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Editorials
Travesty of the budget
WITH THE NATIONAL Executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party issuing a diktat to the Union Finance Minister, Yashwant Sinha, the budget for 2002-03 is more or less in shreds. Fiscal consolidation was the avowed objective of the budget, but it is the ...
Countering a coup
THE TYRANNY OF geography has ensured that an unfolding revolution in Latin America goes unnoticed in India. The attempt to remove a democratically elected President through sponsored streets riots and acts of rebellion in Venezuela has been ...


Leader Page Articles
LAW AND SOCIETY
The Gujarat imbroglio
By Rajeev Dhavan

We have to turn to the President himself. Under Article 78, he has the right to call for reports and examine issues to advise, encourage and warn his own advisor, the Prime Minister.
Tackling judicial arrears
By T. K. Viswanathan

The full potential of information technology applications in the administration of justice has not been realised.


News Analysis
FINLAND TODAY - II
Finding stability in coalitions
By K.K. Katyal

HELSINKI, APRIL 18: Come to think of it, Finland has most of the time been ruled by coalitions. Highly surprising to us in India, used to single-party governments for decades. And Finland has made a reasonably good job of the participatory system ...


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  • Arresting LTTE chief
  • Finding the truth
  • An earlier riot
  • The human bomb
  • Tell the full story
  • Visa restriction

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