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| Going bottoms up |
| A state budget must analyse the efficiencies of expenditure |
| State government budgets must say what outcomes they expect to achieve. Any analysis of state finances must similarly consider the efficiency of the expenditures in achieving desired social and economic objectives.... |
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| Their god, our god |
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Sir — Last Friday was indeed a special day, not only for the pious but also for those who are not s ... |
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Sir — Tourists and VIPs flock to Santiniketan around the Basantotsab week. This has become a menace ... |
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| SHARE TROUBLE |
| There are shareholders, and there are income-taxpayers. The two are not the same. A pensioner may hold a few shares to supple...|
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| WHAT’S SPECIAL? |
| It is difficult not to hear a disproportionate emphasis in West Bengal’s IAS Officers’ Association insisting that ‘non-Bengal...|
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| A Future Never To Happen |
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It is five years since President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq (March 20). Can Iraq emerge from this ordeal as... | Read.. |
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Get your room full of good air, then shut up the windows and keep it. It will keep for years. Anyway, don’t keep using your lungs all the time. Let them rest.
— STEPHEN BUTLER LEACOCK
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