According to the budget presented by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, India’s defence expenditure has been raised to Rs. 1,47,344 crore for 2010-11, a 4 percent increase from the last year’s Rs. 1,41,703 crore. The rationale being given by the Finance Minister for the increase in the budget was deteriorated security environment of India. It [...]
Incidence of suicides and fratricides is on rise in Indian Armed Forces. Recently, Defence Ministry A.K. Anthony told the Indian Parliament that 49 cases of suicide and fratricide have been reported in the armed forces. Overall, there have been a staggering 495 cases of suicide and 25 cases of fratricide in the Armed Forces over [...]
There are no doubts in the importance and utility of nuclear power but it requires a responsible attitude from the authorities concerned with this sector. Any irresponsibility and lack of attention can create havoc like Chernobyl. Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [...]
India is vigorously pursuing to obtain observer status in the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) on the basis of large Muslim population. Recently, Forum on Religion and Public life of Pew Research Center, a US based organization, has prepared a report according to which India has the third largest number of Muslims at over 160 [...]
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) proposes to equate all discrimination on the basis of caste, occupation and descent as violation of Human rights and also deliberated on the recognition of caste as race. Nearly 200 million people all over the world are victims of such discrimination of which more than 160 million existed [...]
Recently, the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice disclosed that 2,700 unmarked graves with nearly 3,000 bodies across 55 villages in three districts, Bandipore, Baramullah and Kupwara of Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) have been discovered. Some of the mass graves contain 3 to 17 bodies. The Tribunal claimed that the graves could be [...]
Recently, India’s Home Minister Chidambaram gave a statement that India would retaliate strongly to Pakistan-backed terrorism. He said, “If terrorists and militants from Pakistan try to carry out any attacks in India, they will not only be defeated but will be retaliated very strongly”. He said he has been warning Pakistan not to play with [...]
According to a recent report of UNICEF 50 million unborn female babies killed in India. India’s already abysmal sex ratio figures are getting worse day by day, with 80 percent of its districts recorded declining child sex ratios since 1991, as thousands of girl children are killed before or at birth. According to UN children’s [...]
Maoists detained the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express near Jhargram in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Tuesday for five hours. Commenting on the incident Maoist Polit Bureau member Koteswar Rao alias Kishanji said, “We want to teach the upper classes a lesson and change their narrow class outlook through this incident”. The incident came on [...]
