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Bharat Jhunjhunwala Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trying to bring foreign investment from NRIs and multinational corporations-from the United States in particular. But the bonhomie is superficial. The standoff on major contentious…
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M. M Khajooria The on-going sporadic but numerous bouts of cease-fire violations on the IB and LoC in J and K were not only escalated but guns were specifically aimed at civilian targets. The first civilian fatal causality was reported…
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Gautam Mukherjee George Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, extolled the virtues of audacity, first, as it is recorded, followed later by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and US General Patton, later still.  'Audacity of Hope' was also…
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M. M Khajooria The 2003 Indo-Pak Cease-fire  Agreement   which facilitated the erection of border  fencing along the IB and LoC in Jammu and Kashmir was easily the most significant Confidence Building Measure between the two  neighbours in…
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Claude Arpi On 1st October, the People's Republic of China's founding day, Zhang Xiaoming, director of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong, told the media with a smile, "The sun rises as usual". This was an indirect comment on the Occupy…
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David Devadas Flood havoc, shelling on the international border, Chinese incursions, an inadequate and insensitive State Government - all these recent events may seem unconnected, but these trends could combine into an extremely menacing…
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B G Verghese The Award of the Nobel Peace Prize this year is especially symbolic. Kailash Satyarthi, a quiet but dedicated Indian worker for child rights and the well-known Malala Yousafzai, the plucky Pakistani education and child rights…
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Prof. Bhim Singh National Assembly of Pakistan on 23rd October, 2014 again tried to exploit its own people by invoking the so-called UN Resolution vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan National Assembly has taken a U-turn in its attitude…
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Balbir Punj Every autumn, the Pakistani Army resorts to firing across the border in Jammu and Kashmir, largely to allow infiltration by terror groups before winter sets in and freezes the routes. However, it has been a different story this…
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Ashok Malik It is now fairly apparent that Indian forces have retaliated so heavily along the troubled frontier that Pakistani troops are on the retreat. In the past two days, pressure from across the border has lessened. Whether this is…
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