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A commendable exercise
Lalu Prasad, the new management guru for turning round losing public sector undertakings, has presented his fourth consecutive no-tears Railway budget. In fact, there has been a marginal reduction in fares across the board, and a selective ...

Political tamasha
In the theatre of the absurd known as Uttar Pradesh, the oddest things happen with complete nonchalance. With elections called to the State Assembly, it ought to have been curtains for political histrionics of the kind witnessed over the past ...

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Spinning its way to conflict again
By Siddharth Varadarajan

Despite the Bush administration's hysteria, there is nothing in the Iranian nuclear programme that requires steps so drastic as sanctions and war. Dialogue without preconditions, combined with inspections, is the way to go.

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Corrections and Clarifications
The expansion of FDI in a report "FDI in retail: confusion in UPA" (February 24, 2007) was given as Foreign Directive Investment. It should have been Foreign Direct Investment. A sentence in a report "President's alternative to GDP" ...

Antarctic's secrets revealed by melting ice
By Alok Jha

Scientists research a world sealed off under the ice shelves for 12,000 years.

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"It is high time we moved from agriculture to industry"
These are challenging times forBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee, West Bengal's Chief Minister. In an interview in Kolkata, he speaks of the absence of an alternative to the industrialisation drive his government has undertaken, the opposition he faces from bo th within the ruling Left Front and outside, and the need to take the people into confidence. Excerpts:

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