editorial article

Isher Singh Jasrotia It is known to all that the education system in the J and K State is in desperate condition. This can be gauged from the fact that time and again, point is raised regarding the deteriorating and dilapidated conditions…
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A Surya Prakash The House of the People (the Lok Sabha) has 543 elected members and two nominated seats. Article 331 of the Constitution stipulates that the nominated seats are exclusively for members of the Anglo-Indian community. This…
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Vikram Sood Standing up for one's rights is not warmongering; nor are dissent and criticism signs of disloyalty. On the other hand, appeasement and sycophancy are dangerously close to being disloyal. One does not become a warmonger or a…
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Hiranmay Karlekar The rape of a young woman employee of a multinational corporation by a taxi driver working for Uber taxi services on 6th December  has once again brought the issue of women's safety to the fore. It is being widely said,…
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Dr. PP Singh As and when election to the Parliament or Assembly of states are held in the country we oftenly come across an unpleasant word 'polarisation'. It has always been seen that whether national political parties or regional…
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Rajdeep Sardesai The year 2014 has been the year of the lotus. The indefatigable Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine has taken the BJP to a spectacular victory at the Centre, won Maharashtra and Haryana and seem poised to win Jharkhand too. It…
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M M Khajooria It is official and authentic Sartaj Aziz,  Adviser to the  Pak Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, told  BBC on 18th November, 2014 that "Pakistan should not target militants who do not threaten the…
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Dr. Bhavneet Kaur Winter may be a wonderland for many: the cool breeze and the beauty of snow clad mountains can be a refreshing experience but it may also be a time of illness and injury if people fail to take adequate health and safety…
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Gautam Mukherjee The gap between the expectation and the pace of economic reform is widening. Things are not moving fast enough and there is no clear-cut road map. Small administrative and economic improvements have kept coming, but these…
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Swapan Dasgupta Most newspapers on carried a photograph of Messrs Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav and HD Deve Gowda sitting next to each other and smiling purposefully at the cameras. Looking at the images,…
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