2016

BLUNT BUTCHER They may be playing competitive politics over issues of paramount national importance but their every action distances Jammu and Kashmir further from the mainstream. Two days after National Conference moved a resolution in…
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Assembly session in Jammu and Kashmir has opened with opposition combine of National Conference-Congress staging walkout, which has been the trade mark of the erstwhile opposition of BJP-PDP. It looks the NC-Cong combine has understood the…
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As the Modi government completes two years in office today, Congress is all guns on the performance platform against him for "ignoring" the interests of youths and farmers, "kneeling down" before Pakistan, and "playing" with internal…
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Mahadeep Singh Jamwal The unpleasant atmosphere created by BJP in Uttarakhand reminds us of the quote by 'Grouch Marx', an American comedian and film star that 'Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing…
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Mayuri Mukherjee  Earlier this month, when Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter agreed in principle to sign a logistics support agreement intended to enhance military ties, many in India wondered if the…
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R. K SINHA  Describing Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukhdeo as 'terrorist' in books is a historical blaspheme. It is unfortunate indeed that in Independent India we present our national heroes with such disrespect. If we talk about…
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Dear Editor, Your editorial "Road Safety" (ST- May 26) clearly shows that road safety is a priority and concern to all of us and there is a need of regularly reinforcing this message. I fully endorse the statement that "If we value…
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Dear Editor, Pakistan has expressed its displeasure with the US for the latter's drone strike on Pakistani soil that recently killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour. Pakistan is upset that the US violated its sovereignty. Yet, question…
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Dear Editor, We claim to be one of the leading countries in space research and also sending mission to the Moon and Mars. Are we not capable of producing tanks and guns to sustain our own Army? We are dependent on foreign suppliers to meet…
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Dear Editor, What a shame that even after 68 years of freedom we are unable to provide a bowl of Daal, which, after the foodgrains, is an essential commodity for healthy survival, at affordable cost to a good percentage of population. The…
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