2025 – The Year of Reforms
Narendra Modi India has emerged as the centre of global attention. This is due to the innovative zeal of our people. Today, the world sees India with hope and confidence. They appreciate the manner in…
Category: Op-Ed
Kashmir 2025: Article 370’s Shadow and Question of Statehood
Ashok Bhan ashokbhan@rediffmail.com As 2025 draws to a close, Kashmir’s political story reads less like a turning point and more like an extended aftermath. The year was dominated not by new constitutional changes but by…
2025: The Year India Turned Momentum into Power
Dr Shenaz Ganai sganai19 @ gmail. com Kuch baat hai ke hasti mit-ti nahin hamari, Sadiyon raha hai dushman daur-e-zaman hamara.” Some years pass quietly into memory; others set the course of a nation’s destiny.…
Self-Reliant Science: How India’s Integrated Scientific Advances Are Redefining National Strength
Biju Dharmapalan bijudharmapalan@gmail.com India’s journey toward becoming a self-sufficient and self-reliant nation has been decisively shaped by science. In the past few years, particularly highlighted in 2025, India has made remarkable strides in various scientific…
New Age Banking – Paradigm shifts expected?
Prof K S Chandrasekar vc@clujammu.ac.in India is poised to be the third-largest economy soon. Bharat is aiming for a $5 trillion economy and expects its services sector to contribute more in this regard. Banking is…
India’s Proud Heritage
Lalit Mengi lkmengi@rediffmail.com India had blazed a trail across the world, in the millennium and a half from 250 BC to 1200 AD in art, religion, astronomy, music, literature, mathematics and mythology, but somehow remained…
Pakistan’s Tango with ISKP
Brig Sushil Tanwar Last week,Turkiye’s Intelligence agency MIT along with Pakistan’s ISI conducted a special operation in Balochistan and apprehended Mehmet Goren,one of the senior figures of ISKP, an offshoot terrorist organisation of IS Daesh.…
Car Sales’ Boom Toxic Air Turns a Windfall
shivaji sarkar Scrappage is a profit accelerator. By some industry estimates, it can add 30 per cent or more to automaker profits, not through innovation but by forcing replacement, acquiring old cars cheaply, recycling-retrofitting their…
Jammu and Kashmir State’s Judicial Evolution Decoded
Justice (Retd.) G D Sharma pallav5354@gmail.com When on October 26, 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh acceded to the Union of India, the total area of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir was approximately 2,22,000 to…
A sobering reflection
Vishal Sharma As the current year recedes into oblivion and the New Year nears, it’s time for a sober reflection. Every time when we lurch towards an indistinguishable space between two years, such an occasion…