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LEARNING FROM HEART-BREAKING TRAGEDY
THE DEATH OF 90 primary school children in an inferno in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu on Friday is all the more heart-breaking because it could have been so easily averted if only basic safety procedures and building regulations had been adhered to. ...

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Amarinder Singh's Terminator Act
By Inder Malhotra

Never before has any Chief Minister in this country acted so outrageously as has Amarinder Singh in Punjab by enacting — suddenly and somewhat surreptitiously — a law "terminating" all water-sharing agreements entered into by the ...

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