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The government is hopeful of the passage of the GST Bill in this session beginning from 18th July and continuing upto 12th August amid indications that a number of regional parties have broken ranks with Congress on the issue and are…
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Monsoon has belied earlier fears of scanty appearance especially when the Kharif sowing season was on. Domestic pulse production falling considerably and the prices touching all time high has created a panic situation forcing for the import…
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Faraaz As the memory of the massacre at Dhaka recedes, examples of bravery are coming to the fore. One of them is that of Faraaz Hossain. He was on a vacation in Dhaka from his college in the US where he was pursuing higher studies. He…
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Pak blames Modi for the Kashmir unrest, India retorts back saying Kashmir is an internal matter and Pak has no locus standi on the issue. This has been routine reaction whenever militants struck in India and this is not for the first time…
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Political turmoil has engulfed Turkey for months. There has been a government shake-up, a crackdown on dissidents and opposition media and renewed conflict in the mainly Kurdish areas of the southeast. Critics blame President Recep Tayyip…
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RK Pachauri  Chile has taken an unprecedented step by requiring labels to be placed on food that has high sugar, calories, sodium or saturated fat. This regulation also bans the sale of any of these products in schools as well as…
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The PDP-BJP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir appears to be in a state of inertia the way Kashmir Valley has been boiling for the last one week after a militant's killing.  There is no government machinery on Ground Zero and it's a free for…
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The much touted Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms (R-ADRP) introduced in Jammu and Kashmir seems to meet its death before time. Launched in 2011, R-APDRP had a focus to reduce aggregate technical and commercial losses…
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Rajesh Singh  The Congress's strategist for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, Prashant Kishor, has stumbled upon a solution to revive the party's fortunes in a State over which the party had lorded for nearly four decades, and…
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The silence of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders over the ongoing Kashmir turmoil is intriguing. In fact the state BJP leaders never kept a confident posture against the current turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir. It appears there is a confidence…
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