The Congress government led by Tarun Gagoi is squarely responsible for the ongoing turmoil in Assam.  The spate of tragedy could have been averted had the police taken a quick action against the miscreants who ignited the trouble on July 6.  The blatant statement made by a Bodo leader Kampa Borgoyri, that the Muslims who have fled their homes shall not be allowed to return is reprehensible.  The administration should send a strong message that pursuance for a separate land coul...

See the horrible massacre of innocent Muslims in Burma by the Buddhist ruthless regime and their monks. Please raise your voice against the killings en-masse and request the UN and big powers particularly USA, UK, France, Germany and Canada, Japan and China to intervene to save the humanity from such needless massacre. The Rohingyas have been under Burmese occupation which colonise them brutally with killings and murders. The British rulers did not give them independe...

I am a regular reader of yours magazine and highly impressed by its contents. But I was shocked to read in the June issue that an Indian court has sanctioned the marrying of a girl of age 15 without her parents’ consent!

Nowhere in the Qur’ān or any authentic Hadith, does it say that a girl can marry without her parents’ consent, that too within the age of 15. The Hadith in fact states that a minor girl should have a guardian (wali), for marriage and should...

It is a matter of regret and shame that we have law-makers who even cannot cast their votes properly in Presidential elections that too when it was a direct election between Pranab Mukerji and PA Sangma. Number of invalid votes could be even larger if more than two candidates would have been in fray requiring cumbersome procedure of Preferential-Voting system.

As some minimum educational requirement is necessary in other fields including executive and judiciary, those contesting elect...