| 'The BJP forged a politico-business nexus in K'taka' | 22-NOV-09 |
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| The recent crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka was focused on whether B S Yeddyurappa would remain as the chief minister or would the rebels get their way, or whether the BJP central leadership would succeed in affecting a compromise. |
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| Nancy Birdsall & Arvind Subramanian: Reduce verbal emissions first | 21-NOV-09 |
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| The emerging consensus is that no agreement on climate change — at least not one with specific commitments — will be reached at next month’s summit in Copenhagen. Environmentalists and policy-makers in many countries are dismayed and discouraged. But, in fact, now the world has an opportunity to fix the problem which has stymied successful cooperation on climate change. |
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| 'Outlays have had no relationship with outcomes' | 15-NOV-09 |
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| As an Indian, and one who has held high ministerial office, it is only right that I begin by portraying the reality of my own country before drawing comparisons with my South Asian neighbours. The World Food Programme tells us that half the world’s hungry live in India. |
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| Deepak Lal: The anarchical society | 14-NOV-09 |
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| Ever since Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama, which castigated India as a “soft state”, western observers, as well as many members of the Nehruvian wing of Macaulay’s children, have failed to understand the anarchical society which has existed in India for millennia. A recent review (Journal of Economic Literature, September 2009) by Lant Pritchett (a former World Bank official in Delhi) of Financial Times’ former India correspondent Edward Luce’s book In Spite of the Gods, reflects a similar unease of both with the Indian reality. Both find it puzzling why a country with a firmly-established democracy and many world-class institutions and firms, and which is an emerging superpower growing rapidly, should in many dimensions of human well-being have a worse record than many sub-Saharan African countries. |
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| 'LeT placed priority on new attack in India, not Denmark' | 08-NOV-09 |
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| The defendants charged in separate criminal complaints unsealed today in US District Court in Chicago are David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, also known as Tahawar Rana. Headley, a US citizen who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 and resides primarily in Chicago, was arrested on October 3, 2009, by the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force at O’Hare International Airport before boarding a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan. |
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| Organic farmers to mobilise opinion against Bt brinjal | 04-NOV-09 |
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| Organic farmers from the Mysore region have launched a programme to create public awareness on the harmful effects of the bio-tech food and vegetables and mobilise their voice against the introduction of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) brinjal into the market. |
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| 'Bankruptcy Code is not effective in times of severe stress' | 01-NOV-09 |
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| During the recent financial crisis, in order to preserve the stability of the financial system, protect the savings of Americans and prevent greater economic fallout, the government was forced to step in and stand behind almost all of these firms. That cannot happen again. |
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| 'A constable is the most used and abused person ever' | 25-OCT-09 |
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| The challenge of internal security has two dimensions. The first is the state of our police system. That system is completely outdated and our police forces are ill-trained, ill-equipped and ill-paid. Adding to these woes are the short-sighted policies followed by governments with the objectives of control and patronage. |
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| 'Govt for talks with all shades of pol opinion in J&K' | 14-OCT-09 |
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| Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today announced that the government will hold dialogue with all shades of political opinion to formulate contours of a solution in Jammu and Kashmir, but made it clear that the talks would be held away from the media glare. |
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| An Open Letter to the American People... | 11-OCT-09 |
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| This year's presidential election is among the most significant in our nation's history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems: Energy, disease, climate change, security and economic competitiveness. |
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| Barun Roy: What are we, really? | 08-OCT-09 |
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| What’s wrong with us? Are we turning into a land of hypocrites and intolerant, narrow-minded nationalists? We can’t take criticism, we can’t tolerate differences of opinion, we can’t take a joke, we can’t laugh at ourselves, and we can’t stand being laughed at. |
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| 'Institutions have not kept pace with global issues' | 04-OCT-09 |
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| When this United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) ends next year, the UN would have completed 65 years of existence. These past decades have seen the world change in fundamental ways. Connectivity defines our global condition, and the challenges that we collectively face are global. The resolution of these challenges, as we are aware, require global approaches and solutions. What may happen in one part of the world has an impact on other regions. |
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| Satyajit Das: Rising fiscal insecurity | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Strong rallies in equity and debt markets have confirmed the recovery for the “true believers”. The Global Financial Crisis (“GFC”) is over! It is useful to remember Winston Churchill’s observation after the British expeditionary force’s escape from Dunkirk: “[Britain] must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory.” There may be confusion between “stabilisation” and “recovery”. |
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| 'Help for countries not responsible for the crisis is justified' | 27-SEP-09 |
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| We have discussed the complex challenges posed by the need to revive the global economy. I would like to focus on what this implies for the developing countries. An estimated 90 million people in the developing world are likely to be pushed below the poverty line. Lower revenues will also lead to lower levels of expenditure. This will not only hurt future growth, but also delay achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Social and political tensions could increase. |
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