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Kashmir 1947: A case of Pakistani perfidy

By Raghvendra Singh New Delhi , October 20 (ANI): For Mohammed Ali Jinnah and his newly created Pakistan, it would completely negate his two-nation theory...

Expenditure matters more than borrowing

BY K. YATISH RAJAWAT Indian state governments have market loans (SDLs), borrowings of Rs 1.93 lakh crore so far this year, this is 76 per...

History beckons, Kamala Harris halo blooms ahead of Vice Presidential debate

BY NIKHILA NATARAJAN New York, Oct 7 (IANS) As far as numbers go, Kamala Harris, the first ever Indian and African American woman on a...

Primacy of development over politics

BY JAYANTA GHOSAL This story is from about 20 years ago! A person from Kolkata came to visit our office in Delhi. He got...

Maskless: How the coronavirus came back to bite Trump

BY NIKHILA NATARAJAN New York, Oct 2 (IANS) The mask has slipped. US president Donald Trump will now forever be part of America's grim coronavirus...

India’s soft power — unrealized potential

BY AMIT KHANNA The term "soft power" was coined by academic Joseph Nye of Harvard University to describe "the ability to attract and co-opt rather...

Will you shut up, man: Personal attacks rule 1st Trump-Biden debate

BY NIKHILA NATARAJAN New York, Sep 30 (IANS) "Clown", "Liar", "just shush for a minute" and "keep yapping" were the insults that will forever be...

Muslim education in India: Need for private and public sector investment

BY FRANK F. ISLAM Eminent columnist Swaminathan A. Aiyar called upon Wakf boards and wealthy Muslims to finance the development of "a string of world-class...

Chinese imperialism poses incurable threat to the world

BY BINAY KUMAR SINGH Two viruses have taken over the world. One, a minuscule creature called Covid-19, has killed more than 8,00,000 people around the...

Duplicitous dragon at the door

BY AIR MARSHAL (RETD) HARISH MASAND More than four months have gone by since the PLA upped the ante on the borders with India resulting...