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For exiled Sharif, returning home was ‘matter of time’
Prashant Sood Those were his days of forced political wilderness and an uncertain future but Nawaz Sharif was confident of his moves and his return to Pakistan. Sharif appeared relaxed…
India to have five rocket launches, including Mars mission, in 2013
Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai: India’s space agency is planning to have a total of five rocket launches in 2013 from its rocket launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80…
Now a Shariah Index for financial inclusion of Indian Muslims
Rohit Bansal Followers of Islam, the second largest faith in the world with an estimated 1.7 billion believers, can now be surer when an Indian firm stands the pre-requisites for…
BRICS: Changing the paradigm of international relations
Deepak Bhojwani India, a motive force behind the founding of BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has shown the world the importance of the development of…
Sarabjit gets death in Pakistan – but not from the noose
Amritsar: Sarabjit Singh – the impoverished family man from a Punjab village, the death row prisoner who languished for 23 years in Pakistan, the man who in death became the…
Boston suspects revive focus on Russia’s restive North Caucasus
Nabi Abdullaev As US investigators hunt for evidence about the Boston bombing suspects, some of their questions will focus on Russia’s restive North Caucasus, including the war-scarred Chechnya region that…
Muslim parties echo minority aspirations in secular India
M.R. Narayan Swamy Six decades after India’s partition made Muslim politics a dirty word, parties founded by Muslims to espouse the cause of the country’s largest minority are again making…
Mamata returns to ‘safety’ but are students safe?
Mithun Dasgupta West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee left Delhi in a hurry, cutting short her three-day visit to the capital to firm up the state’s annual plan, saying: “Delhi…
Right to Education haunted by teacher shortage?
Azera Rahman Three years since it came into being and promised free and compulsory education to all children in the 6-14 age group in India, redressing violations of the Right…
Four US lawmakers step into Indian political turd (Comment)
Mayank Chhaya Four US lawmakers, who are among a group of visitors specially chaperoned to meet Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, have stepped right on it. By it, I mean…
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