BJP general secretary had said government will neutralise every militant in the valley. Critics said he does not understand the Kashmir problem.
ThePrint Team
Even as attempts are being made by the opposition to cobble a grand opposition alliance to take on the seemingly invincible BJP, Nationalist Congress Party chief and veteran politician Sharad Pawar Wednesday said he would not lead such an effort.
The four most important men in the UPA-2 cabinet are entirely clean. And yet, if you held an opinion poll, a vast majority would say corruption is India's biggest challenge today.
Amid the assembly elections there, Maharashtra is bedeviled by lousy governance, making what should be the richest state in India one of the poorest in its political hinterland.
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The time has come for us to look inwards for the solution to our half-century irrational fear of the Chinese. For too long, we have used the Chinese threat to justify our nukes.
Not only did the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy gain Congress high command's total trust and defy anti-incumbency, but he also saw the value in being a modernising, urbanising leader.
By the moral logic that countries should withdraw from multilateral organisations whose policy they do not believe in, the US should make a beginning by leaving the United Nations.
While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
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