

“Battle Creek was an epicenter of the American eugenics movement”

German federal court rejects bid to remove antisemitic relic

Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire | Marc Parry

Sunset or new dawn for the British monarchy after Elizabeth II?

“UN: Sahel violence could drive more refugees toward Europe”

“Argentina economy minister, IMF deal architect, quits as government crisis builds”

June 2022

“Oneness is essential for society to thrive

Support Saraswati Swara Chakra

Land of the Bhagvad Gita

Andhra

“massive fire broke out at a godown of a shipping company in #Visakhapatnam”

Andhra Pradesh accounts for 10% of all human trafficking crimes in India

Hyderabad gang-rape case: Police arrest fourth

“Pawan Kalyan hints at Jana Sena-TDP alliance”

India

“report on religious intolerance in this country fails the smell test”

 “‘Caste-based count’ in a set time frame, says Nitish. RJD claims victory

Uttar Pradesh Dalit girl was raped, strangulated, confirms post-mortem

27 Dead In Bihar Floods

“#Flood situation in #Kochi ‘distressing’: #Kerala high court“

‘SidhuMoosewala killing: Cops yet to identify shooters”

Delhi stares at water crisis, sends SOS to Haryana

Slumisation of Chandigarh: A bugbear that’s hard to tame

India beat Indonesia 3-0 to lift maiden Thomas Cup trophy, make history

Allahabad HC rejects plea for opening 22 closed doors of #TajMahal”

“Mukesh Ambani Isn’t Leaving India, But Why Are So Many Millionaires Fleeing The Country?”

Subcontinent

Sri Lanka Is an Omen”

 “Modi’s ongoing visit to Nepal signifies a turning point in bilateral relations”

 “Pakistan’s Relations With Taliban Regime Worsen

35 killed, more than 450 injured in Bangladesh container depot fire

Asia

“Putin warns West: Russia will strike harder if longer-range missiles supplied

China successfully launches crewed mission to complete space station

“Philippines raises alert level at restive volcano after spewing cloud of ash “

“North Korea fires volley of missiles after U.S., South Korea stage drills “

World

“Brazil storm death toll rises to 100”

“ world is already in the grip of what can be called as the third global food crisis

 “WPI inflation in April jumps to 15.08%, highest in 17 years”

“A quarter of Britons say they’ve skipped meals due to rising cost of living”

“Bush:..decision of 1 man to launch a wholly unjustified & brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”’

DeSantis Takes On Disney With Taxpayers in the Middle

Canada’s Future Prime Minister Needs to Come Clean About Her Nazi…

“50 people killed by militants in #Nigeria’s Borno state”

Australia’s new PM on Diplomatic tour

 “12% of all traffic originating from #Twitter is made up of bots”

May 2022

Culture

“Toxic Twitter set to become even more noxious?”

“Conservation of Telugu language is key to conservation of culture”

“Bhubaneswar: Traditional handicraft products displayed in Odisha”

Andhra

“High Court Seeks Status Report on Amaravati Capital Works Progress”

“A veteran #freedom fighter, #GouthuLatchanna”

AP: 500-year-old sculptures in run-down temple

India

Hyderabad: Wife’s kin held for killing Hindu youth

“Cyclone won’t make #landfall in #Odisha or AP but move parallel to coast”

“Indians conflate talk with action, too easily impressed by…MEA Jaishankar’s remarks”

“Modi pitches for use of local language in courts to bridge gap between citizens & judiciary“

How the Sindhi community made Bengaluru their home post-Partition

“Khalistan flags hung at entrance of Himachal Pradesh assembly gate”

“Pakistan-sponsored terrorism forced 64,827 Kashmiri Pandit families to leave Kashmir valley”

Subcontinent

“Religious Minorities Experiencing Genocide in Pakistan”

“Sri Lanka’s Opposition rejects President Rajapaksa’s offer”

“Afghanistan issues a decree ordering adult women to wear all-covering burqa in public “

Bangladesh shows why CAA was passed

Asia

“Beijing COVID outbreak proves stubborn, mass tests become routine “

 “Russia Expels 40 German Diplomats in Tit-For-Tat Move”

Trouble brewing in Solomon Islands

“Extreme uncertainty: What the year holds for Toyota, Nissan and Honda”

World

Emergency Preparedness Week declared amid Global Nuclear Threats

“Russian TV presenter threatens to ‘drown’ UK with underwater nuclear tsunami attack”

“US reports its first human case of H5 bird flu”

“A person in UK has been diagnosed with the rare viral infection Monkeypox”

California faces a grim summer of dangerous heat and extreme drought

“Zimbabwe suspends bank lending in bid to arrest currency decline”

“Second Ebola patient dies in northwestern Congo, WHO says”

“Grim search in blown-out Havana hotel, death toll at 26”

“Sinn Fein calls for united Ireland debate after historic election win”

April 2022 News Links

Culture

“Celebrating India’s Rich Cultural Heritage”

A rare glimpse of the golden period of Nathdwara painting

Treasure trove of the past: Sikh Research Centre at Khalsa College, Amritsar

”Kashmir Files’ against terrorism, not religion’

Andhra

Jagan snubs court, decides to stick to 3 capitals plan

“Clashes break out on Hanuman Jayanti in Andhra’s Kurnool

“Andhra Pradesh: Temple priest murdered in West Godavari district”

Online sales extend a helping hand to Kondapalli toy makers”

India

How Bombay’s Parsis cracked the opium trade

 “The real butchers of Punjab

Nine held after communal clash on Hanuman Jayanti in Delhi

Hindus can be declared ‘minority’ in states where their strength is lower:’ Centre tells SCOI

Power Crisis in India

“India calls out West’s hypocrisy”

“Christopher Jaffrelot’s Modi’s India, an unreal analysis of the country“

Rishi Sunak questioned over Infosys presence in Moscow

“Social media accounts can’t be arbitrarily suspended: Govt

Subcontinent

Nepal Economy Faltering

Sri Lanka president loses majority as protests mount over crippling economic crisis

What Imran Khan’s exit could mean for India-Pakistan relationship

Asia

Grocery shelves Empty in China as residents fear Lockdown over new Covid spread

Japan immigration center mistreated Sri Lankan before her death”

Turkey sentences Erdogan critic Kavala to life in jail

“Clashes erupt in Jerusalem, as Israel responds to Gaza rockets with airstrikes”

“Chornobyl observes the 36th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster”

“N.Korea parades ICBMs, vows to boost nuclear arsenal”

World

“Russia’s Lavrov warns of ‘real’ danger of World War III”

“‘Finland, Sweden to apply for Nato entry in May’”

“Blast at illegal Nigerian oil refinery kills more than 100 people”

“Crisis in America’s Food Supply – CNBC”

“19,000 children have been sexually groomed in England in the past year”

Jamaicans shun UK royal visit, demand slavery reparations

#LeavingTwitter trends online after Elon Musk buys it

“EU aims to end use of Russian oil, gas by 2027, Gentiloni tell newspaper”

“Thousands of farmers stage anti-tax protest in Argentine capital”

March 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

This theatre festival in Assam is set amidst nature

 “Babus readying plan for Amaravati works”

 “Old soldiers don’t die, they just fade away.”

 “(MSME) sector in Maharashtra has contracted by 30 lakh in 2021”  

“Tata Sons Chief N.Chandrasekaran Appointed Chairman of Air India”

“Row Erupts Over Brahmin Corp Office “

SGPC members call for Badals’ ouster

“Birbhum: Is Bengal the Centre of Political Killings”

Why is India losing faith in the West?

Boeing 737 carrying 133 crashes in China, casualties unknown

 “Come Down Hard On Religiophobia

Over 200 people vandalise, loot ISKCON Radhakanta temple in Dhaka

“The Quad needs India just as much as India needs the Quad”

“India to introduce e-passport. How will the chip-based passport work?”

India Flew 22,500 Citizens From Ukraine | Helped 18 other Countries

“2.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine” Allies Think Russia Believes It Could Win Nuclear War

“The  British Slave Trade”

Why Cashless Economy means social exclusion

Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case

Culture

“Siva Temples at Repalle”

 “Buddha to sit tall at Dev in Mori

From Sindh, So Near Yet So Far

Andhra

Amaravati is Andhra’s capital, govt has no right to enact law for 3 capitals: HC

Nirmala Sitharaman: “PM treats Jagan like Father treats Son”

“National handloom expo in Vijayawada”

India

“Anand Subramanian arrested by CBI in NSE co-location case  “

“How Family companies are taken over”

Russia-Ukraine crisis: Here’s what will get more expensive in India

Airlift effort of 20,000 Indian students in Ukraine continues

“From Justin Trudeau and Rana Ayyub to now Ukraine“

Can Stalin keep BJP out of Tamil Nadu?

Pune Metro Inaugurated

Casteism Explained

A high court asked India to appoint a lawyer for death-row prisoner KulbhushanJadhav

Subcontinent

“Western Media’s Racist Coverage”

“India will send 8,000 Tonnes of wheat in March to Afghanistan”

Sri Lanka on ‘Brink of Economic Collapse’

“Pakistan’s ruling Party under attack from Within”

Impeachment motion against CJ Rana registered with consensus of ruling coalition

Asia

“North Korea fires “unidentified projectile,” says South Korea’s military”

“Chinese city of Qingdao reports Omicron outbreak among students”

Chinese Citizens Running out of Food essentials amid harsh covid 19 Curbs

Japan still unable to set nuclear policy direction, 11 years on from disaster

World

“There’s still no accountability.”

” Egyptians have been living off the grid since infancy”

Racism in Ukraine against Africans (and Indians)

 “Geopolitical consequences of Russia-Ukraine confrontation: WWIII

Technocracy: The Operating System For The New International Rules-Based Ord

Consequences of SWIFT exclusion and other Sanctions

Canadian Minister Freeland’s ‘Nazi’ Banner Highlights Ukrainian Right Wing

“Brawl during soccer match in Mexico leaves 22 injured

February 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

Threat of WWIII and Nuclear War facing World??

Canada cracks down on Covid Protests. Hypocrisy??

Time for Citizens to start stocking up on food and water in case of Blackouts/Lockdowns

Bird flu in China, UK, US, and now India

Praveen Sobti known for his role as Bheem in BR Chopra’s Mahabharat passes away

“CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy likely to shift to Visakhapatnam around Ugadi”

Andhra Pradesh: Revenue Deficit Crosses 900% in State

Buddha to sit tall at Dev in Mori

Former Member: RSS discriminates against Dalits

Probe over Crash Death of Punjabi Actor-Activist Deep Sidhu

This person was Vice-President of India

 “Increasing Islamisation of Bangladesh puts Hindus at risk

Balochistan flares up as Pak Army’s death toll rises

Russian forces around #Ukraine on February 18th

“SouthChinaSea or Arunachal Pradesh – #China is using lawfare to expand territory”

“Death toll from severe flooding in Brazil’s Petropolis rises to 78”

Mozambique scrambles to stem a rising tide of drug addiction

Risks of Microwave and microwaving Plastics  

Culture

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar passes away at 92′

Jain City of Fatehpur Sikri

 “Intangible Cultural Heritage Traditions to Celebrate Around the Globe”

Andhra

Centre to establish 6 nuclear reactors in Andhra Pradesh

“Yogi #Vemana’s anniversary celebrated at #Kondaveedu”

“Uttam Reddy, the owner of Rayalaseema Ruchulu opens up”

“Telangana CM KCR has violated his oath of office, which is a matter of concern”

India

Why are Profitable, Strategic PSUs being Sold??

Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship…&rank hypocrisy

Punjab Elections: “Congress government destroyed entire state: Parvinder”

Emerging religiophobia like anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist and anti-Sikh need attention of UN: India

True Story of Galwan clash between India & China

“Rogues can be dressed as Priests”

“Why there’s a sudden surge in international efforts to destabilise Modi government”

AIMIM’s Waris Pathan calling for Genocide of Hindus

“This was one of the most shameful decisions of Supreme Court of #India”

Subcontinent

Hinglaj Mata temple destroyed in Pakistan’s Sindh, 11th such incident in 22

Sri Lanka seeks out India

Nepal Railways between China & India

Asia

“There are signs of unease in China’s domestic politics”

Manchurian resistance against Chinese Communist Party’s occupation

“#Turkey emerging as new #Dubai in anti-India operations: Report”

Economic Meltdown in Lebanon. Rest of world to follow??

World

‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow up world economy

Canadian Military refuses to evict Trucker Health Freedom Convoy

U.S. to Send 3,000 Troops to Europe Amid Ukraine Fears

Will Ukraine Crisis Spark World War III?

German Navy Chief Said What We All Knew

Cost-of-Living Crisis Comes to Life in Expensive Day for Britons

“Will Britain Survive?”

 France closes mosque after ‘unacceptable’ preaching

Burkina Faso President overthrown by Soldiers

Costa Ricans head to polls, largely undecided, as runoff expected

January 2022 News Links

Updated!!!

TDP decries attacks on NTR, Ambedkar statues

Telangana: Arrangements on for Medaram jatara

Temple priest allegedly denies dalits entry to Temple

Kerala Archbishop controversially acquitted in Kerala Nun rape case

“Incidents of pre-poll violence have already rocked Manipur in the past couple of weeks”

“Jamia, Oxfam among thousands of NGOs lose foreign funding permit”

Gujarat Industry lobbies for China imports. Whither nationalism??

Sarabjit Kaur is the new Chandigarh mayor

“Pakistan now infiltrating its Army personnel into India”

“China locks down third city raising affected to 20 million”

Jinping’s fallback on cultural nationalism

Kazakhstan: “Local Politics and Chaos in Almaty”

“Biden on Russia:’If they invade, they’re gonna pay … will not be able to deal with dollars”

“CISA issues cybersecurity alert amid #Ukraine cyberattack.”

British “democracy”: “Royals vetted more than 1,000 laws via Queen’s consent”

“France’s vaccine passport will come into force on Monday, announces PM Castex”

Concerns grow over potential food shortages in Ontario

Greece Bans Halal Slaughter For Being Inhumane

Strike paralyzes Lebanon amid worsening economic conditions

“deadly explosion razes hundreds of buildings in western Ghana”

Culture

Cane Helmet of Arunachal

How Social Media works

Challapalli Fort in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

Andhra

Andhra Pradesh on gem of mission: To launch hunt for diamonds

Cops initiate special drive to curb cockfights

Covid Cases Rise to Across State

India

“Sikh groups laud Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intent, but not happy with ‘Veer Baal’”

Supreme Court agreed to set up probe of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s #securitybreach”

Govt blocked 9,849 social media URLs in 2020

Report & condemn “pages on fb targeting Hindu women”

Casteist Trads Harming Dharma with their Selfish agenda?

“Atrocities on Dalits and tribals up by 70% in Gujarat“

“Twitterati call out Tamil actor Siddharth for ‘sexual innuendo’ against SainaNehwal”

“WhatsApp is reportedly planning to revamp its chat list design in future update”

“12 incredible facts about UP politics “

“Foxconn India iPhone plant to reopen on Wednesday”

Subcontinent

Can India Lead South Asia by Example in 2022?

Mainstream Media finally acknowledging Suffering of Hindus in Pakistan

Sri Lankan lawmaker calls on China’s Xi Jinping to stop its ‘economic invasion”

Nepal: “King to pay tribute to Great King Prithivi Narayan Shah tomorrow

Asia

“North Korea fires a suspected ballistic missile off its east coast”

The Kazakhstan Crisis: A View From Kyrgyzstan

Major Quake in Western China

China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory

30 People Killed in Myanmar’s Kayah State

World

World food prices hit 10-year peak in 2021

” Europe’s healthcare groans under Omicron’s swift spread”

“French parliament approves Macron’s vaccine pass “

“Fentanyl From China Is Killing Americans in Record Numbers”

Tense talks over Ukraine

Britain House of Lords scandal

UK court recognizes Guaidó but Venezuela gold case rolls on

Switzerland to hold referendum on outlawing mandatory vaccinations

Fire at South Africa Parliament

December 2021 News Links

Updated!!!

“Co-op sector sugar mills battle for survival as dues to farmers mount”

“Meal scheme workers union staged a protest alleging harassment from the YSR Congress”

“Sweden…presents an implanted chip that can”conveniently”hold your vaccination status “

“Is amendment to Marriage Act a precursor to Uniform Civil Code?”

Who is Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu?

Upper caste students boycott midday meal cooked by Dalit woman in Uttarakhand”

“Indian math genius Nikhil Srivastava just solved a 62-year-old problem”

” Karnataka Assembly passed the contentious anti-conversion bill”

Pak: “10-year-old Roshni Meghwar, converted to Islam and married to man”

“Manchurian resistance against Chinese Communist Party’s occupation”

“city of Xian in northwest China…with some 13 million residents went into a lockdown”

“Japan’s Tepco to build underwater tunnel for Fukushima water release”

“on the emergence of a New World Order”

Rothschilds Sell Last Piece of Austrian Empire After 200 Years

“Over 100 dead after attacks in Mali, Niger”

“More than 3000 flights delayed worldwide as airlines cite COVID-19 staffing issues”

“laws will give Australian courts the power to order social media giants to identify trolls”

Culture

Sirivennela Passes away

 (AIR) should continue to promote arts & culture: Dr Annavarapu

“Etikoppaka craftsmen in limbo after bar on transport of wood”

Andhra Palm Leaf Products

Andhra

Why are Farmers suffering?

#AndhraPradesh | More than 30 people have died due to the floods so far

“AP High Court Begins Fresh Hearing of Three Capitals Case”

“18 villages evacuated as #Rayalacheruvu develops fissures”

India

“India now has 1,020 women for every 1000 men”

Omicron variant now in India

India is only 24% vaccinated”. Why resilience after Delta variant?

“It’s politics not science”

The real reason for the Farm Laws

“4th gen warfare: Non state actors have made civil society new frontier of war”

Twitter’s new CEO

“India-Russia to ink several pacts”

Subcontinent

“India to supply 20% more power to Bangladesh”

“@yogrishiramdev’s launch of TV channels in Nepal faces opposition”

Extremist Pak mob burns a Sri Lankan factory manager to death

“Rajapaksa has blamed the previous government for destroying national security”

Asia

“3 injured as Myanmar soldiers ram car into protest”

“Indonesia volcanic eruption: Smoldering debris from Semeru”

“Project of One Belt One Road One Debt”

“”some irresponsible nations” with.. hegemonic tendencies are coming up  “

World

WWIII in the offing on Ukraine border?

Australia decouples from China

Traditional Indigenous American Food

New laws force social media giants to unmask trolls

Living with Less Plastic

“Microchip Containing Your Vaccine Passport Info Can Now Be Embedded In Your Hand”

“Egypt Set To Unveil 3,000-year-old Avenue Of Sphinxes To The World“

Racial Bias in Britain

Flying cars in 2024? This tech CEO says it’s commercially possible

November 2021 News Links

Culture

Hand-knitted Eluru Carpets of Andhra

How history is manufactured

“Kartheekasomavaram- huge rush of devotees at #Srisailam in #Kurnool “

WWIII in the offing??

Andhra

Why are orthodox archakas allying with CM Jagan?

“TDP bags five out of eight wards in #AndhraPradesh’s #Prakasam district

“Tension Erupts in Amaravati Farmers Padayatra in Prakasam”

“#Yogi Vemana #University professor ranked among top 2 per cent #scientists “

India

“TRS workers throw eggs at BJP leader’s convoy in Telangana”

“In this vicious and toxic game of majority communalism vs minority communalism”

Bird Flu in Rajasthan

“Rajasthan foray: Owaisi’s AIMIM takes another step towards going national”

“#Punjab: Job quota not viable, will oppose move, says industry “

“#Haryana brings back ’95 order on OBC creamy layer”

“Election Commission gets application for Capt Amarinder Singh’s party”

“Ahmedabad 4th Gujarat city to push non-veg food carts off main roads”

Purvanchal Highway Inaugurated

Android Malware on 23 Apps

Historic Rains continue in Tamil Nadu and Kerala

Subcontinent

“BJP has fulfilled its resolution of providing citizenship to Hindu, Parsi, Sikh, Christian”

“Sri Lankan president’s excessive reliance on the military to govern”

” Nepal Army Chief General Prabhu Ram Sharma, on his 4-day visit to India “

Pakistan blocks Afghanistan food shipment from India

“Bangladesh cricket fans not impressed as Pakistan players carry national flag to training ground”

Asia

“CHINA-INDIA BORDER…risk of renewed border skirmishing, if not outright war, is increasing”

“The son of late Philippines strongman Ferdinand Marcos has emerged “

“Kishida Places Japan’s Business Interests at the Forefront of Climate Policy”

Taskent moves towards Eurasian Union

World

“The World is fed up with China’s Belligerence”

“Tens of thousands protest in #Melbourne against new pandemic law”

“Two explosions rock Ugandan capital Kampala”

Ethiopia capital about to fall??

“Malign corporate influence in politics is an existential threat to American democracy”

Quebec and France cancelling cancel culture

Landslide’s in Western Canada

October 2021 News Links

Culture

“Canada -America Telugu Literature Conference Held Virtually”

“Hindutwa is not Hinduism “

“God is Owner of Temple Land, Not Priest-Supreme Court”

Andhra

“Telangana is seeing an increase in violent clashes between tribals & forest officials”

“Vijayawada-based shell company used as front to smuggle Rs 20K crore…heroin”

“Bay turns cyclone hotbed as AP sees 60 storms in 50 yrs”

“No justice for women under Disha or Nirbhaya, alleges Lokesh”

“‘Iron Lady of Telangana'”

“YS Viveka murder case: CBI arrests yet another key accused in the case “

India

“Lakhimpur Kheri incident: Retired HC judge-led Commission of Enquiry”

“Owaisi booked for hate speech in Uttar Pradesh “

‘RSS taking Hindus on path of destruction’

India’s Asset Monetisation Programme considered overbold

“why farmers suffer”

“Over 50pc agricultural families in debt with average loan of Rs 74,121 in 2019: Survey”

“Petrol and Diesel prices across the country soared to all-time high levels “

“125 years after Swami Vivekananda called Kerala ‘lunatic asylum'” of caste

“Chinese PLA in Uttarakhand’s Barahoti, returns after damaging bridge”

Subcontinent

“Civic group marches in Kathmandu to demand amendments to constitution”

“Innocent civilians, not extremists, were killed in Aug. 29 U.S. drone strike”

“Pakistan pushing communalism on the global stage”

“20 killed, over 300 injured in earthquake in Pakistan’s Balochistan province”

“Adani Group…to build a container terminal at the strategic Colombo port.”

Asia

“The fortune of the richest two Lebanese families exceeds half of Lebanon’s GDP”

Japan’s New Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida

“North Korea said that a US-Australia submarine deal…could cause an “arms race.”

“China’s Belt and Road Initiative…is leaving a bad taste with the locals”

World

Global Supply Chain Crisis is Here

“Power outages in Puerto Rico have surged in recent weeks”

“Bavarian…Court, declares 2020 pandemic curfews retroactively unconstitutional”

“Social Democrats have won the biggest share of the vote in Germany’s national election”

” 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse”

“80 alleged cases of sex abuse during the U.N. health agency’s response to…Congo.”

“Europe’s energy crisis deepens”

“Even the rich think it will take a ‘miracle’ to retire.”

“The world’s 25 richest families are now worth $1.7 trillion, a 22% increase”

We Consume 5 gms of plastic a week…

September 2021 News Links

Updated!!!

