EDITORIAL
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, returned from a trip to major countries of Europe—Germany, Spain, Russia and France—last week and has left for Astana (Kazakhstan) today to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s summit.
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Ominous Signals
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The Barricades and Battlelines in Kashmir
10 June 2017, by Badri RainaThree years into the coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir, the battlelines between the partners seem now clearly drawn. A sort of Zionist discourse seems afloat, which cautions that the governments now in the saddle both at the Centre and (...) -
Start Dialogue in Kashmir
10 June 2017by S. Sudhakar Reddy
Kashmir is again in the news. Actually it is always in the news. Mainstream media is generally giving the official version, except in exceptional cases. Kashmir is really burning. The Kashmiri people are being branded as (...) -
Is Russian-Indian Relationship Really in Disrepair?
10 June 2017, by M K BhadrakumarThe discourses in the Indian media over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia within the framework of the annual summit meetings between the two leaderships have taken a bizarre turn. Modi is being caricatured as something of a car (...) -
St Petersburg Summit: Boosting Indo-Russian Economic Cooperation
10 June 2017, by Arun MohantyThe Indo-Russian annual summit, taking place alternatively in each other’s capital, was this time held in St Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia and President Vladimir Putin’s home town. This is the first time when an Indo-Russian annual (...) -
Brezhnev in India / Superpower with a Difference
10 June 2017, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Against the backdrop of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia and talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin the following two pieces that appeared in Mainstream in November-December 1973 on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s (...) -
DVC Still to Compensate its Displaced: Quest for Justice Kept Alive
10 June 2017by Krishna Jha
On May 5, 2014, a letter was received by the Home Secretary, Government of Jharkhand, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, stating that according to the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution, the State was (...) -
These are Beefy Issues
10 June 2017, by Kuldip NayarThe demolition of the Babri Masjid and the ban on cattle sale for slaughter are two sides of the same coin. They reflect the prejudice of the majority community. Both are fouling the air. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, which (...) -
There is More to it than Meets the Eye to India’s Boycott of the Recently Concluded OBOR Summit
10 June 2017by Aurobindo Ghose
This article was sent on May 25 but could not be used earlier due to unavoidable reasons.
It is ten days since the One Belt One Road (OBOR) Summit, called and hosted by China at Beijing from May 14 to 15, 2017, concluded. (...) -
Sovereignty and Security: Questioning the wisdom of privatising PSU-s
10 June 2017, by S G VombatkereThe Government of India (GoI) has decided to go ahead with “strategic sale” to a “strategic partner”, of 26 per cent of its present 54 per cent share in the Bharat Earthmovers Ltd (BEML), which produces critical hardware for India’s Armed Forces (...)
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