Editorial

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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Swapan Dasgupta The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by a committee of Norwegian politicians, is no exception. Like the now-extinct Lenin Peace Prize or even our own Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace and what-not, its choice is out-and-out political…
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M. M Khajooria The 2003 Indo-Pak Cease-fire  Agreement   which facilitated the erection of border  fencing along the IB and LoC in Jammu and Kashmir was easily the most significant Confidence Building Measure between the two  neighbours in…
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Claude Arpi On 1st October, the People's Republic of China's founding day, Zhang Xiaoming, director of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong, told the media with a smile, "The sun rises as usual". This was an indirect comment on the Occupy…
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