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A homage to the matryrs of Kotli
Yuv Raj Gupta
Kotli Town the then Tehsil headquarter in Mirpur District with a population of 4,000 in 1947, had swelled many folds because of flow of Hindus and Sikhs from surrounding villages in the face of armed invasion by Pakistan…
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Consumption of Kandi Amla reduces Cancer risk
Dr. Vikas Sharma
Emblica officinalis commonly known as Indian gooseberry or amla / aonla, belonging to family Euphorbiaceae, originally native to India, is today found growing in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, China and…
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Game changer
If Prime Minister's 'mid-night' stroke of demonetisation has affected the common man across the board it looks for the time being it has also dented the flow of Hawala money to Kashmir Valley. This is evident from the sudden death of…
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Dried up jobs
Despite all the big talks of skill development and alternative employment the job creation remains at the lowest ebb of the Central government. And it looks government has no policy to even address the malady. Macro-economic parameters too…
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Now, let’s have surgical strike on bureaucracy
A Surya Prakash
More than the hoarders of black money, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's announcement on November 8 to demonetise high-value currency to strike at the root of illicit wealth, appears to have stunned his political opponents.…
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Swachh Bharat Mission and sanitation
Dr. Banarsi Lal
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014 with the objective to eradicate open defecation by 2019, the year that marks the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhiji,…
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Ensuring environmental sustainability
G.L KHAJURIA
Promotion of human welfare and well - being, i.e., initiatives must be built into sustainable development policy to ensure "macro coherency" to prevent environmental degradation in order that rights, needs and interest of…
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One more chance
It was Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar who had mooted the idea of using 'terrorists to neutralise terrorists', suggesting the revival of the 1990s 'Ikhwan era' last year. At that time even former Kashmiri counter-insurgents expressed…
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By polls
Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency and Baithalanso assembly constituency in Assam will go for by-elections on Saturday to decide the electoral fate of eight contestants while in West Bengal by-polls are due in Cooch Behar and Tamluk Lok Sabha…
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GI-poor man’s intellectual property rights
Makhan Saikia
The protection of the Geographical Indication (GI) in India comes under the purview of the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act 1999, known as the GI Act. However, the Act came into force on…
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