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UNION BUDGET 2006
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Fifty
Fifty
The rapturous applause on Dalal
Street signals relief that political populism was
not allowed to derail the economy. However India's
long-term growth needs immediate policy intervention
not neutrality.
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| NATION:
UNION BUDGET 2006 |
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| Win
Some, Lose Some
Here are a few of the finance
minister's proposals in Budget 2006 that could impact
your finances
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| ELECTION
2006: WEST BENGAL |
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Buddha is smiling
Elections to state assemblies
seldom hold interest beyond their region's borders.
But the impending elections in five states hold the
potential for a greater impact simply because in two
of them-Kerala and West Bengal-the Congress is directly
pitted against the Left Front, which props up the
UPA Government at the Centre. Whichever way the verdict
goes, the ruling coalition in Delhi cannot be insulated
from the results that come in from the south and east.
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JAMMU & KASHMIR |
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| Chill
in the valley
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
round-table conference invited the cynicism and censure
of separatist leaders amid public outcry and administrative
fumbling over the killing of four youths
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SPORTS:
CRICKET |
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Hinterland
Heartbreak
As cricket celebrates small town
heroes, in one corner of India, the future of a generation
of juniors players is left in limbo for more than
three long seasons by a political spat within the
BCCI
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& THE ARTS:
BOOKS |
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American Whirl
From Mount Rushmore to Guantanamo,
a French philosopher's odyssey to make sense of post-9/11
America
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& THE ARTS:
BOOKS |
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| Patiala
Peg
An insider's account of growing
up in the bloody Punjab of the '80s
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CINEMA
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| Own
Your Own Film
With no rules, no jury, no selection
and no hierarchy, the Puri film festival was the meeting
point of all-encompassing talent
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Dr. ANBUMANI RAMDOSS |
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will take three to six months for things to settle"
Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani
Ramdoss talked to Executive Editor Shankar Aiyar and
Special Correspondent Neeraj Mishra on the avian flu
scare and a host of other issues immediately after
a cabinet meeting in which various ministers voiced
concerns about culling of birds and huge losses to
farmers and the poultry industry.
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UNION BUDGET 2006 |
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Feel Good, Not Feel Bad...
...between the two extremes, this
is the "feel relieved" Budget. That was
the broad consensus of the Board of India Today Economists
on Budget 2006, which was a mix of progress and political
compromise.
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RAILWAY BUDGET
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| The
Big Ticket Reformer
Combining good economics with
good politics, Lalu Prasad Yadav has achieved what
most reformers since 1991 have not been able to.
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| ELECTION
2006: KERALA |
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| Marxist
Disharmony
The irony is that the man who
has already been rejected by the people may well end
up deciding who will rule the state.
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| STATES:
UTTAR PRADESH |
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| Shaky
Survivor
The Mulayam Singh Yadav Government
faces a fresh challenge from Mayawati as the Allahabad
High Court judgement nullifies the defection of BSP
MLAs to the Samajwadi Party
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| CRIME:
JESSICA LAL CASE |
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| The
Murder Of Justice
Acquittals in the model's murder
case bring investigation by Delhi Police under the
scanner even as national outrage prompts the High
Court to intervene
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& THE ARTS:
BOOKS |
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| Vintage
Bond
The wanderer's search for the
ordinary has lost none of its freshness
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SOCIETY
& THE ARTS:
TELEVISION |
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Reality
Check
TV stars are fast getting rid
of staid images imposed on them by soppy soaps and
turning to reality shows, setting the screen on fire
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| SOCIETY
& THE ARTS:
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS |
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| The
Quarter-Life Crisis
In today's increasingly mobile
job market, the 20-something employees may be stars
but lack patience and perseverance. Stuck with unrealistic
goals and expectations, they are facing what can be
termed a quarter-life crisis.
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