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Vajpayee's utopian SAARC
AT A TIME when the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is struggling to finalise a South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement (SAPTA), leading to a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), Prime Minister Vajpayee has spoken of a ...
Centenary of powered flight
A HUNDRED YEARS ago, a flimsy looking contraption of wooden struts covered with cloth, braced with wires and powered by a small engine driving two wooden propellers lumbered off the ground. It was airborne for just 12 seconds and travelled only ...


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Restructuring postal services
By N.N. Sachitanand

It is important to protect the Government's role in providing mail services, since it has invested substantially in men, money and infrastructure. At the same time, promoting a monopoly does not suit the times.
Holiday blues
By Richard A. Friedman

The consensus seems to be that holidays are a time of high expectations and stress. So if things do not go as planned, the holiday blues cannot be far behind.


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