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Ajay Singh Chautala: The Congress government had many deficiencies.-AKHILESH KUMAR

People faced serious problems

THE Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) has emerged as the second largest party in the Assembly elections held recently in Haryana. Political pundits had w

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Bhupinder Singh Hooda after securing a vote of confidence in the Haryana Assembly on October 28.-AKHILESH KUMAR

Tenuous hold

THIS was one electoral outcome that exit polls, psephologists and political scientists found difficult to predict. The Congress relatively poor perfor

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A scene inside the Government Maternity Hospital in Kothi, Andhra Pradesh. In this file photograph, two lactating mothers, with their babies, are seen sharing the same bed. The lack of proper post-natal care often proves fatal.-P.V. SIVAKUMAR

Maternal tragedies

THE maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is calculated by the number of maternal deaths for every 100,000 births. Consider this: In 2005, Indias MMR was 16

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PRAKASH KARAT SAYS the Maoists will end up helping the state.-RAJEEV BHATT

Flawed programme and practice

AS a party based on the Marxist-Leninist ideology, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has serious differences in theory and practice with the Maoi

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With the Commonwealth Games approaching and major construction projects remaining unfinished, work is available in the construction sector in Delhi. Here, families of migrant workers arrive in the capital. A September 2 photograph.-V. SUDERSHAN

For a better life

THE recently released United Nations Development Report-2009, titled Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development, presents a strong case for g

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Benevolent rebels

in Hisar and Rohtak

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Sampat Singh (left), a long-time colleague of INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala, with Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda after joining the Congress, in Chandigarh on July 27.-AKHILESH KUMAR

Advantage Congress

ON August 21, it was with a considerable degree of confidence that Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his Cabinet decided to dissolve th

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A CHILD SUFFERING from Japanese encephalitis at a hospital in Gorakhpur on September 13, 2005. Uttar Pradesh accounts for the largest number of deaths from the disease in the country, Gorakhpur being its epicentre.-PAWAN KUMAR/REUTERS

Worse killers

IN the second week of August, even as the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare was at pains to stress that the H1N1 virus attack was under cont

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THE DRAFT BILL provides for the collective and individual rights of people not only to health care but to other entitlements as well, like water, food, sanitation and housing. (Above) Schoolchildren carry drinking water from a well in the nearby lake to their homes in an Adi Dravidar colony in Bargur union in Krishnagiri district on August 3.-N. BHASKARAN

Bill of neglect

THE outbreak of the H1N1 flu in India has brought to the fore the issue of universal health care. Even as the government went on overdrive to showcase

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We have a system that encourages crass identity politics sans any social justice, says Brinda Karat.-RAJEEV BHATT

Khap panchayats must be declared illegal

ONE of the few parliamentarians with a record of raising womens issues both in and outside Parliament, Brinda Karat feels that honour killings and hon

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In the name of honour

in Jhajjar and Jind

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Kirti Singh, legal convener of AIDWA.-R.V. MOORTHY

Special law needed

INDIA has a unique history of fighting social evils through legislation. Whether it is prevention of child marriage or sati, legislative measures init

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