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A striking verdict
IT WAS ALWAYS likely that the Jammu and Kashmir election would throw up a hung Assembly, but few people — if any — could have predicted it would be hung in such an unexpected and astonishing fashion. Above everything else, the results ...
Flawed policy
IN TYPICAL MINISTERIAL fashion, the Group of Ministers (GoM) that was asked to prepare a new fertilizer policy has come out with a draft that puts the difficult issue of urea pricing on the backburner. A policy that does not deal with the subsidy ...


Leader Page Articles
U.S., Iraq and the U.N.
By Chinmaya R.Gharekhan

Saddam Hussein miscalculated in 1990. If the present President Bush makes his own calculations and decides on an invasion, he will surely have to be prepared for the consequences.
Scientific misconduct
By N. Gopal Raj

Not only do such accusations rarely get raised in India, scientific misconduct itself has not been properly defined in legal terms and a statutory mechanism to deal with cases is lacking.


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JP: the prophet of people's power
By Sudhanshu Ranjan

October 11, 2002, marks the 100th birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly called JP, who is described as the second Gandhi for liberating people from the tyranny of their own government. A hero of the 1942 Quit India movement, JP ...


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  • Plan judiciously
  • Railways liable?
  • Conversions not forced
  • NCERT's credibility
  • Needed restraint

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