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COUNTERPRODUCTIVE RESTRAINTS
A NEW SET of Government guidelines seeks to discourage Indian companies from borrowing overseas. Only top rated companies that are in a position to raise money at very competitive rates in the international markets will be allowed to do so. The ...
DOUGHTY FIGHTER AND LEADER OF MEN
WHATEVER BE THE result of the four-Test cricket series between Australia and India beginning on December 4 in Brisbane, this much is sure: it has already acquired the tag `historic', long before a single ball has been bowled or struck. The ...


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'Sharing sovereignty is hell of an enterprise': Chris Patten
AS THE European Union's Commissioner for External Relations, Chris Patten has been closely engaged with the difficult task of evolving a common foreign and security policy for the Union. Mr. Patten has served as a member of the European Commission si nce 1999, an assignment he took up after his challenging, controversial and high-profile job as the last Governor of Hong Kong before the colony was returned to China.
The former Chairman of the British Conservative Party, who was once strongly ti pped to become Prime Minister, was in Chennai for a brief stopover ahead of the E.U.-India summit in New Delhi. In a free-wheeling interview to Mukund Padmanabhan and Nirupama Subramaniam for The Hindu, Mr. Patten answered a wide range of questions a


News Analysis
Hooch tragedy, another instance of police failure?
By K.T. Sangameswaran

CHENNAI, NOV. 28.Two hooch tragedies, which claimed more than 15 lives, in the last one week have brought to the fore again the absence of adequate police supervision of illicit distillation and sale of arrack, despite the existence of a separate ...


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