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Ravinder Jalali In a recent meeting between Ram Madhav of BJP and Mehbooba Mufti of PDP, Mehbooba formally conveyed the list of CBMs and wants time frame for the same. Why she wants assurances from Centre? The Agenda of Alliance is already…
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Sandhya Jain  The pro-secession-for-Kashmir meeting organised by the pro-Maoist Democratic Students Union at Jawaharlal Nehru University on 9th February, could well have been an official function of Delhi University if a particular…
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Pravakar Sahoo Budget 2016-17 was an anxiously awaited event especially in the backdrop of the world economy staring at a crisis like situation and the domestic economy showing structural weaknesses such as overall slowdown in demand,…
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M. M Khajooria The inaugural address of Justice T.S Thakur to the two-day Legal seminar in Jammu the other day came as a whiff of fresh air in the suffocating, stifling and polluted environment that engulfed the country. That the concern…
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Dr. Banarsi Lal  Poverty was rampant in India at the time of independence. At that time 3/4th of the Indians were poor, they spent 3/4th of their income on food and 3/4th of the children were under weight. The country was not…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  The report by Justin Gillis in The New York Times last week that scientists have identified 2015 as the warmest year recorded in history - overtaking 2014, which had the distinction earlier - is hardly surprising. That…
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Sunaina Malik No doubt that man is the superior mortal of whole globe. He has dominated all biotic and abiotic components of our universe. Through different observations and experiments he has revolutionised the life on earth. Electronic…
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Anirban Ganguly  When Syama Prasad Mookerjee decided to "divide Pakistan" he had once famously quipped before Jawaharlal Nehru that while the latter had divided India, he (Syama Prasad) had divided Pakistan one of his principal objectives…
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Prof Rajni Kant This is for second year in a row that the congress is in the eye of the storm. Director of B M Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, B. G Sidharth, called the congress a 'Kumbh Mela of science' and according to him "It would be…
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Ashok K Mehta  It is difficult to tell whether Pathankot, like Peshawar, will be a turning point in Pakistan Army's policy on counter-terrorism. The Peshawar carnage led to the crackdown in North Waziristan and Federally Administered…
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