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The Guwahati conclave
IT WAS A conclave of Chief Ministers who belonged to parties opposed to the Congress, that was in power in the early 1980s, convened by the then Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, in Srinagar that brought federal principles to ...
Accumulating reserves
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT aspect of India's external sector is not the one that is often discussed, the fluctuations in the rupee-dollar exchange rate. Rather, the focus of attention has shifted to a development which, by indirectly checking rupee ...


Leader Page Articles
Change the mindset
By L.C. Jain

The issue is not as transitory as the change of a Narendra Modi... Political governance must be made accountable to the people at the bottom via self-government institutions at every rural and urban location.
India's unfinished reform agenda — II
By Nirupam Bajpai

The State Governments need to adopt a strategy for rural India for providing reliable infrastructure at commercial prices rather than for free.


News Analysis
FINLAND TODAY - I
The Finns and European Union
By K. K. Katyal

HELSINKI, APRIL 17.A brief five-day visit to Finland (at the invitation of its Foreign Ministry) is enough to bring out clearly the importance attached by it to its membership of the European Union. In informal conversations, leading figures of ...


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