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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Two stark options |
| Reservations in Indian higher education reconsidered |
| The bill that will implement reservation of seats in government-aided educational institutions for the other backward castes has finally been placed before parliament. While there is still some uncertainty about the precise nature of the final piece ... | Read.. |
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| Lost harmony |
| Sir — Swapan Dasgupta’s article, “Difficult words” (Aug 25), looks into the objections raised, main ... | Read.. |
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| Guarding the guards |
| Sir — The report, “Law on way to make police humane”(Aug 31), should give Calcuttans, who have desp ... | Read.. |
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| Spare the child |
| Sir — Teachers, the once-revered preceptors, are increasingly coming to resemble criminals, as the ... | Read.. |
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| NO IMPEDIMENTS |
| Capital account convertibility is no longer the buzzword it used to be. In the early Nineties, during the heyday of the Washi...| Read.. |
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| VANISHING ACT |
| It must be a bizarre government whose ministers go “missing” in dubious action. The story of three ministers in the Jharkhand...| Read.. |
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| Time to Rebuild Lives |
| Delhi is once again in the throes of having its shops and commercial establishments in residential areas and other illegal op... | Read.. |
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| The old ardour changeth |
| Coming in the wake of the Mumbai bomb blasts, the continuing interest in Pakistan’s Balochistan crisis seems to have tapped into a growing aggressive mood at home. For the fir... | Read.. |
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| Beyond traditional resources |
| Regarding disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive waste, noteworthy developments took place in 2005 in Belgium, Hungary and the Republic of Korea. In Belgium, at le... | Read.. |
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| The difference between being a director and being an actor is the difference between being the carpenter banging the nails into the wood, and being the piece of wood the nails are being banged into. — SEAN PENN |
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