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Editorial
 
Editorial
Road safety concerns
Synchronised efforts to address these missing
There is perhaps no other country where roads are more unsafe than ours. About 12000 people lose their lives every year in our country in road accidents.
 
Editorial
The French elections
Sarkozy and Royal represent a new generation
The French have just been through the first round of their presidential elections. The two front runners, the rightwing Nicolas Sarkozy and the socialist Segolene Royal, will now face each other at the second and final round of the polls in early May.

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Perspectives
The paradoxes of peace
M Abdul Hafiz
Global military expenditure and arms trade form the largest spending in the world, over one trillion dollars per annum, and have been rising in recent years, close to the level that prevailed during the cold war period. As the world trade becomes globalised, so does the trade in arms.
 
Chronicle
Please tolerate no nonsense
Nururddin Mahmud Kamal
The impending gas crisis in Bangladesh has the name and telephone number of the Titas gas field written on it.
 
Between The Lines
Equilibrium between judiciary and executive
Kuldip Nayar writes from New Delhi
It is an anniversary of sorts. Thirty four years ago, on April 25, the then prime minister, Ms Indira Gandhi, superseded three Supreme Court judges, the first time in post-independent India.
 

 
   
 
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