Opinions
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Nizam’s Hyderabad State was merged with India, neither liberated nor annexed
The discussion on the Police Action (Operation Polo) against the Hyderabad State of the erstwhile Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan has begun to pick up speed, thanks to the polarization policy of…
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Kejriwal is AAP, AAP is him
It is unusual in the political history of India that a chief minister of a state can remain without a portfolio but run the state by his superintendence, leaving the nitty-gritties to…
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Smoke, mirrors politics of Kashmir or changing dynamics ahead of polling
Kashmir politics continues to spring surprises in the first-ever Assembly polls in a decade being held from September 18. Awami Itihad Party or AIP led by Abdul Rashid aka Engineer Rashid had entered into…
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Blink it! Meal with a deal on the dining tables!
“Union minister of Commerce and Trade, Piyush Goyal warned that, “e-commerce was eating into the sales volumes of small retail businesses and displacing them in the consumer delivery market.” Abharana left…
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There is more to Engineer Rashid’s angry notes on Modi’s new Kashmir narrative
The opening remarks of Lok Sabha member Abdul Rashid, better known as Engineer Rashid soon after his release from Tihar jail in Delhi on Wednesday were a verbal assault on Prime Minister Modi’s vison of new…
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Opinion: Government’s offer of dialogue to Hurriyat lost in miscommunication
Last two days – Sunday and Monday – revealed all that happened in September 2016, exactly eight years ago when Kashmir Valley was visited by an all-party delegation led by the then…
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Opinion: Sordid saga of IC 814- the larger picture is missing even today
In the middle of the controversy and commentaries on the IC 814 Netflix ,something is not being mentioned as adequately as it should have been and that is the central character of…
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Documentary review: Police Action 1948 and the trauma of remembrance
Hyderabad: Fugitive traces of memory from the horrors of the 1948 annexation lurk in parts of Hyderabad, obscured by time and history. When Pomegranate Turns Grey, produced by Maktoob Originals and directed…
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Opinion: Importance of Omar Abdullah, Iltija Mufti in J&K Assembly elections
National Conference leader and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is now a veteran of political and electoral battles, he has a streak of winning elections and also losing some , but there would be…
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HYDRA demolitions: Revanth Reddy, KTR face-off over encroachments
Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) have locked horns over the demolition of illegal structures of encroached land by Hyderabad Disaster…
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Opinion: Solution to end violence against women is return to morality
Desperate times call for desperate measures. These are certainly no ordinary times when the safety of women and girls is at stake. The brutal rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s…
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She asked for it. Did She?
The macabre incident of the gang rape and murder of a female, medical doctor of the R G Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata recently has shaken the conscience of the…
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Regional parties’ manifestoes in Kashmir revert to emotional politics of yester year
PDP or People’s Democratic Party was the third regional party to release its manifesto after National Conference and Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party. This has completed the circle of all the three major regional parties…
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Ram Madhav’s re-entry into J&K can prove game changer for BJP in Assembly polls
Ram Madhav, an old familiar face of BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, on his appointment as election in-charge for the Assembly polls 2004 in the Union Territory , has hit the ground…
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Rahul Gandhi’s political landmine visit of J&K
Rahul Gandhi is making his entry to Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday to assess Congress’ status and stature in the union territory ahead of the Assembly polls, apparently to stitch a pre-poll…
