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FACING DOWN A THREAT
PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN Singh must be commended for displaying clear-sightedness and resolve in travelling to Srinagar to flag off the bus service to Muzaffarabad. That the extremist groups have not lost their deadly potency was highlighted by ...

PREPARING FOR EARTHQUAKES
SOME 40 MILLION years ago, the plate bearing India began colliding with the one carrying Eurasia. The mighty Himalayas rose as a result of this ongoing collision and the Tibetan plateau is thought to have been pushed up by as many as three ...

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Basel norms & bank restructuring
By Sunanda Sen

Implementing Basel II norms on capital adequacy will further accentuate the trend of moving credit away from the deserving industrial units in the small sector.

People living longer is good
By Tom Kirkwood

Here is to our good old days. Far from being programmed to give out on us, our bodies are ageing better than ever.

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