Health
Preventing disease
The illegal market in medical equipment such as disposable syringes, surgical gloves and intravenous equipment has been growing at an alarming rate. The awareness level being low, the use of contaminated syringes and similar equipment in India more often than not leads to dangerous diseases rather than averting them.

Terrorism
Imperialism
Mr Prakash Karat, a CPI(M) politburo member, seems to have been misled by appearance. Unable to divine the reality, he said on September 12, according to a newspaper report, to his audience in Kolkata, that the ``regrettable'' terror strikes in the US we re symptoms of the ``deeper phenomenon of the growing resistance against imperialism''. Whether Osama bin Laden is really responsible for the acts or not, there is no ground at all for doubting that the attacks were the handiwork of some terrorist forces who can generally be termed `Islamist fundamentalists'.

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