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Towards a New AfPak?

Recent spate of high-level meetings between premiers of Afghanistan and Pakistan might not only improve relationship between the two countries but also bring in much-awaited peace and prosperity to the region.
Shrinivasrao S Sohoni Kabul

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Every tiger, nation’s conscience

India is home to the largest number of wild tigers in the world. If the tiger has to survive it has to be in India. Hardnews joins the campaign to protect the most magnificent and majestic creature in the animal kingdom. See coming issues for more on tigers and on the spot reports from tiger reserves.
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So what about ‘NATIONAL PRIDE’?

Thousands of unorganized migrant workers building the games projects are made to live in degrading conditions with few fundamental rights.
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
Conquerors of the golden city

It’s a futureless quagmire, these games. and Delhi seems to be helplessly sinking in a haze of smoke and construction, beside a sewage-drain called the Yamuna. While Suresh Kalmadi has the last laugh
Akash Bisht and Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
AFGHANISTAN- WHAT INDIA SHOULD EXPECT AND WHAT IT SHOULD DO

Vikram Sood, the former RAW chief explains the situation in Afghanistan and also puts forth the options available to India
From bad to good

The Indian industry has begun to show results, says an upbeat Union Commerce Minister, Anand Sharma
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi


Kalpavriksha: Celebrate the Banana Republic

With its amazing variety of delicious use, the banana and its tree are a multi-treat for the connoisseur. As summer arrives, it’s time for a banana revolution
Ratna Raman Delhi
Dirty Money Once Again

Panchayat elections in Rajasthan is a transparent indicator of the new political trend in India: cash-fixed grassroots democracy
Rahul Ghai Bikaner
National counter terrorism centre in the Indian context

The Indian NCTC should not aspire to become a super-intelligence organisation. Rather, it should aim at coordinating with other stake holders to ensure unity of effort.
Vikram Sood Delhi
INDIA PAKISTAN TALKS -- The fiasco that need not have been

There is a déjà vu in the way the Pakistani foreign and military establishment has reacted to the resumption of talks between the two countries
Vikram Sood
The Great Indian Spectrum scam

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This rain dance is toxic

This can be apocalyptic for perhaps the only success story of tiger preservation. The precious Jim Corbett National Park is stalked by real estate and tourist lobbies, violating every code of the wild
Akash Bisht Delhi
Miffed by miff

Backed by the government, the Mumbai International Film Festival, true to its negative history, yet again alienated many documentary filmmakers
Ajinkya Shenava and Arindam Banerjee Mumbai


The Ayes have it!

It is only after feminist consciousness in India reached a critical mass that Women’s Reservation Bill got finally passed in the Rajya Sabha, that too, with a thumping majority.
Shaweta Anand Delhi
‘State governments are in denial’

Belinda Wright, 57, one of India's leading conservationists, has pushed the limits to save the Great Indian tiger. She won two Emmy awards and 14 international awards for her film "Land of the Tiger'. She spoke to Hardnews in New Delhi
Akash BIsht Delhi
Nothing Common about this Wealth

Much of the daylight robbery in the name of Commonwealth Games has been justified in the name of “National Prestige” and “World class aspirations. Whether all these surreptitious measures will eventually deliver the games is an open question?
Dunu Roy Delhi
Zero option: Save the Tiger

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