editorial article

      Lt. Gen (Retd) S.K. Sinha Progressive and liberal views are welcome in a democracy... Maqbool Bhat, Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab have been hailed as heroes in JNU. The legitimacy of hanging can be questioned and different…
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    Maj Gen S G Vombatkere (retd) At present, there is no law on privacy, but in Rajagopal Vs State of Tamil Nadu (1994), the Supreme Court opined that privacy is inherent in an individual's right to personal liberty. Also, Section 8(1)(j)…
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   H. R Phonsa On the night of 3rd and 4th April 1984, he was found sleeping on the bare broken stone metal at Nagpur, where he had gone to inaugurate the Marathi daily newspaper "Bahujan Times" his dream project. Kanshi Ram was convinced…
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     Ashutosh Misra Controversies emanating over the right to freedom of speech and expression is common to democracies. The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, the US and India, among others, constantly contemplate over how much is…
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   Gwynne Dyer   Exactly five years after Egypt's democratic revolution triumphed, the country is once more ruled by a military office. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power in July 2013, and he is even nastier than his predecessors.…
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    H. R Phonsa The struggle for equality of status and opportunity for the Shudra, Ati Shudra, and Untouchables is as old as the history of Hinduism, claimed to be one of the oldest religions of the world. The inter religious, inter…
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      Mahadeep Singh Jamwal The waste is the pronunciation for all such material termed to be of no common use, accumulated by cleaning process of surrounding area, house hold, commercial institutions, industries, and what not, whereas…
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  A Surya Prakash The last fortnight has seen an intense debate over the unfortunate happenings in some university campuses including Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jadavpur University, where some students raised anti-national slogans,…
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Zorawar Daulet Singh The White House decision to approve the sale of nuclear capable F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan has once again sparked an interest on the nature of America's role in the subcontinent. While most Indian observers have…
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Claude Arpi The Chinese leadership is clever; much more than its Indian counterpart, at least as far as the defence budget is concerned. Let me explain. In China, large chunks of the expenditures for the border infrastructure development…
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