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    • January 22, 2021

    Honesty, transparency and not cowardice, boot-licking pave for good governance

    Welfare of people in right direction is impossible if dishonest and selfish advisors occupy the high position. They are basically curse on the system. V S Pandey Good, honest, benevolent...
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    • January 17, 2021

    Three farms laws to prove disastrous to farmers

    These farm reforms are going to cause more pain than relief to millions of poor farmers across the country. V S Pandey, Akanksha Pandey The farmers agitation is going to...
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    • urban-mirror
    • January 12, 2021

    Caste combination and not issues plays dominant role in UP elections

    M Hasan Lucknow, January 11: With forthcoming panchayat and 2022 UP assembly elections almost all political parties have resorted to sewing up winnable caste combination in the state. The issue...
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    • urban-mirror
    • January 8, 2021

    Free vaccination is fundamental right of the people

    While political row over Covid vaccination drive is unfortunate, the government of India should launch it free of cost and without further delay. V S Pandey For past several days...
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    • urban-mirror
    • January 2, 2021

    Country victim of lopsided and directionless policies

    The nation has been paying heavy prices for ill-conceived policies and lack of clarity in decision-making over the decades. The three farm laws, which are no different, also show same...
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    • urban-mirror
    • December 29, 2020

    Farmers stir: Govt evading reply to basic questions on controversial farm laws

    While farmers have genuine apprehensions over farm laws, it is paramount duty of the government to reply satisfactorily to their grievances. V S Pandey and Akanksha Pandey Farmers agitation has...
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    • urban-mirror
    • December 25, 2020

    Bridging of digital divide must to improve education sector

    Governmental slackness in filling the rural-urban gap in online education has adversely affected the students. Further delay would only worsen the situation. Er. Akanksha Pandey These are COVID times. Lives...
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    • urban-mirror
    • December 24, 2020

    Farmers Protest: MSP not just panacea, problems are manifold

    The central government should sympathetically look into the grievances of farmers to resolve them in the larger interest of the nation. V S Pandey Soon the farmers agitation is going...
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    • urban-mirror
    • December 19, 2020

    Civil services need to be above politics to protect federalism

    With the Centre and West Bengal Government heading for a show down over transfers and postings of officers of civil services it is necessary to resolve the issue within the...
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    • urban-mirror
    • December 13, 2020

    Scrap three farm laws to contain animosity with farmers

    With sheer lack of trust between the agitating farmers and the NDA government, it is advisable to shelve the controversial farms laws. V.S.Pandey Democracy is all about looking after the...
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    • urban-mirror
    • December 11, 2020

    New Parliament Complex indicates directionless priorities

    HC Pande Notwithstanding a thousand & one national development projects unable to take-off due to insufficient funding, the government has planned a spending spree to the tune of Rs.10,000 Crores...
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    • urban-mirror
    • December 4, 2020

    Farmers Agitation: piecemeal reforms unlikely to solve agriculture crisis

    With trust deficit towards leadership, half-hearted farm sector reforms are unlikely to benefit the farmers and help solve their problems V.S.Pandey Farmers agitation is hitting the headlines for past several...
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    • urban-mirror
    • November 28, 2020

    Political illiterates have failed the democracy, Nation

    If the country is to realize its unlimited potential, then time has come to embrace ‘new politics’ – a paradigm shift in the way politics is conducted in the country....
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    • urban-mirror
    • November 24, 2020

    INDIA NEEDS TO ORIENT ITS POLITICAL SYSTEM TO DELIVER ON GOVERNANCE

    The best bowling of the finest ideas is ineffective on a dead pitch. Our representatives are neither philosophers nor moralists, and can resist, in the words of Oscar Wilde, anything...
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    • November 18, 2020

    ‘Relationship reassessed’: Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia relations

    Analysts suggest Biden administration could end the near-unconditional support that Riyadh has enjoyed over the years. Abubakr Al-Shamahi US President-elect Joe Biden has made his position on Saudi Arabia and...
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    • urban-mirror
    • November 11, 2020

