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| Importing trouble |
| Trade agreements and national self-interest must be balanced |
| International agreements are usually sacred; they have to be followed. If they are violated, the violating country loses credibility and may find it difficult to have other dealings with the international community. But many times, nations have to pr... |
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| Rebels without a cause |
| Sir — It is shocking to learn
that one of India’s most upright and respectable prime ministers was greeted
with slogans like “Manmohan murdabaad” during his visit to Jawaharlal
Nehru University (“School of protest revives professor in PM”, Nov 15).
That a large section of JNU students have left leanings is well-known. The prime
minister, during his speech, warned against the “temple of learning”
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| DOUBLE DEAL |
| Death may be a leveller but disease certainly is not. Not in India at least. It has taken a searing article by two Indian doc...|
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| HANDLE WITH CARE |
| If a despotic monarch is bad for democracy, anarchists could be even more so. The pact between the Maoists and the democratic...|
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| A tale of twin planets |
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?Essentially, we want to know why Venus went bad,? said David Southwood, head of science at the European Space Agency. ?Earth... | Read.. |
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| Nehru?s lessons for Manmohan |
| Virtually every Naga knows the story of their elders who went to Gandhi in July 1947, demanding independence. Gandhi apparently told that he believed that the Naga Hills belon... |
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| Give peace a few more chances |
| Set a schedule for achieving the aid to gross national income ratio of 0.7 per cent by 2015: Donors should set budget commitments at a minimum level of 0.5 per cent for 2010. ... |
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| The inscrutabilityof the East
is, indeed, I believe, a myth...The ordinary inhabitant is incomprehensible merely
to people who never trouble to have anything much to do with them. ? FREYA STARK
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