NRI: A bad day for those slipping from the narrow path

Law catches up with these rogue Indians
Life term for Sikh in Canada
A SIKH taxi driver in Vancouver has been sentenced to life for killing his wife after a heated argument nearly two years ago. Jatinder Waraich, 25, had stabbed Navreet 39 times in their Surrey basement home, the provincial British Columbia Supreme Court said while [...]

Service Personnell: Resentment increases

Field Marshal Manekshaw who was a great hero to all Indians and especially service personnel  of the three services passed away.
It was inevitable, after all no one is forever.
What is galling to the already fretting members of the three services in India is  the off hand and cursory manner in which [...]

Beware: Derogatory remarks on net can get you arrested

Extracts from news report:
AFTER Gurgaon IT professional Rahul Vaid’s arrest for posting derogatory remarks about Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi on Orkut, comes the arrest of another 22- year- old Nithin Chakravarti Suresh Sajja of Hyderabad, following another complaint by Congress activist Amol Bhokare, who apparently has nothing better to do.
The Orkut community [...]

US Duplicity : Envoy linked to arms deal cover-up

American envoy linked to arms deal cover-up
(Deja VU : Nothing new:
Remember the ‘Iran- Contra Deal’, President Regan, Poindexter, & Col Oliver North ?
Lebanese newspaper “Al-Shiraa” printed an exposé on the clandestine activities in November 1986, Reagan went on television and vehemently denied that any such operation had occurred. He retracted the statement a [...]

Mumbai Sikh Riots: SGPC and SAD Fishing in Troubled Waters?

Adding Fuel to Fire?
Extracts from news report
The irrationality of religious alliances and fiats

RELIGIOUS communities have always been led by the most regressive elements of the faith. Sikhism has been afflicted too, through the SGPC, the body that manages gurdwaras in Punjab.
Recently, former SGPC secretary Gurbachan Singh Bachan intervened to ensure the movie, [...]

Dera or Danish Cartoons :Excuse for Violence in the name of God.

ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD
SEE ANY DIFFERENCE?

Sikh mobs run riot in Mumbai after Dera firing

Riots on Danish Cartoons.

Australian Double Standards: Uranium denied to India

No uranium but Australia wants strong ties with India
Australian News.Net
Friday 20th June, 2008 (IANS)
Reiterating that Australia will not lift the ban on sale of uranium to India, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith Friday said the bilateral relationship goes “far beyond the single issue of uranium exports’ and the government looks forward to having ‘mature and broad-ranging’ [...]

Harassment of Sahara Group: UP Ishtyle

Why the sudden flurry of activities  by Maya government against the Sahara Group?
Remember how Anil Ambani’s Reliance group was targeted ?
Maya govt moves SC against HC leniency towards Sahara
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Hurt by the Allahabad high court’s rap on the knuckles for the midnight demolition of ‘illegal structures’ in Sahara Shahar in [...]

NRI:Sacked Sikh sues Disney for $1 million

Sacked Sikh sues Disney for $1 million

Houston: A turban-wearing Sikh who was allegedly sacked by Walt Disney World for lacking the “Disney look” has sued the company for $1 million claiming he was discriminated against because of his religion.
Sukhbir Channa, 24, a practicing Sikh who wears a turban and a beard, filed [...]

Mumbai HC: Excluding persons from outside a state unconstitutional

HC: Targeting migrants is against Constitution
Swati Deshpande | TNN

Mumbai: The Bombay HC has reminded workers that it will not pay to target non-Maharashtrians and prevent them from working in the state.

Justice D Y Chandrachud recently prevented the entry of a worker into a Pune factory after he was chargesheeted for threatening the [...]