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Corporate irresponsibility
MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES HAVE been put in the dock once again by the Centre for Science and Environment: its laboratory tests have revealed that the soft drinks marketed by these firms contain pesticide residues well in excess of European Union ...
Right to contest
IN A NARROW legal sense, there can be no objection to the Supreme Court judgment that upholds the constitutionality of the Haryana law that bars anyone having more than two children from becoming a sarpanch or a panch of a panchayat. The ...


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LAW AND SOCIETY
Democracy versus demography
By Rajeev Dhavan

To deny the right to be elected undermines Indian democracy to create two classes of people on a suspect classification based on the number of children a person has.
Putin's peace plan in peril
By Vladimir Radyuhin

A few more suicide bomb attacks can undermine the credibility of Mr. Putin's peace efforts in Chechnya.


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