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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:39:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Houses @ Rs 7 lakh: Dream or reality?]]></title>
  <link>http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/jul/03/guest-houses-at-rs-7-lakh.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[It's wonderful that Jerry Rao is planning to build houses that cost Rs 700,000 or less. The former Citibanker's model is simple enough: land is bought with the equity capital while construction is financed through bank loans at market-related rates currently anywhere between 11 and 13 per cent. ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[To Michael, with love]]></title>
  <link>http://movies.rediff.com/column/2009/jul/02/michael-jackson-tribute.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson appealed to people of all ages. One of his dear fans, Kshamaya Daniel, 9, pays a tribute.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Star trek of the hare and the tortoise ]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/jul/02/mp-anil-kumar-on-chinas-military-space-programme.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA['Chinese arsenal and capabilities can be swivelled against India.']]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The rot in our jail system]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/jul/01/guest-the-rot-in-our-jail-system.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Little wonder, the Human Rights Watch eloquently said in that report cited earlier that "Although prison systems everywhere are marked by inertia, few can match India's in immutability of practice."]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why the Pakistan Army is struggling against the Taliban ]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/jul/01/b-raman-why-the-pakistan-army-is-struggling-against-the-taliban.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The coherent strategy of the TTP has not been matched by an equally coherent one from Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. He has been struggling to counter the co-ordinated strategy of the TTP with a bits and pieces strategy depending on where the pressure from the TTP comes from. ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dear Mr Prime Minister...]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/jul/01/an-aam-aadmis-letter-to-the-prime-minister.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA['We, the People,' the acknowledged sovereign masters in democracy, can only hope that your own vigilance and the idealism and acute sense of right and wrong of the young blood you have inducted into the ministry, as also of the 226 newly elected MPs who are below 50, will help nip in the bud any acts of malfeasance and misuse of power.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Remembering Lohitadas]]></title>
  <link>http://movies.rediff.com/column/2009/jun/30/remembering-lohitadas.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Shobha Warrier gives us a rare glimpse of the Malayalam filmaker.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Agri problems? Opt for rain-proofing farming]]></title>
  <link>http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/jun/30/agri-problems-opt-for-rain-proofing-farming.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The NRAA was set up to do precisely this in rain-fed areas, but inter-ministerial wrangling ensured this didn't happen.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The BBC's unlikely story on 26/11]]></title>
  <link>http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/jun/29/b-raman-the-bbcs-unlikely-story-on-2611.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Had there been LeT spotters around the areas targeted, who were in independent communication with the controllers in Pakistan their conversations -- whether through the Internet or otherwise -- must have also been intercepted contemporaneously or recorded and noticed subsequently. No intelligence agency -- neither Indian nor the US nor of any other country -- has spoken of any such conversation with Pakistan by elements not participating in the attacks. ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[What exporters need to understand...]]></title>
  <link>http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/jun/29/budet09-what-exporters-need-to-understand.htm</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The exporters need to be told sometime or the other that the playing field can never be the same for all countries. Every country has its own advantages and disadvantages in terms of its natural endowments, capabilities of its manpower, stage of development, levels of technology absorption and so on. Each country has to make the best of what it has and carry on, says T N C Rajagopalan.]]></description>
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