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The road to reconciliation
AS INDIA AND Pakistan set out again on the arduous path of rebuilding mutual trust and reconciliation, there are early signs of the long-sought thaw in bilateral relations. The Pakistani Prime Minister's telephone call in response to Mr. ...
A new date for VAT
IT ONLY NEEDS an official announcement to further postpone the introduction of the VAT regime beyond June 1, the last agreed date in its chequered history. On April 1, at the start of the new financial year, the new tax regime was to have been ...


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The U.N. and post-war Iraq
By V. S. Mani

The U.N. should lift sanctions only after a genuine Iraqi Government is put in place with full control over the country's resources.
A 'Big Mac' vision of the world
By Hasan Suroor

What McDonald has done for American junk-food abroad, the new imperium might end up doing to promote U.S. political dominance by imposing a uniform style of governance on the world.


News Analysis
Victory against the GE goliath
By Vandana Shiva

On 25th April 2003, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee rejected a proposal to commercialise Bt cotton in Punjab and other northern States. The rejection has come in the wake of the Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology's ...


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