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COVER STORY: EDUCATION
What's Wrong With Our Teaching?

An exclusive survey of India’s top schools exposes alarming gaps in student learning, with performance falling way below international levels.

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FRESH FASHION

Young, creative minds and new labels from Mumbai made their debut at the Lakme Fashion Week. INDIA TODAY's Kimi Dangor takes a look.

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NATION: CHILD LABOUR

Children Of A Lesser God

India has been identified as the world capital of child labour but the Government's response to this dubious title is a sweeping anti-child labour policy without any rehabilitation structures

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STATES: MADHYA PRADESH

The Turban Tide

Rugged Sikh farmers of Punjab have turned to the fertile alluvial and black soil in the Narmada Valley after conquering the Terai region in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal

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NEIGHBOURS: INDO-PAK TALKS

Inching Forward

The stalled dialogue process between the two neighbours is back on track. Even as they agree to launch an anti-terror mechanism, differences persist on key issues like terrorism and Siachen.

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SMART MONEY: HOME LOANS

Keep Floating

Rising interest rates have upset many floating rate borrowers. But it doesn't make sense to switch to a fixed rate now as rates are expected to plunge.

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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: FASHION

Arabian Nights

Indian designers may continue to look at the West for global recognition, but buyers from the Bollywood-loving and soap opera-consuming Middle East are taking over their order books

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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: WORKING MOTHERS

The Mummy Factor

Two new surveys show children of working women get a better deal than single income homes

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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS

Remade in India

Why filmmakers and writers in India can be justifiably proud of having domesticated the English language to suit their culture

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NATION: SONIA GANDHI

The Eurostar

Feted by the Belgian king and prime minister, the heavily protected Congress president was the most indulged and the least accessible foreign leader in the bureaucratic capital of Europe for two days

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STATES: GUJARAT

Readying For Battle

Trying to exploit his present popularity, the chief minister gets into election mode a year before assembly polls are due, takes on the upa Government and puts the Congress on the back foot

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DIPLOMACY: HU JINTAO VISIT

Return Of The Dragon

The talks during the Chinese president's impending visit to India may skirt the boundary issue and focus on strategic ties

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SMART MONEY: REVERSE MORTGAGE

Make Your House Pay

Haven't saved enough for life after retirement? No problem, there's a clever way out: Just mortgage your house for an annuity to tide over your retirement worries.

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DEFENCE: PRISONERS OF WAR

Missing In Inaction

With no solution to the issue of Indian POWs languishing in Pakistani jails since the 1971 war in sight, the prisoners' families blame the government for their unending misery

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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: ART AUCTIONS

Call Of The Hammer

They might be painting a new scenario, but the business of art auctions needs to be better understood

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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS

Frozen Cycles

There is no life to lift these objects parked in the remote corners of nostalgia. An ace photographer's romance with the bicycle.

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