Editorial

Mahadeep Singh Jamwal  Rapid urbanisation has overtaken the traditional value-system of our people and shifted their socio-economic priorities. Sons and daughters find no time for the senior citizens in their family. The elderly, who have…
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     Ravinder Jalali The Kashmir unrest enters seventh week after the killing of dreaded terrorist, carrying a reward of Rs.10 Lakh, who has now become darling of militants and separatists including so called pseudo secular mainstream…
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K R Shyam Sundar   Through his invocation of Mera Jawan during his Independence Day speech and the extraordinary display of respect and affection by three of his lady Ministers tying Rakhis to soldiers, including those deployed at the…
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The Centre seems to be staring at a full-blown crisis with the country's main trade unions all set to go on a nation-wide strike in protest against the government's economic policies and labour laws on 2nd September. With Central Government…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reach out to Mynamar as part of India's 'Look East Policy' and asserting to stand-by it surely would bring the desired dividends especially seen in the light of operations against insurgent groups who have in…
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 Gwynne Dyer Just in case you've been trapped down a coal-mine for the past couple of days (or kidnapped by space aliens, or otherwise cut off from the global information flow), the most widely shared news story all over the world over the…
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    Mahadeep Singh Jamwal  We believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life of struggling families. Blessed is the…
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Kalyani Shankar   Parliament has spoken, the Prime Minister too has spoken and almost all political parties in Jammu and Kashmir and in the country have expressed anguish over the ongoing crisis in the valley. An all-party meeting is…
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Are we turning over- patriotic?  When actor turned former Congress MP Ramya, who was part of young leaders SAARC team which visited Pakistan, said that there is no hell and life is as normal as in India, attracted sedition charges in a…
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Last year this time around 500 Panchayat members had announced their resignation under terrorists threat openly through newspapers/mosques, though the State Government at that time claimed that only a handful of resignations have been…
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