Editorial

The falling agriculture output surely would impact the growth and affect other economic activities. As per the government data, the all-India average monthly income of agricultural households during the crop year July 2012-June 2013 was…
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Eleven Indian women are among the 25 Asian ladies who have won the Women Icons Award in Singapore for dedicating their lives to social work. Women empowerment and childcare remains on the minds of these women, who came from a number of…
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 R K Sinha A new class of people who are never satisfied has emerged on the national scene. The one point agenda of this class is to get all benefit from the country and then campaign and act against the nation. This class loses faith in…
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Harsh V Pant India and China continue to be at loggerheads on a range of bilateral issues as China shows no signs of budging on key concerns that matter to India. Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar visited Beijing recently for the…
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nMakhan Saikia The BJP winning 21 seats in Manipur has set the signal for a political tsunami for the entire hill States of the North-Eastern region. It is, in fact, a clear indication that the BJP is fast gaining grounds in the traditional…
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Against the backdrop of the Uri attack, the Centre had directed security forces to put in place a five-layer anti-infiltration grid along the Line of Control and International Border with Pakistan. Besides, the security forces were also…
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Though the State Government claims to have the expertise to handle any disaster arising out of climatic change but given the conditions for the last one week on the national highway where trucks are lined up due to landslides and stone…
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 Tavleen Singh Nobody was more resoundingly defeated yesterday than us political pundits. The distance between us and the electorate, that first became evident in the 2014 general election, has grown, not lessened. So I am going to begin by…
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Prof Hari Om Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, father and founder of the Kashmir-based National Conference and who usurped State power in 1947 with the full backing of the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, much to chagrin of the people of Jammu…
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Santosh Jain Passi Our country is afflicted with the dual burden of disease - non-communicable diseases (NCDs) posing a major public health challenge. On one end are the nutritional deficiencies/infectious diseases associated with poverty,…
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