Editorial

Ashwani Mahajan In his first speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, on 15th August, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the Planning Commission will become history very soon. He also said that the circumstances under which…
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Nadeem Khan The unprecedented havoc wrecked by the sudden floods in Jammu and Kashmir which has resulted in more than 200 people losing their lives and over 2600 villages being submerged is nothing less than the apocalypse. The speed and…
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Vir Sanghvi In the uproar that followed the publication of Natwar Singh's memoirs, one interesting chapter has been largely ignored. This deals with Singh's tenure as our high commissioner to Pakistan. Before leaving for Islamabad in 1980,…
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Welcome clear bright sunny days brought much relief to the rain ravaged State bashed by flash floods and the havoc caused by landslides, inundated low lying areas, broken communications and washed away roads. What the State faced was not…
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The recent Supreme Court ruling to release all under trials who have served half of the maximum term for crimes imputed to them, the Apex Court has taken a laudable step towards improving justice deliverance system. The Apex Court has set…
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 Harsh V Pant It wasn't much of a vacation for the US President, Barack Obama. The world kept intruding into his golf and he had to keep returning to the real world much as we would have preferred to keep playing. The beheading of the…
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Gautam Mukherjee The key ingredient in transformational Modinomics is massive investment into infrastructure and manufacturing. Japan is going to contribute to this vision by investing $35 billion over the next five years. This includes…
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Rajdeep Sardesai Politicians are notoriously schizophrenic: I have met any number of netas who can be wonderfully warm and polite when they are off camera but turn into rabble-rousing venomous public figures the moment the camera is…
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Fog is gradually lifting up from the Pakistani designs that led to their insistence of conferring with the anti-nationals of Kashmiri separatist movement, even after the Pakistan envoy was told about India's stand for Pakistan to 'either…
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Modi began his election campaign from Varanasi and ended the campaign there. His opening up foreign policy too began with signing of a heritage pact with Japan for Varanasi. Not only this he made it a point in inviting Japanese investment…
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