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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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At a time when there is a strong feeling in Jammu that Article 35 A has done Unjustice to the residents of Jammu and Kashmir and Article 370 has widened the gap with the main stream nation away from the attention a section of BJP…
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Despite Supreme Court ruling over mineral extraction from river beds Jammu and Kashmir is yet to implement a policy where in mineral extraction is to be regulated in such a way that water sources are protected along with the environment.…
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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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