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A glass half-empty
The Manmohan Singh Government has put the best construction on the final product of a joint conference of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, while expressing its reservations on "certain extraneous and prescriptive provisions" ...

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The quality of India's higher education
By Ramesh Thakur

The higher education and research sector is over-regulated and under-funded. It has been falling steadily behind the world average.

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Neocons finish what the Vietcong started
By Martin Jacques

JUST A month after the American electorate delivered a resounding rebuff to the Bush Iraq policy, the great and the good — in the guise of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) — have subjected that policy to a withering critique. The ...

India has little reason to cheer
By Siddharth Varadarajan

Of the 10 concerns raised by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the final U.S. law on nuclear cooperation addresses little more than two-and-a-half. Does this mean India should walk away?

Democracy loses another battle in Fiji
By P.S. Suryanarayana

There have been four coups in nearly two decades. With the latest action, the military chief Commodore Bainimarama has signalled he cannot brook the rehabilitation of his opponents.

Corrections and Clarifications
The report "LDF retains Thiruvambadi" (December 8, 2006) stated that Left Democratic Front candidate George M. Thomas Mekkatt Kunnel retained the Thiruvambadi Assembly constituency, in a keenly contested bypoll, the result of which was ...

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