The UPA government’s decision to disinvest 10 per cent of the stakes in all listed Public Sector Undertakings has signified that it did not learn a lesson from the recent financial tsunami. When financial behemoths like AIG and Lehman brothers crumbled under the weight of capitalistic decadence, the U.S. government tried to salvage them by buying their toxic reserves.  Quite reverse, the Indian government is selling the stakes of profit-making PSUs, which will eventually fal...

With an apparent relief the Union Home Minister Chidambaram has stated that he was not present when Jamiat-e-Ulama Hind passed the resolution endorsing earlier fatwa declaring the national song un-Islamic. If he implied, thereby, that if he was around he would have stopped the resolution from being adopted, he has given no such indication. The session of the Jamaat was a planned affair. The Home Minister’s presence was scheduled. Surely the resolution of such a controversial impo...

If the Maharashtrian Muslims had certain complaints against the Hajj committee regarding quota, they should have formed an independent forum and channelled their grievances, rather than becoming a pawn in the hands of the MNS. Raj Thackeray and his band of hooligans only know the language of violence by inciting passions against the migrants from North India for their filthy vote bank politics. Such goons can be of no benefit to any community or race. Muslims are already a divided lot and s...

It refers to Chief Minister of Delhi Shiela Dixit rightly asking his ministers to avoid attending mega-budgeted marriage-ceremonies. Earlier Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee had also induced austerity in marriages by allowing just one simple vegetarian meal because the Committee had rightly analysed that increasing expenses in marriages of girls is major cause of aborting female-foeticide.

It is time that Union government should take measures to ensure marriages to be s...