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Mumbai: The benchmark Sensex advanced over 227 points and the NSE Nifty retook the 7,400-mark today as the post-Budget rally continued following creation of fresh bets coupled with a fresh spell of foreign fund inflows. Besides, a firming…
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Srinagar: Three Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed in an overnight encounter in Tral area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district, an army official said on Thursday Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Dadsara area of…
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BLUNT BUTCHER JAMMU: Notwithstanding his good work during the past nearly two months, Governor N. N Vohra will have to do a lot of explaining on unproductive expenditure of over Rs 76 lakh per month as salary of 89 MLAs and their aides,…
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Pravakar Sahoo Budget 2016-17 was an anxiously awaited event especially in the backdrop of the world economy staring at a crisis like situation and the domestic economy showing structural weaknesses such as overall slowdown in demand,…
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Dear Editor, There are poor people in all castes. If jobs are not given on the basis of merit and/or required qualification, then poor people (of all castes) should be treated as equally qualified for the job. Shambu Nath Ramnagar
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Dear Editor, Reservations on any basis, whether poverty or caste or religion, should be abolished. Only scholarships should be given to students that too based on economic circumstances. Dividing the society by way of caste or religion is…
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Dear Editor, In a politically charged situation that is now prevailing in the country, the Railway Budget 2016-17, passed off as a low-key affair. While no fresh hike in passenger fares came as a relief, no worthwhile initiative was spelt…
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Dear Editor, That sport must stand above all discriminations is the one of the Olympic ideals but it does not seem to be true as far as the case of a Pakistani cricket fan goes. History tells the sad story of endless repetitions of…
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Though health care is one of the priority sectors among the nine pillars earmarked by the government in the present budget, the ailing sector nation-wide in general and in the State of Jammu and Kashmir in particulars is pathetic. The Union…
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Pakistan once again took shelter under India to reject America's call to reduce or cap its nuclear weapons arsenal, believed to be the fastest growing in the world. Pakistan has took the stand to justify its refusal as the "strategic and…
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