PARVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS 'We need India and India needs us' 'The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas would be an exercise in futility if we are unable to build bonds of solidarity between India and the Diaspora,' says former Fiji prime minister Mahendra Choudhry.
Why the diaspora needs India 'Dual nationality is not a matter of a passport, but of personal identity,' says Lord Bhikhu Parekh. 'It could even be our destiny.'
Pak scientist offers nuke technology The media in Islamabad on Wednesday published contents of a brochure allegedly brought out by the country's top nuclear scientist, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, offering nuclear technology to other nations.
Debtors eye Maharashtra secretariat What's more, even the Maharashtra government's treasury and bank account with the Reserve Bank of India is under threat.
Centre to get tough with separatist leaders A dossier submitted to the government accuses, among others, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik of making anti-India statements abroad.
SPECIAL The Phantoms of Chittagong The operation was so secret that most Indian generals did not know what the 3,000 Tibetans jawans did on India's behalf in East Pakistan, in 1971, reveals Claude Arpi..
CRICKET Zaheer excels as India finally taste victory The medim pacer bagged three wickets for 30 runs and followed it up with a match-winning 34 as India beat New Zealand in the fifth ODI by two wickets.
CRICKET WORLD CUP Windies inconsistent, but not incapable Batting brilliance and disciplined bowling makes them a formidable opposition, says Ashish Magotra.
'The Lord of the Rings rooted in racism' Dr Stephen Shapiro, who teaches at the Warwick University, told rediff.com that J R R Tolkien, the author, has used his novels to present bigotry through a fantasy world.
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This GameBoy isn't for the boys! Nintendo unveils its latest handheld GameBoy--a slick looking device as big as a wallet and weighing five ounces.
COLUMNS Why Surjeet loves Laloo Yadav Comrade Surjeet knows the Third Front won't win too many seats; he is concentrating on winning power without winning the election, says T V R Shenoy.
Halting Hindutva's march 'No party has endangered national security as severely, as the BJP, by dividing the nation and severing it from the very people who constitute it. And none has tried to drive such a wedge between Hindus and others, and among the Hindus themselves,' says Praful Bidwai.
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