TOP STORIES High Court strikes down
job quota for Muslims A full bench told the Andhra Pradesh government only the deserving among the minorities should be given preferential treatment...
ECONOMY & BUSINESS Suzuki's independent plans
leave government angry Suzuki Motor Corporation's investment plans, announced last week, have set it on a collision course with the ministry of heavy industries...
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Asia Times When that cool Indian job hurts
India is fast realizing that its famed outsourcing success is coming at a huge cost to a generation's mental well-being and to its conservative society. While the sector's immediate benefits can't be ignored, a tectonic social shift is under way, says INDRAJIT BASU
India Together Urban residents: second-class citizens
For one-and-a-half lakh people, we have a committee of eight people to decide? How will this work? Where is the opportunity for average people to take part in the decisions? RAMESH RAMANATHAN points to the irony of the allegedly empowered, but actually despairing urban populace
Asia Times Going solo
Coalition politics has once again become a matter of debate with two former PMs, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Chandrashekhar, expressing different views. Vajpayee felt it had become inevitable, but Chandrashekhar said coaltion hampers the functioning of prime ministers, reports PANKAJ VOHRA
Water and river management
in South Asia Given China's disastrous environmental record, India should join an Asian alliance to pressure its big neighbour into behaving more responsibly, says
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