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| Putin as PM is troubling for the West, but comforting for India |
| President Putin has become Prime Minister Putin, without the presidential system of government becoming a parliamentary one. This ostensible political demotion, voluntarily accepted, may seem surprising. Why should a highly popular president, who has... |
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| Darkness rules |
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Sir — Sunanda K. Datta-Ray rightly sums up the reaction of the average citizen of West Bengal to th ... |
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| Hungry hearts |
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Sir — Genetically modified crops are hazardous and pose a threat to the biodiversity of the planet ... |
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| LEAD AND DEAL |
| When time is running out, it may become difficult to buy it. Yet the United Progressive Alliance government has been trying t...|
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| DO NOT DRINK |
| The running of a university is an all-encompassing affair. Perhaps the new vice chancellor of Calcutta University had not bar...|
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| BACK TO THE BARRACK |
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Whether Musharraf’s empire is crumbling fast or not is not quite the point. What is significant is the emerging contradiction... | Read.. |
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| Street Legal |
| A case relating to the dishonour of a cheque was dismissed by the court because the complainant was absent at one of the hearings. The man approached the Punjab and Haryana H... |
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| Taking on Nargis
by coming together |
| Three weeks after a tropical cyclone hit Myanmar, the images are still vivid. Swirling waters, displaced people, houses that collapsed like matchboxes, uprooted trees and long... |
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The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she spoke, said, ‘How can I know what I think till I see what I say?” — GRAHAM WALLAS
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