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| An unsettling end |
| The UPA’s Pakistan policy is disastrously confused |
| Pervez Musharraf took the inevitable decision to step down as Pakistan’s president on the very day that his brother-officer-turned-president, General Zia-ul- Haq, was killed 20 years ago in a mysterious plane crash, which ended one of the darkest cha... |
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| Valley of fear |
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Sir — The outbreak of violence in Jammu was not just motivated by the land row, but by the utter n ... |
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| GENERAL’S EXIT |
| It took eight days of threatening, and much persuasion, for Pakistan to finally see the back of its thoroughly discredited pr...|
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| EVIDENTLY |
| Police ‘breakthroughs’ with home-grown terrorism seem to be the most exciting flavour of the month in Gujarat. A pan-Indian n...|
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| All that twaddle |
I warmly admire the late, great Dr Samuel Johnson, author of the famous 18th-century dictionary. In the Nineties, when I wrot... | Read.. |
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| Acid test |
| A new law to deal with the growing incidence of acid attacks on women is on the anvil. But unless the sale of acids is regulated, it may have no impact, argues Shabina Akhtar... | Read.. |
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| Street Legal |
| A clerk-cum-typist at a remand home was dismissed from service due to alleged misconduct. He approached the Labour Court. Later the Bombay High Court held that a remand home... | Read.. |
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‘There’s been an accident,’ they said,/ ‘Your servant’s cut in half; he’s dead!’/ ‘Indeed!’ said Mr Jones, ‘and please,/ Send me the half that’s got my keys.’
— HARRY GRAHAM
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