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An unedifying exercise
A key to understanding a government's overall direction and policy thrust is the composition of its Council of Ministers. In May 2004, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance wrested power from a communal regime of impatient liberalisers ...

Behind Karnataka's regime change
At a time of political instability in States, Governors become fair game. Karnataka could easily have slipped into a constitutional crisis were it not for the deft but firm way in which Governor T.N. Chaturvedi, going by the letter as well as ...

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The OIC and India: signals of a re-think
By Hamid Ansari

Neither an ostrich-like posture of ignoring the OIC nor an avid embrace would serve India's purpose. Incremental interaction, and a quiet insistence on the restoration of the original membership, would be a better alternative.

News Analysis

Pouring troubled water on oil
By Siddharth Varadarajan

The Cabinet reshuffle disrupts the gathering momentum on energy security while leaving unaddressed core areas of underperformance such as home and foreign affairs.

Five old-new faces in the Union Cabinet
By Harish Khare

A look at the Congress veterans who have been inducted into the Government.

Focus on gender statistics
By Aarti Dhar

INDIA FIGURES among the 10 largest countries where civil registration of births is incomplete — there is a shortfall of about 10 per cent. It is also among the 10 largest countries that did not report economic activity by sex and age ...

Now the real challenge for Hamas
By Will Hutton— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

Palestine's majority party must swap terrorism for political strategies. Then perhaps real progress can be made towards peace.

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