My visit to India 2010: a life changing experience

4 September 2010, New Jersey: India has the largest number of street children in the world. Every summer when I visited India, the sight of these street children always troubled me. Children are supposed to be carefree, loved, cared for and protected.

The twenty five years of 'Assam Accord'

4 September 2010, Guwahati: The 15th August marked the twenty fifth anniversary of 'Assam Accord', a 'Memorandum of Settlement' (MoS) signed between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Agitation in New Delhi.

Death Soldiers Gurd International Border

11 August 2010: Inmates of the Border Security Force of India (BSFI) of Khalpara International Border Out Post have been facing a number of problems for a long time. An incident in the aforesaid BSFI camp that lies on the India-Bangladesh International Border at Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal tells everything, writes Shib Shankar Chatterjee.

Anti-Naxal operations: entire Police setup needs relook

7 August 2010 [by Brigadier Arun Bajpai (Retd)]: More than 100 police personnel of CRPF have died in anti Naxal operations in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh State in just three months starting April with no appreciable gains. This is colossal loss of life. It will agitate and demoralize even most hardened organizations.