Editorial

The incidents of floods in Kashmir Valley are not new, nor it had been an uncommon phenomenon, in history and the geography of the Valley. To quote Sir Walter Roper Lawrence's book, "The Valley of Kashmir (1895), "Many disastrous floods…
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It seems government was caught napping when the calamity of this magnitude struck the State and it took a fortnight again to set up a Coordinating and Communication Centre. The State Government's initiative to use social media to reach out…
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 Kaushal Kotwal A natural disaster is any catastrophic event that is caused by nature or the natural processes of the earth. The severity of a disaster is measured in lives lost, economic loss, and the ability of the population to rebuild.…
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Dr. David Frawley Exists in the psyche of modern Indians perhaps unparalleled in any other country today. An inner conflict bordering on a civil war rages in the minds of the country's elite. The main effort of its cultural leaders appears…
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Jayadeva Ranade Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, within a fortnight of his summit with Japan's Shinzo Abe and before his meeting later this month with United States President Barack Obama,…
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Difficult times are the surest test of friends and foes. The present crisis in the J and K state has clearly exposed friends, foes, distinguishing well-wishers from devilish evil wishers, the sympathisers from the exploiters, the good from…
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Rohit Dhankar The RSS has been raising the issue of Muslim men converting Hindu women to Islam through marriage in a planned manner as part of their strategy to increase Muslim population in India. They raise this hype under an emotive…
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The education sector is poised for reforms especially the right to education envisaged under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE Act) the endevour of Human Resource Ministry is to make the Act more workable and…
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Claude Arpi New Delhi is getting ready to receive Chinese President Xi Jinping on his maiden trip to India. It will, no doubt, be a significant visit, especially after Prime Minister Narendra Modi journeyed to Japan and met with old friend…
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Swapan Dasgupta Should Prime Minister Narendra Modi have gone on national TV to address schoolchildren on Guru Utsav or, if you so prefer, Teachers' Day? The answer to this seemingly innocuous but inevitably politicised question will…
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