Pollen seeds: it can have drastic impact on environment

This refers to the report regarding the debate in legislative assembly about the dispersal of abortive cottony seeds of Poplar trees (GK 28-5-2011). The generalisation drawn by the environmental committee of legislative assembly that the cottony seed dispersal does not have any negative impact on our More

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Student protests

This refers to the news "Students protest misbehavior of teachers during picnic ( GK May 24th ). It is highly condemnable that two students a school at Bemina were treated badly by their teachers. It is saddening to see the so-called nation builders involved in such acts. We should raise our voice against More

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Punish them

This refers to the news “Students protest misbehavior of teachers during picnic.” It is very painful to know that such teachers exist in our society who misbehave with their girl students and put a taint on the profession of teaching. A teacher occupies an important place in the education system. He More

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Deporting Navlakha

This refers to human rights scenario. The powers trample the written rules and ruthlessly impose their own version of unwritten ones on their 'subjects'. Does it suit the world's largest democracy to put under surveillance the human rights defenders and peace activists? Though history is replete with More

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Misleading information

This refers to the article "Kashmiri Pundits and Kashmiriyat" by Amit Kushari (GK May 28). We know that Kashmir, as a word, is not Arabic. As such, Kashmiriyat is simply a fabrication. This should not lead us to believe that Kashmiri, as a language, is unable to enrich itself through non-Kashmiri words More

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Exploiting resources

This refers to the article "Commercializing Education" by Jan Mudasir Gul (GK, Mar. 28).The author deserves appreciation for drawing our attention towards such a problem. He has rightly mentioned that modern micro capitalists (Private School Owners) not only exploit our intellectual resources materially More

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Facing America

This refers to the article “Can we face America” by Dr Rumana Makhdoomi. United we stand, divided we fall. The author wants to see Muslim world united. It is really something that the Ummah craves for. It is high time to bring together the desperate Muslim countries in the ambit of an unbreakable bond More

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