June 15-30, 2010 issue of ‘Social Cause’ is now available at www.socialcause.org
It contains the following items
Quote
“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.” – Mahatma Gandhi
News – Is India marching ahead?
Indigenous combat copter takes to skies
Railways brings highest, tallest bridge to Kashmir
Gujarat has set the finest example of groundwater management
Permanent commission in IAF for women ahead
Sanskrit: reviving the language in today’s India
Vaak, a newspaper that helps brush up ‘practical’ Sanskrit
AP: Village labourer cracks IIT entrance
India bids to get back lost treasures
India agrees $ 1 bln loan for Sri Lanka
Infosys Narayana Murthy funds an Indian classics project at Harvard
News – Matters of concern
Inflation touches double digits
Rs. 2.5 lakh cr tax defaulters’ list has 550 biggies
US scientists ‘hack’ Indian electronic voting machines
Thriving business of cow smuggling to Bangladesh
Arundhati Roy backs Maoists, dares authorities to arrest her
Islamist leader, LDF-partner Madani’s ‘terror links’ return
Afzal Guru’s hanging won’t be expedited: Home Secretary
Duped by Indian adoption agency, US family cautions couples
Netas home in on CM’s quota for the poor
Rs.5cr. for Nehru, Rajaji books diverted to Sonia Trust
UK probing misuse of education aid to India
News – Environment watch
Man on a tree saving mission
A Himachal village converts scarcity to surplus with water harvesting
Organic farming policy announced in Kerala
Commercial buildings must go green in three years’ time
Green ride: Tannery waste to help lay roads
Ban ‘colonial’ leather shoes for school children, demands Maneka Gandhi
Bid to end artists’ brush with mongoose hair
Nothing is safe, be it air or water
Parts of Raj, Malwa drinking poison?
Uranium, metals make Punjab toxic hotspot
Anti-pollution laws only on paper in Punjab
Here, booze comes free with water
Industiral effluents polluting Gujarat rivers, says forum
Over 60% Orissa mines don’t have clearances
No ‘normal’ kids in this Punjab belt
Bhopal: 25 years for justice – even more for a clean-up
Bhopal after 25 years
Tackling farm pests with ‘havan’
News – Food and Health
Carbide + colour + wax = Poison on the plate
New alarm bells about chemicals and cancer
Anti-cancer drug from cow urine gets US patent
Mother’s milk helps improve baby’s DNA: Study
Ginger eases aches and pains: Study
Deep cuts in salt use could save thousands of lives
News – Religion and Spirituality
‘Starving yogi’ astounds Indian scientists
Peruvian envoy to undertake research on Adi Sankara
50,000 weddings in Mumbai on Akshaya Tritiya
TTD makes 1,000 kg gold deal with SBI
Karnataka CM donates Rs. one crore for TN temple works
Vaishno, Amarnath yatra gets costlier
UK Hindu fighting for open-air cremation
Mary in sari in Indian Bible
Saudi clerics call for adult breast-feeding
News – Law and Judiciary watch
Seeking a divorce now becomes easier
SC refuses PIL seeking ban on same-gotra marriage
SC pulls up ‘blogger’ judge of Karnataka high court
HC asks Centre, Assam to clarify Citizenship Act
Communal violence bill reworked
Govt proposes womb banks to legalise surrogacy
Sex abuse panel must in all firms: Draft Bill
India to adopt US model in tackling domestic violence
AP Human Rights Commission bans ‘lewd’ child shows, HC stays ban
Students can’t be failed upto class VII, rules Madras HC
NGO, lawyer fight over death row convict Afzal Guru
8 held guilty for Bhopal tragedy; convicts get 2 years in jail, bailed out
Amendment to existing law suggested to prevent Bhopal like judgement
HCs just stay & forget heinous crime cases
Leaders who appear on illegal hoardings can be prosecuted: HC
Anti-plagiarism software for all research papers in law: BCI
News – Foreign affairs watch
Indians the third largest immigrant group in US
Trinidad elects its first female PM, a Hindu
UK men told not to ‘import’ wives from India, Pak
Britain bans Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik
India has cultural edge to lead world: Indonesia envoy
India, Lanka sign 7 pacts, discuss resettlement of Tamils
Pakistan wastes 1/3rd of Indus water it gets, admits Qureshi
57 Pakistani Hindus convert to Islam ‘under pressure’
Amnesty says 4 million Pakistanis under Taliban rule
Pak’s defence allocation is Rs.675 bn
Pak N-reactors to increase arsenal 7-fold
Al Qaeda wing earns millions from hostage business: experts
China makes strategic forays into Bangladesh
China seeks Pak help to deal with separatists on border
Prisoners convert to Islam for jail perks in UK
Kenya court rules Islamic courts are illegal
US discovers $ 1 trillion Afghan mineral deposits
News – Miscellaneous
Remains of another ancient varsity found in Bihar
India to patent yoga asanas
West Bengal rank & file deserting Marxists’ sinking ship
RSS shakhas fight for survival
RSS opposes caste-based census
UP varsity may be exempt from giving quota to OBCs
Muslims to have quota in Bengal government jobs
Loan Waiver Scheme for Chirstian converts in Kerala
Articles – Maoist Menace
Force should be met with force – Swapan Dasgupta
Maoist Problem: How to handle it effectively? – Gen. V.P. Malik [retd.]
Stop dithering and act with precision – JP Rajkhowa
No dialogue possible with Naxalites – Tavleen Singh
No military solutions for Maoism – Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
Recognising the Maoist threat – Sudheendra Kulkarni
Army against Maoists: The inherent risk of dual shame – MG Devasahayam
Blissfully ignorant politicians – Priyadarsi Dutta
Missing the woods, the trees – Mani Shankar Aiyar
Bogus activists must shut up – Meera Mishra
Many such groups are a Maoist front – KPS Gill
Activist PUDR Rights groups always condemn war – S. Purkayastha
Romanticising Naxalites unacceptable – Gautam Wahi
PM must act on Maoist terror – Ashok K. Mehta
Foil the diabolic Maoist plan to subvert Indian democracy – Dr. BP Saha
State must hit back harder – Editorial, The Tribune
Maoists are finally being smashed – Editorial, The Pioneer
Editorial Comments
Road to Manipur: Fight the fire, not just the smoke – The Tribune
Inter-country adoptions: New rules will curb malpractices – The Tribune
Reinventing Calcutta – The Telegraph
Financing terrorism: Efforts on to reignite J&K flames – The Pioneer
Pak will achieve nothing with its anti-India campaign on water – Business Standard
Book Review
Review of Fatima Bhutto’s “Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir” – M.V. Kamath
Interview
‘No opposition just for sake of it’ – Nitin Gadkari
Report
Social Cause meeting pays homage to CRPF Jawans who lost their lives at Dantewada – U. Atreya Sarma
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