Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Modi's Dhaka visit may be a landmark | Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh has gone on record to say efforts are well on course to finalise the Teesta river water sharing agreement with Bangladesh. Hope this is a more definitive statement than the one he recently made about Dawood Ibrahim -- we will get him back to India and that kind of thing. | 28-May-2015 |
| People retain hope in Modi, but time's r | No smart cities, no bullet trains, no spike in employment, no visible improvement in infrastructure, continuing logjam over bills in parliament, carping by in-house critics. Even then, few will say that Narendra Modi will lose if the elections are held in the near future. | 24-May-2015 |
| Africa and Tripura -- What a mix up ! | Former Indian diplomat Deepak Vohra flew into Tripura with bagful of praise for the state's handling of the ethnic conflict last week. Several African nations, he said, were keen to learn from Tripura's experience. Indian politicians love such praise when they arrive from unexpected quarters and Tripura left rulers cannot be faulted if they feel well over what Deepak Vohra ended up telling the local media. | 18-May-2015 |
| The story of the Carcinoma of the Oesop | My journey started in June 1954, when after passing the First MBBS exam of the University. I was the University topper that year. Our clinical classes in the third year started. Vividly remember the initial class in Medicine by Prof. Nityn Gupta FRCP, a teacher,with a rare dramatic style of teaching. | 17-May-2015 |
| Regular missile tests maintain India-Pak | Last month, India tested its indigenously-developed 3,000-km Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni III, while Pakistan tested its 1,300-km Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) Ghauri. | 15-May-2015 |
| Smart-City Challenge: Building on pillar | The second budget of the Narendra Modi government has been presented. The Smart Cities programme and 500 habitations under the National Urban Rejuvenation Mission (NURM) together have been allocated Rs. 6,000 crore (approximately $1 billion). This is more than one third of the total allocation under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD). | 12-May-2015 |
| Earthquakes and their impact: Building c | A big earthquake in Assam and in the Himalayan region was expected ever since I was a geophysics student at Banaras Hindu University during 1974-1976. At that time, funding agencies spent money for routine observations of various parameters in the wake of a major earthquake. In the past, a few major earthquakes have occurred in the Himalayan region: the Bihar-Nepal earthquake of In 1988, Uttarkashi in 1991 and Chamoli in 1999. | 12-May-2015 |
| Derailed tops rule Tripura, needs to hav | The year 2015 has ushered in a bad omen for the people of Tripura. It only recounts how unfortunate the so called highly sensitive and literate citizens of the state. The state Chief Minister Manik Sarkar is accused of abetting a Non-Banking Financial Companies like Rose Valley to flourish in the state to cheat the common man for past so many years which is now clear to be the symbiotic relationship. CPM party is the beneficiary along with the Kundu family and its coteries. | 06-May-2015 |