Editorial

 P S M Rao The predicament of the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana chief ministers, N Chandrababu Naidu and K Chandrasekhar Rao respectively, is something similar to a certain person whose trouble did not end even after assigning, in his will,…
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Gurmeet Kanwal The situation unfolding in Pakistan is truly precarious and is headed towards a dangerous denouement. Imran Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and Tahir-ul-Qadri, a rabble-rousing cleric, have led a march to…
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Ashok K Mehta The anarchy in Islamabad is surreal. Most experts are calling it an army-inspired soft coup to undermine the legitimately elected government. The joint violent protests by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek…
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That the Modi Sarkar will re-establish global confidence in the Indian growth story by pressing the accelerator was well understood overseas. Within the country, the mega vote of confidence the party won in May demolished all doubts abroad.…
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Terror turf is expanding. The imminent threat of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is slowly spreading to India which is nothing new and is on expected lines. Islamic terrorism has sympathisers in every corner of the world. The…
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Refusal by as many as 250 selected and appointed doctors to join duty in remote areas in the trouble torn, underdeveloped and generally an un-disciplined State with prevalent demonstrated arrogance among the well to do JK youth, is alarming…
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 S N Chary When the newly anointed Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited the SAARC leaders, significantly including the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, for his oath-taking ceremony in New Delhi about three months ago, most Indian…
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Musafir Was woken up with the news of young champion stone-pelter getting respite and amnesty. Sundays are to laze around and read the papers..This Sunday was no different but the clamour of host of election oriented initiatives  hid all…
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Swapan Dasgupta This irreverent extension of the Modi Mantra, na khaata, na khane deta. (I don't take bribes; I don't let others take bribes), originated in Gandhinagar around 2007 but it has found ready takers among ministers who find…
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With the political battle in Pakistan shifting from streets to the Parliament with pro-government leaders and lawmakers of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party accusing each other of undermining democracy, the impasse…
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