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Stock markets and absence of negatives
The basic question as to whether the share market is a good enough gauge of economic policy remains unanswered even after correlating share price movements with the latest budget announcements. The budget time is when an important economic policy ...

The long wait for a wildlife service
The Centre's plan to set up a wildlife crime bureau for the country to check poaching and cross-border trade needs to be implemented with utmost urgency. An emergency situation prevails in the national parks, sanctuaries, and reserve forests ...

Leader Page Articles
China turns to nuclear power to fuel growth
By Pallavi Aiyar

Over the next 15 years, China is planning to increase its nuclear power capacity four-fold. For, its burgeoning economy has led to a gargantuan appetite for energy.

News Analysis
Trial by media is rough but useful
By Simon Jenkins

THE HEAT is off the United Kingdom's Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, following her separation from her husband in the wake of revelations about her family's financial arrangements. It will soon be on someone else. She joins Ruth Kelly, David ...

Corrections and clarifications
In "Election Commission shifts city police chief" (Tamil Nadu, March 16, 2006, page 1), Mr. A. Raja, who complained to the Election Commission, is Union Minister of Environment and Forests, and not Union Minister of State for Environment and ...

Vaccines for an influenza pandemic
By N. Gopal Raj

Two companies join forces to make the manufacturing process more efficient.

A consensus remains elusive in West Bengal
By Marcus Dam

With the main Opposition parties yet to forge an alliance, the Left appears set to benefit.

OUT OF LONDON
Queen's English? How do you spell that?
By Hasan Suroor

CLEVER PARTY jokes about Indian and Chinese English may soon become a thing of the past thanks to a new generation of native British university students who struggle to write correct English. Let alone grammar, they are said to have difficulty ...

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