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cautions Rumsfield on
arms supply to Pakistan Indian
leaders told visiting US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the American arms sales to Pakistan could impact the positive sentiment and goodwill for the USA in
India
ECONOMY & BUSINESS India
urges France to ease
trade, visa restrictions
India urged France to reduce non-tariff barriers on food imports and to liberalise the visa scheme for IT professionals.
France is seeking a cut in taxes on wines and spirits
FEATURE PICKS
Asia Times Spies, terrorists and Pakistan
It is touted as the biggest overhaul of US intelligence agencies in more than 50 years. But what is required is not more posts (such as the new one of national intelligence director), more money and more powers, but a spell of introspection by all intelligence officers regarding their inadequacies. Pakistan, meanwhile, must be hugely pleased with events.
By B RAMAN
* * * Economist Afghanistan’s George Washington? Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan’s first-ever elected president—a happy moment for a country that has known decades of desperation. But with much of the country run by warlords and awash in drugs, Karzai has his work cut out
* * * Indian Express Forget efficiency. Let’s do it
Once we have conceded that waste on a colossal scale is karmically inevitable in India, let us look at the possible positive spin-offs of Employment Guarantee Scheme.
Despite the likelihood of enormous waste, the EGS needs
supporting, writes JAITIRTH RAO
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The Hindu
In
the North-East, Small Is Dangerous
Small and peripheral militant groups not only facilitate the ongoing operations of the larger entities, but have a further potential of growing into full-blown insurgencies in the corrosive shadow of the state's benign
indifference, writes BIBHU PRASAD ROUTRAY
SP
HAS NO REGARD FOR LAW OR TRUTH: HIGH COURT
The policeman running the case against the
Kanchi Shankaracharya was once denounced by the High Court as a barbarian. His
track record is full of dark deeds that would put hardcore criminals to shame
Other editorials War
on the PEoPLE Andhra Pradesh's talks with Naxalite groups is fraught with danger not just for the state but for all of India, writes ARAVIND SITARAMAN
No eulogy for Veerappan No tears will be shed
for the dead bandit, but we must address the causes that created such a monster, says
ARAVIND SITARAMAN More edits
