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| The economic outlook |
| Dalal Street should not hope for too much in the short run |
| Stock markets all over the world have been fluctuating a great deal during the course of the last month or so. There was much recent euphoria that the global economy was slowly but surely climbing out of the worldwide recession. But this optimism see... |
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| Freedom song |
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Sir — The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has taken a rather narrow view of things by declaring that Muslims ca ... |
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| High price |
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Sir — The staggering amount of money involved in the scam involving the Jharkhand chief minister, M ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — The Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh should be considered as the monk’s personal matte ... |
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| CAST OF POLITICS |
| Election results from Uttar Pradesh, often considered the true mirror of Indian politics, show that the Samajwadi Party is on...|
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| POOR RECORD |
| It takes quite a bit to fall below Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Pakistan in public health management. But India has managed to put in that extra bit...|
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| Living under a shadow |
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They made headlines around the world, but the place most affected — Urumqi — learnt of the executions of nine persons for the... | Read.. |
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| Eat, drink and be many |
| Twenty-one-year-old Robert is an apprentice at a Chinese restaurant in Tangra. It is run by his parents and was started about 35 years ago by his grandfather, who came to Calc... |
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| Sipping on time |
| Paramount Sherbet on Bankim Chatterjee Street looks as if it has always been there. Tucked away between rows of dingy shops selling everything from books to dim-toas... |
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| Flurys, old into new |
| The new Flurys, with its fake-French allure, mind-numbing music and dirty toilets, makes me angry. Flurys used to be a character, but is now just a restaurant. All cities need... |
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
— DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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