At least 126 Pakistanis, most of them children, were killed today when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.
Mann Ki BaatDarkness, destruction and devastation are the 3Ds of drugs. Drugs are something that can shatter anyone. This is a psycho-socio-medical problem and we need to see it this way, we shouldn`t blame the person," said Prime Minister Modi in his third `Mann Ki Baat` address on All India Radio.
A Painful SaturdayAustralia beat India by 48 runs in the first Test at Adelaide on Saturday. and a misfiring India squandered a golden opportunity to create history as they went down 3-4 to arch-rivals Pakistan in a high-voltage semi-final of the Hero Champions Trophy hockey tournament in Bhubaneswar on Saturday night.
Castism and ConversionMany people are getting converted in different religions but in Hindutva the main problem is casteism.
Governance and HindutvaA spate of controversial statements by BJP MPs and actions of hardline offshoots of Sangh Parivar has sparked concern that they may deflect the attention away from Modi government`s focus on governance and development.
Hey Ram!BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj was on Thursday at the centre of a controversy when he described Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a 'patriot', sparking outrage following which he retracted. The MP from Unnao said, `Godse was an aggrieved person. He may have done something by mistake but was no an anti-national. He was a patriot.`