| Rights of Earth | We need a new paradigm for living on the earth because the old one is clearly not working. An alternative is now a survival imperative for the human species. And the alternative that is needed is not ... |
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| Tharoor on slippery slope | April 18: It’s not just Shashi Tharoor’s future as a minister in the Manmohan Singh government that hangs in the balance. His expectations of making it as a politician now hang by a fast fraying threa... |
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| Law of unintended consequences | He’s the man with the Midas touch, credited with transforming cricket into a billion-dollar industry. Lalit Modi, man of many interests and varied businesses, conceived, nurtured and revolutionised th... |
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| BRIC bats for India in UN | Calling for reform of the UN and the global financial architecture, BRIC countries have underlined the centrality of G20 as the premier economic forum and pitched for including India and Brazil in an expanded UN Security Council. |
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| Chidambaram’s war within | Home minister P. Chidambaram’s remark that “something went wrong,” during the anti-Naxal operation in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh is an admission that the flawed plan drawn up by his home ministry, the so-called ‘Action Plan’ created in October 2009, for the anti-Naxal offensive in the country needs to be revisited. |
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| RS selection in ‘outsider’ row | Hyderabad, April 9: The Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, is yet to decide on whether or not to field more ‘outsiders’ in the Rajya Sabha elections from the state. |
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