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Narendra Modi's Blow-Hot-Blow-Cold Approach To Pakistan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stopover at Lahore is of a piece with his government’s blow-hot-blow-cold approach to Pakistan.
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January 22, 2016
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The UNSC resolution: A Chance For Peace
The UNSC resolution on Syria takes into account the ground realities in the region, but Western leaders persist with their contradictory statements.
7 min |
January 22, 2016
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Pathankot Attack: A Desperate Act
The terror attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base fails to deter India and Pakistan from continuing the dialogue process in right earnest.
6 min |
February 5 2016
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North Korea: Answering With Bombs
North Korea’s latest claim of having tested a hydrogen bomb is partly a result of the politics of intimidation practised by the U.S. and South Korea.
7 min |
February 5 2016
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Terror Dots On The Globe
The deadly terrorist attack on the Bacha Khan University campus in Pakistan’s Peshawar closely follows three others in the same fortnight, in Istanbul, Jakarta and Ouagadougou.
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February 19, 2016
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In A Sea Of Hate
The fate of the Rohingya refugees in India hangs in the balance as the Narendra Modi government sees them as a threat to national security although police verification of refugees camping in Jammu has proved to the contrary.
8 min |
October 27, 2017
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Tinderbox Petition
The legal challenge to Article 35A, which protects the demographic composition of Jammu and Kashmir, has brought all sides of the political spectrum, barring the BJP, together. Tampering with it has the potential of setting the Valley ablaze once again.
7 min |
September 15, 2017
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Breaking Point Of Kashmir
The young people who throw stones in Kashmir know that it will not bring a solution but see it as the only option left to them to vent their frustration at the government’s “oppressive tactics”.
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May 26, 2017
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Sticky Wicket
Successive electoral defeats have put the Aam Aadmi Party on unsure ground and given the BJP an edge in Delhi.
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May 26, 2017
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Hall Of Shame
The way the Yogi Adityanath government has dealt with the Unnao rape case has caused a setback for itself and the BJP, which came to power in Uttar Pradesh promising, among others, improved law and order.
8 min |
May 11, 2018
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Stillborn Scheme
An audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India comes down heavily on the Haryana government for its lax implementation of the Beti Bachao scheme.
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May 11, 2018
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A Spanner In The Works
Hit hard by demonetisation and GST, micro, small and medium enterprises in Vadodara and Surat, the industrial hubs of Gujarat, are striving to make a comeback.
7 min |
November 24, 2017
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Reverse Growth
Demonetisation and GST have pushed back Kanpur, the second largest city in Uttar Pradesh and a leather industry centre, by ten years.
5 min |
November 24, 2017
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Clean Sweep In Himachal Pradesh
The BJP wrests power from the Congress in a keenly fought election marked by a few upsets.
4 min |
January 5, 2018
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Long Road Ahead
With his formal elevation as Congress president, Rahul Gandhi now faces several challenges to lift his party from the doldrums.
9 min |
January 5, 2018
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Mayhem In Mandsaur
The Shivraj Singh Chouhan government remained complacent as resentment was building up among the farmers of Madhya Pradesh over the unremunerative prices of farm produce. Then came Mandsaur to wake it up.
6 min |
July 7, 2017
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Bumper Problem
With low market prices and little help from the government,Rajasthan’s farmers, especially garlic producers, are in a financial mess in a good crop year.
6 min |
July 7, 2017
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Maharshtra Chief Minister Gives In
Maharashtra farmers drive a hard bargain, forcing the Devendra Fadnavis government to concede their demand for farm loan waiver.
5 min |
July 7, 2017
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Scheme Sans Substance
The Yogi Adityanath government’s waiver plan, constrained by resource crunch, is a non-starter.
6 min |
July 7, 2017
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The Strikes & The Echo
Tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the subcontinent are escalating following India’s “surgical strikes” across the LoC in late September.
10+ min |
October 28, 2016
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Chief Minister in hospital
Speculation is rife about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s health, and the secrecy surrounding it raises the issue of the right to privacy versus the public interest.
10+ min |
October 28, 2016
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matter of routine
the killing of innocent civilians in fake encounters and branding them as foreign mercenaries has been going on in jammu and kashmir for close to 27 years in what is seen as an attempt to subjugate the local people.
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november 25, 2016
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israel's isolation
in the first serious condemnation of israel by the international community in eight years, a u.n. security council resolution holds the establishment of jewish settlements in the occupied territories illegal.
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february 3, 2017
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A Method In The Madness
There are similarities between the murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, M.M. Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh that cannot be dismissed as merely coincidental.
10 min |
September 29, 2017
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Murdering Scholarship
Why was M.M. Kalburgi, a top-notch scholar who doggedly pursued the path of truthful research, assassinated two years ago? What, in his research, moved Hindutva bigots to mow him down?
6 min |
September 29, 2017
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Ruined livelihoods
More than 80 per cent of India’s workforce is in the informal or unorganised sector and has taken the full brunt of the demonetisation move.
6 min |
December 9, 2016
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Voting Out Democracy
The military junta in Thailand gets yet another Constitution passed through a “referendum” which effectively prevents any single party from gaining a majority in Parliament. BY JOHN CHERIAN
7 min |
September 16, 2016
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Acid Victims
A spurt in acid attacks against women has become a cause for concern in rural and urban West Bengal. BY Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay.
7 min |
September 16, 2016
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Syrian File
Caught between Turkey’s demands and Kurdish ambitions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has an impossible mission in Syria in which he is both the peacemaker and the war maker.
8 min |
September 30, 2016
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Jayalalithaa, The Film Star Turned Politician Leaves Behind A Party And State At A Crossroads
The AIADMK supremo won the hearts of millions, especially women, with a slew of welfare measures though she was strongly criticised for her imperious style of functioning. Her death has left her party and government at a crossroads.
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