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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...

Race riots in US and walk of the dispossessed in India

BY SAEED NAQVI A passionate appraisal of the widespread anger at George Floyd's murder by a white policeman that newspaper columns are full...

The Star Wars: Stars vs Media

BY VINOD MIRANI There is a new controversy as Kangana Ranaut has decided to take the media head-on. Kangana has by now made a...

They Call It Marketing!

Isn't the star power good enough? /IANS Vinod Mirani New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS)...

Can the Governor’s office impose itself on the people’s government?

ADEEL AHMED The position of a Governor in India was a derivative of the colonial Government of India Act, 1935, which was considered by Indians...

The US presidential elections and future of India-US relations

BY FRANK F. ISLAM As the coronavirus pandemic dominates global news in the United States, progress toward the next presidential election scheduled to be...

Why Modi acted now on Kashmir?

BY DEEPIKA BHAN The question is why did Modi chose ‘now to do what he has done with Article 370? There was no big election...

Listen to nature and make buildings earthquake resistant

DR DHRUV SEN SINGH Floods, droughts, cyclones, tsunamis, landslides and earthquakes are all natural events that have been taking place even before the evolution of...

BJP fails to make inroads in Valley despite clear political advantages

Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, Dec 16 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled J&K in...

‘Just what the truth is I can’t say anymore’

BY SUYASH CHOUDHARY Moody's blues? A macro update Global rating agency Moody's downgraded India's sovereign rating by one notch to the threshold of investment grade. The...