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Editorials
A wrong time to tax domestic BPOs
The Finance Bill 2006 has withdrawn, effective March 1, 2006, the exemption from service tax enjoyed by call centres catering to the domestic market. It has also brought under the tax net services such as telemarketing, processing of purchase ...

Saved from war, for now
Despite the war of words that has erupted between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam following the Geneva talks, the danger of a real war — at the brink of which Sri Lanka was teetering just a few weeks ago ...

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Rooting for Sharia laws in Bradford
By Hasan Suroor

It is one thing to demand the democratic right in an open and free society to practise one's faith, but to want to have a parallel religious legal system is quite another.

News Analysis
Online encyclopedia
By Natalie Hanman

AT THE start of this month, Wikipedia announced the creation of the millionth article in its English language edition (http://en. wikipedia.org). So far, so impressive. But remember that Wikipedia, which launched in January 2001, isn't ...

Corrections and clarifications
The article, "Mayhem in the menagerie" (Op-Ed, March 13, 2006, page 13) did not carry a byline and also had a factual error. Praveen Swami is the author of the piece. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was prime minister, and not president, as the text ...

Of manipulators and a `bad victim'
By Usha Ramanathan

Sentencing a survivor, however opportunistic she may be, will have the unfortunate effect of punishing a `bad victim' while leaving the manipulators free and undeterred.

People power in East Asia
By P. S. Suryanarayana

Do the current attempts in the Philippines and Thailand to re-enact people power movements amount to bypassing the existing democratic systems?

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