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Editorials
THE SOREN DRAMA
PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN Singh has done the right thing in asking Coal Minister Shibu Soren to submit his resignation. It would have been much better had he acted earlier. It took a whole week for the Prime Minister to force Mr. Soren to put in ...

MODIFYING A CONTENTIOUS PROPOSAL
BY SUBSTANTIALLY MODIFYING the budget proposal to levy a securities transaction tax (STT) at a uniform rate of 0.15 per cent for all kinds of share market transactions, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram appears to have achieved two objectives ...

Leader Page Articles
Punjab water imbroglio
By Ramaswamy R. Iyer

With better management, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan can meet their needs with much less water than they seek.

The designer babies debate
By Hasan Suroor

Any new medical or technological breakthrough can be abused but should that become an argument against scientific progress?

News Analysis
DHAKA JOURNAL
Ending India-Bangladesh impasse
By C. Raja Mohan

DHAKA: In a happy diplomatic accident, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will have the rare opportunity this week to interact with both the women who dominate the political landscape in Bangladesh — the Opposition leader, Sheikh Hasina, ...

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