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Promises in Peril

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s meteoric rise to the presidency in Sri Lanka has been followed by a sobering realisation: the promises made during a campaign in the heat of a national crisis are far easier to make than to keep.

IMF seeks opening of 141 new peaks in Ladakh

Honorary Secretary, IMF, Colonel Vijay Singh called on the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, RK Mathur and briefed him about the functioning of the organisation in Ladakh, including its regulatory functions for foreign and Indian mountaineers and trekkers interested in expeditions.

The 14-year gap

Political consensus has not developed yet on the issues relating to land acquisition and labour laws. Resistance of different groups against land acquisition for open cast coal mine at Deucha-Panchami near Sainthia in Bengal is indicative of the fact that we have not moved an inch from the days of the Singur agitation when it comes to the issue of land acquisition. Various stakeholders are still opposed to the new labour laws