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Financing infrastructure
The Union Cabinet's decision to set up a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to help finance mega infrastructure projects in the country has come not a day too soon. Given the steady growth in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the past few years, ...

Animal experiments, with safeguards
By suggesting a relaxation of norms for clearance of animal experiments, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has brought into focus an issue that has been dogging pharmaceutical companies and other institutions that use animals for scientific research. ...

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In Sri Lanka, dynasty at the crossroads
By Nirupama Subramanian

It is a delicious twist that a Bandaranaike comeback to the centre-stage of politics could now depend on the victory of arch-enemy Wickremesinghe.

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A challenge in technical education
By V. Jayanth

A majority of the engineering colleges in the southern States are said to be facing the problem of chronic shortage of qualified staff to head departments and occupy the professorial chairs.

The trouble with haphazard mining
By Sunny Sebastian

Hillocks are being flattened in the Aravalis in Rajasthan in the quest for marble.

U.S. military action on Syria will backfire
By Jonathan Steele

America wants to change the Damascus regime's foreign policy.

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