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DEALING WITH NAXALISM
AFTER ANDHRA PRADESH it is now Karnataka's turn to face naxalite violence. With the gunning down of forest brigand Veerappan, Karnataka Chief Minister Dharam Singh decided to re-deploy the Special Task Force (STF) for neutralising the threat from ...

PYONGYANG TALKS TOUGH
WHILE NORTH KOREA has not tested a nuclear weapon, the international community for several reasons has not dismissed out of hand its claim that it possesses atomic bombs. Pyongyang never hid its intent to develop a nuclear weapon capability; its ...

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Naga talks: the task ahead
By M.S. Prabhakara

Both the Government of India and the NSCN should move beyond the sterile formulas based on the territorial imperative.

Justice as self-purification
By Jyotirmaya Sharma

The report on the anti-Sikh riots offers the Congress a chance to reinvent itself.

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