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BEHIND BHUJBAL'S DEPARTURE
IT WAS NO accident that it was the Nationalist Congress Party president, Sharad Pawar, who announced that his controversial man in the Congress-NCP coalition Government in Maharashtra, Chhagan Bhujbal, was stepping down. As a man well versed in ...
LIBYA'S PRUDENT DECISION
LIBYA'S DECISION TO dismantle its weapons of mass destruction programme and throw open all related facilities to full scope inspections has sharpened the debate on whether force or persuasion is more effective in solving global problems. The ...


Leader Page Articles
Banning the headscarf
By Vaiju Naravane

Backers of the ban on headscarves in schools say they are defending the principles on which French society has been founded.
Discredited honours?
By Hasan Suroor

The biggest problem with the system, according to its critics, is that it encourages snobbery and seeks to create an artificial elite.


News Analysis
FRONTIER TALES
A violent road to Lumbini
By C. Raja Mohan

SONAULI, DEC. 24.On the border with Nepal at this small town in Uttar Pradesh, you are only a few kilometres away from Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama, the Buddha, in the ancient kingdom of Kapilavatsu. Buddha's teachings on dharma and ...
A story of factional oneupmanship
By K.K. Katyal

In the end, it was to be a mega non-event — the talk of "resignation" by the central office-bearers of the Congress and the members of the Congress Working Committee. It turned out to be a story of factional oneupmanship, and of lessons ...


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  • Underrated?
  • DMK's pullout
  • Unnecessary
  • `Coordination' at work
  • The apex court
  • Not a good idea
  • Yeomen service
  • On Rajaji



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