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 Alok Ray The BJP government has refused to sign the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) - which basically wants to simplify customs procedures - without the agricultural subsidy issue being simultaneously resolved at WTO. India has made it…
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Ajit Singh Nagra The American poet, Longfellow has well said, "Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. And departing leave behind us, Foot prints on the sands of time." The 5th September is observed as Teachers Day…
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Kalyani Shankar Just a week before the Modi Government competes its 100 days, by-election results have come as a jolt to the BJP. The saffron party, which witnessed a spectacular victory in the Lok Sabha poll, has faced a setback already.…
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The age-old remedy for cough had this number and it was a household name. But how BJP got fancied by it is something intriguing and this choice of number has left main stream parties a little bit jittery. Keeping in mind the Lok Sabha…
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To overcome the myopic vision in politics one has to look beyond the immediate surroundings. The nation is undergoing a transition from a prolonged period of suppressed governance under 'coalition compulsions' to a single party majority…
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 Kuldip Nayar It appears that the magic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is waning. His party, the BJP has met a reverse in the bypolls. Out of the 18 seats in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Bihar, the BJP won only seven. The…
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G Parthasarathy Diplomatic engagement with a neighbour having territorial ambitions and an abiding desire to alter the balance of power has to be carefully planned and executed. Apart from realistically assessing the balance of military…
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Prof Mohd Junaid Jazib It is rather in the recent years that the environmental considerations have arrested the attention of one and all. This, apparently an appreciable change in the society's collective behavior, is very significant from…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made his first big foreign policy mistake by calling off foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan last week just as the latter's envoy was meeting Kashmiri separatists. Modi impressed many with his astute…
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Exactly a year ago, President Barack Obama was bracing for a military strike against Syria as America's long-time bete noire Bashar al-Assad crossed the "red line" with his alleged use of chemical weapons. However, after all the…
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