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Indira Gandhi as parivar heroine
K.S. Sudarshan's praise of Indira Gandhi at a recent function in Lucknow is yet another command centre barb aimed at the Bharatiya Janata Party's supposedly week-kneed leadership. Commemorating the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji, the Rashtriya ...

Lower fiscal deficit augurs well
The final fiscal data for 2004-05 seem to vindicate the Government's optimism on containing the fiscal deficit, not only over the medium term extending to 2008-09, as enjoined by the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act 2003, ...

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Is it really worth going to university?
By Hasan Suroor

The policy of one-size-fits-all has played havoc with higher education in the countries where it has been tried, including India, and the signs are that it is not likely to work in Britain.

News Analysis
Goodbye to cheap oil?
By Larry Elliott and Ashley Seager

IT WAS a question of when, not if, for oil traders on Tuesday as the price of a barrel of crude threatened to burst through the $60-a-barrel barrier for the first time. News that the North Sea Forties oilfield had been shut because of technical ...

Rural Russian roulette in Vidharbha
By P. Sainath

For Vidharbha's farmers, the most important question is: when to sow?

Which states make up Russia's enemies?
By Vladimir Simonov

A recent poll among the Russian public throws up some surprise results.

Left wave sweeps through urban areas too
By Marcus Dam

The recent emphasis on urban development seems to have paid off for the Left Front in the Kolkata civic polls.

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