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India’s hawks want to start a series of nuclear tests that could isolate the nation and spark an arms race.

What could cause the Darul Uloom Deoband and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind to join forces with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad? Answer: homosexuality, which according to all of the above should be severely punished by the law. Sikh and Christian bodies are also negative about repealing the parts of Section 377 which criminalise homosexuality. Joining them is a motley group of godmen, astrologers, politicians and now even a child rights group, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

Why don’t we as nation stop playing the farce of being a secular nation and why don’t we remove the article from the constitution which says all citizens are equal?

Encountered on saffron Agenda is a documentary portraying four encounter cases happened in Gujarat. These cases are special because all killed were said to have been on a mission to kill the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and accosted by Crime Branch and Anti Terrorist Squad of Gujarat police and sub subsequently killed in gun battle.

The challenge in Afghanistan isn’t about resources but principles. It’s about holding a serious and consistent political stance regarding the Taliban. For example, the Afghan army’s lack of success in the fight against the Taliban is not so much the result of their inadequate salary or the number of troops but the lack of patriotic sentiment that is needed if the army is to win. The fact that the Afghan leadership itself is hesitant to clarify the exact nature of its relationship with the Taliban leaves the army unsettled: is the government against the Taliban or ready to negotiate with them?