“Thotlakonda heritage site in #Vizag: Activists welcome #HC order 

“Telangana Liberation Day: All you need to the evolution of this day”

“Janasena chief  PawanKalyan to visit #VizagUkku protest site 

“AP, Karnataka, Telangana usher in world of…caste politics”

“Tilak’s Arctic theory”

“Why bitcoin is unlikely to get the nod in India”

“‘Love and narcotic jihad’ remarks by Pala Bishop Joseph”

“CHARANJITCHANNI to be #Punjab’s first Dalit CM “

“Why are farmers disappointed with Rabi MSP announcement?”

“CM urges PM to provide humanitarian assistance to Myanmar nat’ls coming to Mizoram”

” ‘e-Ravans’ with training and money are sitting on social media”

“Afghan Sikh, Hindu families living in Amritsar still awaiting Indian citizenship”

“Ward described how a member of her CNN crew was nearly pistol-whipped by a Taliban”

“IMF chief accused of altering #WorldBank report in #China’s favour”

“High prices on household durables lead to worst buying conditions since 1980”

IQ is Over-rated: “A Harvard psychologist says humans have 8 types of intelligence”

Mass Evacuation at Canary Islands following Volcano Eruption

“panel rejected a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans. “

“Thousands of Haitian migrants have assembled near a bridge in a small Texas border “

Culture

Renewed efforts to promote Telugu

“Man on mission to make rural Telangana cuisine popular”

“Empowering entrepreneurship & self-employment of artisans”

“Ganesh Idol Makers Struggle at Anantapur”

“Crafts of India – An ode to Bhuj”

Andhra

Why did the Tirupati ‘orthodox’ priest call AP’s evangelical CM ‘Vishnu avatar’?

“farmers dump veggies as sign of protest”

Andhra Pradesh Faces Debt Burden of Rs.79,191 Crore | CAG Report

“Kakatiya inscription found in Prakasam”

“Youth account for majority of suicides in Vizianagaram”

India

“Kisan mahapanchayat sees thousands gather: ‘Govt selling out to corporates”

Nipah victim’s contact list extends to 188 persons

Mountbatten diaries blocked. Cui Bono?

Infosys : “IT firm was in cahoots with “anti-national forces””

“India’s national security challenges becoming complex, says Rajnath Singh”

“Will India soon have its own Central Bank Digital Currency?”

” Uttar Pradesh writing new story of development: CM Yogi Adityanath

Nation’s best ever showing at 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

Subcontinent

Sri Lanka food and forex crisis”

Food Shortages Loom in parts of Nepal as well. Other countries to follow?

Nepal: “More than half of Salyan district still without electricity”

“Future of Tourism in Bhutan”

UN Petition for Hindu Human Rights in AfPak & BD

“Taliban have returned…Far from a victory, that could ultimately be a setback for Pakistan.”

“The Taliban’s top political leader has returned to Afghanistan after 20 years in exile”

Asia

“Thai Leader Survives No-Confidence Motion, but Political Liabilities Remain”

China’s cultural genocide of Tibet continues

“Cambodian court has sentenced a prominent labor union leader… to two years in prison”

Japanese PM Suga resigns. New leadership in the offing

“Lebanon: Almost three-quarters of the population living in poverty”

World

“‘Human toll was tremendous’: Ida’s death count rises”

More than 2100 people died in Haiti Earthquake

“Guinea’s new military rulers aimed to tighten their grip on power”

Australia and China levy tariffs on each other

Paris paralyzed as 1000s protest against COVID health passes-200 Protests Across France

“court in Belarus has sentenced two leading opposition activists to lengthy prison terms”

“Tunisia’s powerful union calls to change political system”

Big Tech VS The State

“The biometric trap “

August 2021 News Links

Updated!!!

Lepakshi temple frontrunner to get Unesco heritage tag

Outcry as 20 Cows die in 30 days at Simhachalam Temple

Kalamkari, the trademark art of #AndhraPradesh

Rao alleged that it was a conspiracy by BJP govt to weaken their agitation” for Vizag Steel

Law & Order in UP coloured by political Casteism

“India proves Critics Wrong on Kashmir”

Over 40 feared buried under debris in Kinnaur landslide

Sri Lanka Raises Interest Rates

Nepal seeks India’s help to conduct flight test at Bhairahawa

Pak Hindu girl “Reena Meghwar, saying; “I want to go to my home

Kabul falls again to Taliban. Thousands evacuated, many still waiting

China’s crackdown on religion

Chinese media calls online gaming ‘spiritual opium’

How Australia’s COVID Policy Backfired

Active Wildfires in Western Canada and US

[B]usinesses are suing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio & the city over its vaccine mandate”

Chaos erupts in the Italian parliament over new “Green Pass” rules

The death toll from a massive earthquake in Haiti soars past 2,000.

5g and ostensible health risks

Culture

23-year-old Durga’s passion for Kuchipudi

“How Yakshagana is adapting to modern times”

“The conservative challenge to Hindutva”

Keeping brain active may delay dementia #Dementia #Alzheimer

Andhra

PV Sindhu Medals again at Olympics

Visakhapatnam: Eruvaka Purnima festival celebrated with fervour

Chenchu tribe members attacked over Land Dispute

Murder case of Jagan’s Uncle continues to raise questions

#Visakhapatnam Steel Plant workers’ Delhi dharna evokes enormous response

India

Ladakh Border Build Up Update

India’s new e-Rupi Cashless System & Implications

Pastor George Ponniah arrested in TN for creating communal unrest, threatening Hindus

“Casteist” RSS shows its true face

Fake case filed against Nambi Narayanan at behest of ISI to stall ISRO’s cryogenic engine

Farmers should be Wary of Fake Seeds

Water of death: how arsenic is poisoning rural communities in India

India Men’s Team wins first Olympic Hockey Medal in 40 Years

Subcontinent

“ImranKhan‘s official residence has been put up for rent…severe #financialcrisis” in Pak

Each year 1000 Sindhi Hindu minority girls in Pakistan kidnapped, forced to convert

Sri Lanka’s democracy in Decline

Asia

Tokyo logs 5,042 new daily coronavirus cases, an all-time high as infections surge in the capital hosting the Games.

The Collapse of Malaysia’s Middle Class

Wuhan “The lab-leak hypothesis has gained credence, sending a disquieting signal to China

Military Build Up in South China Seas

Israel has escalated its response to rockets fired from Lebanon

Wildfires plague Turkey

World

“‘Things are going to get worse’, warns Dr Anthony Fauci”

France mandates COVID Passport

Public, private vaccine requirements threaten to create back-door mandate

Ammunition shelves bare as U.S. gun sales continue to soar

Mexico’s president says he will call on the National Guard to protect gas delivery trucks

Zoom’s $115 million dollar Settlement for Violating User Privacy

“Why it seems like everyone hates the English abroad”

“Jeff Bezos’ joyride to space and back”

Thick cloud of Smoke surrounds Parthenon in Greece

Sydney suffers deadliest day of pandemic as lockdown nears seventh week

July 2021 News Links

Updated!!!

Food shortages coming?

Co-Founder: “Nobody should trust Wikipedia”

“Donations for cause of Telugu culture”

Guntur Sainik attains Veergathi

Telugu Akademi to Telugu Sanskrit Academy

“#Pakistan government seals the Gurdwara Shaheed Bhai Taru Singh amid a land dispute.”

On eve of Tokyo Olympics, first Covid Positive Athletes announced

“Chinese hydropower dams along #Mekong cause severe damage…affect…millions”

Costs of corporate governance in South Africa

Terrible riots in South Africa. Many ethnic Indians affected

“Thousands of people marched around France to protest mandatory vaccinations”

“Ocean on fire in #GulfofMexico, flames erupt due to #gasleak near Pemex Oil Platform”

“30,000 missing Indigenous children might be in…graves at Catholic schools in Canada”

Devastating Floods in Germany

Passing of famous Anti-Virus creator under cloud

Culture

TANA Patrika June 2021

Pan-Indian biggie #RRR sticking to…theatrical release date, October 13th.

Dance India @ 75

Bharatanatyam and its impact

14th Century Deep Well found at Kondaveedu

“Meritocracy possible in world of Expensive Private Schools & Elite Networks?”

Andhra

Telugu Girl to go to Space

#Telangana illegally drawing water from #Srisailam

Illegal Immigrants from Bangladesh sneaking into Andhra

Andhra #farmers suffer heavy losses as #lemon prices plummet

Home ministry refers rebel MP Kanumuri Raghurama Krishnam Raju’s complaint

Telangana plants 1 million saplings in Adilabad district

India

“Why Are Indians So Angry at Bill Gates?

Complaint against Twitter MD for spreading ‘communal hatred’

Open Network for Digital Commerce aimed at preventing digital monopolies

The President has cleared key appointments, 8 states get new governors.

Rural India sinks deeper into debt as Covid-19 wipes out work

War in Punjab Congress Party

Beware Covid Testing Scams

Drone Attacks on Military Installation Rattle India’s Security Establishment

India to evacuate nationals from Afghanistan as security situation worsens

Subcontinent

Bagram evacuated without a whisper

Forced conversions of Sindhi Hindu girls Continues in Pakistan unabated

Largest Hydropower station in Nepal commences operation

Nepal political crisis continues

Restrictions on Lank forex Extended

Asia

PM Modi greets Dalai Lama on his 86th birthday

“Japan Mudslide: Death toll rises to three as…80 people still remain unaccounted”

“Brief History of UFOs in Japan”

China as a digital authoritarian regime, and Taiwan as a digital democracy.

Duterte’s pivot to China yet to deliver promised billions

Russia backs ASEAN plan on tackling Myanmar crisis

Lebanon is ‘days away’ from social explosion, PM Diab warns

World

Delta variant…in 96 countries; will become dominant in coming months –@WHO

How Media & Fashion dictate beauty & self-image

South Africa ex-President Zuma facing Arrest for corruption

35 per cent of Australians say the population is getting too big for the country to handle

Native Tribe “Genocide” in Canada

EU says will step up legal action if UK does not respect agreement

Risks linked to UK’s $2.8 trillion debt mountain are growing

German security officials announced more than 750 arrests and the seizure of… drugs

Miami Condo Collapse toll continues to increase

June 2021 News Links

Updated!!!

“HC expresses displeasure over ‘inadequate’ supply of black fungus medicine to Andhra”

TeluguOne’s Telugu Grandhaalayam

India Archives declassification

“Turkey-Pakistan nexus…working to create disturbances in Afghanistan & Kashmir”

Report on Tigray: 350,000 face famine

Anti-Government Protests continue in Colombia

Piratical British Navy driven out of Russian waters with Warning

Second site for Mass Graves of Indigenous Tribe 751 Infants, etc found in Canada. Genocide?

Farm Subsidies deal in Europe…but no MSP for India farmers is reform??

Bill Gates now the Largest farmland owner in America with 250,000 acres

Horrifying Human Zoos of the Western World

Culture

Inflation skyrocketing in pandemic era

How to Think Clearly

Literary guru on AIR Vijayawada

Bammera Pothana Digital Museum with bilingual content in Telugu & English

“It’s Time to Break Up the Ivy League Cartel”

Andhra

Doctor has set an example by performing last rites of a poor man who died of #COVID19

Fire broke in a newly constructed block at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited in Vizag

Amaravati capital shift protests continue due to indebted Farmers

India

Significance of this Year’s Eclipse

Targeting to control illegal cattle trade

India and Kuwait have signed an MoU that brings Indian domestic workers

The Supreme Ct ordered postponement of the AIIMS’  Entrance Test-INICET exams, by a month

Asia

Should the Tokyo Olympics go ahead?

Boten: the Renaissance of Laos’s Golden City

#China has passed a new legislation that bans #defamation of military

The Withdrawal from Afghanistan by US and Allied Forces

Kazakhstan: Please Don’t ‘Politicize’ the Eurasian Economic Union

Iran sends warships to Atlantic amid Venezuela concerns

World

In Tigray, food is often a weapon of war as famine looms

AMLO & Mexican Elections

The New American Aristocracy

A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You

What we can learn from Australia’s Sikh Community

September 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

Amaravati, the city with dedicated areas starts shaping up

Navaratri Festival 2017 at Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh from 21st to 30th September 2017

“Corporatisation of Garba “

President Kovind: Respect Regional Languages

“How a Bihari lost his mother tongue to Hindi”

Priorities for RM

Maharashtra to Go Completely Cashless

Real nature of self-appointed language saviours

“In Gurugram, cattle mafia shoots at British NRI woman trying to stop smuggling

“Gender justice and the Feminazi”

“Report on how Assam has been overrun by Bangladeshi immigrants”

The Case against Rohingya asylum

Rohingyas ask for asylum in India while Rohingyas persecute Hindus in Myanmar

Lashkar radicalizing Rohingyas

Article for India’s “New Generation” Technophiles

India and Japan, Modi & Abe’s Big Plan

Risks of Himalayan War Between Indian and China (and Pakistan) Rising

 “Pakistan gets 1st Chinese as deputy MD of its Stock exchange”

Local Indian Community helps with Houston Flood Relief

Aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Florida. More Hurricanes headed to US

225 killed in 7.1 Mexican Earthquake. More to Come around the World?

“The Importance of Having a Liberal Arts Major”

Culture

First 3D Sanskrit Film will be Released

“Sanskrit is mother of all languages”

Bhavana Reddy in Bhama Kalapam

Desaj, A Festival celebrating the Diverse Cultural Traditions of Bharat, 11-13 Sep 2017

“Durgadas Rathod: An embodiment of valour”

“On Akshay Kumar’s 50th birthday, here’s how this outsider continues to make it big”

These are days of formula films: K. Viswanath

Rishikesh

Andhra

Jalayagnam: YSR’s Rs 90,000 crore let’s-all-loot scam

TDP wins Nandyal Bypoll

Telangana

“Telangana sets up first school for Rohingya Refugees”

TS to recruit 2,000 forest staff

ISB pooling talent to improve quality

Andhra Pradesh

Nellore Nuclear reactors scheduled for Construction at Kavali.KG gas better option?

Minor Dalit Girl Raped by Christian Pastor in Chittoor, AP”

Andhra Pradesh gets largest share of affordable houses sanctioned by govt

India

“Army plans to induct women into military police”

“Taxmen to snoop on Social Media sites to trace Black Money”

 Why more Indians are retiring poor and in Debt

TimesNow news channel on attempts by jamaatis to coercively convert Hindu girls

Why is India “to house the very Rohingya terrorists who are killing Hindus in Myanmar”?

“Kerala Govt to Takeover More Than 1000 Temples in Malabar”

Meghalaya Tribals protest persecution of their faith by Christian Evangelicals

Stay away from “Blue Whale”!

Asia

“What Bhutan can teach the world about the benefit of having 1 cow per 25 acres “

Nepal Elections in 2 Phases

Sri Lanka’s “Firebrand Monk”

 “Bangladesh plans to move reluctant Rohingya Muslims to remote island”

“US Shuts Pakistan’s Habib Bank Over Terror Financing Concerns…Sharia Banking Risks”

“Rohingya attack Hindus in Rakhine Myanmar.” At least 7 killed

 “China to ban sale of fossil fuel cars”

“China doesn’t have a national army; rather the party has an army”

 Japan recognises Ainu as Indigenous People for the First Time

Japan the most Pessimistic of 4 Asian Democracies

Iraqi parliament rejects Iraqi Kurdish referendum: lawmakers

World

“Don’t Be Scared About The End Of Capitalism”

“Remember the debilitating crisis of 2008? Something scarier is heading your way”

Brexit law passes hurdle in reprieve for British PM May

In volatile Kenya, MP and former senator detained

Mexico’s strongest earthquake in a century

Cities of the 21st Century will be Defined by Water

 Houston Hurricane Flood Disaster

Irma, Jose and Katia: The Three Major Storms in the Atlantic

In Florida, 7.4 million without power

“How your brain decides what is beautiful”

August 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

Srimad Bhagvatam with Commentary

Krishna flute Music by Hariprasad Chaurasia

P.V.R.K.Prasad Passes Away

Sufism and Khusro summed up

North East India Indigenous Groups Conference

“Colonel Purohit’s Case-Did UPA Manufacture Political Conspiracy Of ‘Hindu Terror’?”

“Lenovo Caught (3rd Time) Pre-Installing Spyware on its Laptops”

China denying required Hydrological Data to India. Assam Floods?

Risk of Himalayan War rising between India and China

“Govt fears Chinese phonemakers may be stealing info, sends them notice”

Cambodia kicks out meddling NGO

Hurricane Harvey strengthens, threatens US with most powerful storm in 12 years

The BRICS Are Beginning to Crumble

“Can Anything Stop Rural Decline?”

Row between Macedonia and Serbia

Culture

Baahubali signals a revolt against Cultural Marxism in Indian cinema

Telugu Charms its Way

No Beef in Vedas!

 “Composite culture”

“Cultural Appropriation of Holi by Hipsters”

“Hindi beats Mandarin comfortably as the most spoken language globally.”

Bengaluru micro-brew adds Ragi

Chennai Art Festival

Learning history as fact, and not fiction

Andhra

A Literary Colossus

ABCD of Telugu Cinema

TTD’s ‘Pothana Bhagavatham’ book

Telangana

Telangana moves to total segregation. First Dalit only University

Was Nizam really Secular?

Khammam gets Highest Rainfall in Telangana

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Assembly to be in shape of Kohinoor Diamond

Venkaiah Naidu: A South Indian Who Loves Hindi

Andhra Pradesh Rice to tackle Kerala crisis

India

Venkaiah Naidu elected VP of India

Supreme Court denies Justice to Kashmiri Pandits

BJP to alter 35A on Permanent Residents in J&K

 “Panel examines inclusion of Tulu, Kodava in Eighth Schedule: Kiran Rijju”

 “Who is Tanuji Malusare?”

Neem works its magic on urea

India’s nuclear power promise is fading

Homegrown Nuclear Power for India

Why Indian business leaders are soon likely to find themselves at the edge of ruin

India’s farmers spending more than they Earn

“India’s Groundwater crisis”

“Nun faces arrest for child trafficking, abuse and conversion racket in orphanage”

Asia

China Ready for ‘War’ With India

PRC Propaganda & Mendacity coming to Light

A Mountain of Debt: Is China’s Economy Going To Crash?

“North Korea’s 2nd ICBM test puts much of US in range: Experts “

Plight of the Pakistani Hindu

 “Can Nepal be another Switzerland?”

Sri Lanka gives majority stake in Hambantota port to China

Indo-Japanese North South Trade Corridor

World

 Venezuela: This Is What Life Is Really Like In A Post-Collapse Society

In Kenya, an Electorate Divided by Tribe

The False Idol of Modern Sports in America

Plight of the Indigenous Canadian

British Empire’s Dirty Secrets covered up

Ukrainian women trafficked as brides

 “Microchip implants for employees”

Laser Weapons a Reality

Prudence: Calculated & Wise Risk Taking

July 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

Ram Nath Kovind will be India’s next President, garners over 7 lakh votes

Qualities that make one Divine

“Water Crisis looms over Telangana”

“Appropriation of Hindu Culture”

Cultures being erased in the name of Global Monoculture

Temple Priest attacked in Haryana by Razakars

Letter from a Hindu Girl

10 self defence key points

From farmer’s son to President, Ram Nath Kovind’s story is Dalit empowerment

“Truth beyond the Brotherhood”

India’s consumer caste  

“20 million Bangladeshis are reliably estimated to have slipped into the country”

Ladakh’s Sonam Wangchuk

“Future Wars will be Complex”

“China ready to attack India, claims Mulayam in Lok Sabha“

China’s Bhutan Land grab aimed at Bigger Target

Gilgit-Baltistan: Part of POK Forgotten by India

How Iran capitalizes on its Culture

Grenfell Tower: A Symbol of Broken Britain

“The First Reversal of Urbanization”

New Natural Meat Substitute: “Jackfruit is the new Kale”

The Limits of “Science as Basis for Truth”

On the impact of Elite self-selection and Cultural Capital on Education

Culture

BHU Literary Festival

Harappa Curry same as Modern Curry

Students taught in Mother Tongue perform Better at Primary School Level

 “Telugu cinema gradually taking over mainstream Bollywood films in terms of business”

“There is an absence of India in Indian discourse”

Saathi: Healthcare startup makes biodegradable pads from banana fiber

The Case against Sugar

“#SavitriShaming and how drinking harms women”

Cultural Marxism

Andhra

Telangana

“M Kodandaram is acting like a Congress agent and implementing its agenda”:TRS

Bonalu Festival Celebrated

Osmania General Hospital drains spew biomedical toxins into River Musi

Andhra Pradesh

 “World’s Biggest Solar Power Plants. Kurnool Ultra Mega Solar Park 1000 MW at top”

Sand Mafia ruling the Coast

AP Secretariat to get a Vastu gate

India

How a farmer’s son took to the badminton court and emerged champion

“Once Walked Door-to-Door Selling Coal Now Moves in Convoy of Audi & Mercedes”

100 Days of CM Yogi in UP

Rohingyas being settled in Jammu and other Parts of India

Communal Violence breaks out Again in West Bengal. Mamta under scanner

“Indian Pak spy who implicated other Indian army officers confess his guilt & wrong doing”

It’s time India use Trade against China

Theft in Sri Padmanabha Swami Temple

Indian Nurse from Karnataka pushed in to Saudi slavery

Asia

Israel, India sign seven agreements across sectors

Bangladeshi remittances home total nearly $13 bn

Bhutan slams China on PLA Border Violation and Road Construction

Obscuring its aggression against Bhutan, China has conflated 3 issues to focus on India

Sindhi Hindu Protests against Pak

Jamaati Radicalism increasing in Maldives Tourist Haven

“Portuguese ruined Jaffna”

Sri Lanka government to go ahead with drafting Constitution enabling autonomy to Tamils

“Iran Guards chief calls Saudi ‘terrorist state'”

Qatar, isolated by neighbours, plans gas output boost

Conflict Brewing in South China Sea

World

Joint Statement from meeting of President Trump and Prime Minister Modi

US warns China on trade with NKorea if it wants US trade

Lungu invokes emergency powers in Zambia after market blaze

History of Slavery in Australia

Pro-government militia storm Venezuela congress, injuring lawmakers

Mexican gang war reportedly kills 26

“Why Steve Jobs didn’t let his kids use iPads”

Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion

June 2017 News Links

Srikanth Kidambi wins Indonesian Open

Venerating the Cow

Odisha’s Raja Parba Festival

“modern girls”

“Mother My Tongue”…a Return to the Kashmiri Language

“Haryana may start Telugu courses for children of Telangana migrants”

Why Goddess Kali Dances on Shiva

GST Basics

Why Outsourcing Prospects to Get worse in Coming years

“How Indian women are trafficked to Saudi Arabia and exploited as sex slaves.”

China’s Military Looks to Future “Intelligentized” Warfare

Mini-Grids for Africa & Asia?

Egypt Is Falling Apart. Will It Explode?

Syrian Air Force Jet downed

Irish Face Up to Brexit Talks With Prime Minister of Indian descent

The U.K. Inches Toward a Security State

“not just the country’s economy&political system that are sick, but society itself”

Evidence Based Psychiatry

Is tipping a hoax?

Fossil Fuels are now “Legacy”

Culture

‘Ancient Indian knowledge taken out, plagiarized’

The lost Sanskrit treasures of Tibet

“Don’t use caste to erase Indian Civilization”

The Biggest Indian Movie isn’t from Bollywood

IIT Kanpur chooses Indian-wear for Convocation

Kadapa Kaaram dosa

Andhra

UPSC Third Ranker wrote Papers in Telugu

Telangana

“No Helmet rule takes new Turn in Hyderabad”

‘Divine dream’ triggers excavation on national highway

Emphasizing the Environment in Telangana

Andhra Pradesh

Adani set to finalise Bhavanapadu port deal

CBN: ‘Congress Must Apologise to People’

Village in the middle of the City

India

NDTV Case-Against Freedom or Against Fraud?

