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The August 8 Rajya Sabha elections would decide whether Bharatiya Janata Party will at last be holding the political fulcrum and ruling the nation with no opposition. The packing of Gujarat Congress MLAs to Karnataka for safe custody had…
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Neeraj Bajpai More than a century ago, when Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, he had not seen a spinning wheel- Charkha- but during the Swadeshi movement, he meticulously spun the Khadi in the national life style. Alas!…
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K V Venkatasubramanian A riot of colours, eye-riveting designs, scintillating hues and entrancing interlacing of warps and wefts give these fabrics a distinctive appeal. From the northeast and Kashmir to the southern tip, these fabrics have…
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Aaditya Tiwari The year was 1942. Monsoon winds from the Indian Ocean had already arrived. With them the news of vigorous naval battles also came. World had become bipolar, India too was on the boil, waiting to unshackle the chains of age…
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With 65 per cent overall voter turnout in the Jammu and KashmirAssembly elections under freezing temperatures of Nov-Dec 2014 the electoral victory at that time was considered to be the victory of democracy. Arguably the successful…
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India's stand on Sikkim front has been a welcome sign and a deviation from its earlier stand on foreign affairs. No hard pose, but prolonged military standoff with China in the Sikkim sector would test the "restraint" factor of both. As far…
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Jayshree Sengupta Half of the members of G20 are highly industrialised advanced countries - the US, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and the EU - and the other half are emerging market economies like India,…
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Pravin Sawhney The India-China standoff persists. If the PLA can win a war without losing soldiers, why will it fight a series of attrition battles in the Chumbi Valley funnel and become easy meat for the Indian Army? The role of the '62…
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The growing drug menace and the flourishing business in Jammu region should work as an eye opener for the law enforcement agencies. The neighbouring Punjab remains awash with drugs and there is no check in the sale of Chitta, as it is…
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The 44 Congress legislators from Gujarat who have taken refuge at a resort owned by a Karnataka Congress Minister may be an attempt for the party to salvage whatever leftover strength it has for not only exposing BJP's 'corruption-free…
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