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The old Takshashila
Between 576 – 530 BCE, the Achaemenid emperor Cyrus the Great established an empire which extended from Egypt to the Indus—the largest empire the world at...
The new agency in town
Soon after the audacious 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram announced the formation of National Investigation Agency (NIA) as the...
Where is the national disaster management authority?
India’s disaster management capacity continues to be appallingly inadequate despite the numerous calamities—natural and man-made—that the republic has experienced...
In Parliament: The civil nuclear liability bill
Last month, the government withdrew its plan of introducing the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 in the Lok Sabha. Several opposition parties had given...
The story of Kundapura
The role of municipalities as agencies for driving social and economic development has not been given its due importance for over a hundred years now. While there...
Beyond the right
One of the more enduring puzzles of education in developing countries has been the persistence of a questionable quality of education among government schools, relative...
Alif
UN report indicts Pakistan’s ‘establishment’ NAVEED HASHMI writes on the UN Commission’s report on the Benazir Bhutto assassination in Roznama Ausaf...
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LeT in Pakistan’s strategy ASHLEY TELLIS of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace states that Lashkar-e-Taiba’s global presence and its sponsorship...
Military modernisation needs FDI
The private sector was allowed to enter the defence industry in May 2001 when the government permitted—subject to licensing—100 percent equity with a maximum...
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