Editorial

  Claude Arpi  It is impossible to rewind history. What happened has happened. It is, however, always possible to learn from past successes, victories, as well as defeats. In fact there is certainly more to learn from blunders. One, called…
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Once again Shopian encounter, which is the fourth such incident in three weeks, brings to the fore questions about the emerging scenario in Kashmir. Terrorists ambushing army convoy and escaping from the ambush site surely does show that…
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An Indian engineer was killed and two others injured when an American man opened fire on them after allegedly yelling "get out of my country", with the police calling it as a "possible hate crime". The shooting incident comes at a time when…
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 Uttam Gupta Roberto Azevedo, Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), who was recently in Delhi to explore and understand India's perspective on issues for taking up in the 11th WTO ministerial scheduled for 11th to 14th…
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  V.SRINIVAS The National Health Mission is India’s flagship health sector programme to revitalize rural and urban health sectors by providing flexible finances to State Governments. The National Health Mission comprises of 4 components…
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   Afroz Alam Blind support to dynastic politics afflicts us all and underestimates not only democratic citizenship but also accountability. Many of us were certain that the hyperbolic campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the…
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 Prof Hari Om  Gone are the days when the local Congress leaders played an important role in their respective states and the central leadership supplemented their efforts. It was this perfect coordination and understanding between the…
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Instead of making an appeal to people in Kashmir to stay away from the place of encounters authorities in Jammu and Kashmir should have allowed the security forces to deal with terrorists and their supporters or sympathisers with a strong…
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The last November-midnight stroke to wean-out fake Indian currency from circulation looks has somewhere lost its steam. The way seizure of near-original currency talks about the desperation of Pakistan to pump-in the fake to keep its…
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 V.SRINIVAS Health sector policy making is extremely challenging and complex. The backdrop for policy formulation are low public spending and high out of pocket expenditures. The out of pocket expenditure on health care as a proportion of…
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