IndiaStand » Archive for July 2010
Why is Pakistan silent on genocide in Kashmir?
Why is Pakistan silent on the “genocide in occupied Kashmir” where Indian security forces are “brutally crushing the human, civil and political rights of the Kashmiris and even preventing them from praying in mosques”, an editorial in a Pakistani Urdu paper on Sunday said. “Today the Hindu society is developing new strategies to carry out a genocide of the Kashmiri Muslims… Today the most brazen violation of human rights is taking place in India-occupied Kashmir,” the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
Headlines Today Exposes RSS, RSS Retaliates
Hundreds of activists of the saffron brigade on Friday attacked the Headlines Today office in Delhi following the channel’s expose about their functionaries’ terror links. In a blatant attack on the media’s freedom of speech and expression, the activists tried to force their way into the building. They broke glasspanes and destroyed property in the process. A large mob gathered outside the office building and shouted slogans in support of their leaders exposed by Headlines Today’s expose. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
Qureshi Hails Manmohan Singh
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday hailed Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his decision to pursue the peace process with Islamabad. “It is a tribute to his vision that he agreed to pursue the peace process,” Qureshi told journalists at the end of the press conference he addressed jointly with his Indian counterpart S M Krishna here. Thursday’s dialogue between the two foreign ministers followed the decision of the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
A scroll From China…
A scroll featuring more than 40,000 handprints from China’s Jilin province has been officially named the largest handprint scroll in the world by the Guinness World Records. The waterproof scroll, measuring 3,715.86 square metres, was demonstrated at the opening of the third Changchun international automobile festival on Thursday in Changchun. After nearly four hours of measuring the scroll, Wu Xiaohong, an official for the Guinness World Records, announced that the scroll has set a new world record, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Art and Culture
Indian Rupee finally gets its New Identity
Union Cabinet today approves new rupee symbol for the Indian rupee .An amalgam of the Devnagiri ‘Ra’ and the Roman capital ‘R’ without the stem .Finally Indian rupee join the elite club of US dollar, British pound-sterling, Euro and Japanese yen to have its own symbol and become the fifth currency in the world to have a distinct identity. Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni announced this and the symbol will be printed or embossed on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Current Affairs, Politics
