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| Intelligence and effort |
| Caste quotas contribute to the relaxation of effort in India |
| The government’s recent move to expand numerical quotas in the Central universities and institutions for teaching and research in engineering, management and medicine in favour of the other backward classes has led to much acrimony and some abusive e... |
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| NEW VISION |
| By any measure, it is Bengal’s biggest leap forward into the future. The state government’s agreement with the Salim group of...|
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| BLOOD WEDDING |
| The Lebanese village of Qana is not a place of weddings, miracles and saviours any more. It has just buried 54 civilians, inc...|
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| Aliens on home turf |
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The colonial rulers had decided to create a promenade parallel to the Hooghly during the raj. That is the history behi... | Read.. |
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| View from the underground |
| In the midst of all the groping around about who could have masterminded the July 11 blasts in Mumbai, came the written observation of the city’s police chief that the explosi... |
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| Defining conflict and justice |
| The DC Circuit ruled that Common Article 3 is inapplicable to Hamdan because the conflict with al Qaeda is international in scope and thus not a “conflict not of an internatio... |
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One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends — and if they seem okay then you’re the one!
— ANN LANDERS
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