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Editorials
Launch vehicle passes test
IF EVERY STEP is a major step in space technology, India has scored a big leap with the fully successful testing of the launch vehicle that can place a satellite in the challenging geosynchronous transfer orbit. The second developmental flight of ...
Judicial accountability
IN RESPONSE TO widespread demands from within and outside the Judiciary to check the steady erosion in the balance of power in regard to selection, appointment and transfer of judges of the higher courts, besides putting in place a mechanism to ...


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MACROSCOPE
Work in a time of drought
By C. Rammanohar Reddy

It is criminal that the main rural employment programme is being used to benefit the local contractors, the landed and the politically powerful and not the rural labourers.
North Korea and pax Americana
By P. S. Suryanarayana

Beijing will be Washington's most important interlocutor in addressing the ''problem'' of North Korea.


News Analysis
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Harsh treatment
By Aruna Roy, Bela Bhatia, Jean Dreze, Nikhil Dey & Prashant Bhushan

Indian democracy today is the site of two contrary tendencies. One is a healthy trend towards higher standards of transparency and accountability in public life. A culture of public vigilance has begun to develop, and the civic credentials of ...


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