    People need to raise the bar for politicians

    How seriously corruption in our system has influenced our lives is an issue that has not been documented properly. VS Pandey Even as India is passing through multiple crises, the results...
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    • urban-mirror
    • November 9, 2020

    Bureaucratic overhaul needed to weed out rampant corruption in Govt

    Nitin Gadkari’s ire against NHAI officers is just tip of iceberg V S Pandey The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari recently blasted the bureaucrats of National...
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    • urban-mirror
    • October 3, 2020

    Economic uncertainty looms after Kuwaiti emir’s death

    Kuwait faces a wave of bankruptcies as the COVID-19 crisis wreaks havoc on the emirate’s economy, which is in desperate need of reform. Al-Monitor Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber...
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    America Needs to Lock Down Again: The Only Way to Slow the Coronavirus Until the Arrival of a Vaccine

    By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker (Foreign Affairs) In our essay “Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold,” for the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, we described the struggle against COVID-19...
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    • urban-mirror
    • October 2, 2020

    On Iran, the Next Administration Must Break With the Past

    Neither Pressure Nor a Narrow Nuclear Deal Can Succeed on Its Own By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Ilan Goldenberg, and Kaleigh Thomas (Foreign Affairs) Only nine months ago, the United States...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 30, 2020

    The end of the Saudi era: Saudi power is on a decline and not even Israel can change that

    Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera) As we approach the second anniversary of the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia continues its retreat, losing direction and influence in the...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 28, 2020

    India needed labour law reform. Now implement them

    The labour reform bills that replace archaic labour laws with codes have been pending for a long time. V S Pandey Nobel laureate Douglass North wrote that institutions are made...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 25, 2020

    The Endless Fantasy of American Power : Neither Trump Nor Biden Aims to Demilitarize Foreign Policy

    ANDREW BACEVICH In this year’s presidential election campaign, candidates have largely sidestepped the role of armed force as an instrument of U.S. policy. The United States remains the world’s preeminent...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 24, 2020

    The farm reforms are good but there are other problems as well

    The three farm reform bills are structured on the recommendations of a state agriculture ministers panel that submitted its report in 2013 V S Pandey Farm sector reforms such as...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 17, 2020

    An agenda for India’s New Deal to fix the Covid-infected economy

    The coronavirus pandemic has given us an opportunity to think afresh and take some major steps to turn the tide. V S Pandey India’s battle with coronavirus is on, with...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 20, 2019

    India’s children under pressure

    India has been ranked at 103 out of 119 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2018 with hunger level in the country categorised as serious. Unfortunately, the country’s ranking has...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 19, 2019

    Peaceful solution in sight

    Long cherished hopes of judicial settlement of the decades-old vexed Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute now appears in sight, as the Supreme Court has fixed October 18 deadline for both parties to...
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    • urban-mirror
    • September 18, 2019

    NRC’s faulty approach

    Even as Assam continues to struggle with finalising and updating National Register of Citizens (NRC) where 1.9 million residents have been excluded, various BJP-led state governments are toying with the...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • July 7, 2019

    The business of education

    Dr HC Pande Lucknow: The U.P. Government has just come out with a proposed umbrella act to ensure that the standards of higher education are not diluted with the expansion...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • June 19, 2019

    Nehru’s Cabinet was no place for yes men

    At the apex of his political career, Nehru chose to induct two bitter critics of the Congress into his cabinet. And even if it were Gandhi’s call, it was an...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • May 26, 2019

    Muslim reconciliation unlikely without Ayodhya Temple construction

    M Hasan Lucknow, May 26: The newly appointed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for carrying the Muslim minority together is unlikely to be materialised without satisfactory resolution to the Ayodhya...
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    • urban-mirror
    • May 21, 2019

    The rising wave of radicalism threatens the stability of Central Asian states

    By Rajan Kumar As Sri Lanka endeavours to overcome the enormity of the Islamic State (IS) coordinated terrorist attack which killed 253 people last month, there are reasons for the...
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    • urban-mirror

    Millions to be affected as Google restricts Huawei’s use of Android after Trump blacklist

    Alphabet Inc's Google has barred phone maker Huawei from some updates to the Android operating system, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the US government has sought...
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    • urban-mirror
    • May 12, 2019

    Iran seeks broader defence cooperation with Russia amid US pressure

    Alireza Noori (al-monitor) May 10 Amid rising US pressure, Iran and Russia appear to be gearing toward forging closer military and defence ties. Last week, the commander of the regular...
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    • urban-mirror
    • March 24, 2019

    Participate or perish!

