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    ► Rahul's family's complete disregard for governance issues, particularly in Bihar and UP for decades, has resulted in thousands of migrants going to Mumbai for jobs. When he says India is for everyone, does he seem to suggest that let's abolish special provisions for J & K and many hilly states! (credit: Sandip Das)

    ► Planning to start a Secular-e-Taiba... for these days even secularism needs a fundamentalist force to survive! (credit: Raj Narayan)

    ► Fareed Zakaria in the Padma list with Sant Chatwal. Two extremes of Indian achievement in the US! (credit: Pankaj Pachauri)

    ► Saif Ali Khan honored with a Padmashree. Now I like Saif, fine actor, but a little too early na? They just hand these things out like biscuits! (credit: Rajeev Masand)

    ► We can soon claim a state for all the Padma award winners. We have enough of them around by now to launch a movement for statehood! (credit: Pritish Nandy)

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      It's my duty to discuss the Greater Voice Impact on Kashmir Singh’s cause. Sincere thanks to all who read, discussed and reacted on the posts on Kashmir Singh. Thank you so much.
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      PTI is in trouble, serious trouble. There’s a crook making money. You must know him now. And there’s a person who’s secretly masterminding everything. He is a manipulator, master operator … I’ll better call him a mafia, as you will read in my new series on my Home Page in Greater Voice (http://neerajbhushan.com/). The first in the such series … ‘Dismantling […]
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      This newest Natwar Lal, who is facing trial in Delhi courts for outraging modesty of a woman and committing atrocities on a member of Scheduled Caste community, seems to have exploited the timing of completion of 60 years of PTI. Yadav is cleverly mixing the occasion with his claimed trade union activities, and charging huge amounts from business houses agai […]
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  • Who Killed Aarushi

    Who killed Aarushi Talwar and her family's domestic help Hemraj?

    This twin-murder case is hitting too many dead ends.

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    Did the investigating agency CBI commit mistakes or there is a cover-up?

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    ■ Vir Sanghvi: In any other country, the cops who screwed up the Aarushi case would be in jail. In India, they get promotions and transfers.

    ■ Barkha Dutt: Will Aarushi Talwar's murder ever be solved. I dont think so. Strange that the phone should turn up after a year suddenly, just like that.

    ■ Times of India, 15.9.2009: Headway at last: Aarushi's cellphone found in UP town.

    ■ Vincent Van Ross: The one thing that this case has done is to create a detective in every drawing room. If it is not Dr. Talwar and if it is also not Krishna, Vijay Mandal or Raj Kumar, who is it? Who killed Aarushi and Hemraj — Ghosts?

    ■ Indian Express, 4.11.2009: Rajkumar fears for life, requests security.

    ■ 29.11.2009: CBI raids hospital in Noida, takes autopsy papers

    ■ 29.11.2009: CBI visits Aarushi's parents

    ■ 05.01.2010: Court allows narco test on Arushi Talwar's parents.

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    Think of Ishrat’s family - isolated and socially ostracized for a crime the 18-year-old college girl may or may not have committed!

    It is tragic. Worse, it is criminal!!

    In any case, she committed no crime. She was killed by the police on the suspicion that she may commit a crime. Amazing!!!

    C'mmon. Speak up.

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    Sept.18 '09: Ishrat's mother challenges HC order.

    Sept.30 '09: Home ministry files revised affidavit.

    Oct.6 '09: SC issues notice to Gujarat govt., Centre and CBI on an appeal filed by Ishrat's mother challenging the Gujarat HC order staying the magisterial inquiry report.

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Vanity Fair on Mumbai Terror – There’s Twist

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Neeraj Bhushan

mumbai terrorHere’s an interesting twist.

NDTV’s Barkha Dutt got Vanity Fair to update their website, presumably because the story portrays her in poor light.

But since the first vanity fair  article was sent as an email attachment (as opposed to a link), journalists were able to compare the updated text with the original text:

Before -

barkha dutt“We are all locked in Chambers—200 of us.” That exaggerated number was quickly passed to Indian TV. “There are reports of hundreds locked in Chambers,” Barkha Dutt announced. Within moments, handlers watching in Pakistan appeared to have alerted the terrorists, and a hail of bullets was fired at Chambers.

After -

“We are all locked in Chambers—200 of us.” That exaggerated number was quickly passed to Indian TV and announced on air. Within moments, handlers watching in Pakistan appeared to have alerted the terrorists, and a hail of bullets was fired at Chambers.

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