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Kushan Mitra Indian low-cost airline IndiGo burst into the scene with a mega-order for 100 aircraft at the Paris Air Show 2005. It had people asking who and what IndiGo was. Yet, it is a sign of IndiGo's success that almost no eyebrows…
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The growing menace of stray-cows, dogs and buffaloes-is posing a threat to the people especially the road users at night. One finds most of the roads occupied by these animals. A cursory round of various areas of the city is just enough to…
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At a time when India is advocating peace in the neighbourhood especially with China, an Arunachal Pradesh minister's assertion that the state will experience a 'Kargil like situation' holds some weightage. He laid emphasis on the lack of…
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 Dr. Daleep Pandita Recent instructions issued by Vigilance Commission to government departments to celebrate vigilance week with full enthusiasm is merely a symbolic tokenism for such a short period that has been continuing for the past…
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Swachch Bharat Abhiyan, started with much fanfare, provided just a photo op for many to carry the broom and become an extension of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign to make the country clean. This seems to have met its death…
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The emergence of West Bengal as the launching pad for terror outfits has come out as a surprise and shows that radical Islamic organisation may have been responsible for creating the wide spread terror funding modules through Hawala. Though…
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Vinayshil Gautam The understanding of the concept of leisure is fundamental to the designing of interventions for the modern economy. There are various estimates of the business available in the 'leisure sector'. Leisure business is spread…
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With regional bias coming to the fore once again, it seems battle lines have been drawn for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. The first salvo was fired by none else than PHE Minister Sham Lal Sharma, who is from Congress,  by…
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Pakistan's Kashmir obsession has not come down and neither will it be going to diminish if the recent utterances of Adviser to the Pakistan Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz are to be taken into account. He…
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Swapan Dasgupta The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by a committee of Norwegian politicians, is no exception. Like the now-extinct Lenin Peace Prize or even our own Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace and what-not, its choice is out-and-out political…
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