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| For women, the NREGA would bring important social gains |
| Not being an expert on the subject and too lazy to read all the fine print, I do not know the exact allocations under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act this year. But I gather the money has been cut down, largely because the ... |
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Sir Pakistan has decided to pay its respects to the martyred heroes of the freedom struggle who a ... |
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Sir The marriage laws (amendment) bill 2010 states that women can now have the right to oppose a ... |
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| THE NEXT SOP |
| For some years, it looked as if the Bharatiya Janata Party had an unfair advantage over the Congress. Advocacy of Hindutva...|
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| POOR RECORD |
| Uneven economic development in different regions of India is only partially a matter of history. It has much to do with the l...|
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| For the fear of a language |
| March 3 seems to be a fated date for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. On this date, in a gap of two years, two of its students committed suicide Balmukund Bharti... |
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| Watch the minds fill up with snow |
| The student of a state government school in the interiors of Howrah has stopped attending classes because, self-confessedly, he does not like English. It is not that he is wea... |
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| English as a language may not be native to India, but there are certainly more English speakers in India than in Great Britain. China in the 1990s launched a series of program... |
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Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP
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