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Rocking the boat
As a Sri Lanka traumatised by LTTE militarism and terrorism and trapped in a trisanku-state of `no-peace-no-war' lurches towards civil war, with the four-year-old ceasefire agreement virtually in tatters, a JVP-led move to get the merger of the ...

International focus on the disabled
The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to adopt the International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities — the first human rights treaty of this century — at its ...

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Balochistan shadow over India-Pakistan ties
By Praveen Swami

Escalating conflict in Balochistan could push President Pervez Musharraf to adopt an aggressive position against India.

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China seeks to roll back the sands
By Pallavi Aiyar

The livelihoods of 400 million people are threatened by the spread of the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts.

Australia looks to raise its profile
By P.S. Suryanarayana

Canberra's recent dealings with major powers show its preference for "reassurance rather than deterrence."

The trouble with jargon at work
By Malcolm Burgess

If you don't know how to `raise the bar' then you're definitely not `in the loop'.

Corrections and clarifications
Malik Siraj Akbar of Quetta, Pakistan, in an email, says, "I write with reference to the news story of Nirupama Subramanian, `Baloch Alliance quits seats' (September 4, 2006). I wish to make some corrections. It was not the Four Party Baloch ...

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Vande Mataram row

Decline in system

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