Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN, Aug 6, 2010, 02.39am IST
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

NEW DELHI: Promising proper education, pastors are trafficking children from the north-eastern states to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with an oblique motive to get grants from churches and abroad, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said in a damning report to the Supreme Court.

05-08-10
By N Haridas
Source: http://www.deccanherald.com

Under the laws of the land, both the Centre and the states are the ‘states.’ The law allows a state to prosecute an offender - whether it be a private citizen, an official or an elected representative, but the ‘top ruler’ is not an official in this respect. Here, the agitating question is: Can one state prosecute another state?

Source: http://www.examiner.com

Scarcely a soul envisaged last week's "trust deficit" discussions between Pakistan and India producing any results worth a fig. Unfortunately, they failed to achieve even that. Outside of the obvious attempt to assuage U.S. leaders, the biggest riddle is why India would ever agree to meet with Pakistan to discuss issues of trust in the first place, when India now has definitive proof in hand that Pakistan's intelligence agency, army and navy were in league with the hateful Islamic jihadist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that led to the deaths of 173 people.

Ajit Kumar Doval
Posted: Wed Aug 04 2010, 02:42 hrs
Source: http://www.indianexpress.com

Beware of half truths - because you may be holding the wrong half. After having seen and read so much about the Sohrabuddin episode in the last five years, one might believe one knows it all. Sohrabuddin is now cast as an innocent victim of police excess.

By M. R. Venkatesh

One may recall the oil price increase between 2006 and 2008, its fall in the later half of 2008 and the subsequent rise in 2008-09. Again this provides a fascinating study to estimate the power and reach of these speculators even at the global level.