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An Asian century, perhaps
THE HALF-HOUR MEETING that the Prime Minister had on Saturday with the new Chinese President, Hu Jintao, was perhaps the most significant of Mr. Vajpayee's many interactions in the former imperial capital of St. Petersburg. Their first ...
CAS and controversy
BY DRASTICALLY REDUCING custom duties on set-top-boxes, the Centre has attempted to address the main concern of consumers over the introduction of the Conditional Access System (CAS) — the high cost of these contrivances. As a result, ...


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Reforms and urban poverty
By Supriya RoyChowdhury

Several dimensions of our economic reform model reflect the impact of an abrasive marketisation policy, entirely heedless of the havoc that this process causes to the lives of those who are at the margins of the economy.
Time to strengthen the U.N. — II
By Muchkund Dubey

It is important is to build a worldwide movement for United Nations reforms with the support of almost all the countries of the developing world.


News Analysis
Blair 'cooked up' intelligence on Iraq
By Hasan Suroor

LONDON, JUNE 2.Intelligence is a bit like statistics — easy to manipulate. Just as poverty levels can be made to rise or diminish using the same set of statistics depending on who is interpreting them, the degree of threat perception can ...
OPINION
IIT graduates in the IAS
By T.K. Ramachandran

The issue of IIT graduates getting into the civil services has always attracted attention and even a bit of censure. I still remember the first few days at the LBS Academy in Mussoorie in 1991: in our batch of 106 IAS officers we were around 50 ...


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  • Yeoman service
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  • Unusual



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