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Rape in the capital
THE HORRIFYING RAPE of a Swiss Embassy official, after two men forced their way into her car, is the most recent reminder of how notoriously unsafe the capital is for women. This outrageous incident, which has already focussed international media ...
China's big leap in space
WITH THE LAUNCH of its first "yuhang yuan" (or space traveller), China has joined Russia and the United States as elite, space-faring nations of the world, becoming the first developing country to achieve this distinction. Rocketry was conceived ...


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LAW AND SOCIETY
Treaties and Cancun
By Rajeev Dhavan

In India, a treaty should be circulated before it is signed with information being made available to the people who, along with the States, should be widely consulted.
Farm sector woes
By Bhanu Pratap Singh

The decline in agricultural growth and increase in rural poverty have been due to the long persisting government indifference towards the farm sector.


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