Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with india www.salem-news.com 2013 Articulating right demands and slogans in Genocide Remembrance events is crucial at a time when the Eezham Tamils in their homeland are barred from even silently mourning their heroes. They sacrificed their lives in the culmination of the genocidal war at Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal, one political activist from Jaffna said at the May 19 event at Marina beach in Chennai. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202013/tamil-rememberance.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202013/tamil-rememberance.php Mon, 20 May 2013 17:33:00 PDT An upcoming action at is planned for the Dow Chemical shareholder meeting in Michigan, the event is organized by the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal--North America (ICJB-NA) ICJB-NA strives to hold Dow Chemical accountable for the ongoing chemical disaster occurring in Bhopal, India, which has claimed over 25,000 lives in the past 29 years. http://salem-news.com/articles/may052013/monsanto-shareholders.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052013/monsanto-shareholders.php Sun, 05 May 2013 14:28:00 PDT Hostility is rising between India and China over their disputed Himalayan border and shared water resources. All of this comes just before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is scheduled to visit New Delhi next month. http://salem-news.com/articles/may032013/china-india.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032013/china-india.php Fri, 03 May 2013 15:43:00 PDT The air has been full with the “Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”, the Channel 4 documentary. The visuals showed naked Tamil prisoners shot in the head, dead bodies of naked women who had been raped and dumped on a truck and other atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces... http://salem-news.com/articles/april272013/tamils-india.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april272013/tamils-india.php Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:39:00 PDT Sinhalisation of the Tamil Homeland takes several shades. One is land grabbing and changing the names of villages and roads. The next is replacing Hindu temples with Buddhist temples. http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/tamil-sinhalization.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april252013/tamil-sinhalization.php Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:09:00 PDT The mullahs of Srinagar in Kashmir lodged a police complaint saying that many foreign visitors come to the Agape Home and try to convert children to Christianity in Shivapura area of Srinagar. The local newspapers also printed this false story the next day. But after proper investigation, the police have rejected the complaint by the mullahs. http://salem-news.com/articles/april172013/agape-persecution.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april172013/agape-persecution.php Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:30:00 PDT A new generation of college students in Tamil Nadu has taken up the cause of the Tamils of Sri Lanka. Articulate, well informed and uncontaminated by the influence of time-serving politicians they have successfully forced an agenda on the three main political parties in the state. http://salem-news.com/articles/april122013/tamil-students.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april122013/tamil-students.php Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:04:00 PDT A recent revelation by WikiLeaks states that the former Indira Gandhi government in India acted tough against Catholic bodies for resisting the compulsory sterilization program. This was revealed after the WikiLeaks released the Kissinger Cables, a cache of US diplomatic cables. http://salem-news.com/articles/april122013/india-catholics.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april122013/india-catholics.php Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:33:00 PDT The Tamil Nadu student movement has “thrown up a new young leadership” that is unaffiliated to any political party. They are challenging the US-sponsored UNHRC resolution on conceptually firm grounds “clearly shows that here is a new generation of Tamils which is imagining new political futures...” http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/tamil-nadu-students.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april092013/tamil-nadu-students.php Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:26:00 PDT Consistent with the unjust, decaying economic model of our deficit times, the commodification of everything and everyone proceeds apace in India. The commercialisation of the land is shattering the lives of millions of India’s poorest, hungriest most malnourished people, who are being murdered and raped, violently displaced and falsely arrested as huge multi nationals, financially favoured and militarily armed by the Indian government, ravage the land. http://salem-news.com/articles/april062013/india-development-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april062013/india-development-gp.php Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:36:00 PDT Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to skip the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka from November 15 to 17. Addressing a hall meeting on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue here, Sinha said India was the pivot of the Commonwealth body. http://salem-news.com/articles/april042013/yashwant-chogm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april042013/yashwant-chogm.php Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:43:00 PDT The Tamil Nadu State Assembly unanimously adopted a historic resolution yesterday, March 27, 2013 under the distinguished leadership of Hon Selvi Jayalalitha, the Chief Minister. This article examines a number of highlights of this resolution... http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/lanka-resolution-vr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/lanka-resolution-vr.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:50:00 PDT VHP will declare Gujarat a “Hindu state” by 2015 besides having its presence in all 18,000 villages of the state in the next two years, the outfit’s leader Pravin Togadia claimed today. “In two years, the VHP will have a presence in all 18,000 villages of Gujarat and by 2015, we will declare Gujarat a Hindu state,” VHP’s international working president Pravin Togadia told VHP followers who gathered here for a ‘Hindu Sangam’ event. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/vhp-india.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/vhp-india.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:52:00 PDT The Christian Organization ‘Poor Christian Liberation Movement’ is demanding compensation. Christian leader R.L. Francis says the church is fighting for the tag of scheduled caste from the government whereas there is no place for casteism in Christianity. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/dalit-christians.