Editorial

There are 783 porous stretches along the Indo-Bangladesh border and 149 gaps along the Indo-Pakistan border through which militants try to enter the country, the Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju informed Rajya Sabha recently. The…
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By raking Good Governance Day controversy it looks as if the agenda of saffronisation of education is being carried forward slowly. Within just weeks of being sworn in as a minister, Smriti Irani reportedly formed a committee for studying…
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India by expressing solidarity with Pakistan in the wake of Peshawar school children killing by Taliban militants has shown that despite facing the malice it has stood with the neighbour during the hour of grief. It was a crime that…
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K S Dakshina Murthy US President Barack Obama's nod to visit India as Chief Guest on Republic Day has been touted by the media as a diplomatic coup. While it is a fact that Obama is the first US President to be invited as Chief Guest for…
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Dr. VIKAS SHARMA Cancer originates within a single cell and can be classified by the type of cell in which it originates or by the location of the cell. In India, around 5, 55,000 people died of cancer in 2010. Cancer cases related deaths…
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Manu Joseph A successful joke is one that is not introduced as a joke. If it is not meant to be a joke in the first place it may even become a classic. That is how India's preeminent Ramzadons have inadvertently preserved the genius of…
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Barring some incidents of violence the five-phase Assembly elections which is nearing to end would sure shot be one of the toughest rounds especially for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Except for the fourth round first two rounds saw high…
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It looks now after completing the northern circuit Bharatiya Janata Party will be focusing more towards south as part of its plan to expand the party's support base to areas beyond its existing pockets of strength. At present party has…
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 KG Suresh In the run-up to the Lok Sabha election last year, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi slammed the then United Progressive Alliance Government for launching a 'Pink Revolution' by promoting slaughter houses and…
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Rajesh Singh The outrage in and outside Parliament over reports of 'forced' conversion of  Muslims to Hinduism in Agra (Sangh Parivar activists called it "home-coming", as they claimed the converted had only returned to their original…
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