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Sena unrepentant for news channel attack

NDTV Correspondent, Saturday November 21, 2009, Mumbai

A day after a group of Shiv Sena activists vandalized the office of the IBN Lokmat in Pune and attacked the staff, the Shiv Sena is unrepentant. In its mouthpiece Saamna, the party says, “Nikhil Vaghle spoke against Bal Thackeray in his programme for a letter which the Shiv Sena chief had written to Sachin as a father. We assaulted those who spoke against the Shiv Sena supreme.” Shiv Sena has claimed responsibility for the attacks on IBN's offices in Mumbai and Pune on Friday evening. Party spokesman Sanjay Raut said that "criticism of Bal Thackeray would not be tolerated.”

26/11 trauma still haunts victims’ kin

NDTV Correspondent, Saturday November 21, 2009, Ahmedabad

A year after the perpetrators of 26/11 hijacked the Kuber ship and killed three fishermen from south Gujarat on board, the families continue their struggle for survival. Asmita is just a year and a half - too young to know the tragedy that struck her family a year ago, when her fisherman father Natwar had left home on MV Kuber, hoping for a good catch.

'India to be third largest economy by 2050'

Press Trust of India, Saturday November 21, 2009, New York

An article "The G20 in 2050", carried in November bulletin of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said, "China, India, and the United States will emerge as the world’s three largest economies in 2050. Their total GDP, in real US dollar terms, will be over 70 per cent more than that of the other G20 countries combined."

Reddy questions panel findings

NDTV Correspondent, Saturday November 21, 2009,

Mining baron and Karnataka tourism minister Janardhan Reddy has rejected the findings of a panel on his alleged involvement in illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh. Speaking to NDTV, Janardhan Reddy questioned the legality of the Supreme Court panel's findings. A Supreme Court panel has found firms owned by him indulging in illegal mining in Andhra. The panel has also recommended that illegal mining by Reddy's firms must stop. It has slammed a report by the Andhra government that earlier said Reddy's firm did not indulge in illegal mining.

More than ten terrorists behind 26/11 siege?

NDTV Correspondent, Saturday November 21, 2009, New Delhi

Were there more than 10 terrorists involved in the 26/11 siege of Mumbai? JK Dutt, who was the then NSG chief, says it cannot be ruled out. Speaking to Barkha Dutt on ‘We the People’ Dutt said more than 10 men from Pakistan may have entered India. JK Dutt said that he believed it couldn’t be ruled out that there were more than ten terrorists behind the siege of Mumbai. He explained that they were told that there were 10 AK 47s and so they believed that there were ten men in the hotel. But there could have been more who entered India around the same time.

This winter, Makki ki Roti is out of reach

NDTV Correspondent, Saturday November 21, 2009, Jalandhar

Maize flour is selling at Rs 20 a kilo, which is almost double of what it was last year. And Amar Kaur is finding it tough these days to give her family the flavour of the season. Despite winter setting in, she is unable to make Makki ki Roti and Sarson ka Saag.

Shiv Sena attacks news channel's offices

NDTV Correspondent, Friday November 20, 2009, Mumbai

Shiv Sena has claimed responsibility for the attacks on IBN's offices in Mumbai and Pune on Friday evening. Party spokesman Sanjay Raut said that "criticism of Bal Thackeray would not be tolerated.

A mother’s fight to save her daughters

NDTV Correspondent, Friday November 20, 2009, New Delhi

It’s the battle of a mother to save her twin daughters from her husband and his family; a family that never wanted the girls to be born in the first place. Meetu Khurana is desperate and worries that she may just lose the battle to save her daughters.

'BJP keen on having Advani’s leadership'

NDTV Correspondent, Friday November 20, 2009, New Delhi

A day after reports that senior leader Lal Krishna Advani retiring hinted that he won’t continue as the Leader of Opposition for five years, former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu has said that Advani was elected for the post for five years.

Janardhan Reddy in trouble over mines

NDTV Correspondent, Friday November 20, 2009, New Delhi

The man who was one-half of the BJP's Karnataka headache is now in the midst of a new crisis. Janardhan Reddy has been asked to stop mining in Andhra Pradesh by a panel set up by the Supreme Court. It's now up to the court, which is likely to review the matter next week, to take a final decision on the issue. Reddy is the Tourism Minister in Karnataka's BJP government.