Manu Bhagavan is associate professor in the Department of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is the author or (co-)editor of four other titles, including Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia and Claiming Power from Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India. Here is an extract from his new book, 'The Peacemakers,' published by Harper Collins...
11:54 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Washington: Pakistan is half way through the construction of its fourth nuclear reactor at Khushab, which will give it capability to speed up plutonium manufacturing, latest US satellite imagery has revealed. On completion, the reactor would enable Islamabad to build large number of smaller nuclear warheads, Washington-based eminent think-tank Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said. Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is considered to be among the fastest growing in...
11:59 AM, May 23, 2012
Bangalore: Greenpeace India activists Tuesday urged global computer maker Apple to use renewable energy to power its data centres worldwide instead of fossil fuels like coal for protecting the fragile ecology. As part of the worldwide protest against the multinational for burning tonnes of coal to run its data centres, local activists of the green organisation roped in its customers to ask Apple go for a cleaner cloud. Similar protests...
12:05 PM, May 09, 2012
United Nations: Highlighting the need for reform of the UN Security Council, India has said it is important that the top body concentrate its time and efforts in dealing with issues of global peace and security rather than encroach upon the mandate of the General Assembly. Participating in the 8th round of Inter-governmental Negotiations on UNSC reform, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri said the working methods...
04:24 PM, May 05, 2012
Chicago: Poverty, a lack of education and arms proliferation present daunting obstacles, yet peace can be achieved if world leaders are more willing to talk and young people are encouraged to get involved, Nobel Peace Prize winners said on Monday at their annual meeting. Former US President Jimmy Carter and ex-presidents Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union and Lech Walesa of Poland were among the Peace Prize winners in...
02:02 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday emphasised on the need to strengthen coalition for development and peace, and asked members of his party NC to help the government carry forward its agenda with firmness and determination. "The coalition between National Conference and Congress is a natural one for sharing the high principals of communal harmony, brotherhood, peace and equitable development of all sections of the society,"...
12:38 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Jammu: Noting that dividends of peace in the shape of revival of economic activities and tourism are now visible on the ground across Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday cautioned the people against elements "bent upon creating wedge" between various sections of society. Addressing a big public gathering at Purmandal in Samba district, Omar stressed that peace is pre-requisite to create stability and address issues amicably. "We...
03:20 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: The government said there was tangible progress in its meeting with top leadership of ULFA on Monday as peace talks resumed here after a break of six months, discussing the outfit's 'charter of demands' to find a lasting solution to the three-decade-old insurgency in Assam. During the 90-minute meeting, the ULFA delegation, led by its 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, discussed with Union Home Secretary RK Singh and other officials...
06:45 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Kabul: An Afghan peace envoy was killed along with his son when a suicide bomber targeted him on his way back from Friday prayers along with his son, dealing another blow to Afghanistan's reconciliation process that is turning out to be a tough road. Mowlawi Mohammad Hashem Munib, a former commander of a major Afghan mujahideen group Hezb-i-Islami, was the head of the provincial peace council in eastern Kunar province....
11:02 PM, Apr 06, 2012
More than two years after he imposed a moratorium on the commercial release of BT Brinjal, Jairam Ramesh defends his controversial decision says, "On BT ...
04:40 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Kabul: From a simple mud-walled house above a steep Kabul hillside buried deep in snow, the Taliban's former guardian of virtue and once-feared scourge of vice sees a revolution under way. Maulvi Qalamuddin, the bearded cleric who oversaw the religious police squads which roamed Afghan streets beating women, smashing televisions and herding men into mosques, says a more moderate Taliban is emerging as its leaders look to the future and...
05:29 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Ahmedabad: An Ahmedabad court will pass its order on the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots on February 15. The SIT on Monday opposed giving its report on the massacre to Teesta Setalvad-led Citizens for Justice and Peace and senior lawyer Mukul Sinha, saying that they had "no locus in the case". The SIT opposed not only the duo in the...
03:11 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Karachi: They may no longer be partners on the international circuit but Pakistan's top tennis player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi has not given up on the idea of teaming up with India's Rohan Bopanna for a 'peace match' to bolster Indo-Pak ties. Bopanna and Qureshi parted ways after the Indian decided to team up with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi for this season. "We may no longer be playing as a doubles team but...
12:55 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Washington: The initial talks between the US and Taliban in Qatar on the release of five of the militant group's prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center have failed, a media report said on Monday. The failure of the talks is being attributed mainly to the refusal of Taliban to accept the US demand of a ceasefire before these five Taliban prisoners could be released, the MSNBC news reported quoting...
12:04 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Washington: US has termed as 'untrue' sentiments inside Pakistan that it was being sidelined by the Obama Administration in peace talks with the Taliban. "Absolutely untrue", State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said, when asked there was a feeling inside Pakistan that they are being sidelined in these talks with Taliban. "We have at every opportunity been clear that we think that Pakistan has a very important role to play in...
09:03 AM, Jan 27, 2012
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