Editorial

With just two percent annual growth in agriculture Jammu and Kashmir has much to achieve in the field to boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Except for plain areas land holdings are small and the farmers have not deviated from the…
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 Zorawar Daulet Singh The India China relations are typically framed in a cooperative-competitive-conflictual framework to describe the operational state of affairs. Each of these images describes India-China relations in some issue area…
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Kushan Mitra  Dramatic advances in power technology are making the impossible of a decade ago quite simply possible. Just like mobile telephony allowed India to hop, skip and jump through decades of technological progress; advances in…
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Chief Minister  Mufti Mohammad Sayeed may be diplomatic  while answering  questions on opening  of cinema theatres in Kashmir  Valley and why not  he has valid  reasons  to go by  but when it comes to film shooting he is open in inviting…
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Once again  creamy layer is in controversy as far as reservation is concerned  and if one takes  into account the statutory  stipulation  of annual income  criteria, the policy  to exclude OBCs should have been revised from time to time and…
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Parul Kalra The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) is one of the several ambitious social security programmes initiated by Narendra Modi. It is basically a term life insurance policy that can be renewed either on a yearly…
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Joginder Singh Bureaucracy is the art of making possible the impossible. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an informal meeting with all Secretaries to the Union Government on April 1, 2015, the agenda on the table was to 'speed up the…
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Prasenjit Chowdhury Across the class divide that is India, the grumbling against the UPA had been that its overemphasis on social welfare and security has led to inflated welfare expenditures at the cost of growth. Because, it is an…
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The government secured passage of the Black Money Bill in Parliament last week to show that it is serious about fulfilling its promises of toughness on the parallel economy and cover its flanks against allegations of inaction by Opposition.…
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 S N Chary India is a country of many mind-boggling contradictions. It is a nation where 15,000 farmers commit suicide every year; this would be quite a conservative figure as the social stigma and the sense of shame associated with it for…
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