ECONOMY & BUSINESS Japan moots Asian pool to
deal with oil price spike A record
spike in crude price has left the world worried, and Japan said Asia countires
should consider putting together their oil reserves...
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Financial Express Scenes
from The Republic Of Xenophobia
Montek himself worked at the World Bank and recently held a very senior position at the IMF. Even our Prime Minister did his
D Phil at Oxford and worked abroad at the South-South Commission. So why all
the hue and cry, wonders OMKAR GOSWAMI
India Together Assertive citizenship taking root
September 28 is observed as the Right to Know day by the Freedom of Information Advocates Network, a global group of NGOs working for better transparency in governments. In India, citizen activity using the right to information laws in several states is gaining ground. An
INDIA TOGETHER report
Asia Times Pakistan gets its man ... sort of
Officials in Pakistan have labeled the killing of Amjad Farooqi a "crushing blow" against al-Qaeda. But
SYED SALEEM SHAHZAD, in tracing Farooqi's rise from nondescript jihadi foot soldier to the country's most wanted man with a bounty on his head, finds the circumstances of his death as mystifying as his billing as a top terrorist organizer and
planner
Telegraph The politics
of language
The government has “declared” Tamil a “classical language” despite the objections of experts it consulted, and after a committee it had appointed refused to recommend
such a label, reports SUJAN DATTA
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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