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    RESTORING THE BALANCE
    THE CONCERN EXPRESSED by the Conference of Presiding Officers of Legislative Bodies convened by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee, over court orders that tended to "disturb the delicate balance of power" between the legislature and ...

    NO SAVINGS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
    THE UNION FINANCE Minister, P. Chidambaram, claimed recently that senior citizens and women are the natural constituency of the ruling alliance. For senior citizens, however, the Union budget was a major disappointment in more ways than one. In ...

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    On improving the quality of democracy
    By Amit Bhaduri

    The executive, the legislature, and the judiciary must be continuously accountable to the people. The right to information is an instrument for moving towards this goal.

    Warped reality of the occupiers
    By Gary Younge

    Two years on, the occupiers justify the Iraq war by embracing the irrelevant and ignoring the inconvenient.

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