The Hindu : Tuesday, August 19, 2003

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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

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Congress and dissent
THERE COULD BE two explanations for the decision of the veteran Maharashtra Congressmen, Vasant Sathe and N.K.P. Salve, to form a new party, the Vidarbha Rajya Nirman Congress (VRNC). The first, and less flattering one, is that the decision was ...

The challenge of diabetes
DIABETES IS A major public health concern as more and more people are falling prey to the disease in both the developed and the developing world. The World Health Organisation estimates the number of diabetics in India today at 30 million ...

Leader Page Articles
Crimes against Parliament
By Pran Chopra

What seems likely at the moment is that proper parliamentary procedures, evolved over decades, will go the way many other institutions have.

Healthcare for the poor
By Kalpana Sharma

The public sector health set-up remains practically the only real option for the poor.

News Analysis
PAKISTAN DIARY - II
A number of positives
By K.K. Katyal

Abid and Abida narrate the story of their stay in Washington in the early 1990s — how they established a feeling of togetherness, a good working relationship and, thereby, confused the United States administration. Abid Hussain, an ...

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