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| A fifty-fifty budget |
| A reform bias, and some dodgy numbers |
| This is the second time that Palaniappan Chidambar- am has had to present a Union budget with barely forty days of preparation. That’s akin to taking the final chartered accountancy exam with just a fortnight’s swotting. If you do that, then chances ... |
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| Made in Bihar |
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Sir — The railway budget presented by the railways minister, Laloo Prasad Yadav, was just a populi ... |
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| SAVAGE CITY |
| It does not require a lurid imagination to think of Calcutta as a necropolis. An efficient machinery for killing people quick...| Read.. |
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| NOT BY TRUTH ALONE |
| Like grace, or justice, barbarism
finds its own symbols. The devastation of Iraq has thrown up many such, but the
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| Epidemics
are useful |
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Only months after he was elected governor of the predominantly Muslim state, Ibrahim Shekarau suspended all vaccinations agai... | Read.. |
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| Under the circumstances |
| This budget was going to be a difficult one to formulate, given the noises coming from certain parties supporting the government and the need to placate the old socialist lobb... |
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| The biggest killer of them all |
| Every day around the world, almost 16,000 people die from all types of injuries. Injuries represent 12 per cent of the global burden of disease, the third most important cause... |
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Let me assert my belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. — F.D. ROOSEVELT
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