Wikileaks – What about India?

So far the disclosures on India are more about what the US thinks about Indian politicians

Guest Column By Seema Mustafa

The gravest injustice being done to the sensational disclosures by Wikileaks is not the attempt to arrest Julian Assange and place him---permanently as the United States of America hopes---behind bars. The gravest injustice is the bits-and-pieces-form of the leak, whereby the entire impact of the More
India accused of torture in Kashmir

WikiLeaks cables

Beatings and electric shocks inflicted on hundreds of civilians detained in Kashmir, US diplomats in Delhi told by ICRC writes Jason Burke

The dispatches, obtained by website WikiLeaks, reveal that US diplomats in Delhi were briefed in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees.Other cables show that as recently as 2007 More
Heart matters

HEALTHCARE

Prof Upendra Kaul writes on Bioabsorbable Coronary Stent System (Vascular Restoration Therapy)

Coronary artery disease is the commonest cause of death world wide. A number of advances have taken place in managing this disease in the recent times. Advances in Medical treatment, coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery are the main therapeutic measures to manage this scourge. At More
  • Kashmir

Winter schooling is punishment: CCA

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Dec 19: Terming winter schooling as “punishment” to the students, the coaching centre operators on Sunday castigated the state government’s decision of keeping schools open during winter and More


  • Srinagar City

Gurez House comes up in City

CM Inaugurates 50 - bed facility at Bemina

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 19: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Sunday inaugurated Gurez House at SDA Colony Bemina on the City outskirts. An official handout said the 50 bed facility has been constructed at the More



  • Jammu

Dev of rural areas govt’s priority: Sadhotra

Jammu, Dec 19: Member Legislative Council, Ajay Sadhotra today said the development of rural areas and implementation of welfare schemes was the priority of coalition government.  Addressing a public More


  • News in Brief

Army holds medical camp

Srinagar, Dec 19: As many as 385 patients were examined by the team of Army doctors during a medical camp at Churanda Uri.According to defence communiqué, the patients comprised 271 children and 114 adults More


  • Business

Police yet to provide evidence: Akhoon

Employees threaten agitation

WASIM KHALID

Srinagar Dec 17: Three days after the police recovered huge “CAPD supplies” from a private godown in Batamaloo here, Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Qamar Ali Akhoon today said, “ More


  • News

Wen vows to stand by Pak in dealing with all challenges

REZAUL H LASKAR\PTI

Islamabad, Dec 19: Voicing opposition to "dual standards" in dealing with terrorism, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao today said the menace must not be linked to any particular country or religion, as he pledged More


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