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Peace on Indo-Pak Border
5 March 2017, by Kuldip NayarThe good news from the India-Pakistan boundary is that it is calm. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said in an interview that “the temperature has come down on the border”. This could mean that India and Pakistan seem to be settling down to a (...) -
Systematically Introduce API (Academic Performance Indicators) Score in Higher Education
5 March 2017by Santhoshkumar, R. and Neethu, S. Kumar
A number discussions and suggestions were made from various parts of our country in relation to modifying, implementing and introducing API (Academic Performance Indicators) Score in Higher Education. (...) -
Proxy War of Times in Uttar Pradesh
5 March 2017by Pradeep Bhargava and Anant Ram Mishra
As the elections for the Legislative Assembly are in progress in Uttar Pradesh, the diversities in people’s lives and their contradictions come into play. A majority of people are subsistence farmers and (...) -
Smart City: A Failed Approach to Urban Regeneration for Indian Cities
5 March 2017by Pradeep Nair and Sandeep Sharma
City is not a new phenomenon. Civilisations like Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Indus Valley had a rich culture of urban life. However, not more than ten per cent of the population of these civilisations used to live (...) -
Recreating the Past, Benefiting the Masters
5 March 2017by O.P. Jaiswal
To understand the present political dimension and development, as well as Narendra Modi’s victory and the BJP’s rise to power driven by the dynamics of an unprecedented development promise, a campaign aided by corporate money (...) -
Proposal for a Daily Peace and Friendship Ceremony at Wagha
5 March 2017by Saeeda Diep and Sandeep Pandey
The Indian Government has decided to increase the seats at the stadium on the India-Pakistan Wagha-Attari border, where a joint beating-the-retreat ceremony is held every evening, from 5000 to over 13,000, at an (...) -
Women of Tagore Household and their Impact on the Poet in Early Twentieth Century
5 March 2017BOOK REVIEW
by Taisha Abraham
Daughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti; Harper Collins; 2016; 344 pages; Price: Rs 399 (paperback).
Daughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti, set during the time of the Bengal Renaissance, is a sequel to her (...) -
We Owe It. . . the Responsibility!!!}
5 March 2017by FAYEZAH IQBAL
We live in strange times for sure,
Newspapers demand our attention galore to endure..
the bizarre blots of sins and subjugation,
filling the voids of love-seeking, and peace-loving creation.
I flip through the pages to ensure (...) -
BJP and UP Elections
27 February 2017, by SCEDITORIAL
It is a foregone conclusion by close observers of the national political scene that in the ongoing elections for the Assembly of the country’s most populous State—Uttar Pradesh—the ruling party at the Centre, the BJP, will not able to (...) -
Mayawati set to Return in Uttar Pradesh
27 February 2017, by Sandeep PandeySix months prior to the 2017 Assembly elections the battle for power in the North Indian State of Uttar Pradesh was seen as between the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) led by Mayawati and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is presently ruling at (...)
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