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Attack on personal freedom
THE WAY THE Jayalalithaa regime in Tamil Nadu pushed through the Bill banning `forcible' conversions (in the place of the Ordinance promulgated on October 5), despite the groundswell of opposition that the patently regressive and anti-minority ...
Agenda for a finance commission
THE FINANCE COMMISSION, the statutory body which every five years recommends the pattern of tax devolution and other resource transfers between the Centre and the States, has always had to walk a tightrope between competing pressures from the ...


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Dealing with the neighbourhood
By K. K. Katyal

To swear by the philosophy of SAARC and yet to be lukewarm to the idea of top-level meetings will not help India.
Communism — Chinese style
By M.V. Rappai

The immediate concern of the various groups with, or seeking, a share in power in China will be to keep the ongoing economic reforms on track.


News Analysis
FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION - II
Smuggling of people well-entrenched
By Vaiju Naravane

Italian police pulled 18-year old Eri Asan Amin, more dead than alive, out of a locked and sealed sea container that had been loaded onto a truck en route to its final destination. The driver made a rest stopped in Avellino, a modest suburb of ...


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