Editorial

The Monday twin militant attacks in Sopore leaving six killed once again has asserted the point that terror machinery is active and can strike at selected targets keeping security  agencies  guessing. The unwanted political medelling has…
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 Ravi Sharma   It's quite shocking and unfortunate that the Himalayan region (Nepal) has been rocked last month by massive earthquake with 7.9 intensity on Richter Scale that brought death, destruction and devastation of unprecedented…
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Balbir Punj In January 2014, at the most famous annual high table of global entrepreneurs in Davos, India could gain only a small table. "The India Story was over", they said. Many Indian industrialists had sensed the mood earlier and did…
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Amit Goel Often the potential of a lateral relationship between India and China is lost in rhetoric, and consequently, a meaningful discussion fails to take place. The rhetoric could come up during bilateral negotiations between diplomats…
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The Supreme Court's 1998 ruling upholding a Kerala High Court judgement declaring Bandhs illegal is applicable to the whole country. Political parties have since subverted the spirit behind the ruling with a twist in nomenclature: they now…
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With the spread of ISIS in Iraq and Syria is a cause of concern for India too if Afghanistan is caught in the vortex. With US poised to withdraw from Afghanistan there is every possibility of Taliban concentrating on Indian border. The…
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 Mudassar Khawaja   Education has been the only and primary source of enlightenment for humanity since ages. Since ancient Greece, the importance of formal education has developed multi fold. Reforms undertaken by successive civilisations…
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Dr PP Singh  There is a continuous row over the demand for AIIMS at Jammu. All political parties even BJP except NC are in favour of AIIMS at Jammu. Since Jammu and Kashmir are two big provinces and population of both the provinces is…
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Kanchan Gupta  Years ago, a television producer had commissioned me to interview Sunil Gangopadhyay, the finest writer of Bengali prose who was also considered by many to be the best contemporary poet. That was almost a decade before Sunil…
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No doubt 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan' an effort towards 'Swasth Bharat' has been rated as the top most people inclusive effort launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi but the biggest challenge facing today is change in peoples' mindset to keep…
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