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OFFHAND
Wanted: A humane approach
Unauthorised constructions and encroachments have been with us all the time. The administrative machinery rouses itself fitfully into action, whenever it suits its interests, and goes to sleep thereafter, ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
Fed cut in sight
US data not encouraging
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VIEW POINT
Beacons of hope
Is someone undertaking an indefinite fast a `hero' to his or her people because a huge `sacrifice' is being purportedly made for the general good? Ms Medha Patkar did it in connection with the Narmada dam issue sometime back, and today Ms Mamata ...
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ZERO BASE
Piped natural gas may not be a pipedream
Piped natural gas or PNG. On this theme, the headline that pips all the rest, at the time of writing, is the recent offer by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman, Mukesh D. Ambani, to bring piped cooking gas for Tamil Nadu by 2008. Savings may ...
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EAR TO THE GROUND
Maruti watched for fundamentals
The Rs 5-face value Maruti Udyog stock, which dipped 1.23 per cent on Tuesday to close at Rs 949.85, is being watched for what some analysts say are purely fundamental reasons. These include a clutch of new products in the works and higher sales ...
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SENSOR
Positive sentiment takes Sensex past 14,000
It was business as usual at the country's stock exchanges on Tuesday. The volatility and hesitant, but eventually upward movement of the indices, which has been the feature of the past few months were all present on a day when the indices crested ...
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