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Editorials
Cancellation and controversy
IT OUGHT TO have been clear from the very beginning that cancellation was hardly the appropriate way of dealing with the string of dubious allotments of gas stations, LPG agencies and kerosene oil outlets. It has resulted in exactly what was both ...
The cloud over Asia
THE PRELIMINARY FINDINGS of the United Nations-sponsored study of the Asian haze — easily the most extensive inquiry conducted into this phenomenon — are truly alarming. A report based on the five-year research study, which was ...


Leader Page Articles
MACROSCOPE
Droughts and the economy
By C. Rammanohar Reddy

A severe drought affects the economy in innumerable ways, its impact stretching well beyond rural India.
The spectre of AIDS
By N. Gopal Raj

An increase of a mere 0.1 per cent in the prevalence rate in India means half a million more people have fallen prey to AIDS.


News Analysis
Unequal friends
By M.R. Srinivasan

The organisers of a conference on `Science, sustainability and security' held in California invited me to attend it. All arrangements were made in early August to travel to the United States for this purpose. Even after taking three full days ...
Merger reduces AIADMK options
By Suresh Nambath

CHENNAI, AUG. 16. After the Congress-TMC merger, the AIADMK appears to have discounted the Congress from its list of potential allies for the next Lok Sabha election. As it is keen on contesting a majority of the 39 seats at stake in the State, ...


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  • A mute witness
  • State's duty
  • Narayanan's agony
  • Disturbing trend
  • Wasteful
  • Musharraf's poll

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