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FUNDING THE CMP
TO SPREAD THE benefits of growth more equitably and improve the quality of public services, the Common Minimum Programme promises to effect a major increase in government spending. A nation-wide employment guarantee programme, a step-up in public ...

BANISH CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
THE STATE HUMAN Rights Commission's recommendation to the Tamil Nadu Government to retain corporal punishment in the statute book is a retrograde move that contravenes its own mandate under the 1993 Act. Corporal punishment — prevalent in ...

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U.S. stifling world democracy
By George Monbiot

The U.S. is choosing to ignore the fact that it is to blame for the stifling of global democracy.

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