Editorial

Rajan Gandhi On February 11, 1976, with the approval of the legislature, Mrs. Gandhi's Government presented journalists with the Prevention of Publication of Objectionable Matters Act of 1976. It empowered competent authority to serve…
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The delay in holding Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir would further hamper the utilisation of Central funds given for various developmental projects at grass-root level. Politically whatever may be the game plan it is the common man…
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It looks the much touted $50-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) China has run into rough weather with the corruption charges becoming prominent with China stopping funds to at least three major road projects in Pakistan. The…
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G.L Khajuria Nearly 1.75 million species of plants, animals and microbes have been documented so far, while around 10 to 15 million of this number are waiting for their turn of documentation after giving scientific names, this enormous…
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RK Pachauri Political attention at the global level has focused largely on specific regions due to the potential for conflict or flexing of muscles by some powers. India is, undoubtedly, not in this league of exhibition of military might…
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Rajan Gandhi India is ranked as low as 136th out of a total of 180 countries on a global 'freedom of the press index' and the best ranking was 80th in 2002 under NDA regime. The freedom of the press in India is threatened by both state and…
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The frequent holding of medical camps especially the free camps where medical checkups and distribution of medicines are free though looks very attractive on the social front but on the economic side it is to get the prescriptions from…
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Keeping the rise in road accidents and rising casualties the Odisha Government's 'Good Samaritan' policy should work as a trendsetter for other states. Under the policy Rs 2,000 would be given to any person extending immediate help in…
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Col Dr Virendra K Sahi, VrC The image of Armed Forces in post-independence era has been deliberately and systematically eroded by the external and internal enemies of the country in an effort to dilute and weaken this only institution that…
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Sonali Kumar (IAS)(Retd) Another Memoir? Of a Bureaucrat? Groan…Yawn…Oh No…o…o…o... What new can you talk of, except of cataloguing the postings you suffered and the "successes" you had over some boring 37-years of service in the…
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