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    Editorials
    Awaiting a good monsoon
    In the age-old march of the seasons, the searing heat of May is quenched only when the southwest monsoon arrives in early June. For the farmers of India, the monsoon has the power to decide, as it has had for millennia, whether they will ...

    The neglect of small businesses continues
    The annual credit policy statement of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is unlikely to stop the declining relevance of organised sector credit to the several million-strong small manufacturing and service enterprises. In proposing a closer linkage ...

    Leader Page Articles
    Our common victory and its lessons
    By Vyacheslav I. Trubnikov

    The 60th anniversary of the victory in World War II should serve as a reminder of the need for unity in facing the challenges in the 21st century.

    News Analysis
    Mr. Bush and the Riga axioms
    By Siddharth Varadarajan

    His attack on Yalta shows the U.S. is not interested in cooperative security.

    Iraq plunging into sectarian violence
    By Atul Aneja

    The emergence of a number of power centres, many of which operate with American help, could set in motion a long-drawn civil war.

    Europe: deciding to look outwards
    By Benita Ferrero-Waldner

    The EU firmly believes that preventing conflicts is not only a moral imperative, but also less costly in the long run.

    Enabling rural folk to overcome poverty
    By Lennart Bage

    Targeting rural poverty, particularly among Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes, and women, will better enable India to reach its full development potential in a sustainable manner.

    I won't quit, vows Blair
    By Gaby Hinsliff

    British Prime Minister reveals 2008 timetable for departure?

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