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| Mother of all scams |
| Each time, the Bofors story is written up as if for the first time |
| With an exquisite and perfectly understandable sense of timing, The Asian Age carried a headline on April 8: “Bofors truth points to Quattrocchi, Sonia: ‘I have seen all the documents pertaining to the Bofors-India case… Pressure from India (b... |
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| The name game |
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Sir — Changing names comes easily to the Indian politician who is always eager to go one up in the ... |
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| Today is another day |
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Sir — The third test match against Pakistan, which begins in Rawalpindi today, should turn out to b ... |
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| HOPE AND SUPPORT |
| Fear and stigma, founded on ignorance, continue to rule the lives of people with HIV/AIDS in India. But a recent initiative i...| Read.. |
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| DARK SHADOWS |
| The worst fears about the peace process in Sri Lanka have come true rather too soon. The eruption of violence between rival f...| Read.. |
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| They’ll stay back |
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The recent spate of violence in Iraq has made the handover of authority to Iraqis in June a remote possibility. But even if p... | Read.. |
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| Not a penny more |
| The mighty American dollar is going down. Compared to October 2000, the euro has gained nearly 50 per cent against the dollar. On April 8, 2004, the dollar closed at Rs 43.64 ... |
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| Second in importance |
| Prevention of Terrorism Act of 1979:
the PTA provides a broad and loose definition of “terrorist acts” to
include ordinary cases of murder, robbery, theft and the like... |
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I have desired to go/ Where springs not fail,/ To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail/ And a few lilies blow/ And I have asked to be/ Where no storms come,/ Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,/ And out of the swing of the sea. — G.M. HOPKINS
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