Editorial

Swapan Dasgupta In a lecture last month, historian Romila Thapar, in a direct reference to the India under Narendra Modi, regretted "the narrowing of the liberal space". Whether she was observant or needlessly paranoid is dependant on how…
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Withdrawn after pressure from opposition and consumers during the UPA-II regime, the Direct Bank Transfer of LPG (DBTL) subsidy scheme is back with some modifications. Now, the new scheme promises more transparency, enhancement of subsidy…
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With about 60 million, India has the second highest number of diabetics in the world after China. And if India does not act soon the ailment may rob country of its demographic dividend. Earlier considered to be a disease of the affluent,…
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M. M Khajooria A needless and unsavory controversy was raging  in the media    on the 'issue' of Hindu Chief Minister for Jammu and Kashmir state. It is sickening to find responsible political beings  belonging to  mainstream parties…
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Dr. PP Singh Article 370: Fallowing accession of J and K with India the existing relationship of the state with the Union of India as an integral part there of. Justice, Social , Economic and Political. LIBERTY of thought expression belief…
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The much talked about Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) providing rural employment of minimum 100 days has few takers in Jammu and Kashmir with most of the districts having fund utlisation level of 20 per cent…
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 Ravindranath Extreme or abnormal climate-related events are occurring around the globe and even in India with unprecedented of ferocity. India experienced many extreme events recently, Hudhud cyclone in the coastal Andhra Pradesh, the…
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India will have to reset climate goals in the face of US-China joint pledge to take action to limit their carbon emissions.  The secret treaty signed by two may put pressure on India to commit some steps  by March next year. Before this…
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Dr. PP Singh After the India got independence on 15th of August 1947 India was under two sets of Govt. one is British India and princely India. British India was directly under the control of Britishers and the states governed by Maharajas…
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Kuldip Nayar Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel are the two icons of the freedom movement. One was left of the centre and the other right of the centre but they sank their ideological differences to win freedom. After…
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