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| Beyond catchy phrases |
| The UPA’s ambitious five-year agenda |
| Manmohan Singh and the United Progressive Alliance seem to have given their second innings a Sehwag-like start. Pratibha Patil’s address to the Lok Sabha lays down an extremely impressive and ambitious agenda for the next five years, even setting tar... |
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| Never too late |
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Sir — The editorial, “Govern or go” (June 19), succinctly captures the dilemma of the Left Front go ... |
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| Same old stories |
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Sir — The recession in the economy has made government jobs the most lucrative ones in the market. ... |
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| ODD NUMBERS |
| Nothing short of fresh elections, conducted with a new set of rules and independent monitoring, can resolve the crisis in Ira...|
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| LESS, NOT MORE |
| The bureaucracy in India usually creates more problems than it solves. It is curious, therefore, that Assam’s chief minister,...|
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| Far from a pretty picture |
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Recent images showed Congress leaders of yore, who are not elected but hold many key posts in the party, seated on the ground... | Read.. |
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| The price of forgetting |
| When I met Namita Murmu in Mallickpur in Hooghly’s Dhanekhali block to enquire about the Janani Suraksha Yojana, she began to tell me the story of the death of her child. Afte... |
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| No forms to fill and nothing to get |
| For those who earn less than Rs 500, especially those who travel daily because they live in the village and work in the city, the Union railways minister has announced a schem... |
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Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. — THOMAS CARLYLE
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