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By Joydeep Gupta, IANS, The Indian government delegation at the Copenhagen climate summit held two press conferences during the 11-day conference, one exclusively for Indian journalists, and one at the main press conference room. In contrast, the Brazilian delegation held a press conference for everyone almost every day; the Chinese not only did that but also set up an information centre where anyone could go anytime, ask a question and be assured that there would be an answer.

By Shiv Dhawan, IANS, News of downsizing is bad news for any employee. Though downsizing is a common strategy adopted by organisations to cut costs and keep performance standards high, during the current recession it appears to have become a survival imperative. Top management often forgets to recognize the trauma employees undergo when they or their co-workers are laid off. Downsizing in the immediate run might contain operational costs. But it tends to adversely impact the morale of the remaining workforce - which suffers from 'survivor's guilt syndrome'.

By Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association, Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, believed that a lie repeated several times over would soon acquire the legitimacy of truth. The Delhi Police has surpassed Goebbels’ strategy. By deluging the press and the public with one lie after another, it hopes that the truth will never be extricated. Who killed Inspector Sharma?

By Imran Khan Patna : Its the house in Dumraon, some 110 km from here, where shenai mastero Ustad Bismillah Khan was born and lived...

By Sushma Ramachandran, IANS, With the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council projecting India's economic growth at 6.2-6.75 percent for the current fiscal, the question arises whether industrial output will rebound sufficiently to make up for the dismal performance of the farm sector.

By Balraj Puri,

Soon after taking over his assignment as the Governor of J&K state NN Vohra, made first overture to ease the situation in the valley by offering to surrender the land the state government allotted to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board of which he is the ex-officio head. It immediately caused a backlash in Jammu region when the BJP and other Hindu organizations called for a Bandh and led protest marches.

By Shehzad Poonawalla,

By Asghar Ali Engineer

By Jaideep Sarin, Chandigarh: The release of a film on a sect chief and the protests linked to it, an apology by a self-styled godman...

By Arun Gandhi, IANS Jan 30 is the 60th anniversary of Gandhi's assassination Attn Eds: Following is a special article written for IANS by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi Sixty years after his death a portion of Gandhiji's ashes, stashed away by Madalsa and Shriman Narayan, the daughter and son-in-law of Jamnalal Bajaj, will be immersed at Chowpati Beach in Mumbai. Although I will be thousands of miles away in the United States the memories of 60 years ago will be refreshed and the day will be as poignant as Jan 30, 1948.

By Rajiv Dogra, IANS, Finally it is out in the open. The Indian defence minister, A.K. Antony, has said that war with Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack is not an option. And once again we find ourselves trapped in a dead end.

By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood, Forty years ago it was Eid in 1975; a day earlier was our civil services’ examination in UPSC at Shahjahan Road, New Delhi. Next day was to be another paper; so the festival was sandwiched between two papers of civil services. We walked for Eid Namaz to the Parliament Street mosque, came back and resumed studies expecting the usual aloo ki sabzi and roti from the kitchen for which too we were grateful to God and the organizers of our trip to the capital.

By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, The whole country is soothing with sad demise of Rohith Vemula, 26, a research scholar from a Dalit community who was...

By Madhu Kumari, EuAsiaNews, Brussels : The European Union feels proud of its anti-discrimination laws and equality for all its citizens through treaties and legislation. That is all except the Roma people, better known as Gypsies or travellers, are fast becoming the "untouchables" of Europe. Roma people originally migrated from Northern India some 700 years ago to mainly Eastern Europe, and from there now exist in almost all of the EU 27 member states.

By Jagannadham Thunuguntla, IANS, There is widespread anticipation regarding possible revision of the threshold limit for mandatory open offers for the purpose of takeovers from current level of 15 percent to 25 percent. If that eventually happens, interesting shareholders' activity can be expected in several listed companies.

By Shyamanuja Das, IANS,

By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net,

By IndScribe Why Yadavas are made villains so easily and why it is so common to talk about Yadav-raj or use words like Yadav-gardi? Aren't there...

