The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, December 31, 2008

GOVERNMENT

PEOPLE: V.S. Sampath is Power Secretary
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POLITICS: The long haul for J&K
Whatever its detractors may say, the Assembly elections in Kashmir have confirmed the faith that the people of that troubled State have reposed in the democratic process and, as the Prime Minster expressed it, in “national ...

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