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Short of expectations
The Reserve Bank of India’s mid-year review of the credit policy, the first policy statement of Governor Subba Rao, has been presented under certain extraordinary circumstances. The global financial system is in a deep and unprecedented ...

Monuments in conflict zones
Recently, grenade and shrapnel came close to damaging the 11th century temple of Preah Vihear on the Cambodia-Thailand border. It was only in July, this Hindu temple built by the Khmer kings was listed as a world heritage monument by UNESCO. ...

Leader Page Articles
The last lap — and the spectre of socialism
By P. Sainath

Pro-Obama television channels run dictionary definitions of ‘socialism’ to establish that nothing Barack Obama has proposed falls into that dreaded territory.

News Analysis
Hindraf and the supremacy of State
By P. S. Suryanarayana

Speculation is rife that the current ban on Hindraf is an aspect of Malaysia’s national security update.

ONLINE AND OFF LINE

When readers question core values
The response from readers overwhelmed me on one occasion. At two other points of time I was taken aback by their anger. This time it looked like I would go under: the readers’ anguish was so intense. The days after September 30 were ...

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Sri Lankan Tamil issue

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“Excessive pressure from India will only be to the advantage of LTTE ”
The LTTE is trying to extricate itself militarily based on the “emotional outpourings in Tamil Nadu,” saysSivanesathurai Santhirakanthan

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