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Governance On
The Hold
Absent ministers, coalition politics and an unwell prime minister paralyse all decision making at the Centre. With business sentiments diving and industrial growth rate receding, the alarm bells have begun to ring.

Super Clinic Inc.
Patients will be treated as customers with some companies hoping to revolutionise the Rs 60,000-crore private healthcare market. They are setting up a chain of neighbourhood health clinics that will provide quality medical care.

Fostering Ill-will
The arrest of Jayalalitha's foster son may be linked
to the sour relationship.

Crescent Classroom
An organisation has given madarsa education in the state a communal slant.

NEWSNOTES

After a two-decade exile in London, Khalistan protagonist JAGJIT SINGH CHAUHAN can't wait to return to India.

Q. Are you excited about returning to India?
A. Punjab is my home and I am entitled to go back there. I cannot live in exile all my life.

Q. But you once wanted to wage war against India.
A. I never waged a war but only talked about a philosophy which was not to the liking of the then government in India.

Q. Does your return mean that Khalistan is finished?
A. It doesn't matter if I wind up the Khalistani cause or not. The philosophy of Khalistan will continue whether I am there or not.

Q. What do you plan to do after you reach Punjab?
A. I will meet old friends, specially the Hindu brothers whom I missed so much all these years.

Q. Any political ambitions?
A. None. I believe the electoral system in India is the mother of many ills that beset the country.

Q. There's talk that your return will spark militancy.
A. That's plain nonsense. The police are making a hue and cry for no reason since I stand for a non-violent democratic struggle.

Q. How does it feel to be a failed revolutionary?
A. What we saw in the past 20 years was part of a revolution that was started by Guru Nanak. The idea of Khalistan will not fail.

--Ramesh Vinayak

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