Archive Detail
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New questions over India's $165 bn gambl | The dry reservoirs -- despite an average monsoon -- of south Karnatakas Cauvery basin illustrate Indias rainfall trends over 65 years: A drop in moderate monsoon rainfall and an increase in extreme events, such as deluges and dry spells, as IndiaSpend reported in April 2015. | 20-Oct-2016 |
Trump or Hillary? US Voters dilemma cont | USA never seen anything like this when both Republican and Democrat party nominees are not only disliked but hated mostly by majority of intellectual masses in election year. It’s the paradox of the 2016 US presidential elections that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, both are widely unpopular. Two thirds (65 percent) of voters have unfavorable opinions of the Republican billionaire, and only a quarter (24 percent) think positively of him, according to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC survey. In Clinton’s case, 56 percent are down on her, while only 32 percent see her in a favorable light, the same poll found. | 16-Oct-2016 |
Prohibition: Nitish Kumar will learn his | There is an element of desperation skirting the edge of rationality in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's frenetic attempts to ban liquor consumption in Bihar. | 12-Oct-2016 |
'Surgical strikes' will reap Modi rich p | During the Kargil conflict in 1999, India did not cross the Line of Control (LoC). If it has behaved differently this time, the reason is that Pakistan's reputation has nosedived in the last decade and a half. | 02-Oct-2016 |
Behind Pakistan's military confidence: C | Until five years ago, the US and China shared an almost equal proportion of Pakistans arms imports: 39 per cent and 38 per cent respectively. Today, China supplies 63 per cent of Pakistans armaments, with the US dropping to 19 per cent and second place, an IndiaSpend analysis reveals, as Pakistan mulls a response to Indias strike on terror camps across the border. | 02-Oct-2016 |