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/dalit-christians.php Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:26:00 PDT I read with much sorrow that Vikram, 30, set himself on fire and died in a hospital. He was the second such victim of the new campaign in Tamil Nadu for Eelam. The first was Mani, 41, from Cuddalore who set himself ablaze on March 4. http://salem-news.com/articles/march282013/tamil-martyrs-kp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march282013/tamil-martyrs-kp.php Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:53:00 PDT Thousands of Christians will trudge a grueling and arduous 7 kilometer walk in scorching heat, starting at Sacred Heart Church in suburban Mumbai's Khar West, while a troupe of Christian activists will enact scenes, believed to have happened on the first Good Friday. The walking pilgrimage will start in the morning at around 10 am and conclude in the evening. http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/india-christians-jd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/india-christians-jd.php Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:45:00 PDT Vile and crafty King Sisyphus, so the Greek myth goes, thought he was as smart as God. Zeus being smarter punished him to roll a boulder up the hill only to repentantly watch it roll down the other side. Since Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh and his Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar also believe they are smarter than God, they deserve the same Sisyphean punishment. http://salem-news.com/articles/march242013/india-ag-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march242013/india-ag-as.php Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:27:00 PDT As a key stake holder of World Peace and a neighbouring country, India is responsibility for the ethnic Tamil people (MOSTLY HINDUS) in Sri Lanka who faced human rights violations during the civil war. That’s why many urgent appeals have been reached urging the Prime Minister and the External Affairs Minister of India to take a strong stand for this ethnic minority at the UNHRC. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232013/tamilelders-resolution.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232013/tamilelders-resolution.php Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:02:00 PDT The Catholic-Christian Secular Forum (CSF), India's apex activist community NGO, has urged the prime minister and finance minister of the country to declare at least Easter Sunday if not Holy Saturday preceding it as a sectional holiday. The CSF general secretary, Joseph Dias issued a memorandum detailing what the holiday means to Christians. http://salem-news.com/articles/march222013/csf-easter.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march222013/csf-easter.php Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:01:00 PDT Despite the attempt of Tamil Nadu state to deter the upsurge by closing a section of government colleges, the student movement gained momentum during the weekend. In the struggle demanding justice, the students' movement prepares biers to take the US resolution to ‘cremation’ on Monday, news sources in Tamil Nadu said. http://salem-news.com/articles/march202013/sl-tamil-nadu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march202013/sl-tamil-nadu.php Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:19:00 PDT This is to draw your attention to the fact that a malicious smear campaign is being carried on to defame Joseph Dias by vested political and communal interests. As you are aware, Joseph Dias and the Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) has been championing the cause of minority and human rights throughout the country. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/joseph-dias-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/joseph-dias-ms.php Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:47:00 PDT Expressing shock at the reported gang-rape of a Swiss woman in Madhya Pradesh on March 15 after the recent death of Delhi bus gang-rape victim, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has urged India to do serious soul searching on the treatment of women. India could not even provide safer environment for the guests and her own women to go about their daily lives. http://salem-news.com/articles/march172013/swiss-rape-india.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march172013/swiss-rape-india.php Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:07:00 PDT Hindus are upset at recent reported order of an Income Tax Tribunal in Maharashtra that “Hinduism is neither a religion nor Hindus form a religious community”. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was a bizarre, inappropriate and shocking statement. http://salem-news.com/articles/march172013/hindus-india.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march172013/hindus-india.php Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:34:00 PDT Protest have been started by the Loyola College students in Chennai against an empty US resolution on Sri Lanka at Geneva and the Tamil Nadu State Government action against the protest. They have triggered spontaneous statewide student uprising that is not depending on any political party, news sources in Tamil Nadu said. http://salem-news.com/articles/march132013/student-demonstrations.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march132013/student-demonstrations.php Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:17:00 PDT The following memo was presented to Chief Minister and Home Minister: Praise and thank God for his mercy. You will recollect that we had asked you to pray for an end to the persecution that the CSF, myself and my family, our partners, collaborators and beneficiaries have been going through. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102013/csf-diaz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102013/csf-diaz.php Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:43:00 PDT Salem-News.com will join media in India to observe Black Flag Day on the 4th March 2013. We do not let a single day pass without lamenting the fate of Sri Lankan Tamils who were slaughtered without mercy by the government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) in the final months of the country's 26-year long civil war. http://salem-news.com/articles/march032013/black-flag-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march032013/black-flag-tk.php Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:38:00 PST On 8 February in Rajnandgoan, Raipur, police registered an First Information Report (FIR) against two pastors after a mob of Hindu extremists barged into the special meeting of Indian Christian Assembly of God Church and beat up Christians, injuring four. The extremists forcefully entered into the meeting attended by about 300 Christians... http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/hindu-troubles.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/hindu-troubles.php Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:35:00 PST Macrae‘s documentary No Fire Zone: Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields is making waves, showing war crimes during the LTTE-government conflict. Speaking with  Manoj Ramachandran for Times of India, Macrae discussed his views on the Sri Lankan government, why accountability is crucial — and how India can help: What’s significant is the shocking scale of war crimes committed by a government which claims democratic legitimacy and adherence to international humanitarian law. http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/callum-macrae-film.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/callum-macrae-film.php Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:43:00 PST Despite a foundation of deep spirituality and philosophical treasures, New India is racing, no time to spare towards the Alter of Materiality and Market Fundamentalism. It is all taking place under the careful guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/destructive-development-gp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february222013/destructive-development-gp.php Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:32:00 PST New photographs of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran’s son just before he was shot dead, obtained by Channel 4 TV, leave more questions for Sri Lanka to answer about war crimes It is a war that has produced some truly terrible images, but this one is particularly disturbing. A young boy sits looking distressed, like a child who has been lost in a supermarket. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/prabakaran-boy-cm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/prabakaran-boy-cm.php Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:12:00 PST