Editorial

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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Vivek Katju Pakistan is in a political drift with the Sharifs, the country's most powerful family, seemingly fighting a losing legal battle against corruption charges. With a hostile judiciary and an unsympathetic army, the head of the…
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The way former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah is courting one or the other controversy over Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) it looks even the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership too is enjoying the tantrums and looks as if there is a tacit…
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Once again nation is reminded of 2004 December when Tsunami hit the southern coast of the country leaving a trail of devastation all along. The worst affected were the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Exactly after 13 years once again the…
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Sushma Ramachandran The forthcoming ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Buenos Aires is being held in the backdrop of a vastly different global scenario to that when the institution was first set up in 1995. The WTO has…
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