Editorial

A Surya Prakash The Shah Commission report supports Pranab Mukherjee's assessment of SS Ray's role in the declaration of Emergency, but one can't swallow the line that Indira Gandhi was led up the garden path by a coterie member President…
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M. M Khajooria 16th November, 2014 will go down in the history of Pakistan  nay that of the world as the blackest of black  Tuesdays. It was on this terrible morning that seven zombies completely brainwashed, totally brutalised and…
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Trailing the four-match series 0-2 India might be going through tough time following the successive defeats in Australian leg of test match tour. More than some surprises, India needs the right attitude. The venue, Melbourne Cricket Ground…
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Emergence of Jammu as a strong political force has tilted the balance of government formation. Traditionally being Kashmir-centric for all major political decisions including government formation, the elections in Jammu and Kashmir have…
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Aparajita Das and Riffath Khaji In the recent years, the TTP has expanded its network and operations to other parts of Pakistan, including Sindh and Punjab provinces. The barbaric, audacious attack targeting a school in Peshawar on…
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Hari Chand Jalmeria When the Constitution was framed and adopted on 26th November 1949 which was implemented on 26th January 1950, only 14 languages were inserted in the Eighth Schedule which included: 1. Assamese, 2. Bengali, 3. Gujrati,…
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Sunil Kumar On 10th of December 2014, citizens of both India and Pakistan would have been feeling proud when Malala Yousafzai who represented Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi who represented India were addressing Oslo, Norway on being…
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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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