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Out of bounds for SEZs
A coastal State with an area of 3,700 square kilometres and a population of about 1.4 million, Goa has always been extremely sensitive to the impact of unrestrained economic development. The upsurge of public activism against the setting up of ...

What affordable housing takes
It will take extraordinary political commitment and liberal public funding during the 11th Plan for affordable housing to become a credible goal. The National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy of the United Progressive Alliance government seeks to ...

Leader Page Articles
The race for influence in West Asia
By Atul Aneja

The National Intelligence Estimate’s findings on Iran may mark the beginning of Washington’s post-Cold War decline in West Asia.

News Analysis
The idea of a U.S.-free Korean peninsula
By P.S. Suryanarayana

The DPRK tends to view the current strategic dynamics in the divided region in U.S.-centred terms.

OUT OF LONDON

Oxford, political dynasties, and Bilawal
By Hasan Suroor

The carefree days at Oxford could be over for Benazir Bhutto’s son when he returns in his new avatar as head of the Pakistan People’s Party.

Burned out at work by boredom
By Rhymer Rigby

The harm caused by boredom may exceed that caused by overwork.

Corrections and clarifications
In a volleyball report “TN stuns Kerala (“Sport”, January 1, 2008), Railways and Kerala women were playing a seventh-straight final, with Kerala winning only once (in Tamil Nadu in 2004) and Railways the other five on the ...

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