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Sanyasin's fiery challenge
When two rebel politicians, each with an acknowledged mass base, unite on the same platform, there cannot but be sound and fury. More so when they happen to be Uma Bharti and Madan Lal Khurana — both with a talent for melodrama and both in ...

Italy at the crossroads
The issues ahead of the Italian polls (April 9-10) to elect the 15th Parliament are as much about tackling the country's daunting economic challenges as about the restoration of the credibility of democratic institutions. The trust has been ...

Leader Page Articles
Fuelling a needless controversy?
By R. Ramachandran

It makes little logical or diplomatic sense to get Russian fuel for Tarapur bypassing the Indo-U.S. nuclear agreement and violating Nuclear Suppliers Group Guidelines.

News Analysis
An adjournment and a proposed ordinance
By Harish Khare

If the Congress amends by ordinance the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959, after adjourning Parliamentsine die,it will not save Sonia Gandhi from embarrassment.

Needed, re-engineering in education
By V. Jayanth

The status of engineering degrees offered by institutions deemed to be universities has triggered a row in Tamil Nadu.

Corrections and clarifications
While Shivraj Patil lost the May 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Sushil Kumar Shinde did not contest then, and so it was wrong to say he lost (Editorial, "Decline of the upper house", March 21, 2006). The Manmohan Singh-George Bush nuclear deal was ...

Questions without answers are worth asking
By Tim Radford

FOR THE third year running, a physicist has won the Templeton prize. This is the one that is not just bigger than the Nobel — it is worth £795,000 — but also more imprecise: it is awarded for "progress toward research or discoveries ...

Famine threat to Somalia
By Xan Rice

SOMALIA COULD relive the devastating famine that claimed 300,000 lives in the early 1990s unless emergency relief arrives soon, a senior United Nations official warned on Tuesday. Christian Balslev-Olesen, the U.N.'s acting humanitarian ...

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