Editorial

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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Hiranmay Karlekar Besides the military, courts in Pakistan have been under severe pressure from Islamist fundamentalist elements. This puts a question mark against the judiciary's role in upholding the country's Constitution Much has been…
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At a time when there is a strong feeling in Jammu that Article 35 A has done Unjustice to the residents of Jammu and Kashmir and Article 370 has widened the gap with the main stream nation away from the attention a section of BJP…
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Dr. John Chelladurai "Quit India" resolution of 8th August, 1942, marked a decisive moment in the history of India's freedom struggle. Gandhiji found the tenet of Truth and nonviolence put to most severe test. It was world war. The…
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Despite Supreme Court ruling over mineral extraction from river beds Jammu and Kashmir is yet to implement a policy where in mineral extraction is to be regulated in such a way that water sources are protected along with the environment.…
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The August 8 Rajya Sabha elections would decide whether Bharatiya Janata Party will at last be holding the political fulcrum and ruling the nation with no opposition. The packing of Gujarat Congress MLAs to Karnataka for safe custody had…
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