    Dr HC Pande On 26th January,1950 the people of India took a vow,that for better or worse,it is democracy or nothing.Now in the 72nd year of existence as a democracy,...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • March 22, 2019

    The Politician….make-up and reality

    Dr H C Pande With the general elections having been announced,the political haute-couture designer fraternity is having a field day,and,their order-books are over flowing.The Beautician,the Ghost-writer,and,the Ideology Bar-tender,are having whale...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • March 19, 2019

    The pitiable state of democracy in India

    Dr HC Pande It is said that the strength of democracy is the strength of the small man.In India,in its democratic scheme of governance,the small man is hugely conspicuous by...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • August 7, 2018

    Endless wait for righteous leadership

    Smita Pandey Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. While Naom Chomsky, the renowned  political thinker articulated the spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, Indian leaders...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • June 28, 2018

    India topping in bestiality against women

    Dr. Smita Pandey Our Constitution guarantees us  the Right to Equality which encompasses every conceivable freedom that women can aspire for the advancement and fulfilment of their immense potential. Our...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • June 26, 2018

    In-laws and Outlaws

    Dr HC Pande Plato has stated to the effect that if the people are good then no laws are needed, but if they are not, no laws will suffice. However,...
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    • urban-mirror
    • June 24, 2018

    Honesty, fairness, competence vital to make ailing India fit

    (Yoga Day Special)   Dr. Smita Pandey   International Yoga Day was celebrated with much fanfare on May 21. Our much acclaimed leaders literally walked the talk and demonstrated intricate...
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    • urban-mirror
    • June 19, 2018

    Why Iran won’t leave Syria just yet

    Beirut: Another layer in the battle for Syria has been evident for years yet has only now come to the world’s attention. To Iran and Israel, this battle lies at the...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • June 9, 2018

    Indians long wait at US doorsteps: a shattered dream

    Dr. Smita Pandey Indians account for more than three-fourths or 75 per cent of those highly-skilled professionals waiting in queue to obtain legal permanent residence status in the US, popularly...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • June 2, 2018

    India awaits freedom from unethical, immoral and corrupt politics

    Dr Smita Pandey Politics has become a byword for venality. Every party is unethical in its trajectory, looting and duping the gullible hapless public and enriching itself constantly. Apna vikas...
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  • Articles
    • urban-mirror
    • May 27, 2018

    Thoughtless tinkering with Indian civil services recruitment

    VS Pandey (Ex-IAS) Former Secretary Government of India Recently newspapers have reported that central government is mulling bringing about changes in the process of allocation of services and the state...
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    • urban-mirror
    • May 24, 2018

    Iraq elections: Will Sadr seek a new beginning with Turkey?

    Ankara : Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s coalition scored major points in the recent parliamentary elections with Sadr’s positions against virulent influence peddling and the presence of foreign military forces...
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    • urban-mirror
    • May 19, 2018

    Farce of rural development in UP: tale of woes of Faizabad villages

    Dr. Smita Pandey The pictures exemplify the horrific reality in the village Teekar Zaraayal khurd, in tehsil Rudauli, Faizabad. This typical Indian village is not depicting colonial exploitation. It is...
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    • urban-mirror
    • April 30, 2018

    Divisive agenda of Governance

    Unity in Diversity is our national heritage.It  is enshrined in our Constitution also.However,politics continues to assault it relentlessly.Currently ,the most savage manifestations of this assault are defining governance,or rather,absence of...
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    • urban-mirror
    • April 29, 2018

    Make those at the top accountable

    Make those at the top accountableV.S.Pandey                                                                                                                       Former Secretary,Government  of India . Last week former Secretary , Coal, Government of India ,  Mr H.C.Gupta was convicted by the CBI court...
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