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Editorials
U.N. allowed a small say
THE UNANIMITY THAT the U.N. Security Council displayed on Friday while authorising the resumption of the oil-for-food programme for Iraq must be reassuring to the international community after the tensions, controversies and bitterness of the ...
Blood on the roads
EVERY ROAD ACCIDENT in India is followed by knee-jerk reactions and accusations. Often, the tendency is to blame the man or the woman at the wheel, completely ignoring, in the bargain, the various other factors that could have contributed to the ...


Leader Page Articles
Strategy for better governance
By N. Vittal

Under our Constitution, the Judiciary interprets the law and its directives have to be carried out. This can be exploited by all concerned citizens through the PIL route.
The Judiciary and the Legislature — I
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

The boundaries of operation of the Judiciary and the Legislature must be clearly drawn so that the rights of the citizen are not drowned in confusion.


News Analysis
DIPLOMATIC NOTEBOOK
An Indo-Pak. ceasefire?
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, MARCH 30. Last week, at one of his daily briefings, the ever-certain Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defence Secretary, declared that there was no question of Washington accepting a ceasefire against Iraq amidst the on-going "Operation Iraqi ...
Can the U.N. be reunited?
By K. K. Katyal

NEW DELHI, MARCH 30. The United Nations had always suffered from internal imbalance — partly it was inherent in its structure, partly it was caused by the unipolar order after the cold war. The world body took all that in its stride. But it ...
Vaiko left to fight his own case?
By V. Jayanth

CHENNAI, MARCH 30. If the Centre's counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court in the Vaiko case is its final submission on the matter, the MDMK leader and MP may be left to fight his own legal battle in the special court trying the Prevention of ...


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  • Inter-linking of rivers



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