With Yoga and Fasting, Graft Fighters Shake India

For more than 40 years, reformers and other agitators have tried in vain to cleanse India of corruption. They have staged demonstrations, candlelight vigils and protest marches for naught. In Parliament, efforts to create an independent anticorruption agency began in 1968. It still does not exist. Given this legacy of failure, an unexpected development is now stirring up the world’s largest and most raucous democracy: the agitators are on a hot streak. Government ministers are frantically trying to persuade one of India’s most popular gurus to call off a nationwide yoga rally against corruption — yes, a yoga protest — and a mass hunger strike, scheduled to begin Saturday. Already, the government has capitulated to the demands of another hunger-striking anticorruption crusader.

For an Indian public disgusted by worsening corruption, the hunger strikes and yoga sit-ins are spectacles of political theater embroidering what is actually a fight over how to fix the rusted gears of India’s democracy. Reformers want an anticorruption agency with sweeping powers, and the governing Congress Party has promised to propose legislation in the summer session of Parliament. MORE..http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/world/asia/03india.html

Should the country be left at God’s Mercy???????

Finally, once again the true face of our politicians or so-called leaders whom we have entrusted with the task of safeguarding the sovereignty, integrity and integrity of our country –INDIA, has once again left no chance to make this country feel ashamed along with doing the ignominious act of impeding the natural flow of our constitutional system; I am talking about the smoke of recent developments emanating from the political circles over Capital punishment announced upon Mr. Bhuller, the alleged terrorist of Khalistan Liberation Front.

Assembly polls are round the corner in Punjab and, therefore, no political party, be it of state level, like Akali Dal, or National level like Congress and BJP wants to let it go silently and thus trying their bit to get the maximum out of it. However, these recent developments on the part of political parties are really shocking! On the question of Afzal Guru, obtrusively or unobtrusively, most of the political parties are demanding death sentence. However, they are advocating mild treatment to Mr. Bhullar, stating for the cause of humanity Mr. Bhullar should be pardoned. But the question remained unanswered ---Why, after all?  Is he not the sinner? Or the people he killed were not citizens of India. Or did this act of him, make India proud? All these questions are here to be answered before our politicians, including major political parties. Moreover, if they think, that in the name of God he should be forgiven, then why not forgive Afzal Guru? Why not forgive all the terrorists, criminals, rapists who are languishing in jails from time immemorial? If we have to be so lenient then what’s the need of judicial system? What’s the rationale of setting up so many judicial complexes, followed by too much of expenses?  

Ah!!!!!!! ONLY GOD CAN SAVE THIS COUNTRY NOW………..

Frustrated Hamilton blasts Monaco stewards

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton moved to avert the wrath of Formula One's governing body on Sunday after blasting Monaco Grand Prix stewards for their "joke" actions against him.

The Briton, who became the sport's first black world champion in 2008, also referred to his colour in post-race comments as he vented his frustration.

"It's an absolute...joke," Hamilton told the BBC in broadcast comments. "I've been to see the stewards five times out of six this season.

"Maybe it's because I'm black. That's what Ali G says," added the 26-year-old jokingly, referring to a fictional white character acted by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

Hamilton finished sixth on Sunday despite collecting two drive-through penalties, one of them imposed retrospectively, for collisions in the heat of battle on the tight and twisty street circuit.

The first incident ended the race for Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa, who crashed in the tunnel after the cars came together at the hairpin, while the second wrecked Venezuelan rookie Pastor Maldonado's hopes of first points for Williams.

Hamilton told reporters after he had calmed down that he had been back to see the stewards -- one of them former F1 racer and fellow-Briton Allan McNish -- to explain himself and make peace.

"I just made them aware that, when emotions are high and very intense at the end of those races, you don't always say the right thing," he said.MORE

Why hasn’t Qaeda announced a successor to bin Laden yet?

Saif al-Adel, the former Egyptian military officer and onetime leading member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group (EIJ), is widely reported to have been chosen as the temporary head of Al-Qaeda, until a new emir is chosen to replace Osama bin Laden. However, this alleged appointment has not yet been announced officially by Al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda Central has made two public announcements since bin Laden’s death. The first was the confirmation of bin Laden’s death, and the second was the release of an audio recording which bin Laden had made a few days before his death, commenting on the ongoing Arab revolutions.
These two releases prove that Al-Qaeda was able to continue its media work despite bin Laden’s death, and in spite of their likely concern that the Americans may have gained important information from the Al-Qaeda leader’s compound which could allow them to go after other figures in the group. But the lack of public statement about al-Adel’s appointment raises one inescapable question: Why wouldn’t Al-Qaeda be able to go “official”‘ with a statement and an audio tape announcing al-Adel’s appointment instead of remaining silent about such a crucial decision at such a crucial time. More.....

No he Kahn’t

EVERYTHING was in place to enable Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF head, to declare next month his candidacy for the Socialist primary, ahead of French presidential elections next year. Polls consistently showed that he was the most popular Socialist candidate, and the best placed to beat President Nicolas Sarkozy in a run-off. But Mr Strauss-Kahn’s arrest on May 14th in New York, for an alleged sexual assault, has thrown all those plans in the air, and looks almost certain to wreck his political future.

Mr Strauss-Kahn was arrested when he was already aboard an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport, just minutes before it was due to take off. New York police said he was charged with “a criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and an unlawful imprisonment in connection with a sexual assault” on a chambermaid in a Manhattan hotel. Reports suggested that Mr Strauss-Kahn had left his hotel room in a hurry. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, told Reuters that his client would plead not guilty.

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Conversation with Terror

This interview originally appeared in TIME's January 11, 1999 issue

Tall and lean, he was dressed in a traditional shalwar kameez--baggy trousers and long shirt--under a military fatigue jacket, with a scarf to fight the desert cold. An AK-47 assault rifle stood at his side. He spoke softly, in Arabic, praising God in nearly every sentence, but his voice rose whenever he criticized the United States. That he did often during the four-hour interview, his first since the U.S. tried to kill him.

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi financier accused of masterminding the Aug. 7 bombings that took 224 lives at two U.S. embassies in Africa, escaped an American missile attack on his headquarters in southern Afghanistan nearly two weeks after the embassy blasts. In the months that followed, bin Laden heeded the orders of his host, the Taliban militia that controls most of Afghanistan, to avoid public statements. The Taliban's leaders evidently didn't want to complicate their budding relations with the outside world. But last month's U.S. bombing of Iraq evidently convinced them they had little to lose from letting bin Laden talk. The exile himself wanted to deny involvement in the embassy bombings--and dispel rumors he is dying of cancer.

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Conversation with Terror

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Conversation with Terror