Thursday, January 7, 1999
Return to realism
Foreign secretary K. Raghunath is proceeding for official bilateral discussions with his Japanese counterpart, Minori Tamba, on January 27. This is a much needed and desirable development after the unfortunate coldness which emerged in Indo-Japanese relations as a consequence of India's nuclear tests in May 1998.
Act now to combat corruption
For years now the country has continued to be agitated about the spread of corruption and the decline of good governance. The virtually unending series of scandals and exposures in the past decade and more has resulted in the public viewing all politicians as corrupt.
The easy way
Bihar made itself notorious in the 1970s and 1980s by legislating through ordinances. In some years it was found more laws were brought into force or kept in force by promulgating and repromulgating ordinances than were passed by the House which met regularly but rarely concluded any business.
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