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Clearance and the Code
The decision was right but the process by which it was arrived at was hugely flawed. The Da Vinci Code has been cleared, as it deserves to be, without cuts. But the Information and Broadcasting Ministry made a mockery of procedure by first ...

Market mayhem and clueless investors
Even by the recent standards of stock market behaviour, this week's movements in the benchmark indices can only be called, for want of a better expression, extreme. On Monday, May 15, the Sensex, continuing a weak trend of the previous week ...

Corrections and clarifications
A reader has objected to the catchline ("The juggernaut rolls on") of the photograph that appeared on May 19, 2006, page one. It showed West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi greeting West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after he ...

Leader Page Articles
Iran-U.S. tussle fuels anxieties in oil heartland
By Atul Aneja

While their dependence on the U.S. is extensive, the GCC countries are in no position to adopt a confrontational posturevis-à-visIran.

News Analysis
Verify, but trust, is the best formula for Siachen pullout
By Siddharth Varadarajan

In the absence of trust, authenticating existing ground positions offers India no greater diplomatic or military protection than a well-demarcated zone of mutual disengagement.

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"Even in a running race, the handicapped are given concessions"
Thanks to Tamil Nadu's longstanding reservation policies, the backward and the most backward classes have progressed a good deal in education and jobs. "What is wrong if we desire that the situation that prevails in Tamil Nadu should be there all over the country?"

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