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  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:15:07 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Heightened alert needed on 26/11 anniversary]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/06/heightened-alert-needed-on-26-11-anniversary.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[While security agencies have been able to prevent any major terror strikes since the Mumbai attacks last November, we should not lower our guard, writes security expert B Raman. ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jaipur oil mishap: IOC chairman must be fired]]></title>
  <link>http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/06/ioc-chairman-must-be-fired-for-jaipur-oil-mishap.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The current IOC chief should be fired because this fire occurred during his tenure. He should have ensured that safety audits are done seriously. If he is fired, his successor will take safety more seriously, says Sudhir Bisht.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Patriotism is reduced to singing &lt;EM>Vande Mataram&lt;/EM> or not]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/05/one-song-cannot-make-or-mar-the-future-of-a-nation.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA['India's pluralist character, vibrant democracy, assertive intelligentsia and all attendant principles/institutions are the best assurance to allay the misgivings of the minorities.']]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The stench of money in politics]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/05/the-stench-of-money-in-politics.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[When business interests begin deciding who will rule, democracy is in trouble, writes Mahesh Vijaypurkar]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Time to get our fiscal act together]]></title>
  <link>http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/04/guest-time-to-get-our-fiscal-act-together.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[India's political and economic business cycles enter fiscal correction phase]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Talks with Pak will only end in frustration]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/03/why-talks-with-pak-will-only-end-in-frustration.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA['The dialogue process is just too inadequate to meet the challenges from Pakistan,' says former R&amp;AW chief A K Verma.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why India needs to crush the Maoist insurgency]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/03/why-india-needs-to-crush-the-maoist-insurgency.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[It is a blatantly illegal and no holds barred war against the Indian State, against the idea and existence of the Indian democracy and must be dealt with an iron hand.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Carbon dioxide can actually be good for farming]]></title>
  <link>http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/03/guest-carbon-dioxide-can-actually-be-good-for-farming.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A national network project, run by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research since 2004, carried out to study the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture, is also throwing some light on the complex inter-relation between CO2, global warming and crop productivity.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why the Thackeray cousins love the media]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/03/why-the-thackeray-cousins-love-the-media.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA['If the Thackeray cousins love the media, the media too adores the two bespectacled Thackeray scions, who in their bid to espouse their Marathi manoos agenda, have become an easy bait for a medium that depends for its survival on high TRPs and ad revenues.']]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Stimulus: It's important to time the exit right]]></title>
  <link>http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/03/bcrisis-it-is-important-to-time-the-stimulus-exit-right.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Although not intended as fiscal stimulus, the unprecedented fiscal expansion during 2008-09 and 2009-10 did help in combating the economic slowdown, but it cannot continue and measures must be initiated to chart a route for fiscal consolidation.]]></description>
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