Indian missile success sparks euphoria
India's pride at the successful test of a
long-range, nuclear-capable missile hides weaknesses in strategic
military planning that undermine its global power aspirations,
analysts say. Thursday's launch of the Agni V, which has a range of
5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles) and can carry a one-tonne nuclear
payload,
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UNP at crossroads
Serious doubts emerged this week as to whether
the major opposition United National Party (UNP) would be able to
hold its official May Day rally. It had planned to hold its annual
show in Jaffna,
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A response to ‘Hindu’ Opinion:
Better judgment needed on learning from Geneva
I have known Nirupama Subramaniam to be an
observant journalist during here six years or more posting in Sri
Lanka, first as a visiting journalist for ‘India Today’, later as
correspondent for the ‘Indian Express’ and finally for the ‘Hindu’,
to which she wrote the recent Lead Opinion (April 7) - ‘Lessons to
learn from Geneva’,
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Allama Iqbal: religion as refutation of mysticism
“Faith is not merely a passive belief in one or
more proposition of a certain kind; it is living assurance begotten
of a rare experience. Strong personalities along are capable of
rising to this experience” Iqbal (Reconstruction P. 109).
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