India cancels plan for coal plants as solar at record lows

Why India went Nuclear

Pro-Khalistan slogans raised in Golden Temple complex

UPSC Topper from Kannada Medium

Acute Water Scarcity in parts of Odisha

 AMU & Secular Hypocrites

Foreign Expertise & India’s Jets

“Coolest Geeks in India”

Asia

Nepal’s Ex-Maoist Child Soldier Shares Plight of His 3,000 Peers

Colombo-Kashi Flight supported by Sri Lanka

Attacks continue in Kabul

China gets its own Nalanda

PRC’s Road Initiative ‘like a Colonial Enterprise’

‘A Liberal Triumphs in South Korea: Who Is Moon Jae-in?’

Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates cut diplomatic ties with Qatar

World

Gold Surges, Global Stocks Slide As “Super Thursday” Risks Loom

“Trump Understands That ‘The West’ Is Broken”

“Understanding the h1-b visa”

Silicon Valley in Rural America?

“Are the UK Polls Skewed?”

Gentleman’s Agreement in Nigeria

Intervention in Venezuela?

“Armageddon Approaches”

Blockchain the new Linux? Or something else?

Stephen Hawking: ‘Greed and Stupidity is what will End the Human Race’

The Incompetence Doctrine

“researchers reprogram genetic code to create digital circuitry inside living cells”

May 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

The real meaning of being a Brahmin

“Sri Ramanuja: The Great Integrator”

Mother Tongue or English? What should be the Language of Education?

IIT Kharagpur to start ‘Vastu Shastra’ classes for architecture students

Singapura brings home Sanskrit’s wide influence

Telangana government to tap water from 3 rivulets

Pollution levels high around pharma hub in Visakhapatnam

“KT IAS officer who was killed mysteriously was going to expose massive scam in food”

Five Families from Kerala join ISIS

India Headhunters: 200,000 Engineers to be laid off Annually for Next 3 years

Nepal PM Prachanda resigns

India & Japan pushback against OBOR

“Slave Husbands of Hong Kong”

Border heats up

“Survey Shows A Majority Of European Youth Would Participate In Uprising”

Blockchain consortium raises 107 Million

“8 Reasons to deactivate your Facebook Account”

Spiritual Crisis, Modern Economy

“What Nassim Taleb Can Teach Us”

Culture

“536 million users to log onto the Internet in Indian languages by 2021”

Baahubali Facts via Video

Ramanujacharya’s 1000th Birth Anniversary

“Influence of Indian Music on Jazz”

“Current Conflict is between Global and Local”

“Mahakali aids the process by destroying the recalcitrant & untransformable”

Indians mocked for charcoal as tooth powder by the very same ppl who are using it today

“Why Paranjape Is Wrong”

Andhra

Baahubali crosses 300 crores in 3 Days!

Telangana

Remarkable Document on PV Narasimha Rao

“horror story from Saudi Arabia: Hyderabad woman sold…for Rs 3 lakh, faces torture

Telangana : State Funding Of Religious Instruction

Andhra Pradesh

AP Government harming Telugu by Making English Medium Mandatory?

“Rayalaseema poised for Solar Energy Revolution”

Andhra Pradesh Tourism Video

India

“Be ready for war: Indian Air Force chief to commanders”

Merits of Millet

“Kerala fertile ground for Love Jihad & ISIS”

Pak-sponsored Khalistani atrocities

Centre “promoting Hindi, not imposing it”

The Story of Aadhar

What students are really learning at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)

10 Things to Do when you are in Imphal

‘Why the India US nuclear deal is turning out to be a dud’

Mixed record of Moneylenders

Plight of Indian Farmers

Asia

How Bangladeshi Hindus are treated

Turkmenistan’s Ongoing Gas Quandary

“Concern over New Security Law in Japan”

Japan “reverse-engineering itself” out of existence

Exploitation of Nepal

Nepal and China Conclude Military Drills

Sino-Russian Cooperation on North Korea

World

Sub-Prime 2.0: Is This The Needle That Will Burst the Bubble?

“War between US & China a practical Reality”

Largest Gold Mine Ever?

“A Decade of Economic Destruction”

 

“Climate change pronouncements by Nostradamuses of science”

Macron: European Union Must Reform or Face Possible ‘Frexit’

“Gambia Faces a Severe Task”

How the Like Button ruined Facebook

How to keep an Introvert at Work

Are you an Extrovert-Introvert?

Oxford Comma Case: Why Punctuation Matters

April 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

Telangana’s expanded Reservations “not grounded in facts”

“Millets win-win option for the farmers and consumers”

Protecting and preserving native games

“Ajmer blast: Clean chit for Sadhvi Pragya, Indresh Kumar”

Small-scale Organic farming the best way to feed the World

Karnataka Dry Summer without Monsoon

Ban against Cow slaughter: Need for a Constitutional Mandate

Actor Abhay Deol roasts SRK & co for fairness cream ads

How Indian scientists detect Solar Storms

“Solar flare spewing from mega hole in the Sun could cause blackout mayhem”

“Is your Job Robot-ready?”

Japan’s labor shortage imperils economic growth

Sri Lanka to offer India port development opportunity

“Nuclear Power’s Original Mistake”

“Rainwater storage can ease local water shortages”

Thousands of fish found dead in Rewalsar lake in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh

Harvard Psychologist: “ADHD largely a Fraud”

“Pharmaceutical giant planned to destroy stocks of cancer drugs to force price hike”

Medieval London was Disgusting

“Reasons to Deactivate Facebook”

“Companies start implanting microchips into workers’ bodies”  

Culture

Swadeshi Indology

“How harmful is Ajinomoto?”

“Sri Ramayana, Epic as a Poetry”

“I, Krishnadevaraya”-“An Emperor smitten”

On Kalidasa’s Meghaduta

Carnatic Classical Instruments

Why Dharmic Vegetarian is better for you than Western “Vegan”

Why Sastras advise taking cold showers

Andhra

Telugu Diaspora in South East Asia

Heat waves in Telangana & AP more likely

Telangana

“Food grains bonanza in Telangana”

Telugu Desam to mobilise ‘anti-KCR’ forces, says it is main rival

“Hyderabad: Biometric attendance devices spark fights”

Andhra Pradesh

“Say no to Westinghouse”

New canyon system close to Kovvada

Tenali’s Organic Corn

India

“Non-bailable warrant” against Madhu Kishwar at behest of“Pro-secessionist journalist”

“Akshay Kumar’s idea gets life: Donation portal for [armed forces] martyrs”

The Yogi of Uttar Pradesh

CBI proble against Leela Samson for Kalaakshetra irregularities

“Why Indian ‘intellectuals’ seem to hate native Indic culture”

Dhoni’s Aadhar info Leaked

Aadhar Secure for Citizens?

H1B Applications Cap Reached

Assam to make Sanskrit mandatory

North East India’s most Scenic Village

Rohingyas in Jammu set off Alarm Bells

40,000 Rohingya entered India illegally, “being trained as terrorists: MP”

“Portuguese India & Mughal Relations” claims Jodhabai was in fact a Portuguese woman

“a cultural centre highlighting Maharashtra’s culture and pride should be built.”

Author says, enough of Foreign Saviours

Soviet spooks in 80s India

Asia

“Migrant workers exploited en route to Arab Gulf”

Nepal Govt withdraws Constitutional Amendment

Truth Commission to be Setup in Lanka

Bangladesh PM Gets Warm Welcome in India

“New Cold War Politics in Afghanistan”

“China’s high-speed rail vision“

“War with China a Practical Reality”

Russia warns of Serious Consequences for Syria Strike

“North Korea Lashes out at US Fleet Move”

Japan to Counter-act N.Korea

“Vietnam’s Left Behind Urban Migrants”

World’s Tallest Solar Tower in Israel

Brazil & Indonesia sign Defense Pact

World

Global Debt now 215 Trillion Dollars

The Degree that Rules Britain

“Corruption costs EU ‘up to €990 billion a year'”

“Break up the Liberal City”

Book that predicted the Morphing of the Left

“Amusing Ourselves to Death”

How French Intellectual ruined the West

Spiritual Crisis in the Modern Economy

Africa & China: The Real Story

Hardcore Fundoo Suburbs sprout in France

“Soon printing Solar cells will be the Cost of a Newspaper”

“The Algorithm is watching You”

March 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

Cultural “Talent, not Tokenism”

SPB-Ilaiyaraja Royalty row

Global Bharatiya diaspora conference in Trinidad

Sirpur more Developed than Harappan Township

 “Aadhar to be made mandatory for filing I-T return, applying for PAN card”

“Dead and Dying Rivers of Meghalaya”

India’s place in the Emerging Solar Alliance

ED to Question Sekhar Reddy

Unjust Sectarian Funding in Telangana

BJP worker”hacked to death in Bengaluru”

UP Has Spoken: “No More Kairanas”

Bangladesh “No Hindus will be left after 30 years”

“Deconstructing Pakistan’s Strategic Culture”

Water as Weapon

“Not with our Daughters”

Nun & Priest accused of covering up case surrender in Kannur

Syrian army sends reinforcements to Hama province

Winds of War Are Blowing on Israel’s Borders

Fragmentation in the Netherlands

French prosecutors want Central Africa abuse case dismissed

Be careful with these Beauty care Products

The Story on Statins

Facebook’s Townhall Feature

 

Culture

Good advice from the Gita

CNN Show with biased host misrepresents Varanasi as “city of the dead”

Everyday English words that have Sanskrit origins

Kuchipudi Village – Dance Village

The fame of Raagi Sankati

Report on Swadeshi Indology conference 2

Andhra

Harika Dronavalli wins Bronze at World Chess Championship

More measures for Indians to Stay Safe in US

Telangana

Telangana Govt. wastes Rs.10,000 crore in funds each year

Telangana wants AP to come up with Plan to absorb Staff

Govt of TS to push Gag rule?

Andhra Pradesh

AP and UP becoming Hub for Smartphone Manufacturing. Externalities?

Tanvi foods processing plant in AP

Taking Music and Meditation Closer

India

Sufis trying to invent claims on Holi

After Kashmiri Pandit ethnic cleansing, Jammu demographics being changed

India’s Solar Tariff finds new Floor

Hindu Exodus from Assam village

BJP to Stake Claim in Manipur

BJP wins Big in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

Parrikar appointed Goa CM

“When will India start celebrating its non-cricketing heroes?”

Campus violence ominously similar to pre-strife Syrian Varsity Unrest

Avalanche Threat in Himachal

Home minister honours fallen jawans from Sukma

Asia

Nepal’s Blue Gold

Pakistan’s Baloch Insurgency

“A rising power with no allies”

Vietnam’s South China Sea Strategy

Hun Sen’s Crackdown in Cambodia

Seychelles bans plastic bags and plates

World

“Guidelines for Indians to stay safe in US”

NYTimes:”Fears of a Deep State in America”

$4.1 Trillion in Consumer Debt. Collapse?

“Britain’s repugnant ruling class”

“Allegations shake Catholic Church in Italy”

“Europe must plan to Defend itself”

Malian government, armed groups to return authorities to north

Venezuela’s Crisis, Measured By Drastic Weight Loss

Brief history of Blockchain

“Vernacular Building Techniques that are Disappearing”

February 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

Tollywood better than Bollywood

Art Grabs Global Attention

Festive Facts – All about Thaipusam

A Tradition of National Sacrifice

Why Indians Abroad must be Careful: Telugu Engineers shot in US

India’s Solar Capacity Crosses 9GW

India’s ‘Brand Ambassador’ Purchased by Peugeot

Child Immunization drive in India

Sena wins BMC Elections

Kejriwal “keeps Votebank”

“Assault on Kerala Hindus”

USA Today: “Pakistani Hindus lose daughters to forced Muslim marriages”

“China’s Post-Cold War Strategies”

Who are the real experts?

“The End of Identity Liberalism”

Great danger of Tactical N Weapons

Italy splits into Oblivion

Angola says Portugal decision to charge vice president a ‘serious attack’

“BRITAIN’S RAPE OF INDIA”

English Language Nationalism

Human Cycles of History

Culture

Study of National Character

Buy from your local bookstores and you could end up saving more than one business

Visakha Book Fair

Amaravati Global Music & Dance Festival from Feb 10-13th

Queen Naikidevi of Gujarat

Bollywood Hypocrites

Padmavati: The symptom of sinister maladies

“Veena’s Whiz Kid”

Language Extinction

Andhra

Telugu Diaspora in South east Asia

Telugu Teen find new method of Desalination

Telangana

Hyderabad: Tech students arrested in ‘printed’ Rs 2,000 note scam

Telangana govt to launch exclusive IT SEZ for minority industrialists

2 Telangana ministers want whistleblower moved

Warangal Fort

Andhra Pradesh

171 remote Andhra villages in Vizag & Srikakulam districts to get solar power soon

 India’s tallest Sky Tower to come up in Vizag

National Women’s Parliament, with theme of ‘Empowering Women’, begins in AP

Amaravati: An Alternate View

India

AIADMK Crisis

Post-Chennai: How oil spills are controlled across the world?

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

“Remembering Satyendranath Bose”

“Narayana Murthy’s advice contradicts how he made his own money”

Islamic banking to start in Gujarat: What is it all about?

Fundamentalists Stop Saraswati Puja in W.Bengal

“Our Future if we Don’t Wake Up”

Violence in Nagaland: Modi backs CM Zeliang; asks protesters to maintain peace

Why Indians need Original thinking not just Read and “Copy-Paste”

“India Vaccination Program cuts links with Bill Gates Foundation over conflict of interest”

Spyring for Pak busted

Asia

POK Locals stage protest against Islamabad’s atrocities

“Every day, 20 Pakistani Hindus girls are seized by gangs and forced to marry Muslims”

Fukushima’s Nuclear Plant Reactor Still Leaking high amount of Radiation

Can Tibet’s Non-violence work against Communism?

Information Sharing in the Indo-Pacific

“China’s Debt-Trap Diplomacy”

World’s Tallest Solar tower in Israel

“Assad calls torture report Fake News”

Ukraine, Russia, and Recent Fighting

World

“World leaders duped by Global Warming data”

Britain Funding “Propaganda War”

“War between U.S. & China a Practical Reality”

Venezuela Health Crisis

Sudan’s buried past

Ten Things that Require Zero Talent

“Multiple Multiverses May be One and the Same”

“Amusing Ourselves to Death”

Spiritual Crisis of the Modern Economy

10 things the middle class won’t tell you

AI Software Learns to Make AI Software

January 2017 News Links

Updated!!!

Oppose scrapping of Telugu Medium

Gudiya Sambhrama:The Bengaluru Temple Dance festival! Jan 21-Feb 19. 

Carnatic Music Fusion of Thyagaraja Keerthana

“CII Partnership Summit on 27th and 28th January at Visakhapatnam”

“Telangana government to bring bill for 12% quota for Muslims”

Kashmiri Pandit exodus: Convert, leave or be killed

“Death of Hindu preacher due to Kejriwal’s friendship with radicals: Sukhbir Singh Badal“

The Confused Modern Hindu

“Modern” Indians dumping parents in retirement homes

Private sector Defence contracts

“expose by NIE on how Sonia was ruling India without responsibility.”

Asia on the Natural Disaster Frontline

Chinese Tech, India PC buyers

US concerns grow over Chinese chip expansion

“A bleak Winter for Communism”

Russia-NATO cat and mouse games to escalate?

Victorian’ exploitation of poor girls isn’t included in history

“From Parsee Priests to Profits”

Story of the Roma: Europe’s Most Discriminated Group

When people lose sense of the sacred, everything goes

Culture

TTD translation of Gita into English

Musical Slokas for Children

Gautamiputra Satakarni Trailer

6,117 Kuchipudi dancers put Andhra Pradesh in Guinness book

New avenue for Kuchipudi students

Rudra manifested during Ati Rudra yagya in Pune

“Developing Indianness is a part of making stronger India”

Homage in the honor of Late Dr Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna

The Ratna Simhasana used by the Vijayanagara emperors

Andhra

Telugu is at least 2400 years old

Remembering Veerapandiya Kattabomman

Telangana

TS second in farmers’ suicides

After water, TS wants its share of fish from AP

Khammam: More teens now turning to alcohol in despair

Andhra Pradesh

The 308 km Srikalahasthi-Nadikudi railway line foundation laid

“Most Comprehensive” Database…on Public?

English medium to replace Telugu in Andhra Pradesh Municipal Schools

AP Govt mulls Rayalaseema Tour circuit

India

Strategic Approach for India’s Global Trade

Malegaon Coverup

“Uni can provide an outline, to give the learner a direction. The rest one has to do”

Earthquake Jolts Tripura

“Why Right to Education Act is Evil”

“How Green was my Bengal”

Testimonials on Ayurveda Doctor treatment of Cancer

“Battle of Colachel: A Forgotten Hindu Victory”

“Dangal box office collections: Something wrong? Cinemas hardly full”

Bad intentions behind Jallikattu ban?

Over 260 buildings including 35 schools damaged during unrest in Kashmir

Kashmiri Hindus still in Exile, but foreigners being Imported

“Beef-eating Dalits, where are they?”

Asia

Interview of Former MP of Nepal

Nepal’s cultural properties being trafficked

Leverage on Tibet

Humans settled in Tibet at least 7,400 years ago: study

Indian Sailors stranded on leaking UAE ships

“Two Front War is Real Scenario”

Pakistan’s Mian Mithu

“What’s the Point in Trying to be Friendly with China”

Indonesia to set up agency to tackle fake news

World

Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion

“War With Russia?”

Trump vs China: Will things change after inauguration day?

At least 33 killed in Brazil prison: Government

Venezuela’s March Toward Default

Namibia indigenous groups sue Germany for alleged genocide

Harvard Scandal embarrasses alumni

“Women unfit for combat says Marine”

Scientists Model Spread of Zombie Apocalypse

Blockchain externalities

To Win

The Growing Urban-Rural Divide Around the World

The Coming Crackdown On Free Speech

December 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Art for the Soul

Artist Sridhar Poluru from Bhattiprolu

Bammera Pothana’s birthplace in Miserable Condition

Schedule for Chennai Carnatic Festival

Mahalakshmi Ashtakam

Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav at Varanasi

5-day Hindu Spiritual & Service Fair-2016 at Bengaluru

Need to respect Indigenous Culture

“TWISTING FACTS TO SUIT THEORIES & OTHER SELECTIONS FROM VOXINDICA”

The Importance of Self-Respect

Market is full of Genetically Modified Foods

Guntur gears up for Makeover

Rohingyas being settled and Mainstreamed in Telangana

“Telangana youth attempting to join ISIS deported from Turkey”

Cyclone Vardah leaves behind a Trail of Destruction in Chennai

“Contain Zakir Naik for peace and harmony: Centre to tell Tribunal”

Trifurcation may Calm Kashmir

“Decoding China’s Game against India”

“Time to Return to Krishna’s Way”

Balochistan: Pakistan’s Hell on Earth

Bhutan to limit Tourist Numbers

The Indo-Pacific Potential

“Something Wicked this Way Comes”

Italy Proves That Banks Are Not The Risk-Free Fantasy We’re Told

“We’re going to have Financial Chaos”

“Watch Ukraine”

Geert Wilders Warns “Political Revolution Is Brewing In Europe”

Emotional Intelligence: the Skills you weren’t taught

Resilience is not about how much you Endure but how your Recharge

Culture

Vedic Culture: As Relevant Today as Ever

7,000 artists from 18 nations for Kuchipudi fest, says Palle

Ideal Acharya

“Mahavira: Emperor of Inner Virtues”

Perugu Ramakrishna: Poetry on a global frontier

“Sanskrit has had profound Impact on World Langauges”

Kanjeevaram makes a Comeback

Dance to a different beat

Andhra

Cyclone Vardah: Coastal districts on high alert

Telangana

Telangana Youth Festival

KCR’s Palace

Cyberabad police seizes Rs 82.7 lakh in cash

Andhra Pradesh

Gunasekhar readies for another sensation?

State committed to promoting Telugu

Teams to spread awareness on cashless transactions

India

Rajarshi of Cochin – A Misunderstood Dharmika

I see Modi in my grandfather’s shoes: Narasimha Rao’s grandson

“RSS earns Lok Ninda in ‘Lok Manthan – 2016′”

“Wanted to create Cashless Society”

India promotes digital transactions to encourage cashless economy

Seeing the light but dimly

‘Love Jihad Is Not A Simple Crime, Targets Our Daughters Specifically’–Chetna Sharma

Rohingyas being Settled in Jammu?

“Does India’s Right Wing have any Ideas?”

TN CM Panneerselvam takes office after Jayalalithaa’s passing

Asia

India, Vietnam sign civil nuclear pact, three other agreements

Obstruction in Nepal Parliament

“Imagining South Asia without Pakistan”

Why zero coverage for atrocities on Pak Hindus?

Why China Thinks It Can Build a Utopian World Order

South Korean parliament votes overwhelmingly to impeach President Park

World

“Stocks Are Going to Crash”

“The Illusion of Reality”

“Cash Is No Longer King: The Phasing Out Of Physical Money Has Begun”

 Private Debt-Economic Crisis Analysis by former Barclays bank executive

The Colonial Opium Trade’s inheritors

Syrian government forces press attack in east Aleppo

Pizzagate

“Colombia defies opponents on Peace Deal”

Senegal calls for U.N. Security Council meeting over Gambia

Urban Agriculture

Be Prepared for a Rainy Day or Emergency

November 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Maharana of Mewar on Udaipur’s Future

“Mughals also colonized India”. Meaning of “Colonization” too Limited.

Translating to Cultural Hegemony

Balamurali Krishna: His Life and Legend

6,887 illegal mineral water companies in Telangana

Middle-Class Hinduphobia

Kashmiri Cuisine and the Turnip

“Why India should brace for Unrestricted Warfare”

Richest Indians now own 58% of Wealth

Public stands by Modi over Demonitisation

“India’s Currency Debacle”

“The War on Cash Is Going to Send Gold to $5000 or Higher”

“RBI’s idea to bring Sharia Banking into the fray is deeply flawed”

Documentary on Persecution of Pak Hindus

“Learning from Tragedy”

7.4 Magnitude Earthquake in Japan. Frequency, power increasing?

Earthquake Prep

“Northern Ireland Must Get Special Status Within the EU

Indian-American Nikki Haley picked as US Ambassador to UN

“Individuals and not science make moral judgements”

Worker bees, queen bees have identical genes but are very different

Against “knowingness” and know-it-alls

Global Wealth Update: 0.7% Of Adults Control $116.6 Trillion In Wealth

“The Dark Side” of Dependence on Algorithms

Google’s AI Invented its own Language?

Man’s material pride leading him to gene manipulation?

Culture

“Intellectual Yet Idiot”

Telugu Charms its Way

5th World Telugu Literature Conference in Singapore

Savouring the Telangana folk art

India needs to better Preserve its Cultural Heritage

“Building a Worthy Tribe”

Bringing Khadi Back

“Innovation is a Second Language”

A new Framework for Education and Culture

Mythologists – Decoders Of Existing Myths Or Creators Of New Ones?

