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| British politicians are currently shouting into empty rooms |
| The prime minister used his keynote speech to the trades union conference last week to plaster over damaging treasury leaks on public-spending cuts and the cracks in government policy with pointless attacks on the Opposition. With his opinion poll ra... |
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| Strong measures |
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Sir — In “Freshening up” (Sept 15), Bhaskar Dutta has rightly stated that “the global financial sys ... |
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Sir — The way bureaucrats are taking pay hikes in these difficult times is really shameful and immo ... |
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| Risky humour |
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Sir — It appears that the most serious issue before the United Progressive Alliance government at t ... |
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| BAD FORM |
| One of the unwritten rules of democracy is that being minister places a person above the pettiness of party politics. A minis...|
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| SEEDS OF DOUBT |
| Months after the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, unveiled his AfPak policy amid much fanfare, he was...|
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| A New Story In Numbers |
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The middleman has always been the bane of any society. Acting as a facilitator or a go-between, the middleman is always the w... | Read.. |
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| Protecting the beautiful and endangered creatures |
| “They’re just about 50 metres away, let’s go quietly,” whispered my colleague as we peered through the dense foliage of the forest. Earlier that morning, rain had driven away the summer heat, but it was still humid and sweaty... |
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river/ Is a strong brown god — sullen, untamed and intractable.
— T.S. ELIOT
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