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No Leader of the Opposition was the Norm during Most Cong Regimes
May 23 , 2014 Dr A Surya Prakash
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Ever since the Congress Party’s crushing defeat in the recent Lok Sabha election, many acolytes of the Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress sympathisers are bemoaning the fact that the leader of this party,...

Governance and Political Studies

Congress Bares its Hitler Bunker Mindset in the Last Days of UPA-2
May 17 , 2014 Dr M N Buch (late)
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H. Trevor-Roper, a British historian, wrote a seminal book called “The Last Days of Hitler”. Hitler and his close colleagues were sheltered in the Hitler bunker buried deep within the bowels of the ear...

Governance and Political Studies

Why Does The Election Commission Treat Rahul Gandhi with Kid Gloves?
May 15 , 2014 Dr A Surya Prakash
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On May 1, 2014, the Congress Party’s Vice-President, Mr.Rahul Gandhi, made an extraordinary prediction while addressing a rally at Solan in Himachal Pradesh. He said if Mr.Narendra Modi became India’s P...

Governance and Political Studies

Will the Transitional Bill on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bring Peace to Nepal?
May 13 , 2014 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
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The Bill on Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and on Commission of Inquiry on Disappearances (CID) was tabled in the Legislature-Parliament on April 16, 2014 for discussion, which was finally ap...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

The Message and Meaning of GSLV Success
May 9 , 2014 Radhakrishna Rao
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No technology, however complex and challenging it might be, is beyond India’s capability to develop and deploy from ground zero. And this truism was amply demonstrated by the spectacularly successful fl...

Technological and Scientific Studies

Subversive Blinkers - Sustaining Separatism by Emasculation of Common Sense
May 6 , 2014 Dr Ajay Chrungoo
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The subversive war in Jammu and Kashmir is not only about keeping the destabilizing internal security challenges alive through calibrated terrorist attacks from time to time. In the recent past, it has ...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

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