Andhra

Hyderabad: Water loss due to old reservoirs

Telangana

“Why Telangana is getting divided a second time”

Survivor gives account of Razakars

Revanth Reddy invites leaders to rejoin TDP

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh signs pacts with Chinese cos for $1.5 bn investment

Pawan Kalyan likely to contest from Anantapur

Spectacle at Bhairavakona

India

Another step to “Cashless Society”

Govt Announces Measures to Ease Demonetization Cash Crunch

“How one Indian city is beating Air Pollution”

The Battle for Tata

“Indian Software dies at 17 from Failure to Grasp the Future”

NDTV “Live Coverage put National Security in Jeopardy”

 AAP Is a Myth that is combusting

Man spreads fake story because “he hates Hindus”

Jamaati Terror continues in TN and Kerala

10 Narratives Pushed by Desh Drohis

JNU Hypocrisy

“How Sikkim became the cleanest State”

Israel to Assist India with Cyber Security Plan?

Asia

“LTTE: A Failed Christian Conspiracy”

Siva Senai in Sri Lanka

The Price of Pakistaniyat

Hit by surgical strike, Pakistan on overdrive mode with psychological warfare

“Hindu villages come under attack again in #Bangladesh”

Tibet still among world’s best regions in environment: Report

Myanmar probes ‘controversial’ Chinese Dam

“China’s Succession Games”

Is China seeking to make a weapon of water?

Japanese

Exceptionalism

World

Rare Supermoon appears across the World

“There is no such thing as western civilization”

Protests in the United States after Election of Trump

5 Indian Origin Political Candidates win in US elections

“Amnesty International’s [Radicalism] Problem”

Fatalities reported in major New Zealand Quake. More to come?

October 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Sanskrit Learning Channel

PHOTOS: National Tribal Carnival 2016

Astronomical Observatory found in Telangana dating to 5000 BCE

Maoists threaten to target Naidu, Lokesh

AP leading in development of ‘Solar Parks’ across the country

“The Indian prime minister’s response to Pakistani provocations well balanced.”

RTI on Gandhi’s status as “Father of the Nation”

“Karl Marx on india”

“Kshatrani don’t play with Barbie dolls”

Mushkil for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

India’s Submarine Crisis

“AAP Implodes As Den of Sexual Exploitation”

Gaushala in Palakkad Kerala Gets Death Threats

Give us UCC or Give us…Personal Laws

Tears, temper and tantrums mar Samajwadi Party meet

Pakistan is bluffing about Surgical Strikes 

Human Chain to boycott Chinese Products in India

“Why China made firecrackers can script a dangerous Diwali for you”

BRIC reduced to a Talk Shop

Will Duterte End the US-Philippines Military Alliance?

What a China Hard Landing Means for Vietnam

“why central bankers can’t solve the world’s problems?”

“The truth behind the truth serum “

“Purposelessness” of Modern Humanity

Be wary of breast cancer causing chemicals in beauty products

Culture

Bollywood Sleepers

Art of Abhishek Singh

Migrants from India settled in Australia 4,000 years ago

Royal watching in Udaipur

Punjab’s only Sanskrit school charges no fee, provides free accommodation

Nubians believe they are the victims of an “Arabisation” effort to wipe out their culture

Correct version of Raghupati Raghava

Kala Utsav begins on Colorful note

Terracotta gems of Bengal

Art of the Bubble Economy

Andhra

Toxic lake near Hyderabad

Telangana

Bathukamma Finale on Oct.8

Temple Land Encroached in Telangana

Now 30 Districts for Telangana?

Andhra Pradesh

Here’s why Andhra Pradesh should be on your travel map

AP Government moves from Hyderabad into Amaravati

‘Chandranna Bima Yojana’

India

“Army Vs AntiNationals”

Terrorist attack on Baramulla

Surat Business man does charity by hosting wedding for 111 fatherless young women

Exodus of Hindu families from Kairana a reality, finds NHRC probe report

Plot to re-kindle Punjab fire

The Ladakh Paradox

NLF Tripura

“Rise of the Bengal Caliphate”?

Razakars forcibly converting Hindu girls in Kerala

Rohith Vemula committed suicide for personal reasons: govt-appointed panel

Film Executive Cooked up Story of Harassment by Gau Rakshaks

The Real Misogyny

Time Has Come To Break The Government Hold On Education

Asia

India-Sri Lanka will sign ETCA by year end

Nepal: Khanal seeks tri-party unity for Constitution implementation

Pakistani atrocities in Balochistan past boiling point

POK protests

New Strategic Reality on Indian Subcontinent?

How Water Scarcity Could Fuel Another Sino-Indian War

South China Sea: China Activates First Desalination Plant on Woody Island

“The Genius of Japanese Civilization”

Taiwan’s White Terror and the Search for Transitional Justice

1st US Warships Port at Cam Ranh Bay Since End of Vietnam War

Bomb blast kills at least 16 Turkish-backed rebels in northern Syria

Iran Guards warn Saudis over Gulf war games

World

Spain’s 26th Human Tower Competition

Why Colombia’s Peace Deal Failed

Millions urged to flee as Hurricane Matthew nears U.S.

“philanthropy is a social and conventional attitude, a kind of magnified egoism which is not love“

Greed is an Hellish Emotion

“Romanticism about technology, democracy, secularism, science..etc all have ruined us…”

September 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Annual festive treat to rasikas”

Countering Absurd Interpretations of Hinduism

Bollywood having a Crisis. Regional Cinema Better?

Hyderabad Flooding due to Rains

6 washed away as flash floods hit Guntur

“a war of conquest by money rather than by arms”

“Banks are preparing for an Economic Nuclear Winter”

Race Course Road will now be called Lok Kalyan Marg

AAP a shattered dream

“Is Indian govt ready for zombie attack? Man files RTI”

“Kashmir Not a disputed Territory”

Balochistan remarks causing Earthquakes across the Border

Pakistan rejected UN Security Council Resolution

“Antony responsible for Military’s Plight”

View on Pact

Attack on Army Headquarters in J&K

AFSPA: The Army needs it!

Housing Society Issues

“Muslim couple faces social boycott for protecting Hindu temple”

Missionaries

“Why is media afraid to call them ‘Christian terrorists’?”

A Pennsylvania Town Fights Predatory Water Extraction

Did first Americans take coastal route?

Mega-mergers that affect your food

“Check labels. And read up on ingredients. Eat natural. Eat safe.”

13 Chicago bulls fly to Mumbai to boost milk production in India

Reactionary Philosophy

Solar Industry Braces for Glut

Culture

“Globally the Indian art scene has never been so vibrant”

Preceptor as patron of arts

Why Dharma is important even while doing Achara

Problems facing Indian Textbooks

Rakhigarhi and the real age of Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilization

“Everyone has a ‘sacred cow’: Horse slaughter banned in US”

Annual festive treat to rasikas

Andhra

Katha-2015 released with collection of Telugu Short Stories

Telangana

We won’t accept September 17 as Hyderabad Liberation Day: TRS

“New districts only to benefit KCR’s relatives”

Hyderabad’s Musi a “Giant Sewer”

Real purpose behind new districts?

Andhra Pradesh

PM Modi Agrees to Special Status for AP?

Free smartphones likely in AP…but no such thing as a free lunch…

LCA Manufacturing facility to come up in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Police launches pilot project on DNA profiling

India

Why India failed at Rio 2016

“Don’t like this temple? Choose another”

“Why the higher judiciary Appointment Process Needs Urgent Reform”

SC crossing “lakshman rekha” of hindu beliefs?

“Taming India’s Elite”

The real Azad

“We live with Partition effects on a day to day basis”

Electrification of 1,450 Uttar Pradesh villages under lens

“India To Face Massive Unemployment, Social Unrest Amid Demographic Boom”

“Monsanto Cancels Plan to Launch Next Gen Cotton Seeds in India”

India ready on Cyber crime front?

Policeman Vilas Shinde Murdered, Media plays politics

Self-serving Interpretations of History

Lack of journalistic Ethics in MSM news sites

“Water crisis set to become nightmare for North India”

Asia

An Uphill Climb for Nepal’s Prachanda

Balochistan and the Khan of Kalat

“Pakistan army committing tsunami of rights violations, says top Balochistan leader”

Forced conversions in Pakistan: a dark reality

“China must recognise South China Sea ruling”

Xi Jinping’s reshuffle of Key Posts

Redrawing New Silk Road: China ‘to Shift Its Focus to Russia, India’

Ukraine invasion in the offing?

What Happens if North Korea Collapses?

Sri Lanka and Australia’s Strategic Defense Interests

World

Gabon’s president accuses challenger of fraud, power grab

Brazil President Impeached

Tropical storm Newton makes second landfall in Mexico

Salon Magazine:“The West’s big lie about Mother Teresa”

Amnesty’s “vitriol”

“Brutal truth of the British empire”

“Most intolerant wins”

“The Islamist war against Sikhs is arriving in Europe”

“Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League”

Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies

Prepare for the coming global depression

“All monetary economics theories have collapsed”

August 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Krishna Pushkaralu begin with much excitement

Trichur Brothers Carnatic Concert in Chennai, August 18

Indigo Dye: A Recent History

Gautama Buddha Paintings

Sakshi Malik wins bronze to end India’s Rio medal drought

Rio Olympics Medal Count

Guru Gopi made Indian badminton count

Dictorship of Scroll Magazine

Scroll and the Breaking India Nexus

Amnesty International’s relationship with Radicals

Hindu worker hacked to death in Congress Karnataka

Delhi needs dams to replenish groundwater

 “Journalists caught inventing incidents and data around caste atrocity”

Reply to Leftist Fundamentalists

Leftist “Culture”

“Kashmir Separatism is by another name”

Baloch Support Modi’s call. Balochistan to go to UN?

Fukushima radiation-groundwater leak not contained

Starving Subcontinentals stranded in Saudi Arabia

Comparison of Chinese and American Military Cultures

America’s Drug Epidemic

Brexit and Rushing to Exit

EU Special Status to UK?

“German minister says nothing to regret about report alleging Turkey a hub for Islamists”

“Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets”

“What good are Hedge Funds?”

Culture

Journey up the Seven Hills

Akella Achyuta Ramam’s Repertoire

An Evening for the Emperor of Tales

Handloom Initiatives in Andhra

Balamurali Krishna garu without Musical Accompaniment

Andhra

Krishna Pushkaralu this month

Massive Nuclear Plant Push in Andhra Pradesh endangers coast

Telangana

Telangana partners with ISRO to monitor water resources

The scholar PM

KCR expects a windfall from Modi during his maiden visit to TS

Andhra Pradesh

Venkaiah Naidu: ‘Congress shedding Crocodile tears over AP special status’

CBN, Jagan and the End of YSR’s Politics

AP Govt and Tirumala Surplus Funds

Andhra Pradesh Tourism Sites

India

Gujarat’s New CM

Restoring Bharat

Securing the Indus Water Treaty

The Making of Indian Diplomacy

India’s “bitterest enemy”

Arabization of Kerala

Communal colour to violence against women undeniable

Why do we forget our non-high caste heroes?

Religion and Terror attack in Assam

“Monsoon brings Maximum City to Halt”

“Eminent Historians” no need for facts?

Asia

Megaquake coming in Bangladesh?

Nepal’s unending Political Instability

Sindhudesh Republican Army attacks Pak Rangers”

100 Hindus & others forcibly Converted in Pak

Tibet, Xinjiang, and China’s Strong State Complex

“How Turkey became a Petri Dish”

The Mideast Crisis and the Centrality of Water

Israel joins list of countries restricting “NGOs”

World

Apocalypse Now: A Year of Crises, Shocks and Fear

Zika Virus spreads from Central America to America (Miami)

Three billion watched Rio Olympics opening ceremony

The end of Germany’s golden age

Water crisis in the West?

Africa to “Save West”?

“Mirage of a Rules Based Order”

“Was Democracy just a moment?”

“Brexit and the End of Globalization”

“progressive…modern…global citizen”

Securing National Character

July 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

“A creative Artist by Choice”

Artist: Telugu Drama in need of Natural feeling

Gautama Buddha Paintings

The Biology of close relative Marriages

Astana MOU with Andhra Pradesh

“Foreign Minister” for Telangana? Nizam-Hyderabad Kingdom?

India’s Cocooned Intellectual Elites

SC returns Congress Govt. to power in Arunachal

“14,000 NGOs barred from receiving Foreign Funds”

AIMIM barred from Maharashtra Civic Polls

“Support Services”

“Kashmir Protests provide Chilling Deja Vu for Hindus”

Terrorists hide behind mobs and lob grenades at Security forces in Kashmir

“PM Expresses Unhappiness over Media Coverage” of Kashmir

Star Dot Star Colonialism: A Contracting Universe

Naxal Attack in Bihar. 8 Security force fatalities

Interview of Sadhvi Pragya family

“In debt to Dynasty: ..Rule by Gandhis has..pushed Country towards Indebtedness”

“Insider Accounts Establish Sonia Gandhi As Leading A Political Mafia?”

Interview with S.Gurumurthy

“The Genius of Japanese Civilization”

Bangladesh bans preacher Zakir Naik’s ‘Peace TV’

Nepal Govt. in Crisis

“How India must Stand up to China’s Provocations”

Hague Tribunal Deal Blow to Chinese “claims” in South China Sea

Evacuation from South Sudan

“If Americans perceive World in Chaos, will they turn to Trump?”

Turkish cleric running Indian “secular” schools?

Ireland hits Brexit Alarm

Dangers of Scientism: “A Nation Ruled by Science is a Terrible Idea”

“Confronting the Parasite Economy”

Culture

Relishing Andhra Flavours

“Coming Soon: Sanskriti Schools”

Cultural Events from ATA 2016 in Chicago

“Ganifa – An Indian Card Game is Revived”

Learn Ethics from the Ramayana

Hari Singh Nalwa – Protector of Peshawar

“Kumrahar – Sole Reminder of an Ancient Capital”

Structural Integrity of Puri Temple in Question

Andhra

“Sonia Gandhi did everything to belittle P.V.Narasimha Rao”

Telangana, Andhra Pradesh discuss Krishna river water issue

Telangana

This man is a sitting MP

Telangana judicial officials to rejoin duty

“Discovery of new bacterium brings laurels to Palamuru University “

Andhra Pradesh

Singapore model gets Andhra Pradesh government nod to develop Amaravati

A.P. temple demolition issue

Jagan Mohan’s attached property to date

Example of Casteism corroding AP

India

“Lord Jagannath’s rath yatra commences”

“Indians predated Newton by 250 years”

Modi Cabinet Reshuffle

FIR against AAP man for slight to Guru Granth Sahib

Smriti Irani targetted by Sexist attacks on Social Media

“Duvvuri Subbarao: The Insider who Turned Rebel”

“Rs 71 for Sikh Girl, Rs 51 for a Brahmin”

Precautions to be taken by Girls, Women, & Parents

105 Razakars arrested for Ambur riots

Twitter suspends Parody account that Mocked AAP-leaning Media Outlet

Punjab on high alert, terrorists may enter Delhi via the State

Uttarakhand cloudburts: Rescue operations wound up at most places

5 Nepal historical sites restored with financial help of Indian Govt

Asia

“Change Nepal Needs now”

“India to construct $300 million rail line in Sri Lanka”

Asia’s Best CEOs

“Terrorists killed her for being a Hindu

Why Afghan Sikhs and Hindus are Leaving Home

“China threatens to take down SCS”

China’s target is the Indian Ocean

“Japan scrambled jets against China a record 199 times in April-June”

“Myanmar’s Astonishing Sights”

Oil Plunge hits Russia hard

World

“The Trouble with GDP”

India to reinvigorate ties with African nations

South Africa media giant rides global web wave

Is Colombia’s Long War Over?

Researchers Weigh Risks of Zika at Rio Olympics

“As Europe goes down, we need to be prepared for consequences”

Donald Trump and America

Britain becoming a Zombie State

“What Brexit means for Europe and the World”

Australia’s Small Parties and Discontent

“Catholic priests in Montreal banned from being alone with children”

Myth of the Global Citizen

Money Talks, Even on Twitter

“Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins”

Colonialism-A Contracting Universe

“Dad deprivation is Eroding Modern Society”

June 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Revisiting the great University of Vikramshila

Western Evangelists being promoted as historians and “Indologists”

Why the Kumbha Mela is in Danger

India’s only Sanskrit Band spreads wings

“Telugu cultural flag unfurled in Switzerland”

Call of the Earth for Young Professionals

Andhra’s first e-waste collection unit in Vizag

“Why Right to Education Act is Evil”

100% FDI in Key sectors

Gram Panchayats and Fibre Optic Mapping

Indigenous Cattle Farming in Maharashtra

Punjab’s War on Drugs

“Raghuram Rajan son of a ‘Kaoboy'”

Former Nepal PM Bhattarai Launches Party

War-Traumatized Sri Lanka

Hindu Temple vandalised in Malaysia

“A Comparison of Chinese and American Military Culture”

Japan’s ‘New Approach’ to Russia

Turkey’s Hidden War

Congo declares yellow fever epidemic, 1,000 suspected cases

“Sex Crimes committed by Women on the Rise”

Allegations of Anti-Hindu Bias at BBC

“Apocalypse” dawns in Venezuela?

“Brexit Is Being Driven by English Nationalism”

Problems with Neo-liberalism

Living Wisely: A Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency

“The Malaise of Materialism”

May 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

The Story of Khadi

“Who Owns Shastric Authority?”

“Telugus not known to value their culture”

Dance fest: Of grace and grandeur

K.N. Rao: Committed to literature

Perpetual lease of farm lands to Singapore firms

3 Maoists die in Vizag

State Assembly Election Results

Government boots out Unproductive Babus

“Charges against Sadhvi Pragya dropped”

Demographic Collapse in Western UP?

Kashmiri Fundamentalists say Kashmiri Hindus not allowed

Evangelical Fundamentalists Attack Hindu Temple

Violence at AMU

India’s Diverse Cow Breeds

Resisting Peer Pressure and Fashionability makes financial sense

“Kejri Saving Sonia”

Sonia Congress’ and “Goodwill Terror”

Sonia’s “Saffron Terror”

“Balochistan suffers Pak genocide”

India State Visit to Nepal

6.8 Magnitude Earthquake in Ecuador

Japan’s Stealth Jet

Conflict between West and Russia?

“Sex trafficking on American Indian reservations”

Europe Has Had Enough of Turkey

Privacy and Social Media

Why you need to cultivate your talents, else it’s Garbage in Garbage out

Culture

Navodaya Publishers closes down

“The Deepest Orientalist”

Andhra influence on Gandhara art

Why Bollywood stinks

In tune with the times

Rs 2,675-cr push to traditional medicines sought

“Economics needs a new Paradigm”

“Don’t blame Men alone for ‘Colourism'”

Rajiv Malhotra’s New Book: Hinduphobia

“Internal sabotage of the Battle for Sanskrit and Sanskriti”

Andhra

P.V.Sindhu ready to conquer

Telangana

“Poor forced to shop for Water in Telangana”

TG Budget to cross 2 lakh crore

Warangal new centre for Civic exams

Andhra Pradesh

“Tirupati set to turn into City of Lakes”

Drought hit Joharapuram in AP, turns into ghost village

Rajamahendravaram eco-tourism projects

India

“How India sees the World”

“Indians seem a confused lot”

Indian Science and Problems with Scientism

Babus sabotaging Modi’s Agenda?

“Punjab gangs a threat to national security”

Indian Army cleans up Mt.Everest

80 Families lost dwellings in Arunachal Floods

Shankaracharya acquitted. False charges?

“‘Hindu terror’ part of Pak GHQ campaign against India”

Karnataka stock house for IM?

“7 deadly sins of Indian Journalism”

How P.V.Narasimha Rao became PM

Kolkata’s “Mini-Pakistan” as dubbed by W.Bengal’s Urban Minister

“Only 4% Indians filed tax returns in 2015-16”

From Kitchen waste to Green Parks

“Govt. to Urdu writers: refrain from anti-National content”

“Sorry CJI Thakur, it is the Judiciary that needs Auditing”

The Radiance of Tejas

Right To Education and 93rd Amendment

Asia

Nepal 1 year after quake

Bhutan and India reinforce Ties

Nepal Govt. makes fresh appeal to Madhesis

Kathmandu Valley faces petrol shortage again

Panama Papers leak pressures Pak’s Nawaz

China poised to take provocative action in SCS?

China’s growing might: Implications for india

India’s defence relationship with Russia

Hindu tailor hacked to death in Bangladesh

“India and Vietnam Can Rescue Asia’s Balance of Power”

China’s Mediterranean Odyssey

Chabahar Agreement finalised

Cool Japan and its Target Market

World

“Tragedy of foreign policy elites”

The End of Globalisation as we know it

Nigeria replaces Saudi as India’s largest Oil supplier

“Armenian migrants in Turkey live in shadow of century-old massacre

Zimbabwe Braces for Turmoil

Maduro and the Art of Clinging to Power

Nearly half of Europeans in poll want own votes on EU, like UK

Bitcoin creator goes public

Dirty Debt and Defaults

Mercury rising with Planetary Alignment this week

The San Andreas Fault Is On The Brink Of A Devastating Earthquake

April 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Math answering the toughest questions of Music?

“Assault on India and its Ancient Culture”

Ragini Sharma’s Riposte supporting R.Malhotra against ‘Strawman Fallacy’

Telugu association honours achievers on Ugadi

Vizag Port poised to become Transhipment hub

“Push for Mission Kakatiya”

Economic Potential of India

Kashmiri Hindus: Driven out and insignificant

How Media Foments Caste Hatred, Divides Hindu Society

“India Rising”

India and its Undersea Deterrent

“Never Forget: Mohammed Tanzil Ahmed”

India has 17 Judges for a Million people

The Kollam Tragedy and the aftermath

Rent and the Gandhi-Vadras

Choosing the right Brand Ambassador for India

The “Get Modi” campaign continues

Dilma Roussef and the Impeachment battle

“Implications of China’s Military Reforms

US Air Force plane intercepted by Russian jet”

“Saudi Arabia warns economic fallout if US congress passes 9/11 bill”

Earthquake in Japan now Ecuador. More to come?

Fawning coverage can’t cover up British legacy

Culture

Advocate files petition in Telugu, enters record books

“To destroy Architecture is to attack the cultural identity of a Nation”

“Navakranti turns 20”

“Renowned” Historian distorting history for own ends?

Are India topics on Wikipedia controlled by a few editors?

Aditi Banerjee’s Response To Shatavadhani Ganesh’s Review

“Sheldon Pollock’s Aestheticization of Power”

Importance of Muggu

National Film Awards Winners

Netflix and the creation of global monoculture

Melody Queen P.Suseela in Guinness Book of World Records

Andhra

Engineering Student arrested for Internet Blackmail again

History of Early Modern Andhra

Telangana

‘IOT in smart city’

Rohith Vemula a non-Dalit: Telangana mantri

“Telangana govt borrowing heavily, debts mounting, alleges Opposition”

“TS stares at mounting debts as govt plans to borrow for 400% #salary hike for MLAs “

KCR’s PowerPoint Presentation on Irrigation Projects

Andhra Pradesh

A.P targets Rs.30000 crore investments in Chittoor district

Govt Goofup in AP; names Urdu university after Pak figure

AP aims to become IoT hub

Andhra Pradesh Budget: Govt pegs revenue deficit at Rs 4,868 cr, outlay up

India

Modi creating Strategic Petroleum Reserve for India

Army to get 50,000 new bullet-proof vests; needs 3.5 lakh

Delhi, beware of Kejriwal’s misleading Budget

“Khalistanis funding AAP”

“Restoring our Universities as Temples of Learning”

Political workers targetting Hindu Temples Again

Reservation in Private Sector?

“Addressing the Quota Demand”

Women in Combat Roles. The other view

Patanjali will overtake Colgate and Unilever: Baba Ramdev

“Rural Consumption Shrinks”

PM Modi’s Rurban Mission

India’s Biggest Mafia

Indian media in a global age

Media Starts Cover Up In Pankaj Narang Lynching

“Who Killed Kingfisher?”

