Editorial

Sandhya Jain Whatever one's assessment of Islam - Abrahamic offspring, way of life, Arab nationalism, post-Byzantine Arab empire, moderate, or outright murderous towards those outside the charmed circle of Jihadi warriors - a bizarre facet…
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The Sikhs, a minority community in Pakistan, are victims of recent communal attacks. Numbering a minuscule in strength the community, consisting mostly of traders are a threatened segment. They are planning to stage a country-wide agitation…
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 Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi's honeymoon with the public continues even as he completes 100 days in office. There are mixed reports about his performance, as the Opposition is looking for loopholes, but his supporters…
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Joginder Singh Mahatma Gandhi believed that the consumption of alcohol was a major social evil. He encouraged complete prohibition in India.  With this in mind, the framers of the Constitution of India included Article 47 in the Directive…
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Piyush Chandra The flood affected people of Kashmir have all the reasons to be angry. Let down by the government they had voted to power, the hapless victims of nature's fury have been left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, this pent…
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Everything that brews in Pakistan may not be anti India despite the fact that anti-India ethos has been taught in that country ever since it came into being on 14th of Aug 1947. They do not really need it, with plentiful enemies within. The…
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No funds to buy fuel for generator VIVEK SHARMA JAMMU: All the Operation Theatres (OTs) of the 'premier' Government Medical College (GMC) and its Associated Hospitals are shut for the past ten days as some senior doctors want to benefit…
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The fear of the unknown is becoming more real with days passing in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir. With totally crippled  administration and Chief Minister making it public 'I had no government', whatever efforts  put in the direction of…
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The crisis in Kashmir is of enormous magnitude and similar to that faced in Uttrakhand. After experience and 'fortunate' ready presence of the army within the State the rescue in Srinagar was much faster. Day to day evacuation is almost at…
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Mayuri Mukherjee The American stock-taking ritual associated with a new government's completion of a 100 days in office has been in and out of fashion in India. It gained currency in 1991 when the Government of P. V Narasimha Rao set the…
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