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Lead, Kindly Light! - The Importance of Teachers in Our Lives
September 5 , 2018 Dr Arpita Mitra
Commentary Views: 3310
India has always bowed in veneration before the teacher. Why? Ancient Indians considered Creation itself a great sacrifice on the part of the Cosmic Being. This act of sacrifice is to be replicated by human beings in all their actions to uphold this Creation. Our parents bring forth new life by giving birth to us and raising us. In that process, they work hard and even undergo a lot of suffering.

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Featured , Gift of knowledge , Teacher’s day

कृषि की वृद्धि में एमएसपी की भूमिका
September 5 , 2018 Rajesh Singh
Article Views: 4364
देश भर में फैले कृषि संकट से राहत देने के लिए केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल ने जुलाई में एक महत्वपूर्ण कदम उठाया। मंत्रिमंडल ने खरीफ सत्र से पहले 14 फसलों के न्यूनतम समर्थन मूल्य (एमएसपी) में वृद्धि का ऐलान किया, जिसके बाद एमएसपी फसल की लागत के कम से कम 150 प्रतिशत हो गए।

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Hindi , कृषि संकट से राहत , न्यूनतम समर्थन मूल्य

Prospects for India–China Maritime Cooperation
September 5 , 2018 Commodore Somen Banerjee
Article Views: 6022
The keynote address of Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered at the Shangri-La Dialogue on June 01, 2018, succinctly spelt out India’s Indo-Pacific strategy between the “shifting plates of global politics and the fault lines of history”.

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : China , India , Maritime cooperation , Pollution , Pollution of the seas

In Defense of Nationalism
September 4 , 2018 Dr Arpita Mitra
Commentary Views: 5197
In 1917, Rabindranath Tagore came out with a booklet on nationalism. It was a collection of three articles and a poem. Two of these, ‘Nationalism in the West’ and ‘Nationalism in Japan’, were lectures delivered in the USA in 1916-17 and in Japan in 1916 respectively.

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Tags : Tagore’s nationalism , Vivekananda’s patriotism

China Accused of Practicing Racial Discrimination by United Nations Watchdog Body
September 4 , 2018 Amb Bhaswati Mukherjee
Article Views: 2967
China’s aggressive efforts to position itself as a global leader recently came under challenge at the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the global watch dog on racial discrimination.

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Human rights in Xinjiang , Persecution of Uyghurs , UNCERD Report

Making Sense of Missile Shield
August 31 , 2018 Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Article Views: 4254
The media picks up the tag line "India puts up a missile shield" every time there is news related, one way or the other, to the plan to acquire a surface-to-air-missile (SAM) system. The so called "missile shield" filled the media space when there was a talk of S-400 system.

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : Air defence , Missile Defence , S-400

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