J&K govt formation: After BJP snub, pressure high on PDP

Aadhar and Right to Privacy

Asia

Problems Continue to Plague Sri Lanka’s Northern Province

Pakistan’s “Kill and Dump” continues in Balochistan

India to expand Railroad links with Nepal

Oli goes to China for Oil

“China’s Phantom SCS Claims”

“China shielding Terrorists”

“Why Abenomics is Failing”

Japan says India MOU on N-plant binding

PILs by Foreign Funded NGOs

Kyrgyzstan Crackdown on NGOs

Magnitude 6.1 quake jolts western Japan

U.S., Japan, South Korea warn North Korea over ‘provocations’

War China, Russia, ISIS and Beyond

World

What’s your chance of an Earthquake in 2016?

“Make your own earthquake preparedness kit”

“Exploitation fueling Madagascar Sapphire Trade”

Palmyra & Brussels

“Beyond Brussels”

“Europe’s Illiberal Democracies”

French girl’s tale of Facebook and Terror

Tanks headed for Eastern Europe?

Burundi says ‘fine’ with request for U.N. police deployment

Brazil’s biggest party quits ruling coalition, Rousseff isolated

Zika mosquito’s habits force new strategy by U.S. cities, states

Trump predicts “Very Massive Recession” in the U.S.

Stagflation bearing down on economy

Automation reduces hiring

The world is near a ‘major turning point’ in the currency wars

“Milky Way being sucked in by the Great Attractor”

“Gates prescribing Costly foreign drugs”?

March 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

“Land that reveres Sanskrit”

Navakranti turns 20

Decoding Syama Sastri

“The Problem with Pollock”

“Authorised Operator Port status for Kakinada”

Agriculture and Rural Push apparent in Budget

Student who almost lost his career for shouting anti-Barkha Dutt slogans

Shenanigans of the Left and how to See through them

Why Niticentral didn’t survive

“Entitled Middle Class Princess Syndrome”

Hindu Girls still being forcibly converted in Pakistan

Shortage of 9,000 officers in Army

Shiva Ayyadurai and the Invention of Email

“Money Talks and Walks – Even in the Virtual World”

Advice when using Social Media

Changing demographics turning Western UP into Tinderbox?

“Implications of China’s Military Reforms”

A Resurgent Japan and Global Peace

Brazil Government Tries to Regroup After Huge Protests

Refugee crisis has changed German Politics

“Globalization has had political Consequences”

The Populist surge and why

Stagnating Global Trade

The EU Brexit vote and Demographics

Water & Soil Degradation will take Decades to clean up at Fukushima

Culture

History of Lepakshi & Festival

The dancing couple

“Nellore: Garlands of Andal”

Government move to encourage Sanskrit

Debate on Battle for Sanskrit begins

Urdu imposition contributed to political tensions

Andhra

Gollipudi on Politics

Telangana-Maharashtra Irrigation deal

Union Budget allots just Rs 100 crore

Telangana

KCR takes Hyderabad water to Medak

“Telangana: Prostitution thrives on District highways”

Medaram Tribal Festival

“The Hyderabadi Jehadist”

Telangana at risk as food production records steep fall

Andhra Pradesh

Genco aims 2, 200 MW capacity addition in Nellore

“Aggrieved Dalits press for action”

No mention of Amaravati in Budget 2016

India

Indians don’t realise value of freedom, sacrifice: Soldiers

Indian Economy for Dummies

India’s “war on two fronts enters decisive phase”

“Poisoning Kids”

BJP joins international union of Conservative Parties

“Raids dig up Empire of PC’s son”

A list of scams by the Gandhis

Good Idea? Indian military to allow women in combat roles

India’s Largest Landowners, foreign and domestic

Collapse of the Left in W.Bengal

Ugly Narrative in circulation

“Fake currency- More arrests from Malda, West Bengal”

“Bleeding India by Proxy War”

Bank Bad debt endangers national stability

Rohtak riots backstory

e-Rickshaw in Bengaluru?

“Raw deal for Armed Forces in Budget”

Government to develop 300 rural clusters

“How the Ulema are perpetuating male hegemony”

India’s Space Ambitions

“Harvesters of death as saviours”

50 more farmer suicides in Marathwada this February

Railways: Braille enabled new coaches

“On Afzal Guru issue, JNU students play into hands of unseen forces”

Asia

“Oli must set Nepal House in order”

Panel to decide Nepal provinces delineation

100 Million Chinese on the Roof of the World

China’s thirst and Asia’s fate

“Brief history of Balochistan”

“Ancient Hindu temple in Peshawar being ‘secretly’ demolished”

Hindu priest decapitated in Bangladesh

Singapore headed for Recession?

“Iran & Russia to co-produce Su-30 fighter”

Vietnam invites India to South China Sea for exploration

Mum’s the word in Myanmar

“Water city : Obayashi unveils futuristic concept inspired by Tokyo’s past”

“China may soon rock global financial system”

World

France tells UK migrants will flow to Britain after EU exit

“Apple refuses to unblock iPhone”

“Arab Racism”

Argentina-IMF relations thaw after a 10-years

“Arrest of Brazil’s ‘maker of presidents’ could unmake Rousseff”

Nigeria and corruption

Front for money-laundering?

UK:”BBC in the dock over ‘monstrous’ sexual abuse culture”

Be Prepared for a Rainy day or Emergency

“UN Activities should be aligned with National development”

February 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Post-Grad Course in Telangana Telugu in the offing

Unsung Heroines of Kuchipudi

A text of vision

 60% of the students in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana not employable?

SIACHEN BRAVEHEART Mustaq Ahmed laid to rest in Parnapalle

In the land of its origin, the Ongole bull is on the verge of extinction

Pawan Kalyan speaks out on Kapu Quota

Chattisgarh village eradicates open defecation

Nepal & India: Two Nations, One Civilization

“Hope for Pakistan’s Hindus”

“‘Is Separatism Congress’ Patriotism?’ asks Shah”

CPI hacks to death BJP worker in Kerala before parents

Reminder on UPA’s “achievements”

Headley spills beans on 26/11 & Ishrat : Sickulars run for cover

“Why has South India’s Catholic Church re-inducted a convicted child molester priest?”

Wall Street Journal on how Indian media united to ensure no report on its corruption

Sedition case slapped on Afzal’s backers”

“How Pakistan subverts India’s elites”

India & Russia revive fighter jet talks

“Hindu’s in Sindh, Pakistan Continue to Face Extreme Discrimination”

Reality of the South China Sea Dispute

“China bolsters state hacking powers”

“Former Dallas Fed President calls out Central Banks”

Why selloff by European Banks is Ominous

Europe in 2016

Getting the Culture Right is Important for Any Organisation (or State)

“No to Facebook as Gatekeeper”

Culture

“Need to set up national institute for promotion of Telugu”

Making of Dance

“How the Left is Polluting Classical Arts with its Ideology”

ASI making changes at Bhojshala

Sanskrit is the unifying language

Conversations with Rajiv Malhotra on Sanskrit & More”

“Packing a gamut of Emotion”

Andhra

Telugu recipients of Padma Awards

Focus on studies, says Warangal police chief

“Clueless on fighting Zika virus”

Telangana

NITI Aayog sorts out pending issue of Telangana with ministries

“Hyderabad Old City is den of illegal Foreign nationals”

Andhra Pradesh

AP to introduced ‘Priest at your Doorstep’

“Vijayawada: LPG blast victims can claim insurance”

Kerchief gang in Tuni violence

India

10 soldiers dead/missing in Siachen Avalanche

Centre justifies President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh

“Kerala made in the middle east, staring at the abyss”

‘Cops left behind Tanzanian girl at mob’s mercy’

“After I said I am Hindu, they burnt me’”

Review: Airlift a great movie by Akshay

Sensitising “India, that is Bharat”

“India, the Perennial Soft State”

Centre encouraging Hindi use at official level for unity

“If you’re a wronged man, this is the lady to contact”

“Why the ‘right to pray’ debate is stupid”

Illegal sand miners behind Kudligi Deputy Superintendent’s transfer?

Sadhu dies after 115-day fast to save Ganga

Asia

Saeed threatens India with terror attacks

Cooperation for Regional Order

Balochistan: Pakistan’s information black hole

“China’s European Century”

Costly Corridor

India’s International Fleet Review: Building Bridges on Shifting Sands

Japan on High Alert for North’s Planned Rocket Launch

Malaysia After the Scandal

Russia accuses Turkey over Syria as donors pledge aid

World

Zika Virus Is Real

Mexico, Central American countries OK plan for stranded Cubans

“Roma in Czech Republic find hope in Indian Diaspora”

More than 10,000 Migrant Children ‘Missing’ in Europe

China Rejects Latest US FONOP in the South China Sea

Stock Market Crash of 2016: The Countdown Begins.”

“Swedish gov’t says UN panel finds Assange detention unfair”

More sex abuse by UN troops alleged in C. African Republic

“White Savior Industrial Complex”

Waterless Urinal to help Save Environment?

January 2016 News Links

Updated!!!

Telangana boy and girl win National Bravery Award

Veteran Radio & Theatre Personality Jeedigunta honoured

Academia and Sanskritphobia

AIT is Dead. Long Live OIT

Beauty and the Beast of Sufism

Kashmiri Pandits protest continuing lack of resettlement

Who are India’s biggest Drinkers

“Aamir Khan damaged India’s Brand Identity”

Male dominance,exploitation & hypocrisy in Malayalam film industry

Millions of Peshwa records await to be read

The legitimacy of AppWapsi and Boycott Dilwale protests

No end to bombs in W.Bengal

50 ISI moles arrested in India since 2013

“India’s Nepal Problem”

“China’s military is getting leaner and more lethal”

1 Million Migrants to Europe

Trouble Brews in Bulgaria 

Why the market’s drop may just be getting started

More bad news for 2016

Worrying risks of smartphones

Culture

A Telugu Garden in California

Regional cuisine ruled the Gastronomic world in 2015

Temples ring in Dress code

High design ethnic Indian wear

Indian Music Mathematically Deep

‘Kannadigas are the Paradigm of Tolerance’

Sanskrit and the Secularists

Andhra

Story behind Deportation of Telugu students

‘One Lakh Corporates in control of all Natural Resources’

Telangana

1800 km Highway for TS

TRS says will win GHMC polls with Andhra vote

Crop Loss in Telangana at 3000 crore

HC raps Telangana for ‘inaction’ in Akbar Owaisi hate speech cases

Andhra Pradesh

AP to borrow 2,000 crores

Amaravati land lease for Singapore extended from 33-99 yrs

Super-specialty hospitals to dot Amaravati

Microsoft to set up excellence center in Vizag

India

Strong Quake hits Northeast; Manipur the epicenter

Heroes from Pathankot saluted

Violence again in W.Bengal. Mini-Pakistan in Malda?

PM Modi scores point over Congress in Kerala

Vidarbha creation needs consensus

“Anti-Nationals helping Pakistan”

National Herald Scam Part 2

IIT, IISC professors against Free Basics

Irresponsible Mainstream Media

Dawood’s gang killed BJP leaders in Gujarat

‘From solar power to bars’

Asia

Should India worry about Nepal’s special relations with China?

Pakistani printers removed article in NYT International Edition

Blast at Indian consulate in Afghanistan

China Halts Stock Trading as Market Lurches Down Again

China’s assertiveness pushes Vietnam to US

Abe visit to India was Historic

Economic Collapse in 2016?

Fear and Loathing in the Maldives

‘New wrinkles in Maritime warfare’

Saudi-Iran crisis to Escalate?

World

Earthquake Preparedness

Brazil stripped of investment grade rating as crisis deepens

Polish Leader Jaroslaw Kacynski

Ukraine to probe suspected Russian cyber attack on grid

France: A country shaken to its core

Greece’s border a Test for Europe

The Darfur conflict’s deadly gold rush

Australia’s Pivot North

Oregon wildlife refuge Occupied

‘Time for Business Schools to de-Globalise?’

Europe to protect teens from Facebook

Does the UN do any good?

December 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

Students taught in Mother Tongue perform better in school

The uniqueness of Dhokra

Paintings of Artist Keshav

Telangana to get 24×7 Power?

Akshay Kumar donates Rs. 1 Crore to Chennai flood relief

80 Temples Vanished in J&K since 2009

Death threats issued to Kamlesh Tiwari

The hullaballo about the National Herald

“Congress is cutting India’s nose to spite its face”

TAPI Pipeline nears reality

India hints it may reconsider stand on key security pacts with US

“India and Japan’s relationship has greatest potential in the world”

Will IS affect Subcontinent?

“Beligium is a Failed state”

The reality of Science and Scientific Fact

“Beware Indians, the ISI may steal your passport”

After Kerala & Bihar, Jamaat demands prohibition in Telangana

Legislation introduced to cut H1B visas by 15,0000

“The Carrington Event”

Culture

“Why Kumbh Mela is at Risk”

5 Translators work to make ‘Veyi Padagalu’ in English happen

Fools think art is meant only for joy; wise realize it inspires change

What Bollywood is actually doing

Bajirao’s descendants object to portrayal in “movie”

“Passion Perseverance Personified”

“Satya Sriram’s High Calibre Show”

Andhra

Rudhramadevi’s statue unveiling

Water levels in Telugu states alarming

Thousands throng to Vemulawada

Telangana

Warangal to be developed as Second Capital

TS to have Telangana Dictionary Soon

“IS getting funds from Hyderabad”

Bharat Forge to ‘Make in Telangana’

Andhra Pradesh

CBN reviews situation in South Kosta/Rayalaseema

Reddy bros join TDP

Shouldn’t our language be priority 1?

Vijayawada also under Flood threat

India

Chennai floods: Over 9,000 rescued

Rural distress worsens across India

Narendra Modi in Chennai announces More Support for Tamil Nadu

BJP weathers Gujarat polls Storm

Pay hike for central staff

Secularism in action?

What Arabs think of Indians…for “gelf” fans

Akbar speech infuence on Areeb

Facebook account group block after journalist exposes abuse

Cults and Conscience

COP21 and Cornering India in Carbon

World can’t ignore India’s Narrative

Asia

Treading Carefully in Nepal

“ISI unleashes cultural terror wing”

Japan defense budget likely to top 5 trillion yen for first time

Russia & India: A Course Correction

China seeks Naval base in Djibouti

Amid feud with China, Philippines gets jets

Arab caste system at work

Malaysia approves security law slammed by critics

A “hard landing” for the world’s second-largest economy.

“Will not forget jet downing: Vladimir Putin”

World

ECB Moves trigger global sell-off

Europe plans to speed up deportation of Pakistanis

France & Africa: Colonial Tax

Regional mediation key to preventing Burundi war: U.S. envoy

Bulgaria warns Germany on Migrants

Danish referendum takes step away from EU, including Europol

Impeachment proceedings opened against Brazil’s president

Australia riding coal train despite climate pleas

US & UK universities are becoming irrelevant because of leftist stranglehold

Tragedy in California

Spiked baseball bats found around San Francisco

What Chennai teaches us about essentials for emergencies: Stock up!

“How Modern Technology is Stealing Souls”

Ideal Solution for an Ideal World

November 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

World Telugu Museum to be opened on Nov.19

Chittoor Mayor gunned down in broad daylight

Telangana stares at debt trap

“Nipping in the bud a dangerous idea”

BJP after Bihar

“Editors mostly function as Gatekeepers”

Unacceptable: “Dalit boy forced to remove excreta”

“A Dream that Remains unfulfilled”

Loyalty to the Nation is Non-negotiable

Serious History Neglected and Distorted”

“Is Rahul Gandhi a British Citizen?”

Time for a New Narrative?

After Mumbai’s 26/11, Paris’s 13/11

Wall St. to get trump card to block regulations?

“Abenomics sputters in Japan”

UN Vote on Burundi killings

Culture

Kuchipudi with Grace

Varun is one to watch out for

Aruna Sairam answers questions on Carnatic

Miniaturist TK Bharani unfold sacred world in grains

Reviving Sanskrit

Andhra

Amaravati all set to create history

Making the most out of water weed

It’s KCR’s turn to hold a mega ritual

Telangana

Sany Group signs MoU with Telangana

Telangana to have 24 districts

TS Jobs panel to go Rural

Andhra Pradesh

“AP boxed in by Bauxite Maoists”

Why CBN didn’t press for Special Status

AP Traditional Utsav a hit

“AP is rich in culture”

India

Final battle for Bihar ends today

“Indian media is the new fringe”

“India’s Coolie Economy”

Anatomy of a Liberal

A response to Aakar Patel’s call to action to Bollywood

“Fashion of India and Hinduism bashing in Foreign”

“Unsuitable Men”

Porkfest organisers booked. “Beef only” secularism?

Indian National Congress: A Party in Crisis

Award-returnees are frustrating people’s will

ISIS threat in South

“Who is stoking Sikh radicalism?”

After Kashmir and Punjab, ISI plays the Hindu card

Asia

Nepal: India unfazed by China card

The truth about China’s interference in Malayasia’s Politics”

China’s ‘Militarization’ of the South China Sea

State of Emergency in Maldives

Maps of India Pakistanis love to dream about

States may be allowed to grant citizenship with rise in Hindu refugees

“Balochistan: The Bloodiest War you’ve never heard of”

“Bangladesh’s terrorist problem?

“Suu Kyi eyes post above President”

World

Russian civilian jet down…what now?

Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canada’s new prime minister

German, French raids against human smuggling operations

Crises drive Europe disintegration

The degenerate British elite

‘India-Africa partnership will keep China in check’

US not headed in right direction, some biz owners say

First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops

“preparing for a catastrophic solar flare”

“NASA reveals Antarctica is actually gaining more ice than it is losing”

“Marijuana is not harmless”

October 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

Bathukamma celebrated with great fervour

Rajamahendravaram returns!

Traditional Indian crafts meet Calligraphy

Lepakshi crafts in Telangana renamed to “Golconda”

Traditional Chinese medicine gets Nobel. Why not Ayurveda?

Literary mafia

Selective Outrage

Cow activist killed? Whither media outrage?

“Fraudulent Akademists”

“Top lies spread by the media in 2015”

India is about symbolism of power instead of substance of power

Whitefly destroys 2/3rds of Punjab Cotton crop

“Aadhar may have lethal impact on existence of India”

New “OROP” issue for BJP?

Owaisi again faces arrest over hate speech

Petition against PK insulting Hindus: Notice issued to Aamir Khan

Saudi chops off Indian maids arm

Jobs and the “Gulf Mirage”

“Nepal’s constitution and lessons for India”

China to sell 8 submarines to Pak

“Vietnam is changing and so is the balance of power”

Integral humanism vs Individualism

UK’s “chilling immigration plan”

Culture

Telugu culture flourishing in Andamans

“Smuggling Indian Antiquities”

“Breaking [Carnatic]”?

Review of Kalaamtho Karachaalanam

Kuchipudi Performance in Hyderabad

“See the Music, Hear the Dance”

Andhra

AP& TS fight over delay in Power bonds

16 lakh trucks go off roads in Telangana, AP

Telangana

Telangana’s Signature tower to be tallest

Telangana declares first Drought

GHMC re-egineered in light of upcoming polls

Telangana – Turning Into An Intolerant State?

Andhra Pradesh

“Foundation stone schedule bad for Andhra Pradesh: Astrologers”

“Sexual violence on women at famous healing dargah in AP”

2720 Acres set aside for DRDO Project

India

PM Modi & Silicon Valley Trip Highlights

Dengue crisis continues

Who will win Bihar?

Justice catches up with terrorists

Asiya Andrabi and Beef Politics

Beef Wars

Unwarranted Hysterectomies, Unnecessary Caesarians and other things

“Can India build its own Silicon Valley”

Freedom of Speech only for Chosen few?

Bengal’s bomb-making cottage industry

“Demolishing the Aurangzeb Apologist Cabal”

Asia

“Indian media must stop selling J&K as Kashmir”

A relook at Nepal

Pak Atrocities in POK

Book on Pakistan and it’s Politics

“Urbanization and Migration in Developing Asia”

Xi Jinping’s visit to the US

Chinese billionaire loses 85 per cent wealth in stock crash

Geo-strategic push: Inaugural India-Indonesia bilateral maritime exercise from Oct.17

“Russia: Superpower or Proxy?”

“Why the House of Saud gets away with sex crimes and murder”

World

Huge bubble? Commodity price slump sends ripples around world

“Obama to look for new gun measures, says ‘talk’ is main tool”

Turkey getting closer to Civil war?

Record 522K Migrants Arrive In Europe By Sea In 2015

Fmr. Brazilian President to be questioned in Corruption case

Bombings in Nigerian Capital kill 15

Prudent Disaster relief: How to Prep for an Earthquake

Ukraine, Syria and Russia: A Moment for Sobriety

“We’re living in an Ayn Rand Economy”

The Real Misogyny

“Is Facebook making us Lonely?”

“How close are we to a fully Bionic Body?”

September 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

M.S. Subbulakshmi: A life in Music and Movies

Why Sanskrit is becoming popular among China’s Intellectuals

AP and TS ink Tax Pact

Retaining Amaravati as an Ancient Town

Significance of Naxal encounter in Telangana

“Blood and Lust”

“All you need to know about Dengue Fever”

Manipur’s turbulent summer

OROP: Pro View

OROP: Con View

Blast from the Past

Why young people must be careful on social media

Retro RBI

Pub culture descends upon Temple Town Madurai

Outrage and Violence after Nepal Parliament refuses to restore Hindu status

Atrocities against Baloch by Pakistan’s Army worsen

India and China face off in Ladakh over watch tower

DPJ: Beginning of the End?

“Migrant Crisis” and Malaise in Europe

Powerful Quake strikes Chile. More ahead?

Prudent Disaster relief: How to Prep for an Earthquake

Market manipulations in Global Bonds?

“Fed has to deal with its own Zombie Apocalypse”

Stock sell off continues, underscoring Global worries

Culture

Treasure trove for Telugu Musicians

PM to attend meet on Indic Thought

Discussing Bharata’s Natya Sastra at World Sanskrit Conference

Rajamouli credits Amar Chitra Katha for storytelling success

Sanskrit in New Light

Skit on Bhadrachalam Ramadasu

Andhra

Protection of Telugu Language demanded

More trouble [fermenting]

Telangana

“Telangana faces test with 12 percent Muslim Quota”

Mahindra plans expansion in Telangana

State textbooks revised

Andhra Pradesh

Land Pooling to continue in AP

Work on Natya Pushkarini begins at Kuchipudi village

Politics over Special Status

India

Gen.Suhag: India must be ready for short wars

Man’s tweet to EAM saves sister from Dubai traffickers

Aurangzeb road renamed to Abdul Kalam Marg

Four Marathwada districts in crop loss alert

PM Modi: Non-state actors provoking violence

OROP: Pro View

OROP: Con View

SENSEX hits 14 Month Low…time to invest in hard assets?

Need to improve India’s China studies

Time for a “secular” calendar

BJP sweep of Rajasthan Civic Polls: Future Group to manage Public food distro

India cancels Greenpeace foreign funding amid scrutiny

Asia

Sri Lanka vote reemphasizes balance in Indian Ocean

Death toll rose in Nepal Violence

Nepalis urge dropping of “secular” to protect heritage

Afghan-Pak relations worsen

Story behind China stock intervention

Yuan devaluation

Malaysia push for PM Najib’s resignation

Russian jets in Syrian skies

US Military Base in Japan rocked by blast

World

World Markets Plunging…Economic Depression?

