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Editorials
Rollback time
BY BOWING TO pressures to abandon the budget proposal for a very modest increase in fertilizer prices, the Union Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, has had to go the way of others before him who dared to tinker with the fertilizer subsidy. Manmohan ...
Ebbing moral authority
BY CHOOSING TO drift on a course of soft options, the Kerala Government virtually set the stage for the violent culmination of the agitation organised by the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha at the Muthanga range of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary. ...


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WORLD VIEW
Is the United Nations relevant?
By C. Raja Mohan

The debate on Iraqi disarmament has masked a deeper crisis. It is about basic differences among the great powers on the nature of the new threats to international security.
Venezuelan spanner in the works
By Sudha Mahalingam

Venezuelan oil exports have virtually come to a standstill... President Bush might choose to tarry till Venezuela sorts out Hugo Chavez — if he wants to keep the cost of the war to the U.S., down.


News Analysis
Scrap the scheme
By Arvind P. Datar

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati's tape created a furore in Parliament recently. She is alleged to have asked her party MPs/MLAs to give a percentage of the "commission" they receive on work done by spending the constituency funds. ...


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  • CEC's indictments
  • Outrage in Malaysia

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