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A bold initiative
THE CABINET COMMITTEE on Security has displayed boldness and creativity in crafting a new package of proposals for Pakistan to consider. This is very much part of the Vajpayee Government's policy of engaging actively with Pakistan and promoting ...
Japan rising?
AFTER 12 YEARS of economic stagnation, Japan is showing signs of coming out of its slump. During the first six months of 2003, the economy has grown, in real terms, at an annualised rate of 3.9 per cent. This is higher than the GDP growth of ...


Leader Page Articles
Warming relations?
By Pratap Bhanu Mehta

We need a political culture in both India and Pakistan that is prepared to pay a short run price for a new architecture for the subcontinent.
Preparing for the inflow
By V. Jayanth

If the open skies policy takes off, facilities at airports and the tourism infrastructure will have to be enhanced to deal with the rise in passenger arrivals.


News Analysis
A unified approach to J&K
By Harish Khare

NEW DELHI, OCT. 23.The Vajpayee Government's decision to pitchfork the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, into formal dialogue with the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference, the separatist conglomerate, imposes a kind of order on the Centre's efforts ...
A violent police culture
By Anjali Mody

NEW DELHI. OCT. 23. The death in police custody of a 32-year-old telephone-booth operator, Sushil Kumar, is symptomatic of the violence that is part of the work culture of the police in the Capital, say human rights groups. Kumar's death on ...
Will amendment set free Vaiko?
By V.Jayanth

CHENNAI, OCT. 23. The Union Cabinet's decision to amend the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act has brought some cheer to the Tamil Nadu allies of the National Democratic Alliance — the PMK and the MDMK in particular. The NDA's ...


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