“Germans begin the looting of Greece”

UK, EU, and Europe’s refugee crisis

Nigeria seeks join efforts in Gulf of Guinea

Migrants and Hungary’s “Freedom Train”

Australia at crossroads

Brazil Minister to step down amid economic problems

Could Hackers take down a City?

August 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

AP Endowments Dept.: Temples not State Property

KCR launches Grama Jyothi

Sanskrit as Unifying factor

Artist Achudan captures raw beauty in his Water Colours

India facing “many sophisticated Chota Shakeels”

CM Anandiben takes the lead on Right to Property for Tribals

Rahul Gandhi gets a Adil Shahryar 101

Bangkok blast at Hindu Shrine in Thailand

Twin blasts in China

Tough times ahead for Indonesian Navy

“Should Nepal be Secular?”

Pakistan violates ceasefire in Jammu

Pak needs to change its approach on Afghanistan

Russia, China, Pakistan: New Emerging Axis?

What’s Cooking in the Middle East

UK’s Lost Decade

Hackers stole user data of 25 million Americans

Post Capitalism: The End of Capitalism has Begun

Culture

“[C]ulture on a larger canvas”

Sadasiva Sastri’s Carnatic performance steeped in devotion

Madrid celebrates Holi

Decolonising Indology

“APJ Abdul Kalam was an exemplar of Plural India”

“My Journey from Businessman to Philanthropist”

Art: War of dharma revisited

Andhra

Not just Baahubali, Rana says Leader 2 also in works

“Viacom18’s new English accent”

PM assures families release of 2 professors abducted by ISIS

Telangana

Bonalu celebrated with fervor in Telangana

“Owaisi brothers are enemies of Indian Muslims, says Aziz Qureshi”

Telangana plans to increase Onion production

100 TS schools to go digital

Andhra Pradesh

Xiaomi to manufacture in Sri City

Poverty feeds migration in Srikakulam

6 Red Sanders nabbed

India

Remembering the “Missile Man of India”

India wins Patent war

“How Congress pursued its invidious legislative agenda”

“The Dark Side of Porn”

Attack in Dinanagar

K.P.S.Gill: “If we don’t wake up, we’ll see more such attack in Punjab”

Most “infamous” family of India

Dalit Catholics face discrimination from co-religionists

Has India put an end to its longest Insurgency?

Asia

Forced conversions continue in Sindh

Pak’s continuing War against Indian Civilization

China to build new artificial islands near India?

China equity bubble correction

Japan’s strategy for Central Asia

Who will lead Vietnam next?

Strategic Impact of the Iran deal

Turkey creeping toward Civil War?

World

End of Ukraine’s Peace process?

Mexico’s economy is flopping

“End of Capitalism has begun”

Can the Yuan overtake the Dollar?

“Uber regulatory challenge to democracy”

Germany being tested by refugee influx

“Imperialism” in Africa?

July 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

Baahubali destroys Box Office Records

Smear campaign against Rajiv Malhotra

“Rebuttal of false allegations of plagiarism”by R.Malhotra

Media calumny

Reasons behind tragic Pushkaram Stampede

Inequitable division of Debts worsening rifts between Telugu States

Kuchipudi Natyaramam Works Soon

Odisha Preparing NFSA Beneficiary List

“My choice: My pleasure may be your” jail sentence

India’s Technology Prowess: Highs and Lows

China’s Debt Twice its GDP: World Impact?

Saving Tibet’s Heritage

China’s Indian Ocean Strategy

Iran deal strengthens Military option

Response to ill-informed article on Sanskrit

“Arabisation of Bangladesh”

US, Greece and the Eurozone

Border War between Venezuela & Guyana?

Culture

U. of Kashmir’s Sanskrit department struggles to find students; defunct since 1990

Godavari Pushkaralu Significance

Marathon Celebration of Avadhanam

‘Bringing Tamizh back’

World Sanskrit Conference

Thanjavur metal paintings

20th Telugu Association of North America Conference

Andhra

Remembering India’s Forgotten Reformer

The man who uses his pension to fix potholes

Onion prices remain high

Telangana

Revanth Reddy released on bail

Green Drive begins on July 3

Compensation sought for affected rythulus

Andhra Pradesh

Organic food becoming popular in Vizag

Women protest new liquor policy

CM Launches Godavari Harathi

India

‘Apocalyptic’ event ahead? Cops up Vigil

Army still to get needed bullet-proof jackets

When Govt. controls Temples, traditions suffer

Krishna-Marathwada irrigation project approved

The Anti-Modi Agenda

Why Goa Inquisition must be remembered

Food Habits of a Nation

Leftist Bigotry

“Lutyens media Silence on Sonia”

Under the radar violence in Tamil Nadu

Abductions of Hindu girls in Mamta’s Bengal continues

Kerala Govt. discriminatory policies continue

The Great Madras Famine under British rule

Asia

Xi Jinping: The Next Mao?

Implications of Power Vacuum in Tibet

Japan and China: Intimate Rivals

Japan seeks foreign workers uneasily

Saudis plot to fund wahhabism to dominate India

Deadly plane crash in Indonesia

Inside West Papua insurgency

MERS rattles Korea’s confidence

ISIS rivaling AQ

First Draft of Nepal Constitution to be presented

Japan uses Vietnam’s Chips

World

War threat grows

Perfect Storm of Market Bust & Russia Conflict?

What to do in a disaster situation

Space Warfare the next frontier

For Phree market phonies who think most women are in flesh trade voluntarily

Raghuram Rajan says Great Depression ahead?

Panic grips Greece

Greek pensioners storm banks

Brazil pledges to raise Renewable output

Revulsion in Africa over Marriage ruling

How social media is ‘managed’

Nearby Blackhole erupts

June 2015 News Links

Microsoft to release Skype Translator

Capital area gets upwardly mobile

AP CM’s 1st year in review

Telangana’s Ramannakunta Lake to get a facelift

Avoidable AP-TS Spat Continues

Border war in the works?

The cost of cyber-incompetence

Ramayana and Genetics

How atrocity literature is manufactured

UP goonda raj burns journalist to death

Caution required on GM

The practical applications of the value of ‘shut up’

Vietnam launches “sovereignty cruise”

MERS cases: health officials on alert

Mega trade pact in the works

Wall St. Predicts Greek Tragedy

Culture

Issues confronting Indian history

The Battle for Sanskrit

Knowing India;Understanding the right history

AP People want heritage relics back

Pantula Sisters: Soulful Vocal

Vibrant center for the Arts

Andhra

Heatwave in undivided Andhra continues

Bahubali buzz abroad

Series on AP & Telangana

Telangana

Telangana at One

Cash for vote scam fallout

KTR promises Free Wifi in Secunderabad

Hyderabad electricity bills

State of Telangana Universities

Andhra Pradesh

AP Capital: Blue with a shade of Green

Singapore wants to be Amaravati’s developer

AP signs ten MOUs with China.Good idea?

Red Sander’s well-oiled network

Vijayawada Airport to become International

India

Govt won’t take Saurabh Kalia case to ICJ, UN

War against Untouchability

Great and Beautiful Kingdoms

Modi Sarkar at One

Rajan as savior?

Review of Modi’s China visit

Cost of Selective Silence

India to douse Century old Jharia fire

No Indian to head Nalanda?

Kejriwal’s war with Jung

ISIS horrendous treatment of Indians

Not enough Pilots in Indian Air Force

India purchases German submarines

Towards a review of the Indian Constitutions

Gujarat builds first of 100 India Smart cities

Asia

International Response to Nepal Quake disappointing

Nepal seeks India’s help to rebuild

Chinese Espionage and the US

Pak N-program: Morarji Desai involved?

95% of all Hindu temples in Pakistan destroyed or converted

PRC’s military budget 3x that of India’s

Sirisena’s 100 days of Sincere initiatives

Rajapakse holds key to Lanka talks?

India and Vietnam strengthen ties

Tajikistan: Tough times ahead

Japan & Malaysia’s strategic Partnership

Cloud of war between Ukraine & Russia?

World

America & India: An American’s View

Being American and Catholic

Canada’s Church schools led ‘Cultural Genocide’ of Natives

San Andreas & Earthquake Preparedness

Journalists denounce sexist French politicians

British Austerity

Europe’s leftist dinosaurs

“Investors beware. A perfect storm may be coming”

Congo Opposition Split

Exploitation of African minors in Italy

Venezuela to go Belly up?

ISIS takes Palmyra

That 1914 Feeling

Updated!!!

Arrested AP Naxals Planning Armed insurrection

AP CM launches Pentavalent vaccine program in Tirupati

Kiran Kumar Reddy to write a tell all book on Telangana and Sonia

“Urdu schools which don’t teach Marathi will be derecognised”

“7 Reasons why Modi’s trip to China was different”

Real purpose of “Dravidian” Ideology

“Oily moily”

Uttarakhand due for Major Earthquake?

India faces severe ammunition shortage, can fight only 20 days war

“Nepal Quake: India must repay debt to Gorkhas”

Violence against Hindus continues in W.Bengal

97 Bonded Hindu laborers finally set free in Pak

Why India should refuse cricket series with Pakistan

For all the utopic technophiles

India & Asian Leadership

May 2015 News Links

Culture

Hindu Matha: An Introduction

Telugu scholars see need for comprehensive dictionary

Homage to legendary composers

“Beef Freedom has Hurt more than any Beef Ban”

Asha Bhosle: ‘I find the Soul missing in today’s Bollywood Songs’

Dharma is not Religion

Andhra

Rajamahendri hosts Theatre festival

Profile on A. Surya Prakash garu, “National Telugu Poet”

Central Govt. allocates extra power

Telangana

Nagarjuna Sagar will be made tourist hub

“Babies being Sold in Telangana”

Power Crisis: Fellow Telugus to the Rescue

Andhra Pradesh

Will Vijayawada regain its lost glory?

AP proposal to make theory classes on Kuchipudi compulsory

AP to convert waste to energy

India

Kashmiri Pandits stage protest over risky rehabilitation plan

“Are you Serious”?

PM’s flawed Temple Gold policy

Conversion: A New Breed of Evangelical Groups

Three held in attempt to convert Children

Nagaland: Militants kill 8 Assam Rifles jawans

Govt. to Introduce Hindi Proficiency Training

Foam in Bangalore lake draws questions on development model

“Opposition is milking Agrarian Crisis”

Solar Power: Rajasthan Villages vs Robert Vadra

India moves ahead with SAARC transit policy

Violence against W.Bengal Hindus continues

Largest ever relief operation by India

Asia

Nepal Earthquake toll tops 6,000

Nepal’s living goddess, devotees were unscathed by earthquake

Pak Hindus can now apply for Long Term Visa

Pakistan serves Beef to Hindu Nepal Quake Survivors

Pakistan’s unofficial export policy includes human trafficking

Sri Lanka: Can Sirisena deliver on Reforms

Saving Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank

Critique of Modi approach with China

China’s growing Cyberwar Capabilities

China’s Infrastructure Bank: The Final Tally

Abe visit to US marks new era?

Vietnam’s new missiles

South Korea’s generation gap

Horrific treatment of Asian maids by Saudis

Siege of Aden

World

Full blown war impending in Ukraine?

Africa Update

Clashes between Colombia Govt. and FARC

Tremor rattles Los Angeles

Majority of UK Women don’t bathe or shower daily

Britain’s uncertain European Future

Baltimore riots part of greater story?

How a market sounds when the bubble bursts

Cartoon show Attacked in Texas

Education for a peaceful world

April 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

Telugu University in Limbo

‘Srikakulam was ignored after State bifurcation’

Simi was planning attack on Delhi

Cultural programme in Kerala

Blueprint to tackle India’s energy woes

Religious courts to follow?

Meaningless hysterics

The Great Secularism Debate

“Time to hold India’s media legally accountable”?

Nepal’s water woes

Beijing’s Fait Accompli in the South China Sea

Egypt’s Morsi faces capital punishment

Peace deal in Mali

Top dumpers of e-Waste not recycling

Thousands of Germans protest EU-US Trade Deal

Culture

Telugu Ashta Avadhaninis

Time to Speak Up against Hinduphobia

Restoration of Cultural Diversity

Culture show in Telangana

How English Ruined Indian Literature

Hindi has a Key role in National Integration

Left Liberals sneering at Indian History

Culture and Foreign Policy

Andhra

Amaravati: Capital of the Andhras again

Mela on Organic Farming

Chiru to retire from Politics?

NSA against owaisi?

Telangana

“TATA to TANA”

What about the rest of the State?

Loans for Dalit Entrepreneurs

Telangana entry tax slams brakes on AP vehicles

Andhra Pradesh

Issues with River Linking Irrigation Projects

“Holy Crimes” by Church

Sri City edging out Chennai?

Singapore real estate gain from lands?

India

Drinking Water Crisis in Karnataka

Free Speech: 66A Struck Down

Pak policy in tatters

Key to solving “Pak Problem”

Hindus don’t always have equality with minorities

Hateful “owaisi should go to Pakistan”

Indian Naval prowess and the Indian Ocean

Do Bigha Zameen

Proselytism incompatible with India

Land Acquisition Bill Changes

Black Money rising

Many Indian states Aging faster than N.Europe

Asia

Pak to buy 8 submarines from China

India and Sri Lanka: Maritime Infrastructure

Buddhist Union and Geopolitics

Protests by Dubai Laborers from Subcontinent on Ill Treatment

What China’s defense Spending means for India

India gearing up for China challenge

Ethnic Faces of China

PRC General aided Myanmar Rebels

 Back to the Future Capitalism

History Holds Asia hostage

Destruction of Iraqi heritage

Air Strikes in Yemen

Russia-Ukraine faceoff continues

World

Hopes and Doubts in Framework Deal with Iran

Australia’s diplomats outmaneuvered by PRC

Toll Rises in Kenya Attack

Impending Broadband Wars

California Draught affects entire US

Cuba Trade Talks Continue

Brazil President Announces Anti-Corruption Measures

New Zealand and its intelligent Intelligence

France and Michel Houellebecq’s books

MarketWatch: “Sell Your Equities”

A Fragmented Globe

March 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

On recent Media Reports: A Christian responds to a Christian

Who made India’s Daughter

Hot Summer ahead for India?

An old Dalit woman in Kolar is mourning DK Ravi’s death

AP Capital Land Pooling: Another View

Teach logic as a subject

TS Assembly passes Resolution for Separate High Court

Modi Govt. flip flops on Pak talks

The Battle for the Indian Ocean

8 Anti-India “Intellectuals”

Kashmiri Pandits and BJP: A most unkind cut

Bad news for Families: Marriage Law on the Books

The Price of Selfishness and Self-centeredness

“IMF Chief warns of huge capital outflows from ems when US hikes rate”

Alarmism and the Indian State

Sick BBC  & NDTV”

2015’s first extra intense X-class solar flare

Culture

The Vanishing Languages of Western UP

World Telugu Writers’ Conference Closing Session

Government control of Hindu Temples

Shastras and Indian Education

“Indian Dalits find no refuge from caste in Christianity”

Kuchipudi Arts Academy of Chennai is conducting the annual dance festival

Andhra

Whether you study your own language, others study you

Centre to Amend AP Reorganisation Act in Parliament Budget Session

Telangana, AP ok land acquisition bill

Telangana

Calls to stem debt financed weddings

Gas leak in Medak

Life of dalit icons to be part of school syllabus in Telangana

Andhra Pradesh

Actress Jamuna to reenter politics

Evangelical bigotry in Tirupati

India

American media notices what is happening in W.Bengal

Idea of India?

What really happened to Delhi churches?

Aamir Khan should shut up

Is India actually secular?

“West still views India through Colonial Mindset”

Forcible conversion of Hindu woman in Ranchi

The Mother Teresa we don’t know

SC expands definition of Dowry

BJP-PDP Seal Deal for Kashmir Govt.

Asia

Why China is warming up to the Arctic

China doing large scale reclamation in disputed islands

Memories of a Hindu Nepal

Pak stockpiling battlefield nukes to use against India

No justice for hindu women in pak

Baloch suffering war crimes perpetrated by Pakistani oppressors

Hindu Families living as slaves in Bangladesh

“Dhaka must check extremism”

Japanese firm develops Ebola drug

Bangkok’s urban refugees

“Assyrian Christians defending their people”

World

Austria passes law on practice of Islam

Fanaticism drives terrorism

“EU’s Green goals will need radical shifts in policy”

Dutch government says sorry for gas field causing quakes

Thousands of Women march for Peace in the Congo

Silent No More: Systemic violence against Aboriginal Women in Canada

The Importance of using Social Media carefully

“Why Mother Teresa is no Saint”

World Forest Loss is Accelerating

February 2015 News Links

Updated!!!

Delhi elections: Competing Grand Narratives

CBN Wants truce to settle AP-TS disputes

Four Projects top KCR’s Hyderabad Beautification programme

Triple Whammy for AP Common Man

Razakar: “Jinnah of Modern India”

Inspiring leadership at Pokharan

“Don’t believe the Hype on the Deal”

Real story behind Church attacks?

Hot Summer ahead?

“Terror in the name of Christ”

Excuses, excuses from our “Men of Conscience”

Contest of demography?

Costs of Ragging

“We don’t need education in English. Let us treat it like footwear.”

Bitcoin investors claim $3b losses

Alliance of Leftists? An American View

Heavy Shelling in Ukraine

What happened to Human Rights in UK? Why are Indian families targeted?

Culture

How India’s Constitution became “secular”

Status of Women in Ancient India

Ancient India through Indian eyes

The tragic story of Dharanagara

Who Owns Yoga

Don’t base interreligious marriage decisions on Bollywood anti-nationals

Andhra

Stall in development works due to finance

“Evangelism made Andhra an Economic and Spiritual Ruin”

Telangana

TS debuts at Republic Day Parade

Was nizam really secular?

Swine flu toll at 47

Another Gulf job racket busted

Andhra Pradesh

 Sinkhole due to Groundwater over-exploitation

Cisco to join Vizag Smart City effort?

9 months later, special status promise not kept

Land Acquisition and Land Pooling politics for new Capital

India

Politics of No-Go Zones in India

Leela Samson’s Fiefdom crumbles

Republic Day Celebration in review

Jallikattu Bulls face slaughter

“Census 2011: The Religious Imbalance Worsens”

MMS damaged India’s strategic capability

Indo-US nuclear deal: Why is Modi pursuing what looks like a total loss in N-energy?

Breakthrough in US-India Nuclear deal?

Hindus targeted in W.Bengal religious violence

Asia

Recent History of Hindu Genocide in South Asia

“Upto 8,000 Nepali girls trafficked to Dubai”

View from Pak

Teesta river Revisited

The Influence of History in China

China is placing key generals on India border near Ladakh

China’s most important political philosopher

East Asia territorial disputes

Turkic Ties in Central Asia

New Saudi “king”

World

No Go Zones in the West

Venezuela’s political future

Ukraine: A new Bosnia?

Portraits of War in Central African Republic

Greece: Another Bailout?

UK to legalise 3-parent babies?

Blizzard hits US/Canada East Coast

Church history and California Indigenous peoples

“Canada’s Race Problem”

Rest of the world discover’s Chanakya

January 2015 News Links

Updated!!

Critique of capital land-pooling

“Modernism is not rejection of traditional Indian values”

Rohingya in Jammu

10 Wars to Watch in 2015

Tragedy of “One Month Wife Tourism”

Death of Defense Scientists need to be probed

Consequences of foreign funded Evangelism

PK’s anti-Hindu undertone

Carnatic music critic passes away

Congress batting for Pakistan’s Interest

After Paris: Combating Terrorism

Civilian’s massacred by Boko Haram in Nigeria

Freedom of thought and expression: A religious history

Lanka’s new President

Culture

Veena is our National Instrument

Why you need to learn facts and learn how to debate logically

“Those who take education seriously don’t want a joke”

The importance of Civility (sabhyata)

Andhra

Pancakes to pesarattu and poha

Harassed woman rescued from Abu Dhabi

Telangana

Cave Temples of Adilabad

KCR inducts two new secretaries

Rohingya illegal migrants under surveillance in Hyd.

Swine Flu cases reported in Hyderabad

Andhra Pradesh

AP Police deal with spurt in trafficking and extremism

Temporary Capital at Mangalagiri

Krishnapatnam Port on High Alert

Loan Waiver hits Dhan Yojana scheme

India

High uranium content found in Punjab soil

Raju rejects expansion of Emirates & Air Arabia in India

Need real changes not symbolism

St.Stephens college forcing conversion?

Govt. planning central institutes of Indology

Propaganda by any other name…

Pastebin and other sites blocked. Why?

Anatomy of Love Jehad

Water storage and the 2015 Budget

Evangelical militants threaten Northeast Ashrams

BJP keeping all options open in J&K

Asia

Bhutan’s diplomatic relations set to grow with US

Atrocities in Pak against Hindu Women

Brit gov demands Nepal be secular,right to conversion while UK Christian nation

Book on the Bangladesh Genocide

China risks a lost decade

How China sees WWI

Philippine Navy’s Submarine Quest

The Growing Mekong Controversy

World

Why Germans work fewer hours but produce more

British “civilizing mission”

Just the beginning for UK fragmentation?

How Paganism disappeared from Europe

Russian Economy reeling. Signals for global economy?

UN Ebola Chief visits Africa

New Zealand increasingly looking to Asia

Seeds of Doubt

Geopolitical Vision of Alfred Thayer Mahan

December 2014 News Links

Updated!!!

Guntur Techie escapes Sydney hostage tragedy

KCR to setup Cinema City and Sports City

Aadhar in Andhra continues apace

Arsenic in India’s Groundwater affects 7 crore lives

India and the Climate Change Pact

Center issues Take down notices to ISPs

Hindus starving in Pakistani district. Govt. not acting

Pakistan: 99 percent of Hindu girls raped, converted are under 13 years of age

The “Mother of all Debates”

Indian-Americans under Tax Lens

More double standards

Deconstructing Modi’s foreign Policy

The Costs of Equipping a PRC Soldier

India Rebuilds its Navy

The Real reason for “Right to Education”

The Indian Ocean is getting Crowded

Why Congis and Commies crumbled in 2014

Britain returns East of the Suez

Culture

Petrified History

Who was Dharampal?

Showcasing Andhra Pradesh cultural heritage

“Why Sanskrit is indeed a Superior Language”

Insidious Hinduphobia remains global problem

Andhra

“Dream Merchants” of Telugu Land

New bone of contention between Telugu states?

“Must See” Pinakini Gorge at Gandikota, Kadapa

Telangana

Urdu to be official language of Telangana?

 Artist K.Kishan: “”Women are the carriers of our culture and tradition.” 

AP CM’s son booked for Tweet against KCR

BJP Telangana Bachao campaign to start

Andhra Pradesh

AP Capital work to begin in 3 months

Historic Kondapalli Fort to be Renovated

Six Urban nodes to boost IT in AP

Govt. to pursue Casino Culture in AP?

Pollution woes in Vijayawada

India

Why India’s Armed Forced Urgently need an Overhaul

Congress leader calls for ban on “treasonous” MIM

RBI Governor: Fortune not at the bottom of the Pyramid

Rusting Speed Boats and Fewer Cops mean Coastline still exposed

Ramifications of Nuclear Power

“Are Foreigners…abusing Children in the name of providing Education”

The Brutality of the Goa Inquisition

Love Jehad : A real threat?

