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The forests have been plundered, killed
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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Involve people
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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Geelani tantrum
The way Geelani passport issue has made a political football by politicians of all hues and affiliations it looks he is invaluable for the country compared to all other issues of imports. Whether Geelani apologises for his anti-India…
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Acid assaults matters of profound distress
Sunaina malik
In addition to series of atrocious and horrendous exploitations, of body and spirit of women community, tarnished men have now crossed all his confines of viciousness, by frequent acid attacks on teenagers, leaving the…
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Modi’s grand strategy:change G2 into G3
Ashok Malik
In his first year in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has had several interactions with the Presidents of the United States and China. While his instincts may tend towards democracies and transparent polities, he has been…
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Diffused goals
Dinesh C Sharma
The Cabinet Committee on Economic affairs recently approved a National Supercomputing Mission with an outlay of Rs 4,500 crore spread over seven years. It is the first time in several years the government has committed such…
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Belated reforms in J&K school education
Mudassar Khawaja
In 1998, Dr. Farooq Abdullah led National Conference government gave a major setback to the School Education by introducing Rehbar e Taleem (ReT) scheme that makes education 'life support system'. Initially, ReTs were…
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Let’s face the earthquake head on
SAHIL KISHORE SHARMA
What really an earthquake means
Earthquake in academic term can be defined as the sudden violent shaking of earth. There are many factors which lead to an earthquake, but main reasons are underground fault developments…
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Unstoppable scourge
K S Dakshina Murthy
As bloody conflicts rage on in the Arab world causing countless deaths and unspeakable misery for the common people, another tragedy unfolds across countries that were once considered the precursors to modern-day…
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Why not GST?
Coming together of four northern states -Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh -- to create a uniform tax regime to give boost to the trade and avoid the tax variance for customers thus keeping the price level at a check is…
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