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TOPIC – At the Centre
As the joint statement at the end of the India Central Asia virtual summit on Thursday noted, ties between India and the region...
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TOPIC – Endless ordeal
The ruling by the High Court in London that Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange, currently in a British prison, can be extradited to the...
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TOPIC – Drawing a line
The proposed remapping of Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory (UT) by the J&K Delimitation Commission has got the entire spectrum of regional...
PARAGRAPH WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Drawing a line
The proposed remapping of Assembly constituencies in the Union Territory (UT) by the J&K Delimitation Commission has got the entire spectrum of regional...
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TOPIC – Cutting the captain
Amarinder Singh’s ouster and the selection of his baiter Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister of Punjab was scripted in Delhi by the Congress High...
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TOPIC – Big on hopes, short on ideas
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman fourth successive budget, while common sensical in its approach, is not exactly bubbling with...
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TOPIC – No change
In a repetition of its decisions over the past three years, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said that members of the...
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TOPIC – Mixed signals
At a time that India is looking to impress upon the world that it is strongly positioned as well as willing and...
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TOPIC – Bugle for restraint
The schedule for Assembly elections in five States announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on January 8 was along...
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TOPIC – Sanctions and rights
The U.S. move to sanction a paramilitary unit in Bangladesh, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), has apparently caught the administration in Dhaka off-guard,...
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TOPIC – A serious lapse
The lapse in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security arrangements, which left his convoy stranded on a flyover for around 20 minutes, near Ferozepur in...
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TOPIC – A foul cry
In a disturbing sequence of events, two men were beaten to death over alleged attempts to “commit sacrilege” in the sanctum sanctorum of the...
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TOPIC – A scheme before its time
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the National Digital Health Mission, the most salient aspect of which is that all citizens...
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TOPIC – Cease the fire
From Israeli armed forces storming Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday morning to Israel pounding Gaza with airstrikes and artillery on Thursday...
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TOPIC – Cutting the captain
Amarinder Singh’s ouster and the selection of his baiter Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister of Punjab was scripted in Delhi by the Congress High...
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TOPIC – Mixed messaging
Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s first visit to Jammu & Kashmir after August 5, 2019 when Parliament diluted Article 370 of the...
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TOPIC – Protecting prisoners
If overcrowding of prisons has been a perennial problem in this country, high occupancy levels can only mean bad news amidst a pandemic. The...
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TOPIC – An unproductive idea
Incentives and penalties form an integral component of the measures to control population growth, announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on...
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TOPIC – A tragic loss
India has lost a capable and experienced military leader in the tragic death of the country’s first Chief of Defense Staff...
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TOPIC – Road to recovery
T he latest GDP and GVA estimates from the National Statistical Office have affirmed that the economy is now on the path to...
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TOPIC – A serious lapse
The lapse in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security arrangements, which left his convoy stranded on a flyover for around 20 minutes, near Ferozepur in...
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TOPIC – Age and marriage
Good intent does not guarantee favorable outcomes. Coercive laws without wide societal support often fail to deliver even when their statement...