BY: NIHARIKA PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 10, 2019 In what could be a master stroke PM Modi Government has resolved to bring in a constitutional amendment to increase reservation quotas from 50% to 60% .The additional 10% quota will apply to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) to get reservation in jobs and in education, thereby serving as […]Read More
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BY: BRIG ANIL GUPTA PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 1, 2018 The release of Hafiz Saeed, a dreaded terrorist and head of Jamat ud Dawa (JuD)/ Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and launching of a political party by him Milli Muslim League (MML), has aroused a suspicion in India that our neighbour is trying to rehabilitate the “good” terrorists. A […]Read More
BY: RANBIR MANHAS PUBLISHED ON MAY 1, 2018 Ignorance is bliss is a famous quote which I had read in my early school days, but it is not so every time a fact which I have learnt through my long experience of life. I have seen ignorant people falling in the vicious trap of Asaram […]Read More
BY: RANBIR MANHAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 22, 2018 Death of thirty nine Indian workers at the hands of ISIS in Mosul, Iraq has been confirmed by India government. Though the missing workers were feared dead ever since their disappearance in 2015, the Indian government could not legally declare them dead unless the government of Iraq […]Read More
BY: RANBIR MANHAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 14, 2018 Low voting percentage in UP by polls held a couple of days ago as compared to one in general elections of 2014 is meaningful. If we compare the two figures the difference is quite wide. For instance in Gorakhpur constituency of UP if voting percentage was 54 […]Read More
BY: RANBIR MANHAS PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 9, 2018 For past few days, Maharashtra state of India witnessed violent demonstrations a call for which was given by eight organizations of Dalits. They raised pro dalit, pro azadi and anti BJP slogans. They also inflicted huge loss to public property and business besides causing intensive inconvenience to […]Read More
Although Parliamentary Boards of all political parties have yet to decide their candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, political analysts have already begun guessing as to who will be who’s candidate in Jammu. Since NC and PDP have shown their anger against CEC for not announcing LS and Assembly polls together nothing can be […]Read More
August 5 will mark a year since Article 370 was effectively nullified, the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was divided into two separate units, and both units — J&K and Ladakh — were made union territories (UTs). In light of the current domestic and external situation, it is time to review the policy approach […]Read More
The pre-Independence era was not really dynastic even though freedom fighters included, very often, complete clans, brothers and even tribes. But in post-Independence India, arguably, the first political dynasty was started when former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi was appointed Congress president. In the rest of India, there were regional satraps who were […]Read More