Editorial

Pakistan's attempt to internationalise the Kashmir issue will not "whitewash" its support to cross-border terrorism. The recent arrest and killing of infiltrating terrorist is yet another proof of Pakistan's continued involvement in…
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Claude Arpi Watching Chairman Xi Jinping officiating during the mega parade at the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base in Inner Mongolia on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), this writer was…
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Er. HEM RAJ PHONSA This is the story of Dogra Rattan Shri Parmanand affectionately called 'BABU JI', who travelled with dignity, a long way from a hut to Raj Bhawan. Babu Parmanand Ji was born on 10th August 1932, to late Sh. Jaggoo Ram and…
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M. K Bhadrakumar If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately. So I think it's a cost-benefit ratio." These are words by James Mattis, US Secretary of Defence. It is a powerful statement about…
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Despite the recent seizures by National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing Hawala money transaction in Jammu and Kashmir, pointing out cross LoC trade to be main funnel for cash flow to keep Kashmir unrest and terrorism,…
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Sharing of Indus water between India and Pakistan had always been a contentious issue with both claiming to be the beneficiaries. Under the Indus-Water Treaty, India and Pakistan share the waters - Pakistan uses almost 80 per cent of the…
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Rajan Gandhi Pakistan's 'Kangaroo' Military Courts were established by General Zia-ul-Haq soon after he imposed martial law in 1979 under the pretext to clear the old backlog, but in reality, these Courts took good care of those…
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Kailash. K Chander Bhaderwah is a town and Tehsil in the Doda District, in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The town is governed by a Notified Area Council (city council). The Bhadarwah Valley is located in the foothills of the Himalayan…
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KK Srivastava On my doing "well" in graduation in 1978 from DAV Degree College, Gorakhpur, my uncle gifted me a book titled The Continent of Circe whose author was one Nirad C Chaudhuri. The book interested me; I made efforts to read it;…
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Notwithstanding the India-China tension over the Doklam standoff, Beijing is upbeat about the next month's BRICS summit (an acronym for an association of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa which…
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