Editorial

Amitabh Mathur Much like his predecessor Hamid Karzai, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has begun his tenure with a serious effort to mend fences with Pakistan. Relations between the two countries, which share close ethnic, religious and…
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Swapan Dasgupta There's a curious rule that operates in Indian politics: the popularity of a regional leader in the Delhi media is inversely related to their standing in their State. So it was in the late-1980s with Ramakrishna Hegde, then…
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Beaten but not ousted is the spirit of National Conference after the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The party has been able to manage 15 out of 87 seats from where it contested even beating the figure of exit polls in the face of…
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Militancy in north-east is no phenomena, but massacre of adivasi tea estate labourers by a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam's Kokrajhar and Somtiput districts claiming more than 70 lives is the biggest…
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Isher Singh Jasrotia Our civil society is passing through a difficult phase with sudden eruption of crimes in large scales in the society, which has destroyed the fibre of peaceful co-existence and there is grave threatening to the…
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Wilson Mattoo Whenever the dark clouds of sorrows, bad, evils, and miseries down in the society a noble soul takes birth on this earth to spread the message of goodness and happiness. Jesus Christ was the messenger sent by the God to make…
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Sitaram Yechury The current Rajya Sabha impasse is a reflection of the furious unfolding of the Modi government's 'lethal cocktail' - selling grandiose illusions of 'prosperity' through 'development' while unleashing rabid communal…
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The recently concluded Assembly elections have sprung surprises in Jammu and Kashmir getting hung house  while Jharkhand getting its first BJP majority government. But for a change J&K gave the surprise to the saffron party for the…
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With Human Resources Development ministry giving  nod in norms of national council for teachers' education now B.Ed will be of two years course. Gujarat model of an integrated four year course leading to B.A and B.Ed degrees will be started…
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Balbir Punj The Government, the Army and the Mullah-backed terror groups are working together and in conflict for power in that country. To ignore this factor, and merely condemn the butchers of Peshawar, will serve no purpose Nawaz…
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