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Principled opposition
THE PRINCIPLED POSITION taken by France and Germany to oppose the initiation of military action against Iraq should go a long way to rein in a U.S. administration that has been steadily spiking up its war rhetoric. By adopting this stance, the ...
Murder most foul
ANIMALS AND BIRDS continue to be butchered despite a tough law to protect them. If the chiru is hunted down for its coat that goes into weaving shawls, the tiger is killed primarily for its organs, believed to have aphrodisiac value, and the ...


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LAW AND SOCIETY
Activist Governors
By Rajeev Dhavan

The only kind of activism that a Governor is entitled to is a neutral constitutional activism of doing his job without fear or favour.
Why attack the food subsidy?
By Mihir Shah

If more food were to be sold through the PDS, the burden of food subsidy could even go down because the Government would have to spend less on storing grain.


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