By Muhammed Noushad When the Lok Sabha results come on May 16, who will have the last laugh in Kerala’s Muslim politics? Highly unpredictable. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been desperately trying to make inroads into Muslim politics for many years, by using different tactics from organising a hugely impressive State Conference at Malappuram (the district where almost 80% of the population are Muslims) and systematically adopting religious Muslims into the party inner circles and playing apparently pro-Muslim games.

Riazuddin Ahmed lost his parents and a sister in the ghastly Nellie Massacre. But he has fought against all odds to revive the spirit to live. He has set up COMTI, a one man mission to compile biographies of Indian Muslim personalities whose contributions need to be remembered by the society.

By Imaad Majeed, Former advisor on Muslim issues to the Howard government in Australia, Dr Ameer Ali is a graduate of the University of Ceylon who went on to read for a Master of Philosophy from the London School of Economics and obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia with a thesis on the religious precepts and economic practices of the Muslim community in Sri Lanka. Dr Ali is of the opinion that Muslims have played pragmatic politics in the past by joining national parties and have achieved political gains for their community. However, he regards the advent of the Sri Lanka Muslim Council (SLMC) as unnecessary and counterproductive. Speaking to The Sunday Leader, Dr Ali claimed with conviction, “Ethnic politics is the bane of this country”.

By C. Uday Bhaskar, IANS, The multiple terrorist attacks that ravaged Mumbai with the death toll overshooting 180 have led to a justified outpouring of anger and anguish across the length and breadth of the country. India is outraged. Period. This is not the first terrorist attack that India has experienced - Mumbai alone recalls 1993 and 2006 with bitter memories. And tragically this may not be the last, given the ruthless determination of the extremist groups ranged against the idea of India.

By Tameemuddin Humble, The general election of 2014 provided a great opportunity to the Indian Muslims to introspect and resolve politically what it has...

By Dr Rahul Pandey, Citizen News Service - CNS, (CNS): Partial results of two important official surveys were released recently. They point to...

By Dr. Anis Ansari,

By Mansoor Durrani for Twocircles.net “Our leaders are inefficient” and “cruel” and “corrupt”! These are common complaints or discussion points in our parts of...

By Saeed Naqvi, Vinod Mehta would have been flabbergasted. He would never have expected such a turnout at his funeral - the most powerful politicians, journalists, writers, cartoonists, artists, everybody except... well, in that exception possibly lay the secret of his success. The fixers and their patrons were not there.

By Shobha Shukla, CNS,

By Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, A fact finding team of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee comprising Lateef Mohammed Khan, Kaneez Fathima, A. Srinivas, Shefali Jha, Adv. Gulam Rabbani, Adv. M.Mandakini, and Mohammed Ismail Khan visited the Arsh Mahal area of Kishan Bagh in Hyderabad city. Fact finding team met the people of both the communities and visited houses of victims, met their family members, members of the deceased, the spot of Nishan sahib (religious symbol of Sikh on flag), firing spot, grave yard and Gurudwara. Actually the Arsh Mahal of Kishan Bagh is located on the hill, from where we can see the whole city. This locality is attached to the famous Nehru Zoological Park and a lake named Mir Alam. It has come to our notice that the whole area of Kishan Bagh as well as the Zoo area is in fact Waqf property. Indeed it is a very beautiful place and the people who live in this area belong to Muslim community whose living standard is of below poverty line. It can be named as a slum area. Most of the people work as Auto drivers, fruit vendors and daily wage laborers. Adjacent to this area, there is a locality of Sikh community which is called Sikh Chawni. The Sikh population is around 1500. But the economic status of Sikh community is strong and most of them are businessmen. There are two 2 Gurudwaras and many Nishan Sahib in that small area.

By Soroor Ahmed, TwoCircles.net, The fresh political realignment in Bihar is actually the byproduct of a bitter lesson learnt by the former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in the recent Lok Sabha election. He has come to realize that development works do not get translated into votes. This is the line adopted by his former bête noire Lalu Prasad. It is this belated realization that had forced him into the lap of the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief, with whom he broke away exactly two decades back.

By Nikhat, TwoCircles.net,

By Kul Bhushan

When an NRI buys his first new car on returning to India, he knows that he has made it.