It is agonising that the leaders of both India and Pakistan are talking in terms of war, and threatening each other. One says all options are open for it, the other rebukes, that it is ready and can attack within minutes! Wonderful.   Both countries are nuclear powered, possessing dangerous nuclear bombs. If a nuclear war even on a limited scale takes place the result would be the destruction of half of the sub-continent and death of millions of innocent people. Hav...

The brutal murder of the PWD executive engineer M.K.Gupta at Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, purportedly on his refusing to donate for Mayawati’s birthday celebrations is shocking. Instead of openly siding with the MLA who is alleged to be involved in the crime, the BSP supremo should have come clean by ordering a probe into it. And her statement that, only BSP office-bearers and not MPs, MLAs and MLCs were given targets to collect money for her birthday bash is in bad taste. ...

Mr. MK Bhadrakumar’s suggestions in the Hindu dated 25/12 are worth consideration. Our fight against terrorism is limited to Pakistan and its terrorist organizations. Now the US wants us to help it in war on terrorism in Afghanistan. It would be an unwanted burden on us. We can not fight the war of US .If we refer to the history of Afghanistan we see that no foreign power could rule Afghanistan for a longer period .After invasion and the subsequent retreat of the USSR the United State...

In our country there are 3.5 crores victims of venereal diseases including AIDS. Immorality and sexual anarchy are generally its main causes. When moral and spiritual health of a society decays, the physical health of its individuals deteriorates as well, and affects the coming generation too.

The opening of hospitals to fight this menace is essential but what is more important is to get rid of its main causes i.e. obscene and vulgar films, T.V. serials, dirty books and magazin...