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Hiranmay Karlekar Al Qaeda's announcement of a new branch, Quedat al-Jihad, to raise, according to its chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, "the flag of Jihad, return the Islamic rule, and empowering the Sharia'h of Allah across the Indian…
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Vijay Gupta Among the privileges afforded a Chief Minister the most precious is an opportunity to change the destiny of his people. Such a privilege afforded Omar Abdullah in the year 2008 when he became the Chief Minister of Jammu and…
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NARESH KUMAR Today the state of Jammu and Kashmir is grappling with the worst disaster in the past almost one decade and certainly the worst floods in the past five decades. The death toll has risen to touch two hundred. Hundreds are still…
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Vijay Gupta Among the privileges afforded a Chief Minister the most precious is an opportunity to change the destiny of his people. Such a privilege afforded Omar Abdullah in the year 2008 when he became the Chief Minister of Jammu and…
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Nadeem Khan The unprecedented havoc wrecked by the sudden floods in Jammu and Kashmir which has resulted in more than 200 people losing their lives and over 2600 villages being submerged is nothing less than the apocalypse. The speed and…
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Vir Sanghvi In the uproar that followed the publication of Natwar Singh's memoirs, one interesting chapter has been largely ignored. This deals with Singh's tenure as our high commissioner to Pakistan. Before leaving for Islamabad in 1980,…
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Gautam Mukherjee The key ingredient in transformational Modinomics is massive investment into infrastructure and manufacturing. Japan is going to contribute to this vision by investing $35 billion over the next five years. This includes…
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Rajdeep Sardesai Politicians are notoriously schizophrenic: I have met any number of netas who can be wonderfully warm and polite when they are off camera but turn into rabble-rousing venomous public figures the moment the camera is…
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Gurmeet Kanwal The situation unfolding in Pakistan is truly precarious and is headed towards a dangerous denouement. Imran Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and Tahir-ul-Qadri, a rabble-rousing cleric, have led a march to…
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Ashok K Mehta The anarchy in Islamabad is surreal. Most experts are calling it an army-inspired soft coup to undermine the legitimately elected government. The joint violent protests by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek…
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