The Hindu : Monday, January 26, 2004

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Monday, January 26, 2004

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WOOING THE FARM ELECTORATE
FOR OVER A decade Indian agriculture has had to suffer a slowdown in the growth rate of production and yields. Poor monsoons were not the cause of this deceleration. It was instead an outcome of a decline in investment in agriculture as a ...

UNITED STATES AND CHINA
ONE IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT on the global scene has gone practically unnoticed in South Asia: a marked upswing in relations between the United States and China. There were two signals in the past month that the long era of mistrust might be at an ...

Leader Page Articles
Where is the broadband?
By V.S. Arunachalam, Raj Reddy and Rahul Tongia

The thousands of kilometres of unlit optical fibres in place can be used to overcome mass educational deprivation.

Exploiting the Big `Mo'
By Julian Coman

The John Kerry comeback in Monday's lowa caucuses has provided a sudden twist to the Democratic race for the presidential nomination.

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