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| Shock appointments |
| What India can learn from American legislative procedures |
| For those in Washington who have been practising or reporting diplomacy, the last two months have been a thriller of sorts. Much of these thrills are owed to one person: President George W. Bush?s nominee for the job of the United States of America?s... |
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| Tearing a page |
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Sir ? One could understand the Maharashtra government doing away with the dance bars in ... |
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| No entry |
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Sir ? The West Bengal forest department?s decision to ban umbrellas inside Calcutta parks will prev ... |
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| Dear departed |
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Sir ? With the death of Sunil Dutt, India has lost one of its finest actors. Dutt was also an hone ... |
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| NON-PLUSSED |
| Dismissed with a monosyllable: such has been the fate of the new European constitution. And this shattering little No comes f...|
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| ANY OTHER NAME |
| Semantic quibbles often make for good political rhetoric. The chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, an arde...|
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| With blood on their hands |
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Naxalite violence is one of the reasons given out for the lack of development in states like Chhattisgarh. Development is sai... | Read.. |
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| An English school for Katna |
| Jugnu Ramaswamy had started Jagriti School in 1990 to educate Delhi’s street children. Under the aegis of Street Survivors India... |
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| Emergency measures |
| If...the Director-General and the State Party in whose territory the event arises do not come to a consensus within 48 hours on whether the event constitutes a public health e... |
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
? BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
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