Editorial

Hari shankar vyas In the by-elections, which were held in three phases, voters of North India have given a special message to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party has got a jolt in by-elections held in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and…
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In December last year, Pakistan and India had pledged to uphold the 2003 LoC ceasefire accord which had been left in tatters by repeated violations that year. The truce breaches had put the nascent bilateral peace dialogue on hold. The…
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A cartoon in New York Times depicting the Elite  Space Club chamber with its members inside and a poor Dhoti clad Indian holding a sickly cow knocking to seek entry, is in 'bad taste' to say the least. It was criticised for overlooking the…
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 K. G Suresh  With the announcement of the elections to the Haryana and Maharashtra Assemblies, the media, particularly the television channels and the professional seminarists, are projecting them as another 'test' for Prime Minister…
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M. M Khajooria The first and the foremost requirement is to resurrect  and fully activate the Relief and Rehabilitation organisation. In 1971-72 model the R and R Commissioner had the assistance of Dy-Commissioner HQrs assisted by number…
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 Vir Sanghvi Every time the BJP comes to power in New Delhi, there is a battle for the heart and soul of the party all across India. It happened when A. B Vajpayee was Prime Minister. And it is happening now that Narendra Modi heads the…
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With successful termination of border standoff between India and China in Ladakh the issue has not come to a stage where we can say all is well in the end. Chumar in Ladakh was the flashpoint between the forces of both countries. Both the…
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Kushan Mitra The Chinese President's visit to New Delhi might have fallen short of tangible benefits, but it did bestow the capital with the mother of all traffic jams. Commuters who usually take an already long 90-100 minutes were taking…
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 Brig R S Chhikara The Middle East and indeed the world has been in a state of political turmoil ever since 4th July, when 42-year-old Iraqi Jihadist leader who fights under the name Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his group IS (Islamic State of…
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    Sandhya Jain Those cheering the revival of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's fortunes in the recent by-election, must concede that, if this is the defeat of the BJP's 'Love Jihad', it is equally the victory of the 'boys will be boys'…
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