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| Extending the Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir: The Process Two Years Later | | |
Dipankar Sengupta
Introduction
Two years ago in a manner that showed meticulous planning and confidentiality, the Government of India extended the entire Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and then proceeded to reorganise the erstwhile State into two Union Territories, the UT of Ladakh and the UT of Jammu and Kashmir. Clearly the aim was a branch and root transformation of a region that had so much promise but was not able to demonstrate its potential.
Shortage of financial resources had never been a problem. Even with generous and continued central government assistance, the erstwhile State had little to show. Compared to neighbouring Himachal Pradesh (HP) which also a... |
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| | Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day on 6th August:Distruction of innocent humanity | | |
By M Ahmad
"If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.".................Albert Einstein
On August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy", weighed 10,800 pounds, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and three days later, on August 9, it dropped another bomb nicknamed as "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of people and affecting many more who would suffer the effects of the radiation from the blast and the “black rain” that fell in the aftermath of the explosions.
This opened the nuclear weapon age in the history of humanity. Seventy-four years have passed since the at... |
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