Editorial

 Dr. Daleep Pandita Recent instructions issued by Vigilance Commission to government departments to celebrate vigilance week with full enthusiasm is merely a symbolic tokenism for such a short period that has been continuing for the past…
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Ashok K Mehta One country in the neighbourhood where the Modi magic has worked dramatically is Nepal. With his marvel of oratory and a few symbolically-choreographed acts in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conquered the hearts and…
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Bharat Jhunjhunwala Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trying to bring foreign investment from NRIs and multinational corporations-from the United States in particular. But the bonhomie is superficial. The standoff on major contentious…
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Swachch Bharat Abhiyan, started with much fanfare, provided just a photo op for many to carry the broom and become an extension of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign to make the country clean. This seems to have met its death…
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The emergence of West Bengal as the launching pad for terror outfits has come out as a surprise and shows that radical Islamic organisation may have been responsible for creating the wide spread terror funding modules through Hawala. Though…
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Vinayshil Gautam The understanding of the concept of leisure is fundamental to the designing of interventions for the modern economy. There are various estimates of the business available in the 'leisure sector'. Leisure business is spread…
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M. M Khajooria The on-going sporadic but numerous bouts of cease-fire violations on the IB and LoC in J and K were not only escalated but guns were specifically aimed at civilian targets. The first civilian fatal causality was reported…
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Gautam Mukherjee George Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, extolled the virtues of audacity, first, as it is recorded, followed later by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and US General Patton, later still.  'Audacity of Hope' was also…
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With regional bias coming to the fore once again, it seems battle lines have been drawn for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. The first salvo was fired by none else than PHE Minister Sham Lal Sharma, who is from Congress,  by…
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Pakistan's Kashmir obsession has not come down and neither will it be going to diminish if the recent utterances of Adviser to the Pakistan Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz are to be taken into account. He…
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