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Phutkal River catastrophe
Gurmath Lotos
The Phuktal River blockage finally burst out at morning around 8:00 A.M on 7th Thursday, May 2015. According to eyewitness the power of water flow was so strong and dreadful it washed away chunk of agriculture land, dozens…
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Deterrence marks policy
Gurmeet Kanwal
India conducted five nuclear tests over two days on 11th and 13th May, 1998, and declared itself a state armed with nuclear weapons. Since then, India's nuclear deterrence has been effectively operationalised.
With a…
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Davos dream
After mooting Davos type economic summit in Kashmir and wooing Bollywood to do 'Ghar Vapsi', Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayed reiterating once again that Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the proposed Davos-type economic…
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Border issue
No doubt Prime Minister Narendra Modi's China visit has generated an euphoria of better business relations and media giving wide coverage the reality is that when it comes to confidence building India does not matter to China but China…
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New recruitment policy-a viewpoint
Prof. Fraz Ahmed Chauhan
The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has come up with a new recruitment policy as is known by one and all.
The policy provides for: 1.Contractual appointment for a period of seven year. 2.Minimum wages…
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If they don’t have a roof, let them die
Hiranmay Karlekar
To many, the explosion of thunder and snuffle over the Salman Khan case is now old hat, given the ephemeral lifespan of news items. Yet aspects of it, particularly the reactions of a significant section of India's…
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Benching armchair critics of democracy
Swapan Dasgupta
There is a rarefied view, quite prevalent among both the non-voting classes and the tribe of over-zealous activists associated with what has come to be called 'civil society', that holds Indian democracy in very low…
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Crop production
The unseasonal rains in February-March have not brought any cheers on the face of farmers and in grain production India has seen a decline from the 2013 production level. There is decline of 5.5 per cent in the total crop output. All farm…
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History of Mughal Road
Sunaina Malik
Richard Temple a famous tourist who happened to travel over this track in 1859 writes that at a distance of one mile from Behram Gala there is small but attractive spot where on an ancient rock some verses in an unknown…
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Depression: neither black veil nor melancholy
Pratibha Lalotra
Had I not been through it, I would have never ever actually realised the intensity of that one sentence "I have been to hell and back....!" by our country's heartthrob Deepika Padukone. During one of her appearances on…
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