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The big crash and the rally
Of the many defining characteristics of Monday's stock market crash and the recovery on Tuesday, a few easily stand out. An intra-day fall in the Sensex of 1111 points in the forenoon of Monday threatened to break all records for single day ...

Disturbing questions on demolitions law
With the notification of the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill, 2006, an immediate stop has been put to the vigorous and unprecedented court-ordered demolition and sealing drive in the Capital. Over the last six months, the Municipal ...

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Agriculture cannot wait
By M.S. Swaminathan

The Indian tragedy of extensive poverty and deprivation persisting under conditions of impressive progress in the industrial and services sectors will continue so long as we refuse to place faces before figures.

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Round table, and the road home?
By Praveen Swami

Two families of top Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operatives hope that the second round table on Kashmir will help their loved ones return home.

Fear and repression in Myanmar
By John Aglionby

16,000 forced from homes as generals try to annihilate resistance.

Corrections and clarifications
In the AP report "Bollywood dream-come-true" ("Newscape", May 23, 2006), a reader thought that Rs.60, as the text said, was too low an amount to have been collected for making the low-budget movie "Ishq na Karna". He is right, and it was because ...

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"The platform approach to product development is important to Intel"
Paul Otellini, president and CEO of the world's biggest computer chip maker and PC technology player, is in India. In an e-mail interview toThe Hindu, he shares his vision of where silicon chip technology is headed; the alternatives being explored &# 151; and the part that Intel's India-based engineers are playing in this road map to the future.

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