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| June 23, 2009 | |
Injured 26/11 NSG commando speaks out
Captain A K Singh, who lost his eye during the 26/11 operations, is bitter at his fate, but hopeful that something good is round the corner.
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| June 22, 2009 | |
Knowing Mumbai's new top cop better
The Tamil Nadu-born Sivanandan taught economics for three years and shot to fame -- almost literally -- during his momentous tenure as head of the Mumbai Crime Branch during the late nineties. During his two-year stint as joint commissioner (crime), over 250 members of the Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan gangs were shot dead in police encounters.
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| June 04, 2009 | |
Kamala Das, The Muse, stilled forever
No Malayalam writer -- living or dead -- wrote as beautifully as she did. Beautiful was it in every sense of the word. Another prolific writer M T Vasudevan Nair paid rich tributes to her when he said if someone made him jealous by the mastery over language, it was Madhavikutty. Such tributes hardly came in her way for the last few years. It was rather tribulation all the way.
'Now is the time for Indian industry to be bold'
'Each society has its wisdom. We remember these values at home, but forget about them when we go to work,' says Indian School of Business Dean Ajit Rangnekar.
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| June 03, 2009 | |
20 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre
China's reigning party killed thousands of its own children on Tiananmen Square at dawn on June 4, 1989. Today, the regime in Beijing is not ready to admit to any wrong doing or consider changes in its policies.
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| June 01, 2009 | |
Pakistan army still calls the shots
There is little or no evidence that the return to representative rule in Pakistan last year means the supremacy of civilian government. The so-called permanent establishment remains in place -- the military, top echelons of bureaucracy and the intelligence agencies. The army continues to be in the driving seat with regard to foreign and defence policy, internal security and nuclear policy.
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