editorial article

After election of President, once again the democratic exercise would see the polarisation of ideologies for electing a new Vice-President of India. The outcome of this contest everyone knows which is between M Venkaiah Naidu of the BJP and…
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Navneet Anand Looking at the fierce and at times desperate barbs against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, from what now appears remnants of the Opposition, one is reminded of English writer…
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Rajan Gandhi Our State has enviable resources with a potential to transform our economy and boost socio-economic development not only of Jammu and Kashmir State but of the whole northern region. Among the major natural resources, water will…
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Priya Satia As India and Pakistan begin celebrating the 70th anniversary of their Independence as nation-states, it is worthwhile recalling the internationalist ideas that also exercised great influence in that moment. In 1947, as the…
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Devinder Sharma Identity groups, as its name suggests, are made up of members of certain social groups based on a certain identity like ethnicity, caste, gender, position, language, region etc. In almost every democracy, freedom to form…
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Sudhirendar Sharma Mini-mountains of accumulated untreated urban waste are common sights in most big and medium cities and towns in the country. Waste dumps greet visitors to any city, reflecting the rapidly rising prosperity in each bit of…
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Shiv Kumar Padha There was a short moral story 'Vain Stag' in our sixth class English text book which read, a stag saw its image in the clear water while it was drinking water in the steam. The stag felt proud when it saw crown like…
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Subsidies have become synonym with governments' people appeasing policies. We can attribute it mainly to Congress Govt. as it has ruled for a longer period. There is subsidy on domestic petroleum products, on food grains (recent Food…
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The rise in the number of illegal immigrants shows a rise of around 67 per cent over the 1.2 crore estimate given out by the UPA Government in 2004 but withdrawn soon after. At that time there were reports of Bangladeshi nationals having…
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Ashok Kumar Arora The international network and WHO at the United Nations launched this day on June 15, 2006.The day is celebrated every year throughout the world to bring together Senior Citizens ,their children, their caregivers, close…
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