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Letters: What autonomy?
Everyone in a democracy has the right to express their opinions, but this right needs to be tempered sometimes. Tower of Babel (December 31) rightly points out that there are too many conflicting voices on the economy from senior government officials, and this is confusing the markets. There are various estimates of growth and the latest in this is from the Chief Economic Advisor who thinks India will move back to 9 per cent next year, and will overtake China in the next three-four years. If all of this is going to happen without India undertaking any serious reforms, why are we even worried about reforms — 9 per cent growth with a population growth of 1 per cent is more than good enough.

India, Japan want to ink trade pact by next year
Realising that their two-way trade did not match the potential, India and Japan today decided to give push the negotiations on the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, with an aim to conclude it by next year.

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Sharp fall in Indian exports arrested, says Minister
The government today said in the Lok Sabha that though there were no signs of recovery in the global economic scenario, the sharp fall in Indian exports seems to have been arrested.
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Jharkhand politics: All in the family

In Jharkhand politics, it’s sometimes all in the family. Take for example, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren, who is a Lok Sabha member. His daughter-in-law Sita Soren, widow of Durga Soren, won the elections from the Jama Assembly seat. Soren’s younger son, Hemant, contested the Assembly polls from the Dumka seat and humbled former deputy chief minister Stephen Marandi. Sushila Hansda of the JMM, who was a sitting party legislator in the last Assembly, was not in the fray from her Litipara constituency this time, but her husband, Simon Marandi, contested on JMM ticket and won the seat. - JMM claims support of BJP, AJSU to form government - Aditi Phadnis: Back to the future">Aditi Phadnis: Back to the future - Soren frontrunner as Jharkhand CM - J"khand heads for hung house; Cong-JVM(P) leads in 10 seats - Cong to seek support to form govt in J"khand - Jharkhand headed for hung Assembly Former chief minister Madhu Koda, an MP, allegedly involved in the Rs 2,000-crore money laundering scam did not contest the polls, but his wife, Geeta Koda, romped home from his Jagannathpur seat. Former state Assembly Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari, at present an MP, did not contest, and fielded his son, Dilip Singh Namdhari, from the Daltonganj seat in the Assembly polls. However, his son lost to Congress candidate K Tripathy. Former minister Bhanu Pratap Sahi, whose father Hemendra Pratap Sahi was also a minister earlier, had contested the Bhawanathpur seat this time, but lost to Anant Pratap Deo of the Congress. Former deputy chief minister and senior JMM leader Sudhir Mahato, who lost the Ichagarh seat this time, is the brother of late Nirmal Mahato, a founder member of the JMM. Amit Yadav, the son of BJP MLA Chittaranjan Yadav who died after filing his nomination from the Barkatta seat, contested and won the seat after he was given ticket by the saffron party. The late father of S N Singh, Congress MLA from Hazaribag, was an MLA in undivided Bihar.


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