Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| News channels join noble mission after m | Amidst all the allegations against Assam based private news channels that those beam only negative and inflammable reports in the time of crisis, the channel managements took up a noble mission to help the affected families of militants’ massacre in various remote parts of the State. Digesting the persistent criticisms from the viewers, the northeast India based regional news channels not only appealed for generous public supports, but also took initiatives to distribute the relief materials among the inmates of nearly 80 relief camps. | 30-Dec-2014 |
| Defiant SC takes on PM Modi on tainted p | The Supreme Court remained defiant in 2014 even as it battled an overt attempt by the Modi government to control the judiciary by bringing in two bills which would change the way judges are appointed and disciplined, asking the prime minister not to appoint tainted parliamentarians as ministers. | 30-Dec-2014 |
| No 'Godse', 'Hitler', 'Ravan' in parliam | Parliament was disrupted for a while during the just-concluded winter session over the eulogisation of Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathuram Godse, but his name has been struck off the records as it is considered unparliamentary. | 28-Dec-2014 |
| Indian Navy ignored during tsunami for w | Boxing Day reminded me of Dec 26, 2004, the day the tsunami trampled Aceh in Indonesia, Galle and Trincomalee in Sri Lanka and devastated the east coast of India. An air force plane enabled me to be in Galle that fateful day. | 26-Dec-2014 |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Apostle of peace, | A 28-year-old dhoti-kurta clad young man was jostling to push his blanket-wrapped baggage into the unreserved compartment of a passenger train at Delhi Railway station on May 8, 1953. | 25-Dec-2014 |
| Can Modi really take on the Hindu hawks? | The sudden cancellation by the saffron hotheads of the religious reconversion programmes to welcome the minorities into the Hindu fold suggests that Narendra Modi has finally decided that enough is enough. | 25-Dec-2014 |
| Aurora, Niazi back on stage | The two generals were key to the surrender ceremony at Dhaka in 1971. | 16-Dec-2014 |
| The Siege and a Twitter account: Questio | The Sydney café siege is over. While no tears will be shed over the gunman, two families have lost their loved ones. Christmas will not be the same. The incident has left fun-loving Sydney shaken and will trigger introspection and investigation. In a separate incident, techie Mehdi Masroor Biswas was arrested with the assistance of MI6 and the Bengaluru police have started retracing his digital footprint to identify his proximity with the IS network. Are there parallels between the two incidents? | 16-Dec-2014 |
| A Mega Scam is snowballing at Rupaichari | “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.†― Carl Sagan | 16-Dec-2014 |
| Assam: Journalism in the time of insurge | The working journalists, more particularly the reporters covering insurgency related incidents, always face a two-edged sword. Often they face brickbats (read threats) from both the insurgents turned terrorists and also the authority in power that implements counter-insurgency operations. Need not to claim again that the media has every right to report about the insurgencies and so the reporters may maintain official contacts with the militants belonged to the banned armed outfits too. | 12-Dec-2014 |
| Will saffron warriors trip up Modi? | It is perhaps in the natural order of things that when a party vanquishes its opponents, its nemesis emerges from within its own ranks. This is what appears to be happening in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). | 12-Dec-2014 |
| India needs 99th amendment of Constituti | India has experienced as many as 98 amendment of it’s Constitution till 65th year of its enactment. Being a citizen of India, can I suggest 99th amendment of the Constitution in any of the Provisions between Article 352 and 360, which deals all about emergency? After the Provisions of internal emergency, emergency for external aggression and financial emergency – at the end of 2014, Indians feel to have one more Provision “Green emergency or Environmental emergencyâ€. Leaving aside all other environmental concerns, now India is desperately in need of massive reform in transport sector. | 04-Dec-2014 |
| Why did NE states back off from K2K ! | Delhi seems to be clearly ignoring the aspirations in India's Northeast to open out to neighbours - as a recent survey indicated this week. The majority of informed people in the region, the survey showed , wanted BCIM and K2K to floourish and help develop relations between the region and neighbouring countries like Bangladesh. Myanmar and China. | 03-Dec-2014 |