Politics of Kerala’s Temple Gold

“Moghul Tyrants of India”

Sita Ram Goel: Rishi of Resurgent India

Asia

“China’s Nukes getting Bigger and Better”

Mongolian Culture and its Connection to India

India has ignored Tibet for too long

Economic Issues facing China

View on Sri Lanka’s Elections

Partition remains an issue for Pakistan

Bangladesh Organ Trade

Vietnam growing closer to US due to China

Israel and PRC as economic partners

World

Ebola Death toll climbs to 7,000

“Misguided UN more dangerous than Ebola”

Two Lonely Powers

Nigeria reels under terrorist attacks

“How Oligarchs ruined Greece”

UK to leave EU over unrestricted Immigration?

Labor Trafficking common in the West

World sees WWIII Coming

November 2014 News Links

Updated!!!

Market Borrowing plans Debt trap for Telangana?

Telangana to have world’s tallest tower?

Eminent Scientist calls IT Culture “Intellectual Garbage”

Nellore ideal for Solar Energy

Estimated 15,000 Rohinyas from Bangladesh settled in Hyderabad to do this?

Andhra Betrayed

Sudarshan News blocked by KCR

Pak visitors to Godhra double; Police worried

Funding Problems for AP Capital?

Snapshot of massive Evangelical funding in India

Diplomat under investigation for Pak Espionage

Why expats in India should “Go back and Reform”

Persecuted Hindu Sindhis from Pakistan to get elusive Indian citizenship

“Freezing eggs for your career is like a devil’s bargain!”

Nepal to drop secularism and become a Hindu state again?

“Giving our foes the advantage”

“Asking the right questions to awaken our Past”

China’s foreign policy paying off

State of Emergency in Nigeria?

Europe’s Comet landing makes History

Kissinger writes on the Arthashastra

Culture

A century of Telugu Dance tradition

“Cave Art Caveat”

The Sanskrit Podcast

Whether you have interest in others or not, they have interest in you—learn from that

“Secularism, Colonialism and Indian Intellectuals”

The other side of Sufism

 Carl Sagan on the Value of Hindu Cosmology

The cost of being fashionable

Andhra

Srisailam bring water-power tensions between TS & AP to a head

“Congress-rule destroyed Andhra’s Brand Image”

AP Bifurcation Act: Problems on Either Side

Telangana

Contact your MLA about this

Designer Diyas of Telangana

Drought stalks Telangana

“Hyderabad is AQ Hub”

Andhra Pradesh

Unsecular, disrespectful evangelism at Tirupati

Tribals lynch 3 for Maoist atrocities

Destructive Hudhud clocked as Super Cyclone

AP Capital Decision reasons

India

Bringing the NorthEast closer to North

Air Force warns against use of Xiaomi phones

Govt. U-Turn on Aadhar Card

The sad state of Sabarimala

Tragic Congress Party anti-Sikh “riots” 30 years later

“Love jihad a women’s rights issue”

Govt. launches Six major Labor Schemes

Modi rule an opportunity of Minorities

“Fundamental genomic unity of ethnic India”

Doctrine of graduated escalation

“Time to take down Dawood”

Making India Rich

Asia

China tells Nepal what to Do

 Vietnam as India’s Pivot

Pakistani women exploited as slaves in Dubai

Geopolitics of Nepal’s Federal structure

“Is Abenomics failing Japan?”

Afghanistan: Warlords and Democracy

Japan-China Relations

“Has North Korea quarantined itself?”

World

2014 US Election

On the Attack on Canada’s Parliament

“Democratic Africa gets its first White Leader”

Huge Solar flare from Giant Sunspot

Whose side is Turkey on?

Atheism of west merely another theism in disguise?

Fasting Triggers regeneration of damaged cells

“The seductive power [and drawbacks] of overconfidence”

 Why monogamy, not polygamy, is the ideal for society

 The need for frugal innovation

October 2014 News Links

Updated!!!

Hudhud Aftermath: Vizag slowly moving towards Normalcy

TANA announces $100,000 for cyclone relief

Malnourishment has declined sharply among children in India

Growth focus on 5 Telangana cities

Opposition to Karva Chauth: “another form of control masquerading as rationalism.”

Recent Nobel Prize Awardees”decoded”

“Fanning Minority Fears”

Mamta Banerjee’s Rakshas Raj

China’s reaction to Indian infrastructure on Indian territory

9,000 Ebola cases in W.Africa

Ebola worries in US state of Texas continue

“Extreme fear in Stock market”

Government Bubble of Massive Size

Who Owns Space?

Culture

The importance of cultural (soft) power, whether for desh or pradesh

Moral Relativism of Neo-Secularism

Exploring Yoga’s cultural appropriation

A new idea of India

Andhra

The continuing tragedy of Telugu workers in the Gulf

Telangana

Bathukamma, Dasara turn Hyderabad colourful

“Large MNC finding it hard to stay put in Telangana”

Banks agree to give fresh crop loans in TS

Lakes of Hyderabad on the verge of Vanishing

“Why controversies continue to stalk chief minister KCR”

Andhra Pradesh

Pomp of Dasara festivities

Villagers upset on announcement of land acquisition

“AP gets a power boost from Centre”

 District/town/city-wise FCRA-Orgs of AP

Srikakulam to be a Pharma hub

India

“The Wanton Treachery of NDTV”

Why you should boycott “Haidar”

GOI Diplomatic blunder on Tibet?

Pakistanis in India’s serials, Hindi films, now even its Parliament…

The “Mystery” around Trinamool’s MP

Assam flood disaster continues

Why Kashmir is not Scotland

When will India bring this up at the UN?

“Wasting a mandate”

Rating Narendra Modi’s US trip

Aamir Khan insults Hindu temple with footwear

Why are Hyderabad groups playing with Karnataka’s/Maharashtra’s history?

Meanwhile, Karnataka celebrated what Telangana curiously refused to…

India’s Mars Mission–A Cultural & Historical Perspective

What is being done to prepare for this possibility?

Spreading love or hate?

Demography is Destiny

More on GMO: Safe for consumption?

Children from Bengal & Bihar being trafficked to Kerala “orphanages”

Asia

Putting PRC President’s visit into Perspective

Underground tunnel emanating from Pakistan

Good idea or bad idea?

Hong Kong Protests continue

China: Asia’s Water Hegemon

Concerns regarding radicalization in Nepal

Constitutional Monarchy Must be Restored in Nepal

Vietnam prepping for confrontation

Crimes against Yazidis continue in Iraq

Syria under siege by IS

World

Concerns grow as Ebola reaches US (Texas)

What Scotland vote says about England, underneath the veneer

“The Scottish vote was a class war and the rich won”

Guyana wants police probe over hacked emails

Kenya and South Africa march for disappearing Rhinos and Elephants

Your education doesn’t stop after graduation

Trafficking of Inuit children?

Feminism destroying feminity and masculinity?

“What kind of men are we?”

‘”Why marijuana users end up feeling worse”

Blue light from electronics disturbs sleep

September 2014 News Links

Updated!!!

Carnatic prodigy Uppalapu “Mandolin” Srinivas passes away

Subramaniam Swamy: Govt should leave Mgmt of Tirupati

“Media’s Love Jehad denial”

Dip in desi cow numbers vs imported foreign breeds

“Antony touches raw Secular Nerve”

Rightward shift in Dalit Politics?

Modi visit to Japan a “resounding success”

China’s bearhugging of India

TRS accused of Appeasement over non-celebration of Liberation Day

BJP poor show in Bypolls impacts alliance with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra

Resistance to central nod to GM field trials

NRIs may find it easier to invest in India

Withdrawal of Chinese Incursion begins as Chinese President’s India trip comes to end

Forced conversions continue in Bangladesh

Plight of Pakistani Hindus

Investigation into Horrific Rotterham case in UK continues

Scotland Referendum Result: No to Independence from UK

5,000 Dead in Central African Republic religious violence

Secularization vs. Secularism

Sufism, fashionable or faux syncretism?

“Decoding Hindutva and Hindu Rashtra”

Culture

India’s Culture, Society, and Economy

Where are the Sanskrit Speakers?

72 Valmikis reconvert to Hinduism

A New Indian Historical Perspective

Review of ‘American Veda’ by Subra

“Dispelling the Myth of Akbar the Great”

Aryan Invasion Theory continues to crumble in the wake of science/logic

Secularism and Theology

Andhra

Beloved Telugu artist/cartoonist/director Bapu Passes Away

Heavy Rainfall in both Telugu States

Telangana

Appalling crimes of MIM supported Snake Gang

How is this anti-national an MP of India’s Parliament?

State recommends Bharat Ratna for PV Narasimha Rao

oh what a tangled web we weave…

Telangana to boost tree cover by 8%

KCR’s curious, questionable doles continue

Andhra Pradesh

AP Capital to be between Vijayawada & Guntur

Naidu’s water plan for AP

Nalsar type school for AP capital region

Dam repair warnings not being heeded

State Funeral for Bapu garu

Ram Gopal Varma charged for disrespectful tweets on Lord Ganesha

India

Equal rights for all

Plight of the KP’s

AMU threatens to cancel student polls

Omar’s silence on unethical cancellation of Kausar Nag Yatra telling

GM Crops and India

“Love Jihad” finally discussed by Mainstream Media

Saraswati, Ganga, and India’s Vanishing Rivers

“Country’s defence preparedness is the best Guarantee for Peace”

Racism higher in Delhi

Taste of things to come?

RBI Planning to Introduce Plastic Currency notes soon

Kerala model at work again…

UP Rakshas Raj

Army officer in Jail for 6 years without trial

Bank Accounts for All. Externalities?

Clashes at border continue

 Modi trips hailed a success

India’s unethical and shameless mainstream media

Asia

 China’s social strategy in Tibet

No More democracy in Hong Kong?

Slow motion coup in the state of Pakistan

Indonesia’s new President

Japan’s Cultural Influence grows in India

Qatar financing ISIS?

Even Al Jazeera covering issue of Kidnapping/Forced conversions of Hindu Women

Look at what Pakistanis are doing in UK—still want to import their actors, Bollywood?

Genocide of Yazidis, Christians, and Shias continues by ISIS in Iraq/Syria

World

1914, 2014: The Similarities

Increasingly popular Programming languages

Brought to you by the BBC

End of the Gaza War

Latin America’s terrible Prisons

Major cinematic epic of South American anti-colonial Hero

Ukraine clashes increasing

Food for thought from the “New Generation” by the “New Generation”

Ebola epidemic spirals in W. Africa

“How Feminism betrayed Women”

Exploring the nature of GM

London the child abuse capital of the world?

What is your language strategy?Need for local language doesn’t go in Global Economy

Secularism and Hindutva: An American View of Indian Politics

August 2014 News Links

Updated!!!

“Math Teaching in India is Robotic, need to make it Creative”

Pictures from India’s Independence Day

Kerala model of secularism

“Will be Hitler if need be: Telangana CM”

Why only Tirupati Temple depositing Gold with SBI?

Samajwadi rule in UP oppressing Dalits

The many health benefits of walking

Drought in America’s West Coast continues

Behind the scenes in the Meerut case

Where is the media outrage?

“Pluralism vs Secular Fundamentalism”

English language debate: Turkey vs India

Concerns about “Intensive Survey”

RBI loans to AP & Telangana being recast

Phir “hyderabad ka dil”…

KP’s denied their rights by Kashmiriyat again

Over half of JNU women facing harassment

Kerala and old AP criticized for malignant tourism

Progressive minority groups meet PM to tackle regressive laws

Ecologist’s view of GM

Surat showing how Industry can efficiently use water

ISI linked Rohingyas gathering near capital

First ISI now ISIS…

Be careful on social media

“BJP is not rewriting history”

Another deep incursion in Ladakh–storm brewing?

Forced conversion in Pakistan continues unabated

Govt to expedite applications of Hindu refugees from Sindh

Ebola toll tops 1200 in West Africa

Plight of Iraq’s Yazidis

Clash inevitable in Ukraine?

“Just how likely is another World War?”

Pictures from Krishna Janmashtami

Another blow to Colonial AIT/AIM theory

OM in the Mandukya Upanishad

Culture

Festival of Culture & Spirituality

Carnatic Music in Cleveland

Silent philanthropy part of Hinduism

Hindu texts Not to blame for Sanitation Crisis

Some are learning Sanskrit to distort Hinduism…

Importance of (healthy) innovation in food

Andhra

Tragedy: United Andhra Pradesh ranked second in country for flesh trade

Yet another reason why Telugus are selfish, self-centered lazy bums…

Telugu workers stranded in Libya

Non-locals have rights in Telangana

Telangana

Eminent Telanganite Telugu author and literary critic passes away

“What if Shiv Sena had sought nativist policy?”

What is brewing in Telangana?

Anti-Nationals praise TRS’ K.Kavita seditious statement

Hyderabad metro sets record

Why Hyderabad needs central policing

Andhra Pradesh

READ: Polavaram Ordinance

AP farmers to be declared defaulters amidst waiver promise?

Dangers of poor infrastructure

State govt. should decide on new capital

India

Why are Pakistanis being cast in Indian movies and serials—and that too as leads? Why do our stupids still watch?

Government dallying with GMO flayed

India’s WTO veto and Food Security

Proving yet again why TOI is actually SOI…

India’s Space diplomacy

Unemployment in India increasing

Why is Pakistani channel promoted in India when Indian movies/channels banned there?

Direct Threat to India

Plastic waste turned into 3D printer material

Problems with current Urdu press?

BSP/SP model being exported to B’lore

Rafale a big mistake?

Gender ratio in India worsening

What Saharanpur says about the Media

Tensions in Kerala village

“Natwar Singh: ‘Venomous Sonia treated like Royalty in India'”

S.Swamy to speak in National Herald case

Madhya Pradesh govt rehabilitates persecuted Hindu refugees from Bangladesh

Equate Facts with Fiction on SC Status to Converts

Foreign funded NGO’s halting development?

Maoist leader convicted in Swami Laxmananda murder case

Pune landslide

Asia

For all the “they’re people just like us, yaar” morons

“The flight of the Redback”

Bengali Hindus specifically targeted by Pak army in 1971 Bangladesh Genocide

“5,000 Hindus flee Pakistan every year due to Persecution”

Thailand -Myanmar Axis?

S.Korea’s ruling party does well in by-polls

Buddhism & Hinduism banned in Kuwait

China and Asia’s regional order

Japan and Internationalization

Gaza ceasefire collapses

World

European oppression of Roma minorities continues

Hinduphobia and The Times

Ebola crisis in West Africa

Ukraine-Russia clash and the End of Globalization

Gene Drives and Bio-ethics

Land Grab by Gulf Countries

Canada’s Indigenous People’s social experiment

“Why I am no longer a European”

Love People not Pleasure

July 2014 News Links

Updated!!!

Forgetting Uttarkashi, Centre allows development on forest land

The emergence of the BRICS Development Bank

Don’t be fooled. Appearances can be deceiving

PM Modi’s plan for Kashmiri Pandits

Whither Kashmiriyat? Pandit migration plan opposed by Kashmiri “moderates”

Cleanse the system, but don’t throw out the baby with the bath water

“India’s foreign policy wake up call”

Progressive women calling for MPL Reform

TRS Bandh on Polavaram Ordinance

“An Ancient Sport, not Savagery”

Ram Madhav joins BJP

How India is learning from China

ISIS and the big U

India under threat

Japan, China, and the Koreas

War in East Asia likely?

“Bowing to the Mafia”

Food for thought…literally

Scotland to leave UK?

Gaza Conflict to continue after Humanitarian Truce

Storm clouds in Ukraine

Korean evangelists and Buddhist Temples

Not Possible to Have it All?

Culture

What happens when we don’t correctly teach and instill pride in Telugu culture

Why tolerance alone isn’t good enough–need “mutual respect”

“Why Lord Shiva is worshipped in form of shivling”

Will government dismantle network of anti-Hindu intellectual poseurs?

The urgent need to restore accurate Indian History

Importance of proper education of Girls

Andhra

Telangana

Something Telangana and Seemandhra can finally agree on

Supreme Court refuses to stay Bifurcation

Warangal fort to become UNESCO site

Water wars between brothers begin

Division of assets between two states completed

Andhra Pradesh

Tourists ditching Hyderabadi Biryani for Andhra Avakaya

Is it right for spiritual town to become IT center?

United AP recorded 2nd highest number of Cyber crimes

Andhra Pradesh Capital in Amaravati?

Toll rises to 19 in yet another refinery fire in India…

India

Will Assam turn into Kashmir or Bosnia?

Be careful of where you donate charity

Allegations against priests continue

Kashmiriyat = Communal Exclusivism?

Rajan stalling Economic Reforms?

Police reform Immediately needed in India

Violence against TN Hindu leaders unabated

Importance of Affordable pharma

“Justice” activist found to have committed injustice against Tribals

Lawlessness increasing

Multi-state probe in Kerala trafficking case

Trinamool Goonda raj gunning down BJP workers?

Remember the Bengal Holocaust

Asia

Suffering of the Voiceless …

Sri Lankan riots between Buddhists and Muslims continue

“Secularism/Insaniyat” only 1 way street in Malaysia?

China speeds up oil stockpiling

…Chinese map shows Arunachal Pradesh in their territory

China testing Indian waters in Ladakh

Japan to normalize and undo Pacifist Article 9 for national defense

46 Indian Nurses in ISIS custody…why wasn’t this avoided?

US leaving Afghanistan, turns to India

The next time one of the bozos say “But they’re ppl just like us, yaar”…show this

What happened to Pakistan’s Hindu Temples?

Trouble ahead between Israel and Palestine?

“Welcome to Stanistan”?

Caliphate declared in northern Iraq

World

“Systemic Risk worse than 2008”

Attacks against Roma (Gypsies) in Europe continue

Anti-Semitism in France spawning exodus

Why it’s important to properly understand history & economics

Women’s Rights: A view from America

Ebola epidemic sweeping West Africa

Rise in disorders due to increase in toxins?

Canadian genocide?

Questions remain in Ireland case

Brazil’s President Roussef renominated by Party for October Election

June 2014 News Links

Updated!!!

Army Chief: Indian Army not War-ready

Violence against BJP partyworkers continues unabated

What is Trinamool harboring?

After W.Bengal, Tamil Nadu

Trouble brewing in “God’s Own Country”

KCR demands 12% reservation for Telangana minorities

Defense projects vs FDI

China’s drive against unauthorized GMO labs

Atheism growing in Saudi Arabia

Church scandal in Ireland worsens

IB Alerts over NGOs

Asinine to the nth degree.Everyone knows once growth, land demand results in expansion

Background to Pune violence

Arabs exploiting Kerala minor girls

Kerala Orphanages turn out to be dens of exploitation

Justice is not vindictiveness

To all the idiots who keep praising british rule

Wages of the World Cup

Politics of the Modi Cabinet

Food for thought for the deracinated. All the glitters is not gold.

Hindi effect for SAARC leaders

A Tripolar World?

Telangana walks away with Education Honors

Who Supported Sanskrit and Who Opposed Sanskrit?

South Asian Strategic realignment?

On Telangana’s Birth

Competing Nationalisms to lead to familiar scenario?

Party thugs beat Dalit to death to divulge vote

How is this party even recognized by the Government?

“Intellectuals” and Anti-Nationals

“Speaking Hindi: How Modi is putting the Indianness back in India”

Culture

Sinking Telugu Literature

Do Telugus even know how they would be described?

Secularism already in Dharma’s dna. Others should lecture less, practice more.

Why we must be way of deconstruction: leads to knowing more&more about less&less

Blinded by Ideology

Status of “Aryan Invasion Theory”

Logic and Buddhist Philosophy

Andhra-origin politician facing racial opposition in US house race?

Andhra

United Andhra Pradesh officially Bifurcated

Telangana CM sworn in

TRS President has roots in Andhra

Razakar MIM party gives support to TRS government, demands changes to logo/culture

BJP’s poor showing in Telangana

Royalty turned Pilot turned Aviation Minister

Brewing water problems in Hyderabad, rest of region

Bifurcation casts shadow on a United Tollywood

Vijayawada-Guntur Naidu’s Choice for new AP capital

Telangana to have 14 new districts?

The Politics of Polavaram

India

On Maharana Pratap Singhji and the Heroes of Haldighati

New Parliament sworn in before grand, subcontinental audience

Strategic assessment of Modi Victory

“Farooq Abdullah responsible for exodus of Pandits from Kashmir”

Mumbai water source levels getting dangerously low

Advice to new PM

“Modi should scrap section 66-A”

Congress ally showing “secularism” in action

UP’s caste based party driving caste based lawlessness

Hundreds of Hindu temples in Kashmir destroyed since KP exodus

Mahatma’s descendant says Nehru-Gandhis are Fake Gandhis

Remains of Ancient City found in Chattisgarh

Madhya Pradesh CM shows way to revival of regional high culture

Goa CM warns of communalism spread by foreign appointed priests

Previous Government’s political pressure in sensitive cases

Rise in suicide among men due to false dv cases

Farmers in Chennai protest GM

No fly Zone proposed over Padmanabhaswamy Temple

The Problem with Mishra and Roy

“Evidence proves Ishrat Jahan was an LeT member”

Possible Ramifications of blocking seedy online content

Illegal coal mines in India

On 100%FDI in everything

Asia

Five Hindu schoolchildren abducted in Balochistan

Pakistanis call for culture of dialogue within their society

Pak’s hatred for Hindus

Narendra Modi’s double edged for China

Sri Lanka’s Rajapakse and the Tamil Diaspora

Afghanistan and India and the Election

India-China Maritime Dynamic

Economic storm ahead in China?

Tensions in SCS continue

Coup in Thailand

World

Canada used famine to clear out Native peoples

Violence in Ukraine continues

British police characterized as “racist”

 UK refuses to extradite Brit child molester for trial in India

Presidential Election in Egypt

Voluntary Disarmament calls in CAR

Latinos Leaving the Church

Gangs rule Brazil’s Favelas

On the US Economy

Educate children early about dangers of vice

Monotheism in the Age of Globalism

May 2014 News Links

Updated!

An incredible Win for Narendra Modi

Tsunamo flattens Congress, destroys Vote Bank politics”

“Why Chandrababu got it Right this time”

TRS to form first government of Telangana

Modi focus to be on facing China?

Why evm’s are still a concern

Why crime rates against Kerala children a concern

Tollywood not keen on shifting base from Hyderabad

5,000 Pakistani Hindus fleeing to India each year

India fails to boost science budget

What is happening in W.Bengal?

What a Uniform Civil Code actually means

“India could be Asia’s first cruelty free cosmetics zone”

Andhra churches on Lok Sabha elections

Hindu temple to have woman, BC priests

Religious Pluralism is beauty of Indian secularism

China-Vietnam clash in South China Sea

Mining Disaster in Turkey causes public outrage

Qatar World Cup is Human Rights Catastrophe

Regional moves against Boko Haram after Abductions?

Religious Faultlines in Ukraine

Culture

Hindus moving beyond casteism

On saving one’s Mother Tongue

Why the bad press?

An additional explanation

Teaching Pluralism & Tolerance the Dharmic Way

If French can make language relevant why can’t Indians?

Mahabharata link at Old Fort?

‘Kashmiriyat’=Ethnic Cleansing/Oppression. Shouldn’t lecture on secularism…

Andhra

How is this fellow out and campaigning after his hate speech last year?

Will Telangana address it’s own North-South divide?

Dynastic politics in land of Telugus

Wakf board facing defamation case

Fate of AIDS patients in AP

Andhra-origin judge to be first Delhi HC Chief Justice

Arabs tourists “marrying” underage girls in Hyderabad

Plight of Chittoor farmer

Super rich and Andhra politics

India

Rebirth of Nalanda

Regarding ‘Fascism’

1962: The View from Beijing

Counter to 1962 PRC propaganda

Insider’s view of Indian PMO

“The Gathering Storm”

Youth Congress leader murdered

BJP’s ‘other’ Chief Ministers

Head of NAC withdrew $10B from foreign accts

“Secular” Bollywood’s fake Secular Diatribes

Tamil author insulted by ‘Secular’ brigade

Will kashmiri separatists protest this as well or selective outrage?

