Survival against Heavy Odds Indu Bharti Chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has succeeded in bringing a measure of stability and earnestness to the governance of chronically mismanaged Bihar But since...
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tension in and around Patna, the Yadavas came out in the open to protect their Muslim brethren from the assaults of upper caste Hindus. Similar reports have come from other parts of the state also.
Victor Das The ad hoc teachers in colleges and universities of Bihar have been fighting a long and fruitless battle for permanency of services. THEY are a faceless lot: treated as limpets by the...
take vote The higher officials are amazed to see that not even a single phone call/letter has come in this span of one year from any politician. One does not expect the PM, CM or minister to sit...
After the Carnage Relief and Rehabilitation in Bhagalpur Alok Kumar Jha October 24, 1989, Bhagalpur. THE history of humankind witnessed the beginning of one of the bloodiest communal riots in India...
Peter Custers Three clusters of economic interests are at stake in the west Asian situation: the mutually interwoven interests of oil barons, arms producers and bankers.
Prescription without Diagnosis Report of Commission on Health Research Development Debabar Banerji The commission has failed to take account of the long history of health research in countries like...
Sluggish Monetary Expansion falling trend in bank deposits together with RBI's directive to banks to keep the incremental non-food credit-deposit ratio at 60 per cent has forced the latter to keep a...
HAJI NIK AZIZ NIK MAT, a 59-year old "tok guru" (religious leader) has been sworn in as mentri besar (chief minister) of the north-eastern Malaysian state of Keldhtan after general elections in...
Distribution S J Phansalkar Adopting the twin strategy of colouring edible oils and packing them in appropriate containers will help prevent the leakage of edible oils from the public distribution...
Binod Khadria Surprisingly the report of the Ramamurti Committee has done little homework on the strategies which it has chosen to propose for educational planning.
The Press on Ayodhya Radhika Ramaseshan The Hindi Press in Uttar Pradesh played a highly partisan role during and after the October 30 events, which undoubtedly exacerbated communal tensions in the...
timely and adequate release of sugar by authorities for public distribution. The edible oils prices rose by 18.3 per cent during the review period mainly due to increase in the prices of ground nut...
Reflecting the Oil Crisis Mark up in the prices of petroleum products, following the crisis in the Gulf, contributed to about 75 per cent of the increase in the administered commodity prices.
Frederick F Clairmonte Has the US administration reflected on the nature of its plans and premises? When Bush decides on a course of war, as he has already done, what will be its implications, not...
