Editorial

The culmination of the penultimate round of Assembly elections with a marginal fall in percentage of voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir has sent a clear message once again that it is the democracy which is emerging victorious. The people of…
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Jihadism has emerged the primary threat over the past decade and Australian governments have been correct to consider the threat. The Bali bombings demonstrated that this form of terrorism has posed the greatest likelihood of killing large…
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 Harsh V Pant India-Russia relationship is a unique one in the Indian foreign policy matrix that just refuses to become a marginal one and was only slightly affected by the unprecedented structural changes ushered in by the end of the Cold…
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M M Khajooria It is official and authentic Sartaj Aziz,  Adviser to the  Pak Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, told  BBC on 18th November, 2014 that "Pakistan should not target militants who do not threaten the…
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Dr. Bhavneet Kaur Winter may be a wonderland for many: the cool breeze and the beauty of snow clad mountains can be a refreshing experience but it may also be a time of illness and injury if people fail to take adequate health and safety…
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The Dowry Act in its present form is here to stay for now as the government had dropped amendments to the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 proposed by the National Commission for Women (NCW). "The NCW had recommended certain amendments in Dowry…
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 B K Chandrashekar 20th November marked the 25th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This, along with the Nobel Peace Prize to a person fighting against child labour, and for the Right to Education of all…
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Gautam Mukherjee The gap between the expectation and the pace of economic reform is widening. Things are not moving fast enough and there is no clear-cut road map. Small administrative and economic improvements have kept coming, but these…
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Swapan Dasgupta Most newspapers on carried a photograph of Messrs Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav and HD Deve Gowda sitting next to each other and smiling purposefully at the cameras. Looking at the images,…
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The road accidents have been the biggest life claimers and Jammu and Kashmir where no rules and safety regulations  are followed whether on the road or using a public transport the causality rate is no exception. As far as causes of all the…
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