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Gloomier by the day
The World Bank, like the global institutions, has been lowering its forecasts for global economic growth in quick succession, as the economic crisis keeps worsening. In November this year, the Bank and the IMF had forecast a contraction in the ...

Land for public purpose
The state periodically invokes its power of eminent domain and acquires private lands for public purpose. Where the acquisition is for projects such as roads there is little conflict. It is quite different where lands are compulsorily acquired to ...

Leader Page Articles
For secessionists, humiliation follows hubris
By Praveen Swami

Most politicians and commentators misread the course and contours of the Kashmir elections.

News Analysis
India Rising and the hunger index
By Brinda Karat

Surely the elimination of hunger should be a top national priority. Boasts of high economic growth rates matter little when such a pattern of growth is accompanied by an alarming growth in hunger.

Everybody loves a good conspiracy
By Siddharth Varadarajan

Antulay’s cynicism has done more to harm the Malegaon probe than the terrorists who killed Hemant Karkare and his colleagues.

Recession triggers ‘lipstick effect’
By Larry Elliott

Some say hemlines and heels rise and fall with the state of the stock market. But for those who really want to know how bad things are there is only one item that counts: lipstick. When times are tough, consumers stop spending on big ...

Corrections and clarifications
Two separate news items “‘Need for change in lifestyle to tackle climate change’” (North India editions, December 19, 2008) and “R.K. Pachauri calls on Yeddyurappa” (“Briefly”, Karnataka ...

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