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Can Narendra Modi clean up the awfully polluted but most sacred river of them all -the Ganga like he did with the river Sabarmati ? source:hhr

The shock ubiquity of the terror group ISIS with its sudden takeover of swathes of Iraq has caused a bit of a branding problem. Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess of nature and magic, has had her name appropriated for many products and places over the years, before the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/Syria. This author once went to a student club night in a former strip called Isis in Nottingham, where double vodka and Red Bull was £1.50.  It has subsequently closed down , which would no doubt please its namesakes. Isis is also “ a world-leading centre for research in the physical and life sciences  at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford”,  a private equity company , and a  Bob Dylan tribute magazine. But no-one is more angry than the Pagan Federation. The Huffington Post UK received this angry letter from the society, asking we stop referring to the group by this acronym. Dear Sirs, We are writing to you on behalf of our members...

  Bangladesh receives nearly half of its total remittances from India. Migrant workers from the impoverished South Asian country sent home $14 billion last year, according to the World Bank. Bangladeshi workers in India transferred more than $6.6 billion to their home country, making them the biggest source of remittances to Bangladesh. This is more than four times the money being sent from Saudi Arabia, the second-highest contributor. India is a preferred destination among Bangladeshi migrants because of the low cost of migration. “Migrants can avoid securing a plethora of documents including issuance of passports if they migrate to India,” says a study published by the  While there aren’t recent data available on the total number of Bangladeshis staying in India, we do know that nearly 500,000 visas were issued in 2012-13. Illegal immigration has become a hot-button issue in India. Prime minister Narendra Modi reiterated his strong stance against illegal immig...

Hindu Fearlessness through the Ages One hears it all too often:  ‘Hindus are cowards, they only deserve what they are suffering.’ Mahatma Gandhi said it clearly enough:  ‘The Muslim is a bully, the Hindu a coward.’  But Hindus are by no means cowards. Hindus as such have their problems, but lack of bravery is not one of them. Look at the  Bangladesh war of 1971. The Pakistani Army was brave enough as long as its job consisted in raping Bengali women, but as soon as the Indian Army appeared on the  scene, all they could do was to flee and to surrender. The Majority Hindu Army liberated the oppressed Muslims and the persecuted Hindus of Bangladesh. Or look at the Kargil war of 1999. Though  the  politicians forbade the Indian soldiers from taking the war into enemy territory by crossing the Pak  border, the Indian Army besieged the Kargil mountain which the Pak invaders had taken, and  reconquered it. Let us look  at the histor...

The prompt approval to set up a radar station on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands signalled the Modi government's intent to deal with China on its own terms. Rediff.com contributor Anita Katyal reports. In a decision which could impact relations between New Delhi and Beijing, India on Tuesday cleared a longstanding proposal from the Coast Guard to set up a radar station on Narcondam Island in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, located opposite the Coco Island where the Chinese are said to have set up a listening post. The decision comes a day after China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi left New Delhi following his 'useful and comprehensive' talks with the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government. The Coast Guard proposal had been pending for nearly a decade after environmental groups and wildlife activists raised objections that the project would cause irreparable damage to the habitat of the Narcondam Hornbill, a bird whose only home is the N...

Hi there, If you would ask me to vote for the most horrifying part of mathematics in school, I wouldn't bat an eyelid before screaming : Square-root ! A common Maths joke is illustrated below: For me, and for countless other school-children, determination of Square Root of a given number (running into numerous digits) would always prove an arduous task. Thank God we are allowed to use Calculators in colleges! The standard method taught was that of the long division, shown below: But did you know that the method to determine a Square root was devised by Aryabhatta, as early as 475 AD? Though the knowledge of Square roots existed in India from the BC ages, proof of the method is given in Aryabhatta's celebrated work, Aryabhatiyam. The relevant Sloka is given below: Translated into English, it says: Divide the Non-square place by twice the Square Root of the Square place, then subtract the Square from the next Square place. ...

  Government wants to create special havens in certain parts of J&K: Syed Ali Shah Geelani Opposing any move to rehabilitate Kashmiri Pandits by creating protected settlements in the Valley, radical separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Wednesday claimed certain havens were being sought to be created in certain places in southern, central and northern Kashmir. “Pandits are a part of the Kashmir society and they will always be welcome in their motherland. But, let it be clear that any plan to settle them exclusively in protected colonies would be completely unacceptable to the separatist leadership and the people here,” Mr. Geelani said. The 86-year-old politician condemned the Narendra Modi government’s purported plans to permanently settle the Punjabi and other non-J&K refugees from Pakistan in the State and grant them the status of permanent residents. Source :  Hindu