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Afghan migrants in Iran: Living dangerously for livelihood

  • Sometime in April, I was in contact with Faizullah Kakar, an eminent epidemiologist and the immediate past Chief of Staff to Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on public health issues arising out of the coronavirus pandemic.  Within days I approached him once again, as news of the drownin...
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BJP: Fascism in the garb of patriotism

  • Politics over appropriation of patriotism is going on in full swing in India, currently gripped by high election fever. The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh and the controversial retired Army Gen. VK Singh have bombarded the Union government recently for failing to...
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Chinese checkers: Making the right move

  • A RECENT Chinese move to prepare a draft law for exploration of international seabed including Indian Ocean has left the Indian strategic establishment frowning despite the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) desire to develop a “new type” of military relationship with their...
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Dialogue answer to regional unrest

  • Myanmar and Sri Lanka might be far apart from each other geographically, but recent incidences of violence on Muslim lives and properties perpetrated by Buddhist monks in both the Buddhist majority nations have a common pattern....
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Growth sans employment

  • A sizable section of India’s educated youth remaining unemployed is the greatest challenge before the nation, which boasts of being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, observed former Indian prime minister and a world renowned economist, Manmohan Singh while speaking at a higher...
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India tormented by water crisis

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government admitted in the Supreme Court last month that India was in the grip of a serious water crisis, with more than a quarter of the country’s 1.3 billion population facing acute drinking water shortage and agricultural distress. And approximately...
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India’s BRICS mission

  • Fresh from his government’s success of handling the Iraq hostage crisis — involving Indian nurses — with meticulous precision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in the bubbling Brazilian city of Fortaleza to attend the sixth BRICS Summit scheduled for July 15-17, 2014. An astute and highly...
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India’s minorities living in fear

  • The heinous gang rape of a septuagenarian nun in the eastern Indian province of West Bengal in the wee hours of March 13 has profoundly shaken the conscience of humanity. While condemning the ghastly event wholeheartedly and questioning the motives of the culprits, who outraged the modesty of “a...
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Is it not time for India, Pakistan to reconcile?

  • March 23, 1940 is a significant landmark in the history of Indian freedom movement. The destiny of millions of Muslims residing in the Indian subcontinent was changed forever on this day. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, also regarded as a staunch champion of Hindu-Muslim unity, sponsored the...
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Lankans vote for stability

  • As former president and prime ministerial candidate of the opposition UPF Alliance, Mahinda Rajapaksa conceded defeat after a closely-fought parliamentary election in Sri Lanka, the Indian strategic security establishment, having invested a lot in the neighboring island nation’s election process,...
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