The exam-gate

It's double cheating the young generation

IMPRESSION By Binoo Joshi

Is the Peerzada  Mohammad Sayeed  episode the fault of an individual minister and his son. The answer  to this question is,  No.  The answer lies in a study of deeper malaise afflicting the system,  over which the ministers and bureaucrats have been  presiding. The More

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A curious case of BJP

Why BJP not raising Ram Mandir issue in UP?

IMPRESSIONS By Anil Anand

 The BJP, the self-perceived party with a difference is facing one of the toughest trials, ever-since it has come into existence, in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The party is caught up in a strange dilemma which is of its own creation and that is whether it should rake up its More

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The Western diktat

How long shall we bear this arrogance?

HORIZONS By Amit Kushari

The Western countries often dictate their terms to Asians, because they are still economically stronger than us. How long shall we tolerate this arrogance? Recently, the parliaments of France, Italy and Belgium banned the use of burqa mostly used by Asian women---the use of turban by the Sikhs More

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Mismanaging the event

I never knew the trip could prove that agonizing

EXPERIENCE By Muhammad Maqbool Bhat

Hazratbal shrine is the most revered place of pilgrimage in this beautiful but unfortunate valley of ours. From my own experience of years in seventies and eighties, a trip there used to be spiritually rewarding. It possibly was the nostalgia that to-day I took the opportunity of my presence  More

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