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Ms. Bachchan and offices of profit
The principle that legislators should not become amenable to the influence of the executive while discharging their duties is enshrined in the Constitution. The objective of Articles 102 (1) and 191 (1) — which prohibit MPs and MLAs from ...

Low-intensity war in Balochistan
"Don't push us," President Pervez Musharraf warned in January last year, after an attack by Baloch insurgents on a gas refinery in Sui disrupted steel and fertiliser production across Pakistan for more than a month. "It isn't the 1970s when you ...

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Issues remain unaddressed in budget
By Subramanian Swamy

The 2006-07 budget has no solutions for the pressing problems of the economy. Instead, we find a tax on kitchen tiles, packaged software, and share transactions just to make budgetary ends meet and not for dynamic policy.

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Implementing India's separation plan
Fourteen thermal power reactors to come under safeguards between 2006 and 2014. U.S. promises to create conditions for India to have assured and full access to fuel.

Corrections and clarifications
Getting right one of the engagements of the Karnataka Chief Minister — in Bangalore — was probably a task in "Civil servants facing new challenges: Kumaraswamy" (March 5, 2006, page 6). On March 4, he inaugurated not the ...

Managing migration to the U.K.
By Tony Blair

THE UNITED Kingdom has benefited immensely over many decades from the skills and energy of those coming to our country to live and work — not least from India. Our country would be far poorer in every way without their contribution. This ...

Join Brazil in planting oil
By Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

THE 21st century will be marked by a crucial debate: how can we make economic and social development compatible with the preservation of our natural environment? The challenge is faced by developed and developing countries alike, but the ...

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