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STATES: ORISSA
The Planning of Hunger
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STATES: ASSEMBLY
ELECTIONS
Playing the Cash Card
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Instead of building infrastructure, officials
have been busy perfecting a relief package
on paper.
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Forget ideology. The
highest bidders, criminals and contractors included, are walking
away with the tickets.
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BUSINESS: TROUSERS
Rebuilding Hope
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BUSINESS: CORPORATE
BODIES
Overseas Robbery
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With a ten-fold rise
in sales in the past decade, readymade trousers are the hottest
item in the men's apparel market.
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SEBI investigations show how a handful of OCBs rigged markets
to repatriate over Rs 3,500 crore.
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MONEY MATTERS
Fundamentals
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OFFTRACK: DELHI
What the Deuce |
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The question nagging most salaried people is: how much to
saveand whereto minimise income tax?

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Two disabled sports lovers from Delhi
seek national recognition for
wheelchair tennis.
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DIPLOMACY: CHINA
Dragon Play
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HEALTH
WATCH
Cancer or Death |
No breakthroughs are
expected during the Chinese premier's first visit to India given
Beijing's perceived tilt towards Islamabad.
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Perhaps the human race
is a species doomed to live its Biblical score of three score
and ten years.
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LIFESTYLE: NEW AGE HEALING
Moksha Mantra
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CINEMA:
CENSORSHIP
Censor Insensibility |
As stressed out Indians
seek short-cuts to nirvana, practitioners of alternative therapies
rake in the money.
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The Censor Board chief
is quietly assembling a bombshella new Cinematograph Act
2002.
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FIFTH COLUMN: TAVLEEN SINGH
General Janus
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KAUTILYA: JAIRAM RAMESH
Last Tango in Buenos Aires |
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Musharraf may have fooled the West but to us he remains as
untrustworthy as ever. 
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Orthopraxy on an unorthodoxy has killed Argentina for the
moment.
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FIFTH COLUMN: P. CHIDAMBARAM
Poverty of Ideas
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Instead of investing money to fight poverty, India believes
in merely spending it. 
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