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Last time when Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi was amid deteriorating security situation and strains in the PDP-BJP coalition. It was in April 2017. At that time Mufti…
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Prof Hari Om I am now 72. I am Jammu born. Jammu is the second largest region of Jammu and Kashmir State after the trans-Himalayan Ladakh. New Delhi says Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and, hence, the people of Jammu and…
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The outcome of the Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections though was doubtful in the initial stages but as the delay in counting continued it became obvious that Bharatiya Janata Party is going to taste the bitter pill of defeat in its own home…
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Pakistan's attempt to internationalise the Kashmir issue will not "whitewash" its support to cross-border terrorism. The recent arrest and killing of infiltrating terrorist is yet another proof of Pakistan's continued involvement in…
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Claude Arpi Watching Chairman Xi Jinping officiating during the mega parade at the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base in Inner Mongolia on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), this writer was…
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M. K Bhadrakumar If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately. So I think it's a cost-benefit ratio." These are words by James Mattis, US Secretary of Defence. It is a powerful statement about…
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Despite the recent seizures by National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing Hawala money transaction in Jammu and Kashmir, pointing out cross LoC trade to be main funnel for cash flow to keep Kashmir unrest and terrorism,…
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Sharing of Indus water between India and Pakistan had always been a contentious issue with both claiming to be the beneficiaries. Under the Indus-Water Treaty, India and Pakistan share the waters - Pakistan uses almost 80 per cent of the…
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KK Srivastava On my doing "well" in graduation in 1978 from DAV Degree College, Gorakhpur, my uncle gifted me a book titled The Continent of Circe whose author was one Nirad C Chaudhuri. The book interested me; I made efforts to read it;…
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Notwithstanding the India-China tension over the Doklam standoff, Beijing is upbeat about the next month's BRICS summit (an acronym for an association of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa which…
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