Editorial

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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 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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