Defective Pune EVM

 Opinions on Cricket

A party that for Minority AND Majority

Gujarat Development Indicators

Maneka Gandhi questions Sister-in-Law’s Wealth

Why Congress brand of ‘Secularism’ has no room for KP’s

Wealth of Padmanabha Swamy Temple being stolen by bankrupt Kerala Model

Economists vs. Swadeshi

Asia

Pakistan’s crimes in Balochistan echo their 1971 Genocide against Bengalis

Dalai Lama inspires Japanese to focus on ‘Inner Values’

Espionage and Leading Universities

Coping with Asymmetry at the Border

Water reclamation and Water Management

Politics of Myanmar

1000 minority girls targeted each year for kidnapping

Japan orders Military to down N.Korea missiles

Modern Day Rome vs Carthage?

Why are so many Elderly Asians killing themselves

Real reason for PRC carriers?

And the world’s largest Christian country soon to be…

Japan ship seized…more trouble brewing?

World

Genocide in Canada

Turnaround CEO for religious institution?

Small business owners & raising the Minimum wage

Who calls the shots in a democracy?

NYTimes asks, “When is foreign aid meddling?”

Far right continues rising in Europe

Who is eating the Middle class’ lunch?

Rwandan genocide and Vatican apologies

9 million female rape victims in EU

“UK has the most delusional drinkers”

Why is it ok for UK to be Christian nation, but can tell India to be secular? Hypocrisy?

Scottish Separation movement

The EU, the Irish, and the Greeks

OWS, Capitalism, and the World

April 2014 News Links

Updated!

High Stakes Elections poker in Andhra

Be wary and beat back propaganda on 1962

MJ Akbar on why he joined BJP

‘Why I will not Vote for Nandan Nilekani’

Communal Clashes Soar in W. Bengal

Girl punished in convent school for playing Holi

Saving secularism from the Secularists

India’s eroding Naval strength

Real story on Ishrat Jahan case

Ancient Indian economy right, Chidambaram wrong

Anti-national Congress shows its true colors

‘Sweeping mood for Poriborton’

China’s Renewable Energy Opportunity

200 Nigerian school girls abducted by Boko Haram

UN Peacekeepers headed to CAR

Strong Earthquake rattles Nicaragua

Russian Economy hammered by Money drain

Lunar Tetrad: 1 Blood moon down, 3 to go

Water scarcity drives Smarter Use in US

Culture

Insight for Andhra fashion

What can be learnt from Batra vs Doniger

India’s artificially changing religious demography

‘Eminent Historians’ clueless, Charity and integral part of Hinduism

We have lost the Connection with our Heritage

Hindu-Americans are not writing off Sanskrit

What makes one an Intellectual

Before accepting critique, ask “who is qualified to judge”

‘In defense of the Indian Male’

‘Nostalgia Must not Define Nalanda’

Andhra

Naidu gaining fast in Seemandhra

‘Pawan Kalyan’s outburst scripted’

TDP-BJP seat sharing deal

Massive fire in Tirumala Hills–where was Government?

‘Owaisi brothers accused in various Criminal Cases’

Sigh of the Middle class  

Andhra Pradesh Constituency Watch

India

Army running low on Ammunition

‘Kerala resort for Terror’

Nilekani’s Aadhar card sold for money

RTI Activists dead. Blames 50 honchos

Why Aadhar was a bad idea

M.J. Akbar’s critics should explain their Obstinacy

‘Move away from Politics of Fear’

When constructive and well-intentioned, criticism is a good thing

‘Loyalty to your country is Non-negotiable’

Army predicted 1962 Attack by Chinese

‘The country’s Moral fiber is under attack’

Revamp understanding of Economics

India’s external debt quadrupled under UPA

‘Why Tharoor not Booked’

Wife of Professor whose hand was Chopped off now dead

Bankrupt Kerala Government eyes Temple wealth…so much for “Kerala Model”

‘Why the Economist loves AAP and why we should not’

India PCs infected by Malware

Sabyasachi Panda and AAP: Soul Mates?

How the UPA destroyed Education

Real story of the Riots

Asia

Why these two are so Similar

Mob targets Hindu Temple/Sikh Gurudwara in Pak

Over 900 Workers have died building Qatar’s facilities

Myanmar’s Rohingya influx a brewing Crisis

More trouble brewing

The Fate of Pak’s Hindus

Next time people say: “Everything started with Babri”

Effects of China’s desperate need for Water

The Battle for Water

China’s defense budget 4x India’s

Saudi Royal Politics and its Influence

The Elephant vs The Shark

Managing China

Syria conflict toll over 150,000

World

Massive 8.2 Quake in Chile. Tsunami warning. Aftershocks in California?

1/3 of EU Women suffer Abuse

General women’s abuse in India among World’s Lowest

Evangelism in America

Australia’s approach to Drought

Graduate School debt a Crisis

Because Europe is so secular…

Global values not same as Western values?

Half of US B-school programs could go bust by 2020

Handing over the Keys to the Internet

Churchill’s Secret War

Impending Asset Price Bubble

Margin Debt

View on the Pope

Secure Internet and SXSW

EU Launches CAR operation

Flashpoint in Ukraine

‘More Sitcom than Centcom’

Frack this

London: A city of Greed and Inequality

March 2014 News Links

Updated!

‘Perfect Storm for Inflation could Rock the Market’

India Imperiled

India’s defense left in a mess

‘Indians want political Change

Dual citizenship dilemmas for politicians and policy makers

Hard road ahead for Seemandhra

Pawan Kalyan launches party

TRS rebuffs Congress

The North also rises

India’s Independence Lesson: Speak softly, but carry a Big Stick

Cost of Anti-Hindu Congress rule

Nehru-Gandhis discriminating against Hindus

Congress destroying democracy?

Delhi sultans continuing to dictate to Andhra

Teesta Setalvad raised perjury to artform

Vishkanyas sow seeds of poison

AAP welcomes maoist murderer to party

Is AAP party of the extreme left?

Muzaffarnagar’s instigating rioters

Taste of things to come?

Power without Responsibility/Responsibility without Power

Water problems for ‘Kerala Model’

Referendum in Balochistan?

Consequences of water irresponsibility in China

Lanka’s growing links with China

China gains from Russia-US Face-Off

Tensions in SCS may lead to Limited War

Venezuela instability in the aftermath of Ukraine

Peter Hitchens on Russian Intervention

Churchill & Hitler are birds of a feather

Double-speak by Debutantes

There is a difference between constructive criticism & defamation

ASI’s assault on Shankaracharya Hill

Fmr. President Kalam slams Sen

Culture

The Color Run and Appropriation of Holi

Indra’s Net

Linguistic Racism rules India

The Colonisation of the Mind

Dalrymple’s Colonial legacy

Untangling the Knot

L’affaire Doniger: the full story

Selective protests by “secularists”

Princeton western woman’s Advice for modern Indian girls

Andhra

The Mysterious Lok Sabha blackout

The real winners in Telangana debacle

Full Text of Bifucation Bill

Video on Andhra history

Andhra cop who died fighting Naxals honored

“Hyderabad ka dil hai…”

State division forces MLAs to switch parties

More scamgress bribery

Dacoits active in Hyderabad outskirts

At last, the mask falls, and the true agenda is revealed

India

Andaman Islands under Serious Threat

‘Salman Khurshid’s impotent rage’

Don’t Trust the Polls

Is India an NGO Raj?

More NGOs than policemen in India

Mystery continues to shroud Sunanda Pushkar case

Why coalitions are Ravana Raj

Attacks on Hindu leaders in TN & Kerala continue

“Can India be Cunning?”

UPA has failed to check Kashmiri separatists

Vote Bank nonsense continues

Asia

450 Indian migrants dead in Qatar

Saudi atrocities against Indians

China Training for Short, Sharp War

China-Pakistan Corridor project resumes

Forced conversions of Pakistani Hindus continues

Pakistani oppression of Baluchistan

Goodbye Taiwan

 Political turmoil continues in Thailand

Racial tensions in Singapore

Indo-Japanese ties continue to rise

World

Crimean tinderbox in Ukraine

Ancient Vishnu murthy found in Russian village

Italy’s new Machiavelli

Rome the Next Detroit?

Catalonian Separatism in Spain

European discrimination against Roma worsens

Wall Street ajeeb lagta hai

Upendra Chivakula in US House Race

Quebec’s Identity Crisis

Destabilizing protests in Venezuela

World Fish stocks dangerously depleting

Life is a video game, this is your guide    

February 2014 News Links

Updated!

Congress changing traditional religious demographics in another “A.P” too

The Left Paved the way to Illiberalism in India

Is Economic Rationality Returning?

Sleepwalking Economy

What happened to Kashmiri Pandits in 1990

Idiots…cutting off the nose to spite the face…

Political Expediency cannot guide the creation of States

 If Narasimha Rao were PM

How modern “historians” write about India

The cost of Scamgress rule

Is it secular when only Hindu Temples are under Govt. control?

Which party will be more Pro-Women

Congress dirty tricks department on overdrive

Gulbarg Society urges Judges not to Support Teesta

Drug abuse commonplace in India’s colleges

Nothing sacred about Article 370

United Opposition blocks Communal Bill

Issues with Aadhar card

Hindus of Bangladesh

China giving refuge to Anti-India ultra

Dalai Lama asks China to learn from India

‘France’s unwanted Roma’

Tens of Thousands of Muslims flee Christian militias in CAR

15 Indian inventions that shaped the Modern World

Plastic Bags the new Petroleum?

Solar water pumps for drip irrigation

Chemicals in Whole Grain Bread

Anti-GM groups challenge PM

Culture

The Philosophical Unity and Antiquity of Hinduism

Lessons from Chanakya

Current Trends not healthy for our Culture

Dalai Lama: “RSS an Inspiration”

India now world’s largest beef exporter

Andhra

Akkineni Nageshwar Rao Honored and Remembered

P.V.Narasimha Rao proposed for Bharat Ratna

Telangana in February?

AP Assembly rejects Telangana Bill–President to approve?

Relaunch of Chiru’s PRP?

What would Microsoft be like with Satya Nadella as CEO?

MIM shows true intention, changes view, ties up with TRS

India

An honest IAS officer in Congress-ruled India

Large-scale violence against hindus in W.Bengal

The continuing plight of the Kashmiri Pandit

“Congress Politics is Brazenly Anti-Hindu”

Operation Bluestar Revisited

UIDAI and Indian National Security

Northeast India to have surplus power soon

Media distorting AFSPA?

Noorani defaming Sardar Patel?

A 2014 Agenda for the BJP

Delhiwallas giving another PR coup to anti-nationals in NorthEast Tragedy…

Anupam Kher: Disillusioned with the AAP

Why Muzzafarnagar Burns

Cyberspace Freedom and India

Doctors on Sunanda Pushkar

The lying lies of Teesta Setalvad

Asia

Hindus in Bangladesh fear for their Future

Asia’s Partnership: India and Japan

Japanese WWII soldier who refused to surrender dies, honored

Space Race between China & India

The Yuan is Coming

China’s claims violate International Law

Chinese Bridge, Indian Security Nightmare

Breakup of Thailand on the cards?

Madagascar President backed by Strongman

Continued unraveling in Iraq

World

Market to tumble at least 15%?

85 Richest People own Half the World

Merger between US and it’s largest neighbor?

L’Affaire Hollande

UN grills Vaticans on Child Abuse Allegations

Separatism in Northern Italy

UK Child Abuse Ring busted

Scottish Independence and the Debt Question

Passion for Vodka harming Russian men

Civil Disorder in Ukraine

Large Scale Violence in Central African Republic

Krugman: Paranoia of the Plutocrats

Global elites and the World’s Future

College still the key to Social Mobility?

Dangerous Cyber groups of which to be wary

Stephen Roach: Economic Recovery a False Dawn

January 2014 News Links

Updated Links!

Aam Admi Party communal?

Andhra Pradesh Tops in Human Trafficking cases

State of Andhra Pradesh has no Idea where public money went

No Security in Girls’ hostels

More violence against women in Hyderabad

 India’s next PM needs to have Big Ideas

Shinde playing Vote Bank Politics

Japanese Researches break new ground on Indus-Saraswati Civilization

 ”UPA’s driving wedge between Jains and Hindus”

Congress and Constitutional Coups

“India targets expatriates’ privileges at U.S. club amid dispute over diplomat’s arrest”

Devyani indicted, returns to India; US diplomat asked to leave India

Has the word “secular” lost all meaning?

Fury of the Meekest

India can’t afford AAP ka government learning on the job

 Chinese Troops enter Ladakh every 14 days

 India and Cybersecurity

 ”Congress Crimes circa 2013″

 ”AAP’s Opportunism and Congress Decadence”

“Khaas Admi Party”

India’s Election Commission EVM’s reliable?

India’s Gulf expats jobless, hoodwinked

Another Angle to India-US diplomatic Row

Teesta Setalvad charged with Misappropriations during Gujarat Riots proceedings

Bangladesh Hindus under Threat

Plight of the Baloch

How the College Student Loan Bubble will Pop

“Everything Will Be Tracked”

 China ADIZ in Arunachal Pradesh?

Saudi royal Major shareholder of Twitter—kindred spirit appointed for twitterIndia

Ariel Sharon’s Legacy

Afghanistan-Pakistan Covert War

 ”Europeans United in Hating Europe”

Facebook Account Activity and Online Privacy

Western Sahara in 2014

China’s Burgeoning Graduate Pool short on Jobs

The US-China Relationship

“House of Saud’s main Export”

 Hindus and Buddhists Marginalized at United Nations

The World’s Retirement Crisis

Global Conflicts to watch in 2014

 Asia Trends in 2014

The Next 50 years

Culture

Gita is the gist of the Vedas & Upanishads

Bhartruhari: Poet-King and Sanskrit Scholar

Academic Hinduphobia

The Great University of Vikramshila

Misappropriation of Sanskrit led to disaster

Andhra

Telangana bills slated for Rajya Sabha

Bureaucracy prepares for AP Bifurcation

Seers oppose Islamic college on Temple Land

AP Train Disaster

Pepsico investing Rs. 1200 Cr in new Andhra Plant

India

Kashmiri Hindu on bitter Pandit experience in Kashmir

The Untold Jat story from the Muzzafarnagar Riots

Letter to an Indian Nanny in New York

Devyani’s Husband an American “Wine Philosopher”

Chinese Troops again illegally camped in India’s Ladakh region

LCA Tejas a game changer

“Missionaries in India”

Babbar Khalsa militant arrested in US

Lesson from L’Affaire Devyani

Effect of Missionary Activity in India

Human trafficking and pornography linked

India and Superpowerdom

Asia

Amnesty fears attacks on Bangladeshi Hindus

“The Chinese Art of Creeping Warfare”

Rising Tide of India Japan Relation

How to Prevent a Sino-Japanese War

Lebanese Army fires on Syrian Aircraft

UAE major aid Provider to Pakistan

Deadly clashes in Bangladesh

500 Municipal Chinese Lawmakers Resign in Corruption Scandal

Little India Riot in Singapore

World

World marching toward Anarchy?

US India Relations affected by “Nannygate”

An American’s view on Nannygate

Breach of Vienna Convention

Legalization doesn’t make it Safer

Jimmy Carter on Making Peace in Syria

3 Indian Peacekeepers fall in South Sudan

500 die in South Sudan Clashes

Russia-India Relationship

Top 5 Naval Battles of All Time

40 million shoppers’ credit card data stolen from Target

“Why Putin and Xi should be more like Bismarck”

Desecularization of Britain?

Fighting continues in Central African Republic

Brazil cancels Major US Jet deal in political dispute

Cyprus economic Bailout

Germany committed to Fixing Eurozone

December 2013 News Links 

Updated!

AP Congress govt. openly violating secularism 

“Fatwas ban outsiders’ entry into Rameshwaram Villages”

Telangana Morass Continues

Congress Routed in State Elections

Chinese patrol violates LAC and briefly abducts 5

China Cyberwar on Tibetans

India SC upholds IPC 377

Dirty Secrets of the British Empire

China’s Encroachment in ECS

Congress using Aadhar to admit Bangladeshi illegals?

“What is this Kashmiriyat?”

Article 370 Discriminatory and undemocratic

Indian “Elites” out of touch with Poor

India’s Shrill “Elites”

Afghan presence to continue

Impact of Nelson Mandela

Racism continues in South Africa

France and Civic Integration

Gandhianism and India’s Example

Turkey to turn famed Hagia Sophia Church into Mosque

America to get tough with China?

Punjabi girls pushed into UK flesh trade?

Civic disappointment in the US

Scientists: Universe has not beginning and no end

Congress Communal Violence Bill shows Anti-Hindu motives

Pusillanimous PM leads to diplomatic shame

Communal Violence Bill Dissected

Lokpal won’t make any positive difference

 The need for stringent checks on India’s Nepali Border

Bali Food Trade Negotiation

India world’s second largest exporter of beef…

China to reduce US Treasury Purchases

Bangladesh executes Razakar involved in ’71 Genocide of Hindus

Border Issues

Purge in North Korea

Culture

The Importance of Language and Languages

The Hindu legal tradition

Misguided Sanskrit  Phobia

Importance of a Values Education

Teach next generation to navigate web safely

Andhra

BJP against Owaisi’s “Rayala Telangana”

5000 Foreign students in Andhra Pradesh

Bill on Telangana Drafted for Winter Session

Congress Rayala-Telangana for poll gains and Owaisi Appeasement

Old Telugu capitals to be new capital of a Seemandhra state?

Congress govt in Andhra breaching Secularism?

India

“Why the Gandhis need to come clean on their Wealth”

Omar Abdullah tries to cover J&K’s discrimination against Women

Sardar Patel had vision for border states and India’s Security

CBI begins probe in Ratangarh Temple Stampede tragedy

Congress Polarizing Nation with Anti-Hindu Communal Violence Bill

Aam Admi Party really Con Admi Party?

Tehelka Shame

India’s concerning food supply prognosis

India’s defense scientists in danger?

Kudankulam Tragedy

“Congress’ divide and rule mentality”

Asia

“Irredentist China ups the Ante”

China’s invented claim on Arunachal Pradesh

Maoists convincingly rejected by Nepali people

Pakistan selects new Chief of Army staff

Questions over reported Bangladeshi purchase of Chinese subs

Bangladesh’s vanishing Hindus: 9 lakh decrease in past 10 years

The Japanese public’s concerns over new bill and freedom of information

Vietnam-India relations Mutually Beneficial

Update on Iran-US deal

Significance of Japanese Emperor’s visit to India

World

Future Parallels to WWI?

Nobel Prize Winner on troubling Global Bubble

Cultural Anthropology of West

Italy and the post-Berlusconi Years

Increased Human  trafficking in “liberalized” Germany

Brazil’s Rainforest destruction rate increasing

Somali Prime Minister ousted by Parliament

Mexican Cartels move into Mining business

France sends more troops to Central African Republic

November 2013 News Links

Updated!

Pay Respects to Hind di Chadar on Guru Tegh Bahadur Jayanti

ISI threatening Indian Ministers w/ Black Money Exposure

Cyclone After Cyclone for Andhra

TTD made to deposit 1/3 Tirupati Temple Gold with RBI

India’s Infamous Bureaucracy 

Stories Indian politicians like to tell

The Blood Telegram and 1971

Pakistani Hindus tell their sad story

Are India’s EVM’s reliable?

Latest on illegal Heera International College in Tirupati

Bharat Ratna standards changing?

Afghan policy Adrift

Japanese Emperor on official visit to India

Israel and China get closer

If China can do it, why not India?

More land for peace nonsense…

Air Defense and East China Sea

Japan offers generous aid to Philippines after tragic cyclone

Global Elite Glut

Yoga Scientists find proof of Meditation Benefits

To be a good Global citizen, first be a good National Citizen

Real meaning of Seva 

Culture

Diwali celebrations around the World!

Lessons on Governance from the Land of Maharana Pratap

Yoga is also for Men

Aamir Khan movie insults Hindu Gods

The purpose of Religion

On the need to revive interest in Poetic Sanskrit Literature

Andhra

Congress Telangana stand is a Farce

Problems with Telangana Process

5 Andhra bus mishap Survivors Critical

Hanamkonda origin Patriot falls in line of duty

Owaisi repeats anti-Telugu demand of Urdu as 1st language of Telangana

India

On the need to go Beyond Bollywood

Father fight’s for justice for Kargil Martyr

Sardar Patel Statue of Unity

Sonia Gandhi’s Povertarianism

What Would Patel Do?

Modi consoles Bihar Blast Victims’ Families

India onion prices causing more tragic tears

All is not well with Aam Admi Party

Heera College in Tirupati temple land Inappropriate

PM to ban opinion polls?

Asia

Gender based Disparities Worst in Pak

Delhi should not Boycott Colombo

China to stamp out Dalai Lama’s voice?

A Forgotten Genocide

Chinese Banks and the International Scene

Former Pak Ambassador confirms Pak terror support

India’s need to secure Pharma interests in China

World

Deflating Inflation Myths of Economic Amateurs

Roma Minority in Europe targeted

Use Social Media wisely

Dealing with Cyber Attacks

Aman ki Tamasha

Southern Europe in Trouble

Brazil’s Economic Slowdown leads to Rethink

October 2013 News Links 

Samskriti

Sanskrit is Jan Bhasha

A Historical Sense

The Colonial Hindu Narrative

Andhra

Congress disrespecting Telugus again?

Hyderabad Taxis Unsafe

Normalcy in Seemandhra

Telugu writer passes away

Oracle may expand in Hyderabad

9 New Judges in AP High Court

Tollywood moves to Vizag?

Andhra escapes worst of Phailin

Last AP Day?

India

Is the Communal Violence Bill a Communal Vote Bill?

India’s Tryst with Destiny

Historians in India below par?

India’s rich must contribute to society’s welfare

Rise of the Rest of India

India’s shortsighted China policy

Modi is the Anti-Nehru

Telangana is challenge to Indian Federalism

Asia

Gen. Giap, brilliant Vietnamese military leader, passes away

The Dragon’s Spear

Death of Urdu Script?

Israel and India’s close military relations

China reembraces Confucian Traditional Culture

Russia losing its Far East?

Israeli Brain drain?

Iran’s shift and Iranian hardliners

World

Effect of US Budgetary Showdown

Europe Slowly Burning?

Terrible Plight of Sikh Girls in Britain

Brazil’s Next Steps

Can Australia Get G20 Brack on Track?

Discrimination of Roma in Europe

Nicaragua Canal a rival to Panama?

A Threat to Freedom

 Internet in the World today

August 2013 News Links

Andhra

Independence Day in Andhra

Mohan Babu to contest on BJP ticket

Telangana developed under TDP

India

 Modi challenges PM to debate on development

Curfew lifted in most of Jammu

Kerala Solar Scam

Food Bill criticized

Hindu Temple gold to be taken by Indian Govt.?

Asia

Hindu men forced to convert in Pak

Violence in Bangladesh

Tibetan Government-in-Exile website hacked

China Tourism falls due to Smog

Japan’s National Debt now 1 Quadrillion Yen

World

Military crackdown in Egypt

Germany election update

Political Protests in Brazil

Opinion

India as an Idea

“De-Indianisation begins with Elimination of Sanskrit”

Official language of Telangana questioned

“Communal Owaisi does not belong in aspirational India”

Does India really practice Real Secularism?

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