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The geopolitics of oil
G Parthasarathy
As sectarian Shia-Sunni and civilisational Arab-Persian-Israeli rivalries dominate the geopolitics of our western neighbourhood today, India faces a very different situation from what it confronted four decades ago, when the…
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Aspiring to be a superpower
Gurinder Singh
India is at a precarious position. When the world is aging, India is growing younger. We are set to become the youngest nation in the world by 2030 and according to the International Monetary Fund, this demographic dividend…
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What changed during last 25 years vis-a-vis traffic, roads of Jammu
Dr. S. Sapru
Periodic reviews and course corrections. Now what has changed during the last 25 years?
1. Population of district Jammu is projected as around 20 lakh as of now (2018) while it was 15.29 lakhs in 2011. To this figure add around…
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Burning fuel
The rising petrol and diesel prices have kept the common man on tenterhooks and the recent price revision has made fuel costliest ever. India imported crude oil at an average rate of around $64 per barrel, a price compared to July 2009,…
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Dalit Protest
The one-day protest against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act - has left a vast trail of mayhem in the Hindi belt. The Supreme Court had on March 20 "diluted" the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the…
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A disunited kingdom
Hasan Suroor
Way back in 1997, in a rare undiplomatic public outburst, the then Prime Minister, IK Gujral, dismissed Britain as a "third rate power" after its foreign secretary Robin Cook gratuitously offered to mediate in the Kashmir…
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Simmering discontent
Shubham Mehta
There has been a spurt of activities in the recent past in quick succession albeit they were not stand-alone or let's say unique but rather a peculiar feature of Indian democracy. Just a few days ago, a group of infuriating,…
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What changed during last 25 years vis-à-vis traffic, roads of Jammu.
Dr. S. Sapru
Traffic on the roads of Jammu is attracting lot of attention these days because the traffic rules are being attempted to be put in place. The rules have all along been violated, are being violated and shall continue to be…
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NO JOBS
Whether you make 'Make in India' a reality or not, the situation in job market looks gloomy for the young generations and all that big talks by the Central leadership on job creation has not produced positive results. And it looks…
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EFFECTIVE OPERATION
The 72-hour long counter insurgency operations, which dealt a severe blow to terror groups claiming 13 terrorists' lives in Kashmir Valley, launched in the two districts on Saturday night and continued